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Alright TRFers, the last sale was darn near a shovel recovery. The core sample ( (which for some odd reason I played along with) revealed waaay too much of my personal life and history as the dissection in the Geology Dept of TRF got busy. Mea Culpa. Let's try this again. Since this is my thread I do reserve the right to relate certain facts concerning said articles only for context. I am not emotionally attached to anything I post for sale snd if you think things are priced too high, we both win. You still have your money and I still have my "thing". Now that I have established the farm is not on the auction block by the Feds for back taxes, be advised my professional shipper friend (Steve, Postal Annex Plus in La Mesa-shameless plug) ((Btw, shipping sux now, be advised I can deliver at Rocstock or Holtville Havoc. Vegas is chancy and my time line)) took an extra vacay day and won't be back until Wednesday and I'm kinda a busy guy anyways. >Everything professionally packed AND INSURED. I think you get a tracking number, too. < If you rest you rust. Motion is the best lotion. Never look back, they may be gaining, etc. -pick yer platitude) So, having that out of the way, think of this as turning a book at the library upside down and spine in, so you can find it again while you keep perusing the aisle. Works for me. (Library: the building our forefathers used before they harnessed the power of the electron to destroy independent learning and thinking. See also: books) Pics will be plentiful, but not overly zealous and you may inquire at your leisure to ally any fears you may have. Typos are included for free and may have hilarious results. This is not a keyboard, It's a frikin I-pad powered by very tired hamsters on a squeeky wheel. Be nice. Stay tuned.
and now, the musical interlude:
If you need an oop part, go see dave, if you need an oop part go see dave, if you need an oop part, make a deal and he will part with an obscure rocket part, if you need an oop part, go see dave
10 bonus points if you can identify the tune.
And now, back to our regularly scheduled cluster....
( did he just say cluster?...)
(Again for emphasis: NOT leaving rocketry! just fireworks. Digging around my fine stack of 'wall 'o' footlockers' I am thinning the herd while I have your attention. For my next act, I will set myself on fire. Not really, just a favourite line from an old comedy routine)
and now back to your regularly scheduled program
"Do not attempt to adjust the vertical.." wait! wrong channel!
. These are MANDATORY rules. If you, for any reason, cannot follow the crowd, please sit on the curb and wait for your ride. it's a customized School Bus with 13 feet cut out of the middle. Very proud to own one. Not like any sale you may have seen here before. I have good reasons for this.
1) This ain't 'one and done' I'm not gonna jam up TRF with eleventeen posts. It will all be HERE, no matter whut it is.
2) You MUST respond to any sale here to my EMail account:
[email protected]. (which luckily, is also my paypal addy) I literally don't have time in RL to babysit TRF.
3) NO bidding. What I say is what it is. I don't care how cool or crappy it is. This is not my first rodeo, and in RL I worked on a dude ranch in Colorado. My Aunt and Uncle also own a big spread in New Mexico. I've shoveled enuff to last three lifetimes. I really prefer sugar cubes over spurs. Let's play nice horsies, okay?
4) First come, first served.
5) I'm not starving, if you need time to assemble funds, I'm all good with that, but not a mind reader. It will be marked 'sold' and I'm not a stickler for petty details. Leave that crap to Feebay.
I trust my fellow flyers, but we all know what happened at Spaceport. Reasonable time is allowed, but if you ghost more than two pay periods, you lose. Paypal is your best friend, but I can also accept checks, money orders, or bullion. Don't need trades, but, hey, I could be open. See rule #2
6) Please don't ask if I have this or that. It's embarrassing enough that I might. Sale items may be randomly added. Nothing will be presold just to look good or make you feel jealous. From a scrawny kid with a British accent in Georgia, making his first black powder and starting a 'rocket club' at Warner Robins High School ( it's still there, the story is surreal) to the day Eric Gates signed my cert card( there were no 'levels' back then), to the day Scott Bartel threatened to tell everybody to turn me upside down and shake out the fee to join Tripoli, I have had a distinct lack of self control, common sense or decorum for all thing based on fire. I built my first fireworks there. Ky Michaelson and I spoke briefly at LDRS about our 'glory days' but he's got a few ( not that many) years on me. My first order to Estes was $300.00 They called my dad to see if I forged his signature. I hustled for rockets. A lot. I grew up to work on the real Atlas vehicles. I still have no self control, so yeah, the so called 'build pile' could be stratospheric if I didn't steal parts for my own designs, from LPR to HPR.
