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99% sure the stuff you are on about is the Spanish Igual match. Kimbolton stock this, but given you are in Canterbury, it would be a bit of a drive

Its Kimbolton sort of nearish EARS isnt it ?


Richard Brown
Rocket Store
www.rocketstore.co.uk

Welcome to the forum Richard. I guess it depends where you buy your match The Spanish Igual match is several times more expensive than the Chinese 5 stranded stuff.

Thanks Richard. We sell the green coated (twin cord ) ICI stuff. It fits just right in Estes motors and if you take one cord out and fold over the paper it jams just nice into the Estes motor igniter hole.

I know I can get it cheaper elsewhere but you either have to buy lots or spend £20 in diesel going and getting it or both spend £25-£30 getting it shipped to you. This stuff is very local to me so almost free to get in shipping terms. As I only get 20m or so at a time, whats the point in spending £20 in diesel to go and pickup say 20m of quickmatch at 20p a meter instead fo £1.10. The maths say I would be spending £20 on diesel to save £18 on the quickmatch.

If anyone knows where I can buy the green twin corded quickmatch at a price that actually makes commercial sense (i.e. remember to include the cost of running a commercial van with explosives insurance and diesel and wear and tear) buying it a few skeens at a time then please let me know. I have spent many hours looking and phoning over the years and never found anyone that actually beats what I have now.

Richard Brown
Rocket Store
www.rocketstore.co.uk

the model rocket componey selling the quick match must be making like 1000% profit

Hobby rocket companies dont really exist, well they dont in a commercial sense. All existing hobby rocket companies dont really make any financial sense at all to operate. Most have part time or full time jobs in order to pay their bills because the rocket company doesnt make enough. They are operating in a niche market with a small audience and mainly exist because the people running them are mad on rockets, want to help people fly rockets. They certainly dont exist for commercial reasons. Pyro people on this forum who also fly rockets know that we are in the business cos we are mad on rockets not mad on making money.

OK so lets take quickmatch as an example. We buy it at £1.10+VAT and sell it at £1.95 including VAT. A healthy margin yes, 54% markup according to my maths. But remember your storage costs for storing a bit of quickmatch and nil. Ours are enormous for storage, insurance, explosives cover for commercial van travel, alarms, monitoring, security, licenses, the list is endless and so are the bills. So making 54% on a product that you sell about 10-20metres a month on and bring direct to the rocketeers at a meeting isnt going to make us any money, you can be sure of that.

Richard Brown
Rocket Store
www.rocketstore.co.uk