Estes website let’s you enter your email to be notified once the 3” MDRM is available.
Estes website let’s you enter your email to be notified once the 3” MDRM is available.
An I212 takes it to 800 or so feet. An I420 gets it around 1400ft. It's single deploy and I haven't stuck a recording altimeter in it.What kind of real-world performance do you get with that...?!?
Hah! Take the vaccine - the Max will be around awhile so we need to be too.Thanks for that info, Scott. From what you're saying , my discount dealer HobbyLink, will be one of the last to get new kits like this? So, I should order direct from Estes for timely delivery come the release??
I don't mind paying more. But on the other hand, my flying field is my in-laws farm, three hours away and we're not going there to fly until we're all vaccinated.
So, I guess it's a race between my getting vaccinated versus the new Der Red Max makes it to market??!!!
Hah! Take the vaccine - the Max will be around awhile so we need to be too.
Sorry to tease you, Phillip. I'll bet they have them back in stock first thing in the morning. Someone on here once described how Estes' online stock numbers work and they replenish the numbers sometimes many times a day.That was 1750... it’s now 1937 CST. Sold Out. Didn’t even get the Email I signed up for . This on top of the USPS playing Guess Where Your Package from Mach1 is (ordered in November) and I’m about give up buying online. I can drive to Wichita and buy what I want AND get motors for no HazMat fee.
After a Manhattan and my 2nd CoVid shot... not necessarily in that order I’m not worried.Sorry to tease you, Phillip. I'll bet they have them back in stock first thing in the morning. Someone on here once described how Estes' online stock numbers work and they replenish the numbers sometimes many times a day.
It better be!! They took my money.I called Estes this morning and spoke with Sandra. I told her that someone had placed an order but the web page was broken now. She didn't know it was available yet. She did get the page fixed so you can put yourself on the list to be notified. She checked and people had placed several orders yesterday. She said they would check into it and figure out if it really was available or not.
Just got my email from Estes with a tracking number. My 3"DBRM is on its way!
A little disappointed about the (probable) self-stick decals - I’d rather have a nylon chute but that’s not a big deal - but it’s going to be a great flying rocket, especially on 29mm BP motors!Talked to JumpJet, and he wasn't 100% on the decals being stickers or waterslide (but was fairly sure they're stickers). He mentioned that some markings may be missing (likely the nosecone decal I'm guessing). The shape is a "perfect upscale to 3" for the kit, with 1/8" TTW balsa fins, their heavy plastic parachute, and laser-cut fiberboard centering rings.
This kit definitely deserved better. But I guess that is why I don’t run a business.A little disappointed about the (probable) self-stick decals - I’d rather have a nylon chute but that’s not a big deal - but it’s going to be a great flying rocket, especially on 29mm BP motors!
We in the active enthusiast realm tend to forget that we’re just not Estes primary customers and kits aren’t their big moneymaker - their distributors and major retailers (who are their primary customers) will only buy so many of anything at a certain price and selling motors is where they reportedly make their money. I agree, a bigger/better version of something as iconic as Der Red Max deserves the deluxe treatment, but it appears that the cost/benefit calculation doesn’t work for waterslide decals and nylon chutes. Pity, but I’ll still be buying the kit - maybe a couple when they hit the online discount sites - and probably hit up Stickershock for a set of decals.This kit definitely deserved better. But I guess that is why I don’t run a business.
Do you have some info about no engine retainer? I checked the Estes website page and don’t see anything about engine retention - considering they include the 29mm screw on retainer with the other recent builder PSII kits I’d figure it’s in this one too. No engine block is there but I don’t see anything about retention.No engine block.
No engine retainer.
I don't believe it. If it does not come with the standard Estes 29mm screw retainer I will be *shocked*.Do you have some info about no engine retainer? I checked the Estes website page and don’t see anything about engine retention - considering they include the 29mm screw on retainer with the other recent builder PSII kits I’d figure it’s in this one too. No engine block is there but I don’t see anything about retention.
I thought I read that some where, but I can't seam to locate where again.Do you have some info about no engine retainer? I checked the Estes website page and don’t see anything about engine retention - considering they include the 29mm screw on retainer with the other recent builder PSII kits I’d figure it’s in this one too. No engine block is there but I don’t see anything about retention.
The screw-retainers that Estes includes with PSII and some LPR kits do not melt, barring extraordinary circumstance. They are excellent.I figured it would be a waste of time and a head ache to replace when they melt.
Some of mine are a bit scorched and the do tend to erode a bit but none have actually melted. Even the oldest retainer on my Star Orbiter is perfectly serviceable after dozens of launches.The screw-retainers that Estes includes with PSII and some LPR kits do not melt, barring extraordinary circumstance. They are excellent.
You might be thinking of some of the various twist-lock retainers that are used in some RTF and E2X LPR models. I've never had a problem with them either, but they are quite different from the retainers in question.
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