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Originally Posted by nota
wankers
we scratch built our rockets no kits no motors
saltpeter+powdered sugar better fuel then gun powder from caps
30-30 shells made a good motor body
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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.