[AR] Re: Solid propellant regulation questions
- From: Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:11:03 -0400
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Paul Mueller
<paul.mueller.iii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2) paper placards to tape to inside of windows on both sides
As Randall explained, this is a bad idea. Either you are shipping
hazmat above the regulated quantity and you go with placards or you
aren't and you absolutely don't. If you are placarding then they have
to comply with the placarding rules, which is not "inside of windows
on both sides".
My experience with shipping hazmat has been all in fireworks, which
was all 1.3G. The liquid rockets I've moved around have all been much
easier, aside from some stamp-related BS when crossing the border
between Texas and New Mexico. For the fireworks I remember
organizations picking up their show and not being required to have
placards, but that may have been because they were staying inside the
state.
For igniters/ematches, Firefox and others specifically designed their
ematch kits as separate dry chemicals that have to be mixed and have
the chips dipped in them so that they aren't hazmat. Taking the same
approach for rocket igniters would make sense.
If you're re-shipping commercially acquired solids that were shipped
to you, you would be best asking those suppliers for their opinion on
how to move them again. Or, better yet, offer an address to your teams
in the state of the launch so that they can have things shipped
directly there from the supplier and pick them up before the launch,
so that they don't have to transport anything energetic across state
lines.
Ben
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