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Homemade rocket engine

This is an easier tutorial than my last and it is on homemade rocket engines!

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In this project I will be making homemade F class rocket motors using supplies you could get from walmart. Warning you can really hurt yourself playing with fire and rocket fuel and I will not take any responsibility for any injury or death caused by these rockets. Also do us all a favor and don't do anything stupid with these rockets.
  • 1 × Spectracide stump remover This is an easy source of potassium nitrate
  • 1 × Clay
  • 1 × Glucose or sucrose Sugar
  • 1 × Aluminum powder Optional
  • 1 × Baking powder Optional

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  • My big engine

    Howie11/08/2014 at 00:06 0 comments

    The biggest engine I have made using this method was an I class engine that produced 180N for 2.1 s.

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  • 1
    Step 1

    You must begin buy taking a mixture of 65% stump remover and 35% sugar. If you chose to add aluminum or baking powder you would add 60% stump killer, 5% aluminum or baking powder, and 35% sugar.

  • 2
    Step 2

    Next you will mix the mixture with a little water and put it in an old frying pan that you don't want anymore.

  • 3
    Step 3

    With your stove on low gradually heat this mixture for 30 minutes.

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Budtron wrote 03/10/2024 at 05:50 point

I was thinking - your home-made rocket engine looks a lot like cat food in a frying pan.

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TheGrim wrote 08/21/2018 at 14:50 point

And this is exactly how you end up on one of those "lists" that get you probed every time you fly.

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jlbrian7 wrote 01/04/2015 at 01:22 point

Has anyone done this yet?

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