instaship.txt =========================== Announcing buy now pay now! You may buy SS or BMR3 series kits with Google Checkout. =========================== USR kits are available to dealers through a stocking distributor. Email for info. They carry nearly the full line in stock. Instaship is here! Please tell 4 friends! Instaship-tm items TRADITIONAL paper and wood rocket PRE-ASSEMBLED! 2.25" diameter kits SKU Series Name Price 1173P SS Star 75.95 * TRADITIONAL paper and wood rocket KITS - best sellers Consumer rocket kits require assembly. 1.00" diameter kits SKU Series Name Price 1024 BMR Miniroc 2 19.95 1171 SS Scout 18.95 1145 BMR3 Supersonic 18.95 1179 18mmMM MR 2B 26.95 1021 BMR2 Sonic Sounder 22.95 1106 BMR5 3 Stage Direct 29.95 1.22" diameter kits SKU Series Name Price 1181 18mmMM Micro-Sentra SRB 39.95 1127 BMR5 Fire & Forget 21.95 1139 BMR3 Miniroc 1.2 19.95 1140 BMR3 Tomahawk 1.2 21.95 1023 BMR2 Screamer 26.95 1180 18mmMM Micro-Interroc 26.95 1184 18mmMM Titan 29.95 1144 BMR3 Long Tall Sally 24.95 2.25" diameter kits SKU Series Name Price 1003 BMR Aero-Roc 35.95 1018 AMR Two The Limit 49.95 1173 SS Star 35.95 1188 CC F with Multiple D Pods 69.95 1027 BMR Start 29.95 1013 BMR All Weather 29.95 1174 SS Mosquito 2.2 29.95 1146 BMR4 Stub 2.2 29.95 1002 AMR Hi-Test 2225 49.95 1014 LSS Piston Stager 59.95 1062 AMR AR 2B 49.95 1032 AMR Sonic 2200 49.95 1012 BMR Interroc 39.95 1005 BMR Aero-Roc 3 37.95 1019 AMR Weightlofter 39.95 Fiberglass kits - paper internal parts Sonic 125 plastic nose cone 1077 FIB Sonic 125 29mm 1.22" x 28" 59.95 1077a FPK-29 Fib payload sys 12" 28.95 Sonic 225 balsa nose cone 1079 FIB Sonic 225 Fiberglass 149.95 * Includes 24" payload tube. 1079a S225B 24" Booster same fins 99.95 Sonic 100 #1095-special. Accepts 29mm fuel grains directly in the airframe tube and can be made reloadable. Truly minimum diameter. Includes a 24mm nozzle blank. $44.95 Phenolic kits - wood fins SKU Series Name Price 1095P Phen Sonic 100 Phenolic 34.95 ORDERING Order by email with your shipping address and list of desired items. We will ship it to you. Pay after you get it please. Please do pay. We also accept prepayments for Instaship items with an emailed order confirmation. orders@usrockets.com You may pay after notification, using choices at http://www.v-serv.com/usr/ordering.htm Mailed Check or cash, Google invoice, bank bill pay. No Paypal! Google Invoice okay for CC. It's free and fast. Our minimum shipping charge is $8.00 * Kits marked with * are $12 shipping. # Kits marked with # are $35 shipping. Multiple kits single shipping charge. If you do order something NOT on the instaship list, remember the list is here for a reason. We are restocking many parts after a theft (by a rocket guy), and most of the parts we buy take months to get. So orders for non-instaship items are taken on a "when we can" basis. It does not help to offer to prepay since the number of parts we have to buy of each type are in the thousands. It does help to buy instaship items now, so please do. COMMON ORDERING MISTAKES - Customer does not supply shipping address in first or second message. - Customer does not specify whether he wants an emailed Google Invoice, or to mail a check. - Box goes out with only one kit, partially empty. Full shipping cost. Our shipping rates are about 80% cost recovery. U.S. Rockets tubes vs. industry standard motor sizes: BT-5 13mm 0.49" motor, BT-7 18mm 0.69" motor, BT-9 24mm 0.93" motor, BT-11 29mm 1.125" motor, BT-16 38mm 1.5" motor, BT-22 54mm 2.125" motor, BT-26 66mm 2.5" motor, BT-30 75mm 2.98" motor, BT-39 98mm 3.875" motor, BT-60 152mm 6.0" motor, BT-120 304mm 12.0" motor Effective 2-15-11 Expires 11-11-11 from www.v-serv.com/usr v1.43 == SAMPLE ORDER: email orders@usrockets.com Ship to: John Doe Doe Enterprises 1234 Launch Freely Dr Patriot, TX 34567 USA Order Quantity Description Price 01 Easy Rider kit 99.95 01 Banshee kit 35.95 01 Interroc kit 39.95 Shipping at actual cost or according to instaship list. Specify payment: Google Invoice by email allows all credit cards. Check or Money Order by mail. Cash by mail. You will get a confirmation email from USR to accept the order and to notify you of the amount due with shipping. We do not promise shipping dates. P.S. The three rockets I am most looking forward to are: 1. 2. 