GlueckAuf
Well-Known Member
As I was assembling a few RMS Plus motors this evening, as I looked at how the propellant grains were packaged in their shipping tubes it puzzled me why the multiple grains in, for example, the non-HAZMAT Aerotech H268R-14A, all stacked together in the liner as shipped (think, like a package of Life Savers), were any less inherently hazardous than they would be as a single grain of the same overall length (think, Tootsie Roll).
Aerotech's non-HAZMAT, high-power motor packaging of old used to physically separate the grains, placing just one in the liner and the other(s) in a separate plastic sheath. But now they all seem to ship with NO physical separation of the grains.
How does cutting up the propellant grains into many smaller, lighter grains then stacking them all back together inside the liner in any way constitute a less hazardous product than if they remained as one solid grain shipped in that same liner?
Aerotech's non-HAZMAT, high-power motor packaging of old used to physically separate the grains, placing just one in the liner and the other(s) in a separate plastic sheath. But now they all seem to ship with NO physical separation of the grains.
How does cutting up the propellant grains into many smaller, lighter grains then stacking them all back together inside the liner in any way constitute a less hazardous product than if they remained as one solid grain shipped in that same liner?