At first there was only darkness, and then the lord spaeketh saying, "fire thine lAz0rz!!1"
and it was good
At first there was only darkness, and then the lord spaeketh saying, "fire thine lAz0rz!!1"
and it was good
Potassium Nitrate was bought via ebay in a 1kg bag, airmailed from yorkshire. It arrived weeks later misleadingly labeled, and from that point experiments commenced:
see if it'll burn with sugar - it burns!
first rocket with oven-baked rocket candy - didnt work very well, drying candy helped but a little. main breaker tripped 4 times, but electric [240v] ignition attained!
new candy - accidentally added too much sugar and caramelised it badly, it was like slightly flamable toffee
first functional motors - rolled from propper card and wood-glued, dried PVA-putty nozzles and one lemon
with a cork-and-junk nozzle. i painstakingly mixed extra oxidiser into the 2nd batch and successfully tested
and flew one of these motors on a stick. this was so groundbreaking it gets its own page
good fast-burning propellant made on 3rd attempt, incorporating balance scales and an electric frying pan.
the rockets were revolutionised - from fizzers to bangers.
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