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- From: jsvrc@rc.rit.edu (J A Stephen Viggiano)
- Subject: G Engines are Back!
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:43:17 GMT
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- As of right now, Aerotech G engines are shipping. I just received a G40 from
- Rocketman, with a few interesting changes to the packaging:
-
- 1. A green sticker on the front advises that sale to those under the
- age of 18 years is prohibited by Federal law. Because the sticker
- covers the usual caution statement at the bottom of the blister side
- of the package, the more salient information from this notice is
- repeated on the sticker.
-
- 2. There is a new, happy, addition: the California Fire Marshall's
- good housekeeping seal! (Remember the older packages that had a
- white dot covering the seal on packages containing Gs? This one's
- still got the white dot, but the MR-501 seal appears rubberstamped
- thereon. Hardly news, but still nevertheless great for our
- California friends!
-
- Also included, for your reading amusment: a photocopy of a fax from AeroTech
- president Gary Rosenfield, explaining that sale to infant minors can get
- the retailer, the distributor, and AeroTech into very, very serious trouble.
- He asks that the driver's licenses of purchasers be not only checked, but
- that the number be recorded on the sales ticket. "Your strict adherence to
- these sales restrictions is critical to avoid . . . being subject to
- substantial fines," it closes. It would have been nice if he would have
- added that cooperation for just a little longer might also help get things
- cleared up a little faster, by not getting any CPSC personnel pissed off.
-
- Anyway, now back to the regularly scheduled discussion of the RES (Reloadable
- Engine System) situation.
-
- John Viggiano, jsvrc@rc.rit.edu
- NAR 25615
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