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Cheap Motors
I recommend everyone stop in the Target stores that are local to you. They've been clearing out Estes motors. Look in the toy department on the end caps with a Clearance sign at the top. I've found numerous B6-4's and C6-5's for $1.24/pack.
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Thanks for the tip, Scott!
Just my luck - my local Target is still being built, and won't be opening for another month or so. Hmmm, I wonder if it will have Estes motors in stock and marked for "Clearance" when it does... You can bet that I'll be looking during my first shopping trip there. Mark \\
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Yep, there's an entire fairly long thread at TRF about this topic, here: http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=46673 Back in early July, I bought 4 packs of B6-4's and 4 packs of C6-5's for $2.48 each. Then in mid-July, I bought 4 (or maybe 8) more for $2.48 each. Then in early August, I happened to be at the Target in Memorial City Mall in Houston, and they had 6 packs of B6-4's on clearance for $1.24 each, so I bought them. And at another store last week, I managed to pick up 9 packs of C6-5's and 7 packs of B6-4's for $1.24 each. I think I'm done for now. Unless I stumble across more motors on clearance somewhere, of course. ~20 packs of B6-4's and ~22 packs of C6-5's could last me for a while.
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I noticed at my local Wal-Mart that the price tag for the engines was gone from the shelf; and of the three starter sets, one, the Astrobeam, had been marked down with a red clearance tag. On a hunch, I scanned the engines. $4.00 per pack. I bought almost all of them: one each A10-3T and A8-3, four each C6-5, three each C6-7. I left the three packs of C6-3 (which I don't use all that much) on the shelf; perhaps they will drop the price on them even more.
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Same here, I was in the local WM Saturday and all their engines were $4.00 and the A10-P were $3.00. All the starter sets were marked down as well. I guess they're getting ready for Christmas. However, I'll be heading by Target today to check on that much better $1.24 deal, provided my local rocketry shopping rival hasn't cleaned them out yet.
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Yesterday I remembered another Target store I should check for motors on clearance, so I may be doing that at lunchtime today.
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LOL....tried but they didn't have any. Only hit the one at Wolfchase though......
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I can never find these super duper deals on motors.
I did find some major clearance stuff at Hobby Lobby last week though. |
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I found 3 three-packs of B6-4's, but I had to root through big cardboard boxes of clearance toys to find them. I had almost given up, but then I saw the first pack, so of course I *had* to keep looking.
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You would post this while I was at lunch. Your right, Wolfchase doesn't have any. I apologize for the cussing you took. Target on Poplar doesn't have any either.
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