IIRC Howard Kuhn used to cast them by hand.

Jerry

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Heck if I was in charge I'd lead seminars of how to stage with mercury switches.
If any enviro whackos did not like like it I'd let them know their opinion will be duly noted and IGNORED !

The cert process would revert back to the old method of once you fly ANY "H" motor, you can fly anything up to the biggest EX monster.

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Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, TURMOIL, FIASCOS, and HAVOC !

Fantastic. There's no telling if it will work, but that's a degree of attention that I would have thought impossible to obtain. Excellent job. Thank you. Thank you.

You should also give them a copy of the federal lawsuit order and ask if APCP can be exempted entirely up to a larger mass limit, say 2kg per unit since it is NOT AN EXPLOSIVE.

Jerry

Order:
http://www.v-serv.com/usr/ATFE-03-16-09.pdf

BOE Test Report on APCP:
http://www.v-serv.com/usr/ACS.BOEreport.jpg

BOE/DOT threshold for Flammable Solid >2.2mm/s and APCP is under that for consumers:
http://www.v-serv.com/usr/FS-holygrail.jpg

My discussion of how that applies to DOT is at the bottom of this page:
http://www.v-serv.com/usr/regchange.htm

Interesting. Was he a single-source supplier of the lead NAR Standard Payloads (including the ones that Estes carried)?

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To those who go "tsk, tsk" about mercury switches (for "quiet" light switches and furnace thermostat switches, as well as for staging systems), my response is "Yeah, you're right. They should use cesium instead of mercury in such switches."

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You're welcome. I e-mailed her last night and got an automated "out-of-office" reply that said she will be back in the office on Friday, May 22nd, but that she will respond via Blackberry as soon as possible.

Having helped my Vietnam veteran friend with his SSDI case, she has given us a view into how our government functions at the interface between legislator and constituent. Having showed us files (*not* to the point of revealing highly-personal private information) of other constituents with problems (plus seeing her receive numerous cell phone calls from other constituents and staff members while we've been in her office), I can say that Representatives' and Senators' office managers and staff members are very hard-working people. Her schedule is so fully-packed that she has planners, notebooks, and note cards all over her office, and her case files are stacked up waist-high.

She praised us for having all of the relevant papers for our cases well-organized with concise synopses (which she said that many constituents do *not* do, unfortunately), which saves her much time and makes her work in helping us much easier. She even wrote the appeal letter for my friend, which he submitted to the Appeals Council regarding his Social Security Disability Insurance case.

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One thing I've learned through helping my friend with his SSDI case is that restricting oneself to one case (issue) per constituent at a time when dealing with one's legislator is preferable, because they are so deluged with requests for assistance from so many constituents. Since you are much more conversant with the APCP issue than I am, you could do what I'm doing with one of your legislators. Because Representatives (usually) have smaller numbers of constituents than Senators (Don Young is an exception because [for population reasons] he's the Congressman for *all* of Alaska), it would probably be more effective for you to approach your Congressional District's Representative than one of your two Senators.

If you emphasize the educational benefits of hobbyist rocketry and the benefits to commerce (businesses in the hobbyist rocketry industry) of exempting larger quantities of APCP, that is what your legislator wants to hear. (S/he wants to be able to use his/her helping you for his/her political advantage, either when running for re-election or for making points in legislative debate when the Congress is in session, or both.) Even if your Representative (or Senators) happen(s) to be far-left and anti-business, s/he (or they) *do* want your vote.

One other thing that I learned, is *not* to approach more than one legislator to seek help with the same issue. As Congressman Don Young's Fairbanks Office Manager explained to me when I first contacted her regarding my friend's SSDI case, they (the staff of Congressman Don Young, Senator Mark Begich, and Senator Lisa Murkowski) would *all* make inquiries with the same government agencies on his behalf, and the duplicated inquiries would eat up the agency personnel's time and slow down the resolution of my friend's case. She said that she didn't mind if I approached Senator Begich's office or Senator Murkowski's office instead of her office; she only asked that I choose *one* of them to contact regarding my friend's case.

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