14 Jan
1999
14 Jan
'99
3:29 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
always follow the rules that well -- making rocket
fuel out of sugar
and potassium nitrate in a saucepan on the stove can turn the stove
to shrapnel if it gets too hot, ours didn't. (We should have been
using a double boiler, but Bob's mother wouldn't let us use hers and
my mother didn't own one).
Ah - good old Caramel Candy!
Nowadays, of course, it's difficult to
get many of the books or raw materials we used back in the Sixties.
(But I nowadays know enough first principals to get or make many of
the raw materials we used to buy at the drugstore, potassium nitrate
and several of its chemical cousins being among the main things our
maternal government doesn't want us to have). Nowadays I also know
a bit more safety procedure as well.
Wellllllllllllllllll 8-) Now you are on ANOTHER hobby of mine 8-)
If you remember the way Estes does the engines - A B(A*2) C(B*2 or A*4)
Now you can buy 1/4A all the way to M (figure it out yourself). Most of
the engine today are AP (Ammonium Perclorate with resin binder) You can
also use Hybrids - Cellulose and N2O up to about a J (maybe M).
These are the legal consumer products. Experimentals got up to Q and R
size motors now.
WARNING: The Attorney General has determined that
Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms can be hazardous to your health -- and get away with it.
Well - ya you still have to deal with these guys if you go above a G 8-(
Email for more info 8-)
BC