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I am still waiting for a black Friday shipment to be sent from Rocketry Warehouse. RW is not answering emails or phone calls. They have had my money for 2 1/2 months without sending my order or communicating their intentions. Is it unfair of me to think that they practicing very poor customer...

My first experience with Red Arrow Hobbies was great. They had good communication and quick delivery. The second time buying from Red Arrow Hobbies did not go as well. He had my money for almost 6 weeks with no communication and I never did get my motors. In the end Red Arrow Hobbies did...

My new scratch built project will be my level 3 cert rocket and is named Whole Lotta Rosie. It will get a rose color pinkish paint job. I know it's not very manly but it seems correct on this rocket. I started out with some 6" x 60" Uline mailing tubes that were left over from a Piedmont Area...

Has anyone ever been able to build and finish a kit rocket and have it match the posted weight of the kit? I can't even get close.

I am going to level 2 cert with a Binder Excel kit. Sticker Shock helped out with the graphics and the unusual theme was not problem.

My dad was looking at some mailing tubes and thought why not make a rocket from these. We talked about it and decided to give it a try. The mailing tubes in question were 3.00" ID and a regular 3" nose cone intended for rocket airframes fit pretty good. Dad has made jigs for cutting centering...

I was able to purchase some G10 tubing at a huge discount. The problem is the tubing has an O.D. of 3.00" and an I.D. of 2.86". I need a nose cone for this size tube? Any ideas?

I'm building my level 2 cert. rocket and it's going to need dual deploy. Without dual deploy I'm looking at a very long walk and a increased chance of not finding the rocket. My questions are Is redundancy with the flight computers, batteries, charges, and switches really...

I plan to use a Loki 54mm case for my level 2 attempt. I was looking at 38mm for my level 2 but there were several people who chimed in and said 54mm would be better. Ok, I'm thinking the J820 motor. Here's my question. At what point do you need to fiberglass paper tubes? I was looking...

I was thinking about scratch building my Level 2 rocket and I was looking around at kits for ideas. Binder design has an Excel dual deploy kit with 38mm motor mount. It looks just like the design I had floating around in my head and I was going to build my design with dual deploy and a 38mm...

I went to Kloudburst in Argonia, KS for my cert. flight. There was a great bunch of guys there and everything went pretty smooth. There was a little too much wind. I had planned on bring my 4 1/4 pound rocket down on a 48" Top Flight chute but Marty from Piedmont Rocketry suggested that I use...

I am currently building a Loc Minnie Magg. This is very cool, fat, stubby rocket. It a good build with no surprises and the 5.5" tube gives lots of room graphics. My question is for all the guys that have flown the Minnie Magg. What stability caliber should I shoot for? I know that a...

I completed the rocket I will use for my level 1 attempt. Open Rocket was used for the design and the body tube and nose cone are from Loc. A kit would have been less trouble but I liked the idea of scratch building the rocket for my level 1 attempt. The rocket is 4" dia., 58" in length, six...

I have been playing around with mid power rockets and finally decided to try high power. I looked at many different kits but the thought of scratch building my level 1 rocket sounded good to me. I used Open Rocket for the design and ordered my parts from Loc. I don't know how scratch...

Hi. This is my first post. I flew rockets many moons ago as a kid. The rocket bug bit me again recently after watching some You Tube videos of homemade PVC rocket motors. I can do that. So I made a couple and the static tests went well but I soon realized that building potential pipe bombs...