Carl, do all of your kits have numbers or just the early production runs? I just got two kits from you that (as far as I can tell) don't have numbers on them.

Only the early kits have numbers. They have ranged from the first 100 to the first 25, depending on the guessed popularity. We always keep the first 5, send #6 to the person most responsible for helping us get the kit out, then the numbers in order to the early orders. We generally limit the number of kits with production numbers to one per customer and do not ship production numbers to dealers. Usually there is not much demand for numbers over 25. This is one of the reasons we are trying to get this promotion in place.

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Carl McLawhorn
NAR#4717 L2
semroc.com

Also, one early serial number kit has a Platinum Ticket, which grants the finder a tour of the underground laboratory where Semroc uses alien technology to fabricate parts and ship orders before the customer is finished ordering.

Shucks, every kit has one of those!

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Carl McLawhorn
NAR#4717 L2
semroc.com

So.....how is it that I have production number 7 of the Start, but so does "crocodile" in Huntsville? From your description above it would be the first one after whoever it was that helped you create it. Certainly some of them left your hands at NARAM?

BTW, I just wanted to toss in here that I'm so happy that you've that huge lawyer-delivered concern off your shoulders so you can pop in here and answer silly questions like this one.

The mini Hustler from the first post is now under construction, BTW.

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Bernard Cawley
NAR 89040 L1 - Life Member
SAM 0061
AMA 42160
KG7AIE

Best I ever got was a #8.

But it had a personal note from Sheryl, which makes it better than a #6, IMHO.

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I love sanding.

I do not know how there are two #7's. There should not be a way for that to happen.

We never take kits with production numbers to events, since ltvscout wound up with #5 of the BatRoc because of this.

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Carl McLawhorn
NAR#4717 L2
semroc.com

It went nicely but landed pretty hard. I flew it on an Estes A8-3. The streamer partly melted and mostly shredded and the little plastic widget glued into the nose cone popped on landing. Also the stuffer tube was damaged. The fins came out OK though.

Dan Meadows, another BEMRC club member (and the fellow who actually ordered 'em from JonRocket) also flew his and suffered similar damage, especially to the stuffer tube.

Note that our flying site is dead grass at the moment - no real soft places to land.

My Squatty Body is back in flying shape with a bit bigger streamer of the metalized streamer material that BMS uses in the School Rocket and a rather more well-filleted nose cone-to-shock cord attach fitting installation.

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Bernard Cawley
NAR 89040 L1 - Life Member
SAM 0061
AMA 42160
KG7AIE

Well, I went to take a picture to post and....um.....I somehow read it wrong the other day. I have Start #9

..... never mind......

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Bernard Cawley
NAR 89040 L1 - Life Member
SAM 0061
AMA 42160
KG7AIE

Someone ran a kit through the matter replicator after the serial number plate went in rather than before.