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Go Green! Plastic Bottle Rockets

Are you constantly finding that you have an urge to blow something up, but you want to save the planet at the same time? Look no further! Throw together your own Go Green! Plastic Bottle Rocket! 5 Minutes of work, endless hours of entertaining kids and drunk people!

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Step 1Materials

Materials

A plastic bottle with top
Water; optional

Tools

Air compressor with air nozzle
Drill
We found a vice to be very helpful

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13 comments

Mar 13, 2009. 3:20 PMMatt9 says:

I suggest maybe to add a little weight so it goes further

Jan 27, 2009. 9:07 PMmettaurlover says:

i use plastic soda bottles, two liter, covered in duct tape at the stress points, and use two air compressers to fire it. dented drywall.

Jan 10, 2009. 10:34 AMBiopyro says:

USE FIZZY DRINKS BOTTLES! They are rated to around 150psi, and will definately not explode. Bottles with still liquids (which often expand when pressurised past 10psi) can explode at anything above 80 with a sharp knock or just from being used repeatedly!

Jun 28, 2008. 5:09 PMChewy1993 says:

another cool trick is to use the 'greener' Deer Park bottles(when empty), twist it, and quickly unscrew the cap. The cap flies 20 feet or so. Also, you can see water vapor from the quick decompression!

Jun 27, 2008. 5:45 PM

Gjdj3 says:

Pretty cool and a good way to reuse all of those old water bottles. Nice job you guys.

Mar 29, 2008. 10:08 AMjoejoerowley says:

Great Instructable! Nice videos also! Just a quick question how do you do the little icon next to the '"A plastic bottle with top" Thanks

Mar 29, 2008. 2:10 PMLabot2001 says:

Type in an asterisk (*) followed by a space and then text for a bullet point =]

Mar 29, 2008. 2:13 PMjoejoerowley says:

Thanks :)

Mar 28, 2008. 7:57 PM

Weissensteinburg says:

"Video is not available"

Mar 29, 2008. 1:57 AMLabot2001 says:

They work now =]

Mar 29, 2008. 10:10 AM

Weissensteinburg says:

Any chance you could take a video in the daylight? It's hard to see the rocket on that first one.

Mar 29, 2008. 10:58 AMLabot2001 says:

We can try. Right now's not good; the weather outside is absolutely terrible. Maybe tomorrow, though =]

Mar 29, 2008. 1:56 AMLabot2001 says:

_*sigh*

Thanks, we know.... It started doing that about 5 minutes after we got it published! We're assuming it's something with YouTube; gonna be checking back every now and then, and if nothing happens, I'll post from another video-hosting site.

BTW, have you any idea how to embed a video from [www.vimeo.com vimeo]?