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having done these when we were kids, we became fascinated with shooting things horizontally when we were teenagers. we built several "bazookas" with debatable effectiveness and safety. managed to not blow ourselves up at least.
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On some of our cheaper rockets....instead of packing a chute in the tube, we would place a couple M-80's with the fuses tied together.
They wouldn't explode until the rocket was almost back to the ground.
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My buddy had a model rocketry handbook that gave rocket fuel formulas and we used the saltpeter and sugar mixture with the addition of powdered charcoal for extra power. Naturally being 12 years old we used a bunsen type burner to heat it to the melting point to so we could pour it into a mold. Unfortunately we never got to pour the mixture into our motor mold as it exploded in a brilliant pink flash. My grandmother heard it and came down into the basement and put the fire out! Oh man was I in trouble! That was the end of those experiments. All that stuff just disappeared. Then we just used the Estes motors.
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Phhhht!
We used to make dried up clay balls, infuse them with gasoline insert a fuse and shoot ‘em out of a slingshot at the very last moment. Then M-80’s got popular. Last edited by Crowbob; 07-30-2022 at 03:35 PM.. |
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(and, duh, do your melting outdoors and not over flames - you don't want Captain Obvious to slap you in the head)
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![]() Did the rocket thing as well. At one time I had a model Saturn 5. Three stages with multiple D-stage engines if I remember correctly, ![]() |
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