+1 for anybody making it this far. You are a masochist and should not be allowed to mix with the general public.
Just don't ask me for one of the first kits Vern made. My dad built me one when we lived in Aurora, Colorado. He knew the local hobby shop owner. I got to go with him to see all the goodies in the adult toy store and there it was. Lost on the first flight to the trees in a meadow at the end of the street, looking out towards the Genesee Mountains, foot hills of the Rockies. I was in Second grade. Then we moved to Britain. No rockets except for Guy Fawkes day. Thus the weird spellings and accent when I get drunk. My story. First, last and Only time it will ever be repeated, here or anywhere. Moral of the story: Don't ask.
7) Nothing will be deleted, see the post from Troj about the rules.
Any multiple listing will be revised showing multiple 'sold' labels. i.e. if there are fifteen of something and if there is only ten 'sold' stickers, there are 5 left. If you can use an altimeter, you can take this to the bank.
8) Some items I will pack, but not often. While I may not be as busy as you are. I cherish any time I have left not doing dumb things. Using old Xmas wrap, newspapers, Aunt Frieda's fruit cake box from 1987, habitrail foilage or even, gods forbid, dog barf, falls under this category. I will load any padded envelopes my self. I'm only so stupid on certain days when the grunion are running.
9) Donations ARE accepted, to go to one of my favourite charities -right now it is a 5th grade STEM teacher in Florida. You may even know him, yes, he flies (and teaches) rocketry, but he shall remain nameless here. Not a TRF regular, but I am trying.
10) Anything marked 'free' will be subject to a $1.00 'service fee'. Not for me. See post #9.
Let's light this candle!
Final edit: this sale is NOT for me. I have a good job, happily married, an Acura with 320k i'm extremely proud of, and a lifetime of rocket crap. My job is solely to make my crap your crap. One man's crap can still be crap, be warned! This is Solely to support some poor slub trying to ignite the imaginations of children in the formative years we may find new engineers, mechanics, and computer geeks in. Your tax payer dollar only goes so far, and then it comes out of his pittance we pay him. Help me help him, so we don't have to rent somebody in the future that can use a calculator. Ruby Myers from Discount Rocketry slready holds the contract and is ready to ship. Target is $250.00. Call her if you don't believe me. If this craters, it's all on me snd he will still get his care package. If we can have some fun doing it, all the better. Sharing is caring, and I give a damn.
and now, the musical interlude:
If you need an oop part, go see dave, if you need an oop part go see dave, if you need an oop part, make a deal and he will part with an obscure rocket part, if you need an oop part, go see dave10 bonus points if you can identify the tune.
And now, back to our regularly scheduled cluster....
( did he just say cluster?...)
(Again for emphasis: NOT leaving rocketry! just fireworks. Digging around my fine stack of 'wall 'o' footlockers' I am thinning the herd while I have your attention. For my next act, I will set myself on fire. Not really, just a favourite line from an old comedy routine)
and now back to your regularly scheduled program
"Do not attempt to adjust the vertical.." wait! wrong channel!
1) This ain't 'one and done' I'm not gonna jam up TRF with eleventeen posts. It will all be HERE, no matter whut it is.
2) You MUST respond to any sale here to my EMail account:
[email protected]. (which luckily, is also my paypal addy) I literally don't have time in RL to babysit TRF.
3) NO bidding. What I say is what it is. I don't care how cool or crappy it is. This is not my first rodeo, and in RL I worked on a dude ranch in Colorado. My Aunt and Uncle also own a big spread in New Mexico. I've shoveled enuff to last three lifetimes. I really prefer sugar cubes over spurs. Let's play nice horsies, okay?
