When I was a kid I made rockets out of cans of spray paint. I would sit them on an angle and light a candle under the plastic tip, then run to a safe distance. Preferably behind a tree. Once the plastic tip melted off the spray paint would come shooting out and ignite. Sometimes they would explode on the launch pad, other times they would fly in a corkscrew 50 or 60 feet. Once one exploded in mid air. I imagined I was testing V-2 rockets, and this explained the high failure rate. I lived way out in the country and would have to wait for my mom to leave. Otherwise I would have been in lots of trouble.
another rocket system is welding tanks, using a sledge hammer knock off the valve assembly while simultaneously providing ignition. These can go approx 1/2 mile.
Used this method to launch an assault on our nearby ant colony. Ants suffered heavy casualties, attempted to rebuild, until another missile devastated their efforts. They retreated underground until firecrackers were planted to destroy any entrances to the complex. Windex was used to leave no survivors.
Chris I use a paper clip to make the rocket exhaust And use book matches , they are lighter No fins And I make the launcher with a paperclip too Keeps it stable prior to launch 😊
I liked playing with matches in my younger years. When my own kids were young, I showed them matches, how they burned, and explained about the pain and destruction they could cause. Then I told them if they ever wanted to play with matches they could ask me for some and 'play' safely on the brick paved area in the backyard. Strangely enough, neither ever wanted to play with matches; I was a little disappointed.
You sir, know how to make a fantastic video. The right pace, good presentation, bits of humor, and the idea is interesting, simple, cheap, doable. Hats off to ya.
Yes, and if you try to change a lightbulb without a helmet and three supervisors on hand, the police arrive, taser you and put you in the cells to cool off.
You all probably dont give a shit but does anybody know a trick to get back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot the password. I would love any assistance you can give me!
Thanks for the fun video. I remember making match head rockets over 50 years ago with my brothers on our front porch. Best we ever did was about 15 feet or so. Thanks for the improved design suggestions, and now off to buy some matches. :-)
Making and firing Match Rockets in our garage on a rainy day is still a fun memory 45 years later! We ended up with a very minimal design, still good for about 30’ IIRC. We used paper matches, wrapped a bit of aluminum foil over the head and about halfway down the length. Twist the foil past the head into a point and lay the rocket over a paper clip stand. No need to make a nozzle since the combustion pressure will find a way out. Fins not needed for stability as long as the center of mass is ahead of the center of pressure. This is exactly why a bottle rocket works without fins, but is unstable without the stick. That pop of your extra tight wrap seems like something I need to test!
@@BrainfooTV in addition, it should lighten the load where the pressure requirements are least and improve the center of gravity and maybe even reduce the mass needs at the nose.. assuming you are balancing center of gravity vs just engine chamber seal-strength.
@@baloog8 I found it to be a delicate balance. Too light and the lack of mass works against you. Too heavy and you fall short. I did an awful lot of testing to get the range I did, but that doesn't mean it can't be beaten
@@BrainfooTV yes, but I think part 1 of my comment was deleted. oh well 😅 I was saying you can build a bell nozzle by cutting and rolling a certain way..
Same here. Used 10,760,000 match heads to power it and sort of shot down the ISS by accident. Scared the shit out of the neighbors dog (and the neighbors) that live 5 miles away too.
Brilliant! When I was little, I used to use the glass tube in the center of burned light bulbs as a launcher until one exploded in my face. The amount of heat I felt on my face was incredible. I stopped making them ever since.
When I was around 10 years old we lived in Mexico. My mother was a Spanish teacher and she went to college for the summer in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. The small matches were different there than they were here in the States. Here we had small slide open boxes of wooden matches. There, they had small matches with round paper shafts coated in wax. The first time I ever saw someone shoot a match rocket was there in Mexico. The fellow took three of these Mexican matches and took some foil from his cigarette package wrapping it tightly around the match heads. Then he bent the legs to make a tripod look. He placed another lit match under the center of the rocket and off it went! I've never been the same since and I vow to never grow up! LOL. Great video! I've got to try this with three or four match heads in a larger rocket!
wow, I was building these when I was about 12 in 1984. Glad to see the improvement and great instruction. I used common paper matches and reached 25ft back then. Thank you for posting
When I was younger, we used to place match heads inside air gun pellets and seal with wax, when you hit your target hey presto, a pleasing crack and occasionally a little flame! Feel free to pinch my idea and make a vid!😀
Thanks for the suggestion, thats something we never did, and we did quite a lot, including the standard dieseling. I love it when someone tells me something new. Thanks.
