Kirk G
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OK, so this may seem like an odd or weird question, but here goes....
After a couple of years in the low power end of this hobby, I'm completely content to work in Low Power with "black powder" motors.
But my roving eye has spotted that more than one older rocketeer keeps his supplies in various sizes of tackle boxes with closable clear plastic partitions.
And recently, one such retiring rocketeer has donated his "jump kit tackle box" to me. To my surprise, it is chalk full of motors, plugs, igniters, recovery wading, nosecones, launch lugs, fins, starters, and all the rest.
This is great, cause you can spot what you're looking for at one glance and open up only the compartment that you need to retrieve something.
But then it dawns on me. With all the various motors, different sizes, strengths, boosters, and all.... this guy must have either bought a helluva lot of blister packs and broken them apart to store in his kit...
or, bought a lot of variety packs and again, sorted them out into various smaller trays. But all the igniters and starters have been lumped into two separate compartments....
...and it just seems like an incredibly expensive way to go.
IS there a bulk supply for various motors....or bulk variety packs?
Or is there a better way to store your supplies, and this system has just evolved over time?
After a couple of years in the low power end of this hobby, I'm completely content to work in Low Power with "black powder" motors.
But my roving eye has spotted that more than one older rocketeer keeps his supplies in various sizes of tackle boxes with closable clear plastic partitions.
And recently, one such retiring rocketeer has donated his "jump kit tackle box" to me. To my surprise, it is chalk full of motors, plugs, igniters, recovery wading, nosecones, launch lugs, fins, starters, and all the rest.
This is great, cause you can spot what you're looking for at one glance and open up only the compartment that you need to retrieve something.
But then it dawns on me. With all the various motors, different sizes, strengths, boosters, and all.... this guy must have either bought a helluva lot of blister packs and broken them apart to store in his kit...
or, bought a lot of variety packs and again, sorted them out into various smaller trays. But all the igniters and starters have been lumped into two separate compartments....
...and it just seems like an incredibly expensive way to go.
IS there a bulk supply for various motors....or bulk variety packs?
Or is there a better way to store your supplies, and this system has just evolved over time?