I used to love stopping by RAH in Stevensville, MI whenever I had to go to a job in G.R. Or Kalamazoo. The Spartan condition of the shop never seemed to bother me and Dave was always a perfect host and gentleman—regardless of how much or how little I purchased. He also had the largest selection of TLP and Semroc kits I’d ever seen in one place although I was never a fan of TLP kits.

A few years ago I stopped by RAH and it was closed and empty with a handwritten sign on the door stating the address of the new location—in Three Oaks, MI (IIRC). I finally found the place but it also looked closed and unoccupied but I wasn’t sure because I don’t remember seeing any windows. I believe this is when Red Arrow had probably “jumped the shark.”

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I never had any recent dealings with them but back in the day I did buy their phlexible phenolic, some Robby’s Rockets stuff and Transolve altimeters from RAH. Always had great service but this was a long time ago. I think he was about the first to have the phlexible phenolic if not the very first to offer it. I used a lot of that phenolic on mid power scratch builds I really liked the stuff.

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What a scam:

“Copies”

$30 plus shipping for a vintage shuttlecock and a bunch of copies.

And it's a BT20 bodytube - does anyone still make 'short' 18mm motors? - and if you use a full length engine it won't be stable.

If you want a Birdie clone, there are far better options even on ebay :
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Astron-Bir...AAMXQhpdRvZ7 x
(I bought a couple of these, although I substituted some real feather shuttlecocks for the included ones) - or -
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Oddl-Rocke...AAOSwoShftJH l

This is pretty low, even for goodrocks...

The Semroc Astron Sprite repro comes with four of these: http://www.erockets.biz/semroc-empt...4pk-sem-mc-717/

You glue a 13mm motor into this to create a functional equivalent of a Series III motor.

The said, I agree, that's pretty low, even for this seller.

The actual shuttlecock looks like the right one....and it apparently has gotten rather rare. That's no excuse for this one, though.

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That listing illustrates an issue we have had with eBay for a while. Item descriptions are not displayed on mobile devices. You wouldn't have read that the instructions and face card are copies on a mobile device unless you clicked to expand the description. This results in confusion because many customers purchase items without reading the description.

The K-21 Gemini Titan that was just on ebay sold for a TOTALLY INSANE $455.00.
Easily more than DOUBLE it's actual worth.
Good luck trying to flip that one.

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Bottom line it’s a reproduction kit, and it’s listed like the real thing, the parts did not come from a kit.

That actually doesn't sound out of line - I sold an opened but original K-21 GT a couple years ago for over $400.
Of course then the USPS crunched it during shipping

That's WAYYYYYY OUT OF LINE.

I wouldn't pay 400 for any kit short of a PRISTINE SHRINK WRAPPED BOXED Enerjet Athena.
Not sure even on that.

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Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, and HAVOC !