3. == Blog01: Place one launch lug as far aft as possible, the second one should be near the CG of the rocket or just above. Top launch lugs intentionally placed at stability points for large popular motors would be a good end user trend to simplify knowing whether a rocket is stable with a particular other motor or not. Blog02: I have never in all these years used a device to align launch lugs. Not a rod and not a dowel. I have sighted along the inside of one lug and centered the entry and exit circles on the upper lug entry and exit circles. I think that is actually more accurate since it is more difficult to do right. Blog03: The USPS regulations were designed to control the shipment of pyrotechnics containing powders. Even Estes motors are compressed BP to a slow burning chunk. APCP has been RULED not an explosive by a FEDERAL JUDGE. Therefore "slow burning solids" under the threshold determined in the federal lawsuit should be exempt from both USPS and DOT regulation unless they exceed a threshold amount, then some sort of review might be reasonable, perhaps 50-75 pounds per container (USPS methodology) and 1000 Lb per shipment (DOT methodology). That much should be fully exempt. Now keep in mind I am talking about propellant grains, propellant in motors, APCP, BP, KPCP, or any other slow burning solid, that has a primary purpose to not explode. The current individual unit mass limit is 30g. As a minimum that figure should be raised to 2Kg. Exemptions not codified regulations. Blog04: Hobby rocketry is a supply-push not a demand-pull model, for all but the most mature products. The Wal-Mart example is filling a supply chain with a severely broken restocking model. It's a bad test. In fact one should only sell to Wal-Mart what they can stack on a pallet in an aisle and sell "as-is" and when they're gone they're gone. Starter outfits do that well. One should always buy from a dealer capable of servicing what he sells, as locally, or as repetitiously as practical. Blog05: [after 4 month vendor delay] Would you please process a charge of $x now and give me a confirmation the order is being manufactured? It would give me great comfort. 2011 Testimonials! In the last month I've received two different orders using the insta-ship program. Total of 4 kits. Quality of kits are great. Takes me back to the good old days of LMR. Instructions and construction techniques are from the 1990s and work as good today as they did then. Hope they expand the kit availability in the near future. - Dale W. Jerry, I'm very pleased with the last two kits (Micro Sentra SRB and Banshee). Got them yesterday and I'm almost finished the construction. First flights probably this Saturday. - Dale W. 2010 Testimonials! Thank you, Jerry. I've been Jonesing for your Weightlofter for a while, ever since I saw one, so I'm excited about getting it. I have a pile of Estes D11-P engines just waiting. - Tom Nice to see instaship is back, now I'm just waiting for some kits that I want to be added. - Monty Never forget it is always and everywhere the vendor that sets the pace, not the consuming or organizing club. They are mere beneficiaries of whatever products companies have the balls to put out. - Jerry I agree with that, even on a micro scale. Our local launches definitely suffer from the lack of an on-site motor vendor. - Bill The final flight of my ARG Trident was less than optimal. Only two of the three motors ignited, which left the delay WAY too long, which partially stripped the 'chute and crumpled the motor tubes on landing. My ordering experience with ARG had been less than perfect, and it took several months for the rocket to arrive. In fact, by the time it showed up at the door I had forgotten that I even ordered it. It was a couple months after that before they would send me an invoice with shipping charges so I could pay them! While looking on the Internet for a replacement, I ran across the HI-TEST 2225 (http://v-serv.com/usr/kits/hi-test2225.htm). It looked like a great rocket, two stages with three motors in each stage, direct staging, a great way to burn through D and E motors in a big model rocket. The only problem was that this rocket is made by U.S. Rockets. I was a little nervous with the "pay after you get the rocket" model, after my experience with ARG, but I figured I didn't have a thing to lose. Here is the timeline of how things went with my first U.S. Rockets order: 12/7 - Placed an order as instructed on the web site by sending on e-mail to Jerry Irvine 12/8 - Got a response from Jerry with the total due and billing address, saying that the order would ship tomorrow via FedEx ground 12/10 - Decided to go ahead and send a check via online banking while paying other bills 12/14 - Order arrived at door At this point I'm very pleased with the transaction. There are a ton of kits on the U.S. Rockets "Instaship" page (http://v-serv.com/usr/instaship-visual.htm) that I assume are available. Maybe I'll create a build thread after Christmas when I'm allowed to actually open this thing! - Clair M.