This page is to document vendors Rocket Team has experience with (good and bad). Vendors to avoid are first and uncategorized, vendors that are just fine are categorized below that.

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Don't buy from these people (and why)

These vendors are cool.

HPR Parts

This includes nose cones, body tubes, parachutes, motor retention, avionics bays, kits, and the like.

Apogee Components: General parts. Comprehensive inventory, up to mid-range high-power. Good experience, but significantly more expensive.

Madcow Rocketry: General parts. Less comprehensive inventory, but a good competitor.

Wildman Rocketry: General parts. Less comprehensive inventory, but goes all the way up to "the big stuff". Also a good competitor.

Public Missiles: Especially good for tubes on tubes on tubes.

Rocket Motors

Low Power:

Estes: Primary supplier for A-E motors. These can also be found in some hobby stores. Avoid the larger (E and above) motors, as they have a very high failure rate.

Quest: Similar to Estes, but with a smaller market share.

High Power:

Cesaroni Technologies, Inc.: Our main supplier for rocket motors. AMW/ProX sells their stuff and is usually on-site for MA/ME-based launches. They very polite, occasionally difficult to reach. Factory explosion occurred Spring 2016, supply will be limited for 8+ months.

Important notes: Vmax warning and Forward closure warning

Aerotech: Less common supplier of rocket motors for rocket team, mostly due to shipping times.

Loki Research: Less common motors, but lots of interesting products. Not a lot of team experience.

Hardware

McMaster: Tons of materials, nuts, bolts, stock, etc. 1 day shipping is also awesome.

Composites

Someone fill in here, I don't know much about this.

APC Composites

US Composites

X-Winder?

Electronics

Sparkfun: Lots of electronics components

Adafruit: Similar to sparkfun. Also has great tutorials on using their products

Digikey: The McMaster of electronics components

OshPark: Sponsored us for PCB's in 2016. Quick delivery time, we can assemble the PCB components in lab.

Missileworks: Feature-filled rocket altimeters

PerfectFlite: Another company that makes altimeters (such as the StratoLogger) that the team has used.

Eggtimer: Solder-yourself kits for rocket electronics 

Altus Metrum: High end altimeters for rockets which include telemetry and GPS.

Hobby King: Servos and lipos. Also lots of RC stuff should that be needed.

Chutes and Recovery Components

Rocketman: High quality, 4 shroud-line chutes. Different strength ratings, and descent rate table matching rocket weight to appropriate chute. Chutes also usually come with a loop sewn in the top, which proves incredibly useful for single-separation dual-deploy systems.

Fabric supplier????

Other sewing equipment suppliers??

Fruity Chutes: Chutes of many sizes.

Top Flight Recovery: Cheap, but still high quality parachutes 

Tinder Rocketry: Sells Tender Descenders, which are useful for single-separation dual-deploy systems. The reliable of Tender Descenders is in question, but they have proven themselves in flight to date.