This was great! I've never seen this type of design before, and those tape fins are ingenious, simple, effective and beautiful! When I was a kid in the mid 70s, I made match rockets out of paper matches, with foil wrapped around the head, and used a pin to slip between the cardboard of the match and the foil to provide a "nozzle" for the exhaust. My launcher was a simple bent-up paperclip. I would cut additional match heads to insert before wrapping in foil for a more powerful engine. I remember them shooting pretty far, but probably not 60 feet! I even mounted them to little paper airplanes to create a miniature jet plane. Oh, to be young again.
I used to do similar in the 1980's using the match and roll tinfoil over the top, so pleased someone developed the idea to make them go further. great video
Dipping each piece of the coat hanger in cooking oil would ensure an even tighter air envelope between the rocket and the launch rod. In addition it would reduce the friction during the launch. It is just an idea. For the maximum distance the launch rod needs to be at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to its launching flat surface.
This brings back a lot of great memories of my Grandad and a very young me having tank battles in his garden. 10 Embassy regal cigarette boxes could be made into tanks very easily, complete with a turret for the "rocket" shells. 👍
I did this 35 years ago when you could smoke at work in the lunch room. I used the paper book matches, ( the whole paper match) for foil used the cigarette foil and covered the whole match and used a tooth pick laid on the match while raping the foil to create a channel for the gases to escape. you would have to make adjustments to the channel by pinching the foil just behind the match head. Pull the toothpick out set the home made rocket slightly over hanging over the soda can point, and with a lighter held the flam under the tip of the rocket. it would go 15 to 20 feet and you did not know witch way it was going. It was a kick, got people to laugh, dodging these little rockets, those were the days!
Like several others here I used to make these when I was a kid but using book matches and chewing gum aluminum foil. Laid a straight pin next to the head before wrapping the foil which left an exhaust nozzle. They weren’t as cool as these though. The hobby shop owner in my town taught me about them and warned me of the dangers of cutting off match heads and stuffing them into a pipe to make a rocket. He’d been a science teacher but got out of it and told me he did a lot of science teaching as a hobby shop owner. I spent hours in that classroom and became a science teacher myself.
Vaseline would create more friction against the rocket an the launch rod, potentially causing the combustion from the match to expand inside of the tip of the rocket and not launch it off the rod, possibly exploding the rocket.
Well mine made a really loud bang and I couldn't even see it anymore. Then after a few minutes I looked at my feet and there it was. It only took it a few minutes to go around the planet and land back at my feet. Amazing!
I got 130 feet with this design using a very small amount of gun powder from the blank of a nail-driver (equal in power to 3 matchstick heads but it might burn quicker) and a little longer rocket. I have a trick for raising the pressure inside the chamber. At the base you let there be only 2 layers of aluminum foil which is about what you're doing with that taper. You use a wood skewer and drill the smallest hole you can with a drill bit. Then you stick in a finishing nail through the two layers, into the hole. Using tensile strength of aluminum you can calculate the layers needed to get the max pressure in the chamber and you calculate the max pressure your chamber can allow also with it's tensile strength. Theoretically based on this and density of aluminum and if there were no air resistance, you could get up to 2000 feet. But what I found out is that aluminum weakens with heat and bursts so I doubt over 200 feet is possible without a major redesign. I tried a little to fix this by using a mechanical pencil's steel eraser cover as the "ignition chamber" but gave up after a few tries. A steel design theoretically could reach 40,000 feet distance, minus air resistance. It would have to be incredibly small to use only 1 matchstick making air resistant a big factor (500 feet probably the limit). If you use 10 match sticks, it's as much explosive powder as a small bullet and a similar distance can be reached. This is not really a rocket design because there is no nozzle exhaust pressure after lift off. This is a more efficient use of the fuel than a rocket can achieve, as long as air resistance is a bigger factor than the gain in efficiency. This is like putting gun powder in a gun barrel, then sticking it onto a shaft and making the gun barrel as light as possible. So the shaft is like a bullet that's held in place and the gun is allowed to recoil. I actually tried making it a two-stage pressure build-up using a long tail on the end of the aluminum with slack in it and another nail. So it does not break from the 1st nail until pressure is high and assuming the powder has not finished burning, it lets it expand to where it is almost off the stick, then 2nd nail makes it pause until more pressure builds up. But I'm not sure that can help.
