Cause im into it , here is a video of our clubs rockets going off in Jimboomba,Queensland .
My club has a meeting every sec sunday of the month at a feild on cedar grove road. Dude these rockets really rock when you go into high power , man htey sghake ground when the big one up on 'K' motors .
this one is mine, it went up on a E15 composite motor.
I was a rocketeer when I was younger. There was only a few of us. We started with rockets from a company called Century then Estes. After a while we were not permitted to launch them due to the housing density. We were told to have our parents involved and to take it to the country but there were too many rocket eating trees. I tried to revive it with my son's cub scout pack but the other parents thought they may get their nails dirty. I no longer see them in stores in north east ohio but if anyone near me has interests I will build up a model and make a day of it.
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:15 pm
by mobile chernobyl
I've make quite a few sugar rockets. It's an easy mixture and produces pretty awesome performance for pennies! The biggest comparable motor I've made would prolly be a large "D" so nothing spectacular. I need to start melt-casting them and coring them for bigger motors.
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:29 pm
by queensland spudder
yeay i don't want any talk about sugar motrs on this topic i dont want it to locked .
Be careful about what your doing with sugar motors , they can be dangerous if you dont know what your doing, im not saying im against making your own motors im just saying that to be careful and know what your doing cause if you have a accident with this stuff it could in result affect the rocket community .
well since u live in america (probably) you can get fertillizers that have lots of you know what ( im not going to cause it could be breaking rules) cheaply and readily to be purified and be mixed with fuel .
here is a bloke on our forum who makes sugar rockets we don't allow disscussion on the making of home-made motors ( cause it breaks the australaian rocketry forums rules) but we still accept him into our forum , however ever club expect a few in america, prohibit the use of sugar motors at club launches cause they dont trust the methods of production of these motrs and cuase htey haven't been certified by NAR ( National Rocketry Association).
anyway here are videos of his sugar rockets going up
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:05 pm
by maverik94
I'm into model rocketry. I have built a few estes rocket kits, but I haven't shot any off in a while, but a friend of my dad and I are planning a launch in the next few weeks/months.
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:09 pm
by mobile chernobyl
Anything done with KN02 and sugar is ignited electronically and remotely, I'm not dumb enough to stand by a controlled explosion lol. KN02/sugar as a compound is very insensitive and safe to handle, but I have seen some videos of Cato's that would scare anyone, and thankfully I saw them before I made anything big, and decided to develop my own remote ignition box.
I'm not really into club, or even hobby rocketry, just something that peaked my interest one day and decided to try it. I've done alot of chemistry and lab work in college and anything I do is conducted under the same scrutiny, and safety first methods.
And I don't buy fertilizers, Potassium nitrate is readily available in much better purity, and isn't really even a List1 item, buying it as a fertilizer would just require recrystallization for purity and other methods to get rid of all the binders it comes with as a fertilizer. If your talking about other nitrogen rich fertilizers... they have other uses, which are most likely not permitted for discussion here on spudfiles.
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:19 pm
by inonickname
Mobile; KNO3
I find Rcandy to be rubbish, good for making smoke and that's it.
I mill my own BP, and use a hydraulic press with my home-made tooling. I also like making motors for small free-flight jets (peanut scale).
they can be dangerous if you dont know what your doing
Oh sorry, I forgot that ramming a tube full of BP with a hydraulic press is sooo safe.. (it is quite safe, but in all honesty, Rcandy isn't that dangerous)
Of course you stage rockets remotely, no matter what kind..
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:33 pm
by maverik94
wait, you can make engines with sugar & kno3?? I thought that was esentially a smoke bomb.
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:41 pm
by jrrdw
Take this to the hobby section at www.theopia.com. queensland spudder, if your not a member there yet join up, it's Spudfiles sister site, PCGUY owns both and you will see a few names there from here.