Rocket fuel - not too hard to get/make?

[KDOG]

Seems that solid rocket fuel is like fine aluminum powder, some ammonium pechlorate powder, and HTPB. I wonder what the ratios' are. I would like to do some *small* scale experimenting with it, so where would I get these ingredients?

 

[jhayx7]

GD GOOGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DERF!!!!

 

[KDOG]

Yes, I did google, and have another page open going thru the results. Just wanted ask the good people at ATOT as well. Anything wrong with that? Jeez....

 

[everman]

Look up what Spaceship1 uses.

 

[Toastedlightly]

Could go the hybrid route. Hydrocarbon + NOx.

 

[jhayx7]

Originally posted by: KDOG
Yes, I did google, and have another page open going thru the results. Just wanted ask the good people at ATOT as well. Anything wrong with that? Jeez....

NEVAR ask the "good people" at ATOT, they are broing. The bad people are more fun, and you get to take trips to the hospital if you follow their advice. Have you looked up sugar rockets?

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: jhayx7
Have you looked up sugar rockets?

nope, but i will when i get home

 

[Sukhoi]

Terrorist!!

 

[Ika]

dont die in a fire!

 

[JRich]

Hydrogen Peroxide and Silver

 

[sandmanwake]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9kgNBZOT-HE

 

[Gibsons]

See if you can find some dimethyl hydrazine. good stuff.

 

[KDOG]

Originally posted by: jhayx7

Originally posted by: KDOG
Yes, I did google, and have another page open going thru the results. Just wanted ask the good people at ATOT as well. Anything wrong with that? Jeez....

Have you looked up sugar rockets?

:thumbsup: Thanks! Just gotta find this stuff now. I have aluminum tubing from my aircraft project for some static test....

 

[2Xtreme21]

Vinegar + Baking Soda

 

[drinkmorejava]

yeah, real freakin smart, next thing you know, you'll be putting ironoxide in it and burning a hole through your hand. Do something like Potassium Perchlorate (60%), some organic fuel (ie powdered sugar) (35%), iron oxide(5%). Percents by mass. Remember, you don't want an explosion, you want a burn.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

its called kerosene and if you live somewhere cold your local gas station may have it.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Originally posted by: everman
Look up what Spaceship1 uses.

Rubber and nitrous oxide?

 

[151528]

use salami, it seriously works, salami and liquid nitros oxide, have the salami ignite first, and then flow the nitros into it once it has begun to burn.

 

[Skeeedunt]

I think you mean Diet Coke and Mentos

 

[151528]

no, salami, i saw it on Mythbusters a while ago.

 

[Sc4freak]

Solid hydrogen + solid oxygen.

You're going to have a damned hell of a time trying to store and move that around, though.

 

[NiteWulf]

Rocketryonline.com
http://info-central.org/infocentral.shtml
rec.models.rockets

 

[halik]

we'll send you flowers ...

 

[CaptnKirk]

All through the 50's and 60's, the fuel used by ametur rocket enthusiests was powered zinc and flowers of sulpher.
Some would cook up a batch of aluminum perchlorate and sugar in an electric skillet,
but many lost fingers or got severe burns when thing went wrong.

To figure how high they went the formula was 1/2 GT(2) = one half of GRAVITY (use 32)
multiplied by time (from launch to ground impact) times itself (squared).

 

[loic2003]

Originally posted by: 151528
no, salami, i saw it on Mythbusters a while ago.

yeah, salami and oxygen: blew up the rocket IIRC!

Loadsa power!