@Tributary House Ltd. It's a 70's term for "Joint". I know. I spent my formative teen years ALL THE WAY through the 70's. Good Times -- GOOD TIMES. By the way, as kids, we used to take paper matches from match books, cover the head of a match tightly with a little bit of foil, then torch the head of the "Missile" with another match and these baby's could travel 15 to 20 FEET. But not ALWAYS. The average flight distance was about 10 to 15 feet. Sometimes more -- sometimes less, depending on how well you made them. We would set up a tissue paper fort and fire off the rockets at the enemy's fort and sometimes we could set the other fort on fire. That was how we determined the winner. Like I said --- Good Times -- GOOD TIMES. And we weren't little PUSSIES that had to go to our "Safe Spaces". We lived life DANGEROUSLY back in the day. Good Times -- GOOD TIMES. . .
I use to make these when I was a kid...I even experimented with making them with multiple stages by adding more match heads along the longitudinal axes. So cool when one works correctly...
+basil fawlty nasa is one of the few organizations that actually help mankind advance and you actually have the courage to say something as stupid as that? what about your fucking army that wastes a hundred time more money than that on literally nothing but murdering people? honestly think nasa isn't funded enough.
adding more pressure means the casing has to withstand it. Think of it as a filling your tire that holds 50 you dont want to add 100 cause that would explode the casing the air is exerting pressure on the wall of tire. Same for this toy rocket your creating more pressure . Like nasa when there rockets explode from a leak .
It gives it a slightly longer burn time, for more distance. If you use too much, it chokes it off and you fizzle out. If you use just the rigth amount, it practically doubles the flight distance and speed. Using a paper match from a standard matchbook, I shot one all the way across a restaurant one time. It had to be 25+ feet from our booth to the cashier. We were on total opposite sides of the building.
Don't know about the recommended list, but I know why you watched it all...same reason I did and I bet you're looking for a metal coat hanger and tinfoil right now... ;)
Inspiring video! When I was a kid back in 1968, I tried jamming about 30 crushed Swan matchheads into a light steel tube (a used steel ballpoint pen refill). Not recommended... The resulting explosion set fire to me, my bedroom carpet, and my parents wrath. I still have a small scar on my eyeball. But I'm gonna give your design a try anyway!!
Is there an issue with holding the match head while cutting the stick? I don't mind if the stick flies away after cutting, and that way I know I have the main ingredient in hand....
WARNING: Do not attempt this at home It may result in severe injury or even death Seek advice from a trained professional who enjoys explosives and is possibly a pyromaniac -- Now go have fun !
can you believe i did these in high school english class 1983? today i would be jailed for terrorism.lol they had no fins and regular paper matches. and i had no idea where it could go. also made smoke bomb click pen .and firecracker cigarettes. we had smoking area back then.
Would you not be able to get more fuel for the equivalent weight if you were to harvest the Red phosphor from the match heads instead of having the unessesairy weight of the wooden tip?
In 1976 I did this in a different way, we would get 3 to 4 stories height. We only used blue tip strike anywhere matches, cut off 5 heads, then use one complete match and place 2 heads next to it, , like 3 in a row, next place 3 more above (top of rocket) with blue tips facing down, now you have 2 rows of 3 config, wrap in foil. The blue tip is what makes all the power, the rest is just for the smoke trail, having 6 heads they have a good kick.
I used to make them when I was a kid in the early 70’s. Tried once with a book of matches - didn’t end well I set my patio on fire 🤪. Get my ass beat !! Great kid memories
![[4K] Watch SpaceX Catch A Starