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How To Make A Household Rocket / Motor

How To Make A Household Rocket / Motor
I will show you how to make a bottle rocket/motor out of household materials. everyone should have all the materials needed for this project. This is for people who dont have access to KNO3 or gunpowder. But for people who do have gunpowder they can use that instead of match powder and get the same results.

WARNING!... I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES OR DISTRUCTION OF PROPERTY EVEN KNOW IT IS NOT LIKELY TO CAUSE HARM OR DAMAGE BUT IT DOES INVOLVE FIRE.
 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
Here is what you will need. everyone should have all the materials.

Materials:
~ 15 to 20 matches
~ Small container or bowl
~ Tin foil
~ fuse (I used Visco)

Tools:
~ Scissors
~ Mortar/Pestel or somthing to grind with
~ Your BRAIN!
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Sep 5, 2011. 3:40 AMhwalia says:
wht is visco fuse
Feb 29, 2012. 4:03 AMaca15 says:
What is brain
Mar 16, 2012. 9:25 AMhwalia says:
whattttt??????????????
Oct 25, 2008. 1:48 PMThorn-Boy says:
cud i use sparkler powder?
Dec 19, 2008. 4:26 AMPyrochemistry says:
i highly doubt that sparkler powder would work because it is quite a weak fuel. u could use black powder though...
Jul 19, 2009. 5:19 PMSparkythehappygirafe says:
Ya i agree about the sparklers, know anything else other than KNO3 and black powder that is a good propellant? Anyone? lol
Jul 13, 2010. 4:05 PMguitarmonk15 says:
Gunpowder: 50% Charcoal, 25% sugar, 25% stump remover
Armstrong's Mixture: Matchheads
German aluminum dark powder: 180in. x 1 feet of aluminum foil (powderized), 1 tablespoon of charcoal
Thermite (for burning through crap): 3:2 of iron oxide (burned and crushed steel wool) and aluminum powder (from foil)
Nitrocellulose: From what I understand, just ping pong balls.

Jan 2, 2011. 5:54 PMmanndude1 says:
gunpowder is 75 percent saltpeter/stump remover (KNO3) 15 percent Charcoal and 10% sulfur.
Jan 4, 2011. 4:10 PMguitarmonk15 says:
dependent on your formula - I have never made any of these, but found all these recipes on the web through months of research
Dec 5, 2010. 6:11 AMfreakyqwerty says:
By the way ping pong balls are made from celluloid which if you read the wikipedia article (I know, I know its unrelible and all that, but if it is used along with common sence it can have some good info) it says that celluloid is the  name of a class of compouds created from nitrocellulose and camphor which is why its bad to use the ping pong ball smoke bombs (toxic fumes). You know just thought i'd add that ;)

P.S. What do you mean by stump remover?
Dec 21, 2010. 1:30 PMguitarmonk15 says:
Search "grant's stump remover"
Jan 6, 2011. 10:14 AMscoobbrandon says:
its a guy that you hire to remove stumps for you
Nov 11, 2010. 9:57 PMGizmo64 says:
That...was epic.
Jun 5, 2009. 2:14 PMpenna says:
whats black powder
Dec 18, 2009. 11:26 PMiTraceur says:
Oh, this is scary.
You're looking at how to build a rocket... and you don't know what black powder is...

Kill me now, someone, please...
Jun 21, 2011. 3:23 PMskipster2 says:
bang
Nov 5, 2009. 6:43 PMKnexFreek says:
:(
Jun 10, 2009. 12:02 AMpyroten says:
lol... black powder is the stuff they use to propel bullets from a gun. I'm pretty sure it's not in use that much today for that purpose but anyway. it's also used in almost all pyrotechnics. It's commonly a mix of sulfur, potassium nitrate and charcoal. @Pyrochemistry --> i'v got small amounts of thrust from sparklers. I took a burnt out rocket motor, and packed it with sparklers (still on the sticks/metal things), and plugged the end. But I suppose it was more of a nice display...
Oct 1, 2010. 4:16 PMjules15 says:
If you have a lot of this, can you mix it with clay so it's moldable? How good of a propellant is this compared with real model rocket engines?
Sep 30, 2010. 3:58 PMchamster says:
Chain! There! Geez
Aug 9, 2010. 5:55 PMmettaurlover says:
Dude. Get this out of the Knex Guns group. This isn't even Knex, it isn't a gun, and it definitely shouldn't be in any group related to either of them.
Aug 5, 2007. 3:07 PMpooboy says:
okay guys i have an idea lets make the longest reply chain all you gota do is reply to the last comment in the chain okay so = lets =
Jul 15, 2010. 8:43 AMM4industries says:
The longest one is on Kipkay's Orange Board.
Aug 5, 2007. 3:10 PMpooboy says:

do

Feb 15, 2008. 11:27 PMSupreme_Angler says:
do
Aug 5, 2007. 3:11 PMpooboy says:

this

Feb 15, 2008. 11:28 PMSupreme_Angler says:
this
Feb 15, 2008. 11:21 PMSupreme_Angler says:
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Feb 7, 2008. 3:41 PMthreecheersfornick says:
there's a forum topic like that... it's called something like "Random Fun"... check it out.
Sep 21, 2007. 11:56 AMJeremykid says:
this site is for showing inventions, not making stupid chains
May 23, 2008. 7:16 PM2cool4u says:
WHO CARES LOOSEN UP A LITTLE!! CHAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAIN!!!!!!!!!
Jul 1, 2008. 4:17 PMacesk8erboi says:
chain
Apr 12, 2011. 2:31 AMfail says:
:)
Aug 12, 2008. 10:53 AMploop171 says:

Apr 12, 2011. 2:31 AMfail says:
WOOOO
Jul 20, 2010. 12:13 AMtinstructable says:
WHOA! The chain shall never end! KEEP GOING
Apr 12, 2011. 2:31 AMfail says:
WOOOO
Apr 12, 2011. 2:30 AMfail says:
WOOOO
Feb 8, 2008. 9:04 AMiloveairsoftstuff says:
is there any other way you could get fuel, like breaking apart black cats or somthing
Nov 8, 2009. 7:28 AMColonel88 says:
Crak open the 8 ring cap gun ammo. scrape off the gunpowder.
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