Rocket forum

Meaningful discussion outside of the potato gun realm. Projects, theories, current events. Non-productive discussion will be locked.
DriftingRz
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Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:08 pm

as some of u know i have lately gotten into rockets, well me and Darth Tater from spudtech have been talking so we started a forum cause there is no other god rocket forums me and him are the admins, we'll let people join for a month or so and start recruting moderators. i have a feeling site may get big, cause there are no othe good rocket sites so join up if u like em www.rocketry.tz4.com so if ur interested join and pm me on there. i dont know who of yall are into rockets
Benny
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Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:10 am

i make rockets from anyhting and everything i have lying around, i like solid propellent the best. :)
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rna_duelers
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Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:16 am

Solid propellents are nice :P i have made about 10 of them about 7 of them worked and the rest exploded....was fun none the less.
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Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:18 am

solid propelent is probadly the easiest, you have a higher sucsess rate than me. :oops:
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Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:08 am

I am the 8th regesterd user on the Rocket forum, it seems cool,i always wanted to may rockets :D
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dragon finder
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Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:26 am

i want to make a hybrid rocket. the mythbusters used slami in on and it blew the combustion chamber up. HMMMMM that gives me an idea :twisted:
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Rambo
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Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:46 pm

I often play with my jet engine wich uses alkohol and comprest air in a desodorant can.It is very noisy and I like that.
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Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:57 pm

can you post some pics?
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Rambo
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Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:38 am

This was from a thin metal cilinder.I use alumunium cans also but afer not long work the hot gases will make a hole somwhere.I realy like to play with them.After a short time the engine gets hot, the fuel vaperises more I can realy step on it :lol: and the noise is great.
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Benny
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Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:42 am

sweet, im going to try that now. 8)
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Rambo
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Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:09 am

First it's never going to work with out a spark.Second you better not waste your time trying to build it bigger then 150ml.If it is bigger it will be very difficuld to start.It is like auto combustion, when the friquency of the shots become high enough it turns in to a jet engine.The tube for the air should be with holes from the bottom, that way the air will spray the metanol everywhere and you will be able to put more and more air.And the exaust shouldn't be more then 1-1.5mm in diametar.
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rna_duelers
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Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:55 am

Rambo,you have an endless supply of cool ideas and toys!Is there anything else you are not letting us know about??like a fully auto scoped rifled laser sighted hybrid for instance??hahaha..i might sign up for the forum i no a little about rockets(solid propellent).
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Rambo
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Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:16 am

Most of my two hard discs(80 and 200 Gb) are full of games like HL2,doom3 RoE,quake4,wolfenstein,the cronicles of riddic,star ship tropers,avp,call of duty 2...And I realy wan't to have weapons like in these games.So far the only thing I have is sniper(my hybrid sniper).All other guns don't have power like in the games.I have a plan for gun on the principle of the roman candle.But it is ilegal.I have some unposted spud guns bu they aren't something unusual.
DriftingRz
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Sat May 06, 2006 12:24 pm

nice to see interest, the forums are going good so far, pretty active, and we'll be switching to a new host or domain or sometihng in the next few days.
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alex bennett
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Sat May 06, 2006 11:16 pm

Yea cool site, good job. Rambo check out Battle Field 2, by EA, its a awsome game.
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