wooden match laucher

A lauching pad for my wooden match rocket instructable.
By the way this thing can get hot and you may get burnt, you have been warned.

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Step 1: Equipment

This is what you need;
a pen(just the plastic barrell thing)
thick wire
match box

farky92 says: Oct 16, 2006. 6:01 AM

hey bro, any more simple instructions. its rather tricky, im 14?

zaro12345 in reply to farky92Dec 23, 2007. 11:33 AM

dude, your 14 and you cant figure out how to do this?

jjjjake in reply to zaro12345Aug 1, 2009. 6:30 PM

LOL

kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-fun (author) in reply to farky92Nov 3, 2006. 7:07 AM

yea, peterVG has this in his instructable-search 4 rockey and look for VanGrup rocket

Patented says: Mar 20, 2008. 7:39 PM

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kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-fun (author) in reply to PatentedApr 11, 2008. 5:09 PM

all of about 2 seconds...firefox's "remember password" function. I'm the only one really on this computer so I mite as well.

Patented in reply to kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-funApr 11, 2008. 7:08 PM

ok lol

i.see.fish says: Apr 10, 2008. 3:40 PM

I made a RPG style launcher for it, it is hard plastic so i hope it will be re-usable...

kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-fun (author) in reply to i.see.fishApr 11, 2008. 5:13 PM

what do you mean?

A hand held version?

I tried firing them by holding on to the bottom part of the wire so they took off from the back of y hand. Got quite a nasty burn after one didn't take off and popped in the launcher. Needless to say I didn't do that again =p

i.see.fish in reply to kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-funApr 11, 2008. 6:48 PM

I made one that is made a plastic barrel and i put a paper-clip inside to keep the rocket steady and up at the top of the barrel, it has two slits on each side of the tube to light, it will be sweet... me and my friend are going to make some rockets like that and launch them at stuff...

TheCheese9921 says: Aug 30, 2006. 4:00 PM

or use a full match box for added fun

Tobita in reply to TheCheese9921Feb 20, 2008. 5:50 PM

why not just blow up the box of matches?

kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-fun (author) in reply to TheCheese9921Aug 30, 2006. 4:15 PM

yea but the only thing i can see wrong with that is the box catching fire and flareing the matches and if you made the rockets ,you'd have some of these things laying about

Neodudeman in reply to kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-funAug 30, 2006. 5:29 PM

That's not wrong, that's cool!

ccb blue says: Apr 15, 2007. 1:20 PM

put a needle laying on a match wrap match in foil ,remove needle hold another lit match to foil and watch.

PetervG says: Aug 30, 2006. 6:26 PM

Im really hating this guy.

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trebuchet03 in reply to PetervGAug 30, 2006. 8:58 PM

I'm starting to also... it looks nearly identical to yours with superfluous additions... If the other instructable was "easier match rocket" this is truly "complicated match rocket launcher" -

kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-fun (author) in reply to trebuchet03Aug 31, 2006. 10:20 AM

aside from hayring me, what made this complicated?

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trebuchet03 in reply to kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-funAug 31, 2006. 5:16 PM

You could have stopped at step 3...

kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-fun (author) in reply to trebuchet03Sep 3, 2006. 3:57 PM

that's why step 4 was called trival add-on

kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-fun (author) in reply to kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-funAug 31, 2006. 10:21 AM

woops typo; *hating*

kerosene-soaked-clothes-arent-fun (author) in reply to trebuchet03Aug 31, 2006. 10:04 AM

jesus christ,mine rockets dont have the bit of foil at the end like yours,so mine rockets require a different laucher

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