These sites are good places to order rocket building supplies and parachutes from.

Rocket Building Supplies

• balsamachining.com (cheap materials for L1 and smaller rockets)
• apogeerockets.com (small to medium sized rocket components)
• giantleaprocketry.com
• macperformancerocketry.com
• locprecision.com
• alwaysreadyrocketry.com
• publicmissiles.com (airframes, inner tubes, nose cones)
• Asp-rocketry.com
• compositewarehouse.com (large fiberglass nose cones )

Electronics

• eggtimerrocketry.com (altimeters and GPS)
• featherweightaltimeters.com (altimeters and GPS)
• missileworks.com (altimeters)
• perfectflitedirect.com (altimeters)
• aeroconsystems.com (altimeters)

Parachutes

• fruitychutes.com
• sunward1.com
• the-rocketman.com (for especially large rockets)

For rocket launches at UROC order from

Das Rocket

Located on the 1st floor of the EB. Safety glasses are required as well as pants and closed-toed shoes.

The following machinery is used frequently:

• Laser cutter – Ideal for cutting plywood bulkheads, centering rings, and fins.
• CNC Router (ShopSabre) – Ideal for cutting fiberglass fins.
• 3D printers – If you prefer to print something with the ease of having someone else slice and print it, this is a good option. Keep in mind that it can get expensive quick at $0.15/gram, and they only print PLA.
• Vinyl Cutter – Ideal for making vinyl decals (same room as laser cutter). If you want to use this, you’ll need to book the laser cutter as there isn’t an official reservation slot for this machine.
• Lathe – Sometimes used by the high-power teams to make metal rail buttons.
• Belt sander – Useful to sanding down wood fins or bulkheads that are too large. Keep in mind that you can’t sand composites here.
• Miter and table saw – Good for straight or angled cuts on plywood.

Below is a link to make a reservation

Prototyping Lab Website

Located in Rm 115 of the Snell Building. Safety glasses are required as well as pants and closed-toed shoes.

The following are used frequently:

• Prepreg carbon fiber – Used for body tubes for larger rockets as well as higher velocity rockets. The material is free to use, but requires multiple people to roll. The club has several different sizes of mandrels for this. Make sure you know what you’re doing before you attempt to roll a tube. 
• Bandsaw – Ideal for cutting paper-based or soft materials like a blue-tube coupler.
• Composite table saw – Ideal for cutting carbon fiber or fiberglass materials like body tubes to shape.
• Belt sander – This belt sander is hooked up to a vacuum system, so it’s safer to sand a composite like fiberglass. This can speed up the process of making fiberglass fins greatly.

The composites lab doesn’t have a website. For details on times and availability, you need to physically go to the lab. The TA’s hours and contact information will be posted on the door of the lab.

The project support center is a wonderful resource for checking out tools, cameras, and electronic components. You can also book testing machines. It's located in CB 154.

Here is a quick list of testing machines

• Wind tunnel
• Tensile testing machines

Here is a quick list of things that may be useful

• Small motors
• Router (for cutting fin slots)
• Basic circuitry components
• High speed cameras