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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Good news! I was just talking with Elaine Russel from TRA. She and her husband Ben did that APC mixing class for Virginia Tech (and interested NRVR members) back in November 2018, and they're talking about doing it again as a part of their trip here for the July BFSL launch if we have enough interest (we need at least five people signed up).</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In a nut shell.. in an effort to help make Research rocketry more safe, Elaine and her husband Ben Russell regularly travel the country giving these awesome, guru led, full 8hr, hands on workshops where they step the class through mixing/APC theory and safety (slides and book class time). After that they jump right into the hands, expert led on process of safely mixing and packing your own APC motor! They provide you all the consumables (recipe ingredients), tools, and mandrel kit to help you <em><strong>safely fabricate your very own, first 54mm, 3-grain, hand packed K550 "tiger tail" APC motor grains!</strong></em>.. During this, they cover all the how-to best practices for doing it safely,reliably and economically. The big catch is that <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">we need at least five people to sign-up</span></strong> to make it worth their while to drag their trailer full of mixers, fuel/binders/chemicals, APC, and tools out here..<br /><br /></p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Just a heads up, the workshop isn't cheap.. it costs $350/person</span>.. Although considering you're making your own $120(equiv) K550 motor grains(3) plus are getting a $50-60 mandrel to keep (for making more), as well as keeping the printed ring binder with all the formulas, tips,and FAQ.. plus the hands on 8hr expert instruction w/one on one Q&A.. it's not a bad deal and <strong><em>is definitely the easiest, safest way to get into start making your own APC motors</em></strong>!</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Please only sign up below if you are interested and are able to commit to it and remit payment to Ben & Elaine by the class date on Friday July 19th. We will contact you in the next few weeks on if we're go or not.</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">If interested.. please let us know asap by filling out this Google-Poll :</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bob, myself, Kevin, Kevin, Eric, and Pat have already taken this awesome workshop (last November) and it's totally worth it if you can swing it (<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/6R5T9EAcJ1ZkZBhC9">here's more pics</a> of our session!).</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">But let us know soon so Ben & Elaine can plan accordingly!</p>
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