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We use a lot of Alpha IIIs for Scouts and I'll generally just give them about 14" of the 2" caution tape. Sometimes that gets a little difficult to pack into the body tube so I'll probably cut the...

Actually, the owner is a really successfully businessman so his ordering decisions must be working for him. Sounds like it's time for your relative to start his own business. The 40% off coupons are...

I don't know the present status, but there was all sorts of litigation regarding the copyrighting and patenting of the human genome.

Doing inventory also tells them what has been selling. It doesn't always have to be done at the POS. Nonetheless, I too have always been baffled by their insistence to manually check everything out.

IIRC, some of my CTI cases came with the sticker as a separate piece and it was up to the user to stick it on.

I use quite a bit of Delrin. Machines very well and acts as its own lubricant. I use to either make a rubber mold to cast plastic parts of as a plug for vacuforming. It's pretty expensive however,...

There is a range of products called icings that are commonly available from auto supplier type places. It's a two part system that can be sanded very finely without having to worry about it chipping...

They termites have to keep going back into the soil in order to get moisture for their tunnels. They get killed by the chemicals when they go to the soil every few days. They'll be gone within a...

I've owned two houses with 'termi-guys'. I bought both for investments and got them really cheap. They can be controlled very easily with chemicals, but if you have a leaky basement then sometimes...

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Buy the cheapest table you can find. You'll find that is ends up being collapsable. :)

Also, try camping stores. They usually have some lightweight camping models that fold up pretty compactly.

It's really difficult to get decals to set down properly on uncoated acrylic paint. Try spraying with a gloss clear coat, letting that dry, then applying your decals. You can then spray with a dull...

I like that graph. I was just hoping to have a graph that plotted one variable, with its changes, against another. I called Apogee and was told that I could export the simulation to Excel. I was...

OK, didn't think of that option- thanks. I would have thought that it would have used temperature as a variable, then shown the change in altitude as a function of the temperature.

I see that the...

I'm working with a TARC team and they're starting to work with the graphing function in order to have some useful printouts for the field.

The graphs that get generated basically don't make any...

I've seen his posts over there too and never realized he was someone local. We're a small group here in northern Illinois and most of us know each other.

I recognize the seller's screen name but can't quite remember the actual person. I live a few miles from Aurora, ILL and don't know who this is. Can anyone provide a name?

Definitely go with dry sanding. The varnish will soften up pretty quickly if you use water. If done correctly then the finished spray job should look pretty good without much additional work. I'll...

You need to spray it on a little thicker. If you go too light then the varnish will dry in the air. With the 350 you can basically open up the spraying diameter along with checking to see how far...

You mentioned building a rocket to be used with A-C motors. Rockets of that size generally use Kelvar cord of a very small diameter (usually less than 1/8").

I may be wrong, but isn't roving the stuff that is meant to shot through a gun that cuts it into little pieces as it gets sprayed on the layup?

edit-- just looked it up. Yes, roving is to be used...

Yep. TightBond II works well. It sometimes sticks a little too quickly, so I'd use white glue for things like gluing in a motor mount where you need to slide the motor mount up into the body tube...

If you are only making a low power rocket then I would go with yellow glue. It ends up drying by evaporation and you'll end up with a neater, and lighter, joint that will be stronger than the...

Are you in the United States? If so, there's plenty of free mapping data from gov't agencies that is in the public domain. I've done some pretty significant mapping projects over the years and ended...

I find the typography of both product names to be so similar as to obviously be intentional. I don't know who 'owns' the rights to this name but it will be interesting to see how this turns out.

I...

I do a lot of bagging, and yes, you pretty much need to keep the pump running. If you are able to get out the leaks in the system then you might be away with around 5 minute intervals in between when...

Lots of neat activity Jim!

I like Tim and am amazed at those words on his website. It's especially ironic because NAR promotes Rocksim through the TARC program at no charge and exposes thousands of kids to his software. So the...

Tim's educational materials are especially excellent for TARC teams. I've referred a TARC team that I'm mentoring to Apogee and they've bought quite a few things.

I like Tim but I too have been subject to some rather rude emails from him in the past. He's a smart guy but I think it would be in his interest to hire a separate marketing guy. Sometimes the...