AKBiocca Engineering

Effective with orders placed from now on, the Ball Loop Kits have been increased to have loop parts for 5 Tennis Balls. The Tennis Balls are not included.

A new Tennis Ball Safety Holder has been added to the Catalog and will be included in super kits. This tube holds the ball while you work on it, protecting your hand against slipping with a knife or awl.

The various Super Kits have been adjusted to include the new Tennis Ball Safety Holding Tool, and a Ball Loop Kit will be included with loop components for 5 Tennis Balls. The Tennis Balls and sand are not included. The pre-prepared launch balls have been deleted from the kits. Pre-prepared balls continue to be available in the pre-assembled launchers and as an accessory.

We completed the batch of parts this weekend, and several launchers were built. We are shipping some this week, and more after Pacificon. This next weekend is Pacificon, and that is going to take our time for the rest of the week and over the weekend. If you are at Pacificon, come by and say hi. We’ll be at the Buddipole booth most of the time with some launchers…

We set up a photo album on our Field Day gallery. Later we’ll set up a separate gallery, but for now this allows us to quickly put photos up. We made a pass through the photo collection and put up a few already. Some are old, many are new. One in particular that was recently requested is a photo layout of the parts in assembly relationship, rather like an exploded drawing.

Antenna Launching Photo Album

We cut a large pile of PVC parts this weekend, the largest to date. We’ll ship a bunch of kits later this week, and built units next week. Let me know if you want me to bring your launcher to Pacificon, and we can refund some shipping costs. We’ve added schedule 40 barrel material to the launcher catalog, as well as partial kits of the machined parts that folks have requested. See the Launcher Parts section of the Online Catalog.

NEW Safety Tool - the Ball Holding tool facilitates preparing Tennis Balls for Launch service. This PVC ring prevents minor slips from leading to hand injury when altering Tennis Balls for Launch use. See the Launcher Accessories section of the Online Catalog.

Well, it is that time of year again, and we are preparing for Pacificon. This is the largest batch of orders to date, and we are starting to ship now. This batch is getting stretched out due to many factors, but it is progressing. Kits will ship first then built launchers.

We will be making a presentation at Pacificon on Sunday, and we will have some booth space in the Buddipole booth. If you want us to bring anything to Pacificon for you, let me know ASAP so there will be time to prepare it. Come by and say hello at the Buddipole booth.

We are just about out of barrel material so we are scrambling to find more. Most other parts are in stock, or orderable within a week.