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(69 votes) Published: Jul 07, 2005 4:54 a.m. In 6 Favorites Lists Viewed 1119 times
alright soo i got an idea someone should expand upon in comments about it... i randomly thought of a easy to make rocket launcher with impact sensitive warhead..... soo i thought about tennis ball bomb with matchheads and how they smack together and ignite... i was thinking of these one copper tubes ive seen that come to kind of a blunt point(what are these called exactly)this missle made by adding a good bit of strike anywhere matchheads..then the explosive(piccolo pete powder perhaps) then an estes rocket engine large enough to fit snugly in missle tube (secure with a bit of glue so explosion doesnt take the easy way of pushing the motor out)and there u have a missle get a tube with diameter slightly wide enough for missle to slide freely in and such put fuse in nozzle and smash it in tight(engines arent meant to be lit by fuse kinda hard to make it work, i supose u could electronicly launch tho)... i plan on testing this once i figure out measurements and what not... it seemed fool proof BUT it needs some form of stablizer to be anywhere near accurate enough to be worth using used as is it would be very top heavy and would tend to arc toward ground rapidly... (i planned on using it just for fun it not to harm anyone by the way ;-p)... anyways do u guys think this idea is worth pursueing... if u got any ideas to help with my design send to geoffw59873@hotmail.com thanX
Jul 07, 2005 6:23 am - Use black powder or flash powder...
B.P. is made of sulphur(wine-making shops, apotech), saltpeter(apotech, sold as earth nutrion)...
(ple se inform me about my writing-faults)
Jul 07, 2005 8:56 am - You realize even without the strike anywhere match heads it will still explode when the engine runs out and fires the thing tha makes the chute come out.
but none the less good egg 4
Jul 07, 2005 9:01 am - well, I was thinking and you would probably have to launch it at a minumum of 60 degrees for it to work alright. It would be too heavy. You would need to mod the rocket to hold a bigger engine lige an e f or g size, but you need a special license to buy them. and the fins would have to be longer, say 2/3rds of the whole body. and you would need some kind of counter weight where the engine goes, not too heavy but just heavy enough where the nose wouldnt take a dive so easily.
Jul 07, 2005 9:27 am - just swap the match heads with your choice of touch explosives
Jul 08, 2005 1:39 am - you could make a hole in top of the rocket engine just deep enough so that when you insert a fuse the powder from the engine will ignite it then the fuse will ignite the black powder
Jul 08, 2005 11:54 am - hrmm dont u guys know the purpose of a missle is to blow up when it hits sum shit not just when burst charge gos off cuz what use is that? and i wanted to keep it easy and affordable i dont know about u... but i would have trouble getting ahold of touch explosives matchheads are easy as hell to get hence being used in my design.... i didnt intend to use burst charge that would just make it blow up in mid air... maybe short of the target so it would have a very limited range to reach and hit and ignite matcheads and blow that shit up it wouldnt be practical to not have impact sensitive warhead
Jan 17, 2006 7:20 am - i like the idea but warheads arnt always made for impact. i like the idea of the charge that pushes the parachute lighting the explosives because the good thing about this is that if the rockets thrust ends several feet short of the target then the war head wont just crash to the ground and potentially not ignite instead it will explode and send srapnal flying hopfully into the target cos if it was on the ground the most would just get impeaded in the ground. Also if you did use that idea then you could fill the empty foid at the nose with magnesium powder which i can sell you if you live in the uk. and this will give an amazing colour explosion rather then just a bang, which will scare the shit out of your targets occupents. if you dont like my first ideas then forget the gunpowder and match heads and just packthe thing with sulphur and pottasium chlorate as this is extreamly explosive with pressure and friction be carfut when packing cos just a pinch of each is as loud as a fire cracker. any way try these out and comment on them.
p.s put fins on it otherwise it could go knowear or even back at you, and try welding the launch tube in to a stand like a tripod so then you can stay well clear cos realy if its on your shoulder you aint got much chance if it goes bang in the pipe.lol
Feb 06, 2006 4:56 pm - buy and build a stock rocket add fins to front of it so it fits in line with the tube. open the nose cone fill whith explosives of above comments seal the nose cone tie a streamer to the back of the nc that will make only the nose cone land tip first you will be able to retreve the rest of the rocket tou can buy only nose cones from places like estes they are cheap
Apr 08, 2006 9:51 pm - When the rocket engine burns out it sends a charge out the other end to shoot the parachite out and that is why in a rocket that tissue crap is put between the engine and the parachute or the parachute may burn up. And that will set your explosive off. Unless you found someone to make two chamers with a insulated wall seperating them and have the rocket engine in a seperate chamber than the explosives. I may try this if I have time
Apr 25, 2007 11:18 am - Wouldn’t the match head powder make it so that there would be a delay between impact and explosion? I think you can get rocket engines that don’t have the secondary explosion can’t you? Also, why would you use a copper tube? Seems like that would be a little heavy....why not find some cardboard tubing?
Sorry, 2*: -1 for spelling and grammar, -1 for not being tested, -1 because doesn’t seem like that good of an idea, could use some changes.
Dec 14, 2007 4:19 pm - it would blow up as soon as the engine died down. model rocket engines have black powder at the end that blows up in order to forse the parchute outand in this case would blow up ur missel in the air which really isnt bad in my opion