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, 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.
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
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.