Monday, May 5, 2014

Any Trick To Bagging Kits?

Anybody who ever thought of starting your own rocket company would be fun, has never had to bag up kits! 

Taking a cue from the Semroc kits, the engine mount
and recovery system parts are in separate zip bags.
Putting the engine mount pieces in a separate bag makes it easier to do a visual inventory. If a piece is missing you have to send out another part to the buyer. There goes your profit!
Kits are now bagged so most all pieces can be seen through the clear bag. For a while I was putting the cut balsa sheets inside the folded instructions to protect them. Now they are set outside and are visible.
The engine hook faces away from the softer balsa so it can't scratch up the wood.
The clay weight is in another bag so it won't stain the balsa or any paper stock.

Doug Pratt once said: "Do you know how to make a small fortune selling model rockets?
Start with a large fortune."
There is some truth to that. Unless you are doing kit runs of 10,000 each in China and have major distributors you probably won't make a fortune. But if you sell a good product you could make enough money to support your own hobby habit!

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