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Old 02-22-2020, 11:53 PM
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Quest continued to purchase motors from Germany but the cost was not economical.

Bill learned of a Chinese fireworks company that could make motors and visited China.
This resulted in the 'Chinese' Quest motors and the Q2G2 igniters.

Bill also looked into having larger black powder motors made by the Chinese company. Some prototypes were made and sent over to Quest for testing but did not get into full-scale production.

Around this time there was some sort of issue with the Chinese company (Can't recall what it was) but now they wanted more money to make the motors. This was even more expensive than importing motors from Germany so Quest cancelled any more motor production in China. Quest still wanted to purchase the 'Q2G2' igniters but the Chinese company stated they would only sell the igniters if motors were also purchased.

Thus ended Chinese-made Quest motors and the Q2G2 igniters.

As this was happening the economy was taking a hit and Quest was in financial trouble.
In a bid to save the company Quest merged with AeroTech (As I recall AeroTech did not buy Quest, it was a mutual survival action to save both companies).

It was decided by the joint company to come up with another way to make motors for Quest which led to the multi-year project that resulted in the Q-Jet motors now sold under the Quest label.

The Quest BP motor making machines survive and are in storage at the AeroTech facility.
I saw these machines during a 'tour' of the Quest facility in Pagosa Springs, CO, in the 2000s.
The machines were stored outside with the top wrapped in heavy canvas material.

The big take-away in all this is that at no time did Quest have ownership of the MPC motor making machines. Quest used the MPC equipment which was owned by FSI to make their original production runs of motors.
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