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Old 10-02-2007, 03:10 PM
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Default Value of 1960s and 1970s rocket engines

I am preparing to sell my collection of 80 model rocket engines. The oldest is an Estes B14-0 from 1968.

Before putting them up for sale, I am trying to establish, first, whether a market for old engines even exists.

Second, I am interested in what collectors pay for old engines. Some of mine are probably quite rare, so I would like to get a sense of what they might fetch. (For example, I have a 1971 Estes D13-7, a 1974 FSI E5-2, and unopened packages of Aeronautic and Space Company B3-3X.

If the collection is worth less than a certain threshold level, I am thinking that a better use of my time might be not to sell them , but simply drop them in a bucket of water to destroy them!

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Old 10-02-2007, 08:12 PM
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Do you have the proper shipping documents to ship the motors if you sell them?
You certainly can't just put them in the mail stream, and, they could not be shipped if you did have the documents other than parcel post, and, if they are high power motors, that's a wholr different ballgame.
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Old 10-02-2007, 09:01 PM
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Alan...........

Where are you located? Maybe there's an interested buyer who's close enough to you to pick them up.

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Old 10-02-2007, 09:22 PM
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What kind of shipping documents do you need to ship model rocket engines?

I am discovering how complicated it is to ship engines now than it was during the 1970s! What happened?

It may be that whoever buys the collection will have to come and pick them up.

I live in Toronto, Canada.
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Old 10-02-2007, 09:38 PM
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If they are not high power motors just throw them in a box and mail them. The B-14s are apprx. $10-$15 dollars each . D-13s maybe $15-$20 dollar range . FSI's maybe $20 for a pack of 3.
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I think I'll wait for Fred to respond to that last post
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Old 10-02-2007, 10:32 PM
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I think I'll wait for Fred to respond to that last post

I ship motors via parcel post all the time. I just don't mail them priority or first class to ensure they don't go via air.

I also spit on the sidewalk, jaywalk, drive 80 in a 65, launch non-certified motors, etc, etc.
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Old 10-02-2007, 10:49 PM
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Gotta agree with EVERYTHING LTVscout says in his above post, although I have never sent motors to anyone.
I'm always buying them !
Probably at least 25% of all the motors I fly on a regular basis are old no-longer certified ones.
I too enjoy a good jaywalk, sidewalk spit, and the occasional triple digit mph blast on the freeway in 70mph zones in my Cadillac STS and Chevrolet Z28.
I rarely if ever am driving under 80mph in 70 zones, but everybody knows in Michigan that highway speed "limits" are actually "suggestions"
Quite frankly I don't care how motors are shipped to me as long as I get them in the condition I expect....the shipper assumes all the liability from what I have been able to ascertain from the regs.
Last I checked none of us were shipping cops.
I will say that I have heard penalties for shipping motors without proper authorization can be SEVERE and that most postal workers don't know the true regs other than the one requiring proper "ground shipment only" labeling....most have never heard of the special authorization to ship requirements.
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Old 10-03-2007, 05:38 AM
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What kind of shipping documents do you need to ship model rocket engines?

I am discovering how complicated it is to ship engines now than it was during the 1970s! What happened?

It may be that whoever buys the collection will have to come and pick them up.

I live in Toronto, Canada.


LITIGATION is/was the driving factor for the regulations.
Surface mailing only, with all the homeland security and "bomb sniffing" machines, you never know what the "feds" will do, and, I don't think it if worth the risk to find out.

I will post the usps regulations later on here.
FYI The box needs a placard stating that the package contains "class C toy propellant devices" along with other paperwork.
Motors are not allowed to go priority , because they would probably end up on an aircraft, and, if anyone knows how it is to go through security at the airports, can only imagine how it would be if any motors would be detected.

I'm only bringing this up so OUR rocketry community doesn't get hassled by the usps and the feds.
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launch non-certified motors,


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