4) First come, first served.
5) I'm not starving, if you need time to assemble funds, I'm all good with that, but not a mind reader. It will be marked 'sold' and I'm not a stickler for petty details. Leave that crap to Feebay.
I trust my fellow flyers, but we all know what happened at Spaceport. Reasonable time is allowed, but if you ghost more than two pay periods, you lose. Paypal is your best friend, but I can also accept checks, money orders, or bullion. Don't need trades, but, hey, I could be open. See rule #2
6) Please don't ask if I have this or that. It's embarrassing enough that I might. Sale items may be randomly added. Nothing will be presold just to look good or make you feel jealous. From a scrawny kid with a British accent in Georgia, making his first black powder and starting a 'rocket club' at Warner Robins High School ( it's still there, the story is surreal) to the day Eric Gates signed my cert card( there were no 'levels' back then), to the day Scott Bartel threatened to tell everybody to turn me upside down and shake out the fee to join Tripoli, I have had a distinct lack of self control, common sense or decorum for all thing based on fire. I built my first fireworks there. Ky Michaelson and I spoke briefly at LDRS about our 'glory days' but he's got a few ( not that many) years on me. My first order to Estes was $300.00 They called my dad to see if I forged his signature. I hustled for rockets. A lot. I grew up to work on the real Atlas vehicles. I still have no self control, so yeah, the so called 'build pile' could be stratospheric if I didn't steal parts for my own designs, from LPR to HPR.
+1 for anybody making it this far. You are a masochist and should not be allowed to mix with the general public.
Just don't ask me for one of the first kits Vern made. My dad built me one when we lived in Aurora, Colorado. He knew the local hobby shop owner. I got to go with him to see all the goodies in the adult toy store and there it was. Lost on the first flight to the trees in a meadow at the end of the street, looking out towards the Genesee Mountains, foot hills of the Rockies. I was in Second grade. Then we moved to Britain. No rockets except for Guy Fawkes day. Thus the weird spellings and accent when I get drunk. My story. First, last and Only time it will ever be repeated, here or anywhere. Moral of the story: Don't ask.
7) Nothing will be deleted, see the post from Troj about the rules.
Any multiple listing will be revised showing multiple 'sold' labels. i.e. if there are fifteen of something and if there is only ten 'sold' stickers, there are 5 left. If you can use an altimeter, you can take this to the bank.
8) Some items I will pack, but not often. While I may not be as busy as you are. I cherish any time I have left not doing dumb things. Using old Xmas wrap, newspapers, Aunt Frieda's fruit cake box from 1987, habitrail foilage or even, gods forbid, dog barf, falls under this category. I will load any padded envelopes my self. I'm only so stupid on certain days when the grunion are running.
9) Donations ARE accepted, to go to one of my favourite charities -right now it is a 5th grade STEM teacher in Florida. You may even know him, yes, he flies (and teaches) rocketry, but he shall remain nameless here. Not a TRF regular, but I am trying.
10) Anything marked 'free' will be subject to a $1.00 'service fee'. Not for me. See post #9.
Let's light this candle!
Final edit: this sale is NOT for me. I have a good job, happily married, an Acura with 320k i'm extremely proud of, and a lifetime of rocket crap. My job is solely to make my crap your crap. One man's crap can still be crap, be warned! This is Solely to support some poor slub trying to ignite the imaginations of children in the formative years we may find new engineers, mechanics, and computer geeks in. Your tax payer dollar only goes so far, and then it comes out of his pittance we pay him. Help me help him, so we don't have to rent somebody in the future that can use a calculator. Ruby Myers from Discount Rocketry slready holds the contract and is ready to ship. Target is $250.00. Call her if you don't believe me. If this craters, it's all on me snd he will still get his care package. If we can have some fun doing it, all the better. Sharing is caring, and I give a damn.
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