I voted 'yep' just on principle... BUT I don't think we need another LAW to require it or other stupid things like that.... pretty soon I'll have to sign a waiver to get a Big Mac and this sort of thing is getting rediculous...
If I were a manufacturer, and knowing that manufacturers are exposed to more liability and risk of litigation if something goes wrong, I think it would be prudent and good business sense to include the safety code, at least as a little flyer inside every kit, probably combined with a NAR membership flyer printed on the same sheet, on the other vertical or horizontal half. Sure the buyer can still do something stupid, and you still might get sued by some shark lawyer, but at least in court you could demonstrate a 'good faith' effort to make the standard safety information available to the user. Certainly a better defense than nothing
And the NAR membership flyer might help them out a bit. (Of course with the $60 membership dues it might not, but that's another story:surprised: )
Of course with the manufacturers coming out with stuff like the blurrz rocket cars and stuff like it that kinda violates the safety code, it certainly 'blurs' the line (bad pun) of what's acceptable and unacceptable. Do the rocket cars have to use a special plugged engine or something, I thought I read that somewhere. Still, I think if a manufacturer was going to make a product like that, they should make the cars rocket motors a completely dissimilar size or something that would prevent goofuses from using the car motors in a rocket, or a rocket motor in a car, and package them completely differently, and change the motor's color or something from standard rocket motor colors, just to differentiate the product. Course that also kinda invalidates the business model of introducing a new product using the same production machinery and supplies, to increase sales and production efficiency. But it's kinda hard to not look like a hypocrite when selling stuff that violates the safety code. I'm just making an example, not knocking on Estes...
JMHO! OL JR