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Old 12-01-2019, 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by frognbuff
That's like finding a 1959 Corvette with 500 miles on the odometer under a tarp in Grandpa's barn! Amazing find! PLEASE keep it together! And let us know when you list it, assuming you go the ebay route!
That's long been a dream of mine, too--to walk into some old Mom & Pop shop (perhaps just on a whim), and find one or more MMI Aerobee-Hi and/or Arcon kits or starter sets with Rock-A-Chute motors in a box, which the proprietor parts with for just a few bucks because he or she has no idea of its historical significance or worth! Also:

Selling motors over eBay, and mailing parcels containing them, can be done and is done every day; I've unintentionally (well...sometimes) bought motors, which were stashed in old model rocket kits and "parts junk boxes" that unexpectedly (they hadn't been mentioned in the descriptions on eBay, although sometimes they were ^just^ visible, inconspicuously, in the pictures...) contained motors. One motors-containing parcel--the un-labeled 18 mm motors, which I hadn't known were included, were sealed inside the kit bags of two Brazilian-made kits (two motors per kit)--came, *by Air Mail*, all the way up from Brazil! Plus:

I was particularly happily astonished when four Estes Moon Mutt Launch Sets that I bought from an eBay seller--which I'd bought mainly for their Mini launch pads, the extra Electron Beam launch controllers, and the red Moon Mutt nose cones (for kit-bashing the original-style, Centuri-like Estes Viking rockets, see: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/ca...86/86est26.html )--each contained one bagged 13 mm motor with motor use instructions, which had been inserted *after* the sets had originally been packed at the factory (the boxes even bore prominent Estes notice stickers that mentioned the "late additions" of the motors!).
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