jackiboi_11
Well-Known Member
I was wondering where i could get some f motors without paying 60 bucks for 2 on the estes website
Have you priced the motors at your local hobby shop?
But no hazmat.The 2-pack of F15 is $29.99 on the Estes site.
When local hobby shops actually existed near me, rocketry stuff was always full MSRP.
When you add the shipping and hazmat, how much does it cost?Rocketship Games, Balsa Machining Service, Erockets.biz and many other places.
Or an F67.Yeah, black powder is cool, but have you ever had an F52C scream off the pad and take your Star Orbiter to almost 2000 ft? Good stuff, no Hazmat that I’m aware of.
E16 for me yesterday. It did drift off the field and almost performed an Apollo splashdown in Mission Bay. The only reason it didn’t was that the chute stuck together for a few seconds and made it an accidental JLCR flight.Or an F67.
Flew it on an E12 w/adapter, nearly drifted out of the park.
No but I should have. That lower body tube spiral has seen better days (although it first got that way when I was flying E16s in it). As pretty as it is compared to everything else I cobble together and as much as I love its performance, I may have to retire it from duty soon, assuming that I can even get it past the Safety Check. Or I could cut it open and stick in a coupler. That’d be a neat opportunity to give it the Vapor fins it has in the catalogBTW Shane, did you beef up your Star Orbiter to take that F52?
But no hazmat.
No shipping charge.
No bulk purchase required.
Many "F Motors" are not hazmat.When you add the shipping and hazmat, how much does it cost?
Only hobby shop near me that has rocketry is hobby lobby and the biggest motors they have are E12sHave you priced the motors at your local hobby shop?
No hazmat, no bulk purchase necessary, and if you're lucky they might have all the delay ranges.
EDIT: Also if you're in the vicinity of a big launch maybe on site vendors have what you seek at a good price and no hazmat.
Only hobby shop near me that has rocketry is hobby lobby and the biggest motors they have are E12s
Only hobby shop near me that has rocketry is hobby lobby and the biggest motors they have are E12s
If you're in Austin, TX there is Kings HobbiesI was wondering where i could get some f motors without paying 60 bucks for 2 on the estes website
Ive heard about them ill check it out.
Too bad they don't have an F15-0 bulk pack.You can get 8 for $99 and no Hazmat fee from Estes, and use a promo code (launch_10) for another 10% off. Break the $100 mark and get free shipping.
https://estesrockets.com/products/f15-4-engine-bulk-pack?_pos=1&_sid=45d2f6289&_ss=r
Estes says that there's no hazmat on the 8-motor bulk pack. It may be like the little tricks that Aerotech uses to subvert hazmat with some of their 29mm reloads... were the motors individually wrapped?I have no idea.. probably because they want to sell a bunch of them to accompany the recent "bring back" releases.
Some here have speculated that the Hazmat fee is actually there but they just rolled it into the price... all I can tell you that when I received mine, there were no Hazmat markings on the box.
+1On your local launch field from the vendor.
A very, very very THIN box -- mine broke during shipping, scattering F motors across the shipping box. As a result, I've been very careful with these, CA'ing the nozzle to the cardboard case of the motor, just in case. Ran 3 so far and no CATOs.Nope, they were in a box.
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