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- --Cloaked Warrior--
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- --P r e s e n t s--
- Improving your Rocket
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- Cloaked Warrior
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- Be sure that you have read the file 'How to Make Sugar Rockets' before reading
- this file. This file is actually Part II of that File....
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- ENHANCEMENTS
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- Time Delays & Special Effects
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- In order to provide room for time delays (et cetera), you will need a longer
- rocket casing. So go out to the store again and buy wider brown packaging tape
- (3 in. instead of 2 in.). But the thing is that this type of tape is not sold
- in most stores, so go look in a phone book for large paper suppliers that sell
- packaging supplies. To make a rocket casing with a time delay, you just have
- to follow the instructions in Part I (How to Make Sugar Rockets) except (there
- are some changes):
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- 1> Use the 3 in. packaging tape to make a 3 in. casing.
- 2> When loading the propellant, instead of stopping at the top of the mandrel,
- continue working, using the flat, undrilled end of the tamp, and pack an
- extra 1/2 inch of propellant in on top of the mandrel.
- 3> You will need to form a tiny hole through the epoxy glue plug, to do this,
- (after packing the propellant) stick a large sewing needle into the
- propellant right at the edge of the rocket casing, you then press it into
- the delay powder to a depth of 1/8 of an inch, now firmly pack in your wad
- of tissue paper or paper towel and then pour in the front plug of epoxy.
- 4> After the glue dries and hardens, use a pair of small pliers to twist and
- pull the needle out of the epoxy, leaving a tiny pin-hole through the plug.
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- Now you're all ready to go...
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- Making a 'Pop' sound and smoke
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- To make a 'pop' and some smoke at the end of the rocket's flight is easy.
- All you have to do is fill up the pin hole with black powder or Pyrodex powder
- and add another 1/19 of a gram (1/2 as much as you used to prime the rocket).
- Press in a another wad of tissue paper (or towel) and pour another epoxy cap on
- top of that. When the falme inside the rocket reaches the front of the time
- delay powder, it will flash through the pin hole and ignite the powder. This
- is how to make a fire cracker like 'pop' and a puff of smoke at the end of its
- flight. Making the flames a certain color is also desirable. Well, it is very
- simple. If you want a green flame when it is lauched, this is what you do:
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- Go out and buy some Copper Sulfate (powder). Then you glue the powder on
- to the rocket casing(s) at the ends all the way around. Use Elmer's glue to
- do this. And that's it! When the rocket is ignited, it will be launched as
- the Copper Sulfate burns (Elmer's glue melts), causing green flames. You may
- use other chemicals to produce different colors. But be sure to use the slow
- lift-off option that was explained in the Part I (so that you can observe it).
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- Making a Nose Cone for better Performance
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- To make your rocket(s) fly better, you will need to make a nose cone. Make
- something like a witch's hat out of paper and masking tape and glue it onto
- the nose of each rocket. This should not require any assistance (I assume
- that you must know how to make a nose cone. It shaped like a funnel.)
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- Using the Time Delay to Pop a Parachute
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- To pop a parachute, fill the pin hole with black powder and add a very SMALL
- amount of powder on top of this. Then cut a disk of stiff paper from a
- 3 x 5 inch file card about 3/8 of an inch in diameter, and using on end of
- your powder tamp, press the paper disk into the nose of the rocket on top of
- the loose powder (be sure that you have not made a nose cone and have glued
- it onto the rocket).
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- Second Stage Rocket
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- If you want to have your rocket ignite a second stage, then use a single edged
- razor blade to cut the excess length of the cassing off right at front of the
- front plug. Then fill the pin-hole with loose powder and cap the FRONT of the
- rocket with the powder ppaste just as you did to the back end when priming it
- for firing. Make sure the front of the rocket is marked, once te ends are
- capped, you won't be able to tell which end is which. When igniting a second
- stage, place the priming cap of the second stage engine in contact with the
- front end cap or first stage motor. When the flame in the first stage motor
- reaches the front of the time delay powder, it will ignite the cap at its
- front, which in turn will light the priming cap of the second stage engine.
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- Making a Second Stage Stick Rocket
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- When you make a second stage stick rocket, you will need a longer stick to
- balance the extra weight and you will have to connect the two stages so that
- the second stage can slide easily away from the first after the first is spent.
- Wrap a single layer of paper tape around the fron of the booster engine (first
- stage motor), so that the tape is glued to the front of the booster but sticks
- 1/2 an inch out in from of the finished, capped engine. After the glue dries,
- you can slide the tail of the second stage into this paper sleeve off the first
- until the priming cap of the second stage mmotor touches the front cap of the
- first. Glue or tape the longer guide stick to the second stage engine, leaving
- the first stage engine and its paper sleeve free. (Note: This two stage stick
- rocket is 2 rocket casings connected to a longer stick. This is an easier
- explaination.)
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- Substitutions & Misc.
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- You can mix white baking flour with epoxy glue if you cannot get the water
- putty. Instead of getting flowers of sulfur, you can get dusting sulfur at
- a nursery or fertilizer supplier. Dusting sulfur will result in a better
- rocket. Never put the 3 chemicals (sulfur, saltpetre, and sugar) in a blender,
- if you do, you'll get a real big kick out of it...
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