Interesting, I never tried mixing heated ingredients to make solid
rocket fuel for model engines. We used a specially shaped ram with wet
fuel, kind of like dough. You put in clay first to ram (press) the
nozzle at the bottom of the tube, then the fuel. When it hardened, there
would be a
Hi,
Yes, you basically melted sugar and add a couple
of ingredients and poured the mixture into tubes and compacted with the cone
shape
at the bottom.
They used to work even better when you had a string connected through a hole
in the top of the cone. This string was tied at the top, centered on
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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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
