No,
We used various mixtures. Some times
sodium nitrate, sulfur and sugar.
Amonium nitrate, aluminum powder, suga, charcoal.
You melted the sugar and added powdered sulfur and the nitrate after it had
cooled
down but before hardening. If you added the nitrates when the mixture was too
hot, the whole mess
would ignite in a massive smoke b-*b. Then it was compacted into cardboard
tubes. Add other
varoius powdered metals and chemical spheres and you have fireworks. You can
fire them with
a simple 12 vdc launch pad or potassium permanganate and a drop of glycerine
automatically ignites
when mixed.
regards
tallex
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> From: Greg and April <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Biofuel] rockets, turbines and compressed
> air..was..[DIYGasTurbines] Re: I'd like totry something...but first, your
> opinions (please).
> Sent: 02 Sep '05 13:56
>
> Let me guess, potassium chlorate and sugar, cooked like candy to the hard
> crack stage on a candy thermometer?
>
> Greg H.
>
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> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 15:26
> Subject: [Biofuel] rockets,turbines and compressed
> air..was..[DIYGasTurbines] Re: I'd like totry something...but first, your
> opinions (please).
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I used to be fascinated by this stuff when I was a kid and
> > used to do a lot of pyro with building solid fuel model rockets.
> > My friends and I would mix the materials on the kitchen stove
> > and pour the molten fuel into cardboard tubes to harden around
> > an cone shape at the bottom of the tube.
>
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