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.

Note: Add links to all vendors

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. Good experience.

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

Wildman Rocketry: General parts. Less comprehensive inventory, but 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.

High Power:

Cesaroni Technologies, Inc.: Our main supplier for rocket motors. Usually on-site for MA/ME-based launches, very polite, occasionally difficult to reach. Factory explosion occurred Spring 2016, unsure of current status.

Aerotech: Much less common supplier of rocket motors, mostly due to shipping times.

Loki Research: Less common motors, but lots of interesting project. 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

X-Winder?

Electronics

Sparkfun: Lots of electronics components

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

Help! LiPo suppliers?

Chutes

Rocketman: High quality, 4 shroud-line chutes. Different strength ratings, and descent rate table matching rocket weight to appropriate chute.

Fabric supplier????

Other sewing equipment suppliers??

Fruity Chutes: Chutes of many sizes.