Home made rockets?

[SnacksGU]

Your first post is to resurrect a thread that has been deceased for over a decade?

It is a sweet topic!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

It is a sweet topic!

Sweet, or merely timely, given the time of year?

 

[Mac'nCheese]

This is good idea.

AS you can see, the OP is no longer with us. One of his rockets blew up on the launch pad...we all went to the service and his memory lives on. I start every post, thinking about him and his bravery. Godspeed,5683565, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

 

[ZStech]

1. Take coke bottle.
2. Half-fill with water.
3. Take one small chunk of pure Calcium, make sure it's still got the oil on it.
4. Drop into Coke bottle
5. Screw lid on really, really quickly.
6. Shake, throw and run.

If you get through stage 5 you're doing well.

I suggest Calcium because using anything with a bit more "pop" such as Potassium is difficult.

If you've nicked the Calcium from the lab and you have it in a paper bag in your jacket, make sure it's a really sunny, dry day. Nothing worse than rain soaking through the jacket into the bag chock-a-block full of Calcium...or so my friend can vouch for anyway...

Thanks for an instruction