01-13-2011, 02:50 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
As long as you would be selling them as model rocket motors, what difference does it make if it is Joe Hobbybuilder or XYZ Firewurx Corp. buying them ?
Nobody mentioned actually marketing them as 'fireworks'; I think that is the key here.
On the show "Mythbusters" they use OBVIOUS Estes model rocket motors often in ridiculous stunts/applications that are violations of the model rocket safety code .
"Off Label" usages of products happens all the time.
I do however think it would be EXTREMELY FOOLISH to actually market them to firework companies; then you WOULD be implicit in the usage.
Then again, I would like to see ALL regulations of both consumer AND display fireworks removed as well.
I'd like it to go back to the way it was in the 60's prior to the ban on M80's, cherry bombs, silver salutes, and blockbusters.
Those can ALL be used safely and correctly.
Idiots holding them that had fingers blown off ruined it for the rest of us that have actual humanoid I.Q.'s.
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Agreed, on all points! Carl may get this type of customer "by osmosis," as it were. I'm sure that not one of the "Mom & Pop" specialty firework manufacturers *ever* calls up Estes saying "We'd like to order 1,000 packs of B6-4 motors to power our "Sky Spectacle Skyrockets"; they get a relative or a friend to make the order and then transfer the motors to them. Carl may get orders like this, and if so he'll never know (any more than Estes does) how the motors are finally used.
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