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First Production Run Images

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These photos were taken in the classroom that's in behind the high-school machine shop where we make our prototype motors. It's no big secret that most of our prototypes have been built at the Earl of March Secondary School machine shop. The regional board of education provides access to this excellent facility through their adult continuing education program. Our production motors are currently made by an Ottawa area contract machine shop, Globus Tool and Die.

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Pictured is a small sample of the first production run of I140 motors, the beautiful blue anodized motors are shown on the left, with the polypropylene fuel grains on the right. Standing behind the motors! On the left, Propulsion Polymers owner, Marcus Leech. By day, Marcus is an expert in network and computer security and cryptography. Marcus is the principal designer of Propulsion Polymers Product, and has written hundreds of lines of code to aid in design and simulation of the Propulsion Polymers products. On the right, "wild" Bill Wagstaff. Bill designs user interface software for telecommunications products, and is an expert machinist as well. Bill lovingly crafted nearly all of the components for Propulsion Polymers prototypes and experimental designs. Bill is currently working on an all-metal minimum diameter rocket, based on the Propulsion Polymers I140 design. He is also working on a large hybrid motor project.

Bill Wagstaff on the left again, with Glen Hillier on the right. Glen is a semiconductor process engineer--he spends his days thinking about exciting new ways to combine elements such as phosphorous, indium, gallium, arsenic and silicon. Glen is our local nitrous jockey. He tirelessly hauls heavy N2O cylinders and related equipment out to our test site, and has been instrumental in securing a steady, cheap supply of N2O. Glen likes to "push the envelope", and is currently working on a number of interesting hybrid and bi-propellant motor designs. This picture shows a disassembled motor, from the tank end, showing the tank end closure, vent fitting, and closure 'O' ring.

This picture shows motor serial number 2! Sorry, Glen Hillier already owns this one.


Pictured is a small sample of the first production run of I140 motors, the beautiful blue anodized motors are shown on the left, with the polypropylene fuel grains on the right.	Standing behind the motors! On the left, Propulsion Polymers owner, Marcus Leech. By day, Marcus is an expert in network and computer security and cryptography. Marcus is the principal designer of Propulsion Polymers Product, and has written hundreds of lines of code to aid in design and simulation of the Propulsion Polymers products. On the right, "wild" Bill Wagstaff. Bill designs user interface software for telecommunications products, and is an expert machinist as well. Bill lovingly crafted nearly all of the components for Propulsion Polymers prototypes and experimental designs. Bill is currently working on an all-metal minimum diameter rocket, based on the Propulsion Polymers I140 design. He is also working on a large hybrid motor project.

Bill Wagstaff on the left again, with Glen Hillier on the right. Glen is a semiconductor process engineer--he spends his days thinking about exciting new ways to combine elements such as phosphorous, indium, gallium, arsenic and silicon. Glen is our local nitrous jockey. He tirelessly hauls heavy N2O cylinders and related equipment out to our test site, and has been instrumental in securing a steady, cheap supply of N2O. Glen likes to "push the envelope", and is currently working on a number of interesting hybrid and bi-propellant motor designs.	This picture shows a disassembled motor, from the tank end, showing the tank end closure, vent fitting, and closure 'O' ring.

This picture shows motor serial number 2! Sorry, Glen Hillier already owns this one.