I have seen many flights with these matches and not a single failure to attribute to the match. The cheapies from China work!
Something else to consider...
We (understandably) complain about government regulation of our hobby.
How much of a favor do you think we're doing ourselves when we knowingly purchase items like that where it's quite fair to assume that they're not being shipped properly, or legally? DOT and the Postal Services are two government agencies that are the least restrictive. If we want to keep it that way, I'd suggest that people buy from vendors and manufacturers who are playing by the rules, lest we risk more government intervention.
Yeah, it may drive up your match price by a quarter or fifty cents each. But in the grand scheme of what we spend on the hobby, that's peanuts.
-Kevin (whose view, I'm confident, won't be popular....)
The MJG consumer legal ematches are going to be the new standard. From all reports they function just like a JTek. Who cares if they're a buck a whack? For rocketry, that's nothing.
Is there a Hazmat fee for shipping the MJG E matches?
JP
MJG is the only manufacturer who makes matches here in the US. They recently bought Seminole Wire, a top of the line product. The wire on MJG products is yellow and has a polarity stripe, while the Chinese matches are orange, no stripe, and have a smell of phenol from the insulation.
MJG makes both the J-Tek matches and the new Firewire 'consumer legal' matches. So, PyroDirect's matches come from MJG. Any of the orange wired "ejection lighters" probably come through Ebay, direct shipped from China.
Kevin
I'm just getting back into the hobby after about 7 years, and looking for ematches for missleworks and adept altimeters, and I have no idea what today's regs are like. Can someone point me at ematches that work with these altemeters that don't require hasmat or anything like that? (I don't want to do a "roll your own") Thanks in advance.
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