There should be some way that Estes could coordinate with one or two of the larger modroc hobby vendors when they purchase these NCs. OK, so Estes is no longer interested in the spare parts business, they only want enough parts to make their bagged-up kits. That's fine. But I don't know why they would object to someone else buying a few hundred (or thousand?) NCs. It's not like a few spare parts is gonna cause any disastrous drop in sales for Estes, these NCs would only really be marketable to a niche portion of us rocketry nuts.

Buying these NCs in bulk would probably only be reasonably do-able it done at the same time Estes buys its own several thousand. And the stamp of "official Estes part" would be legit, versus the suspicions that would be raised over someone else ordering the same parts at some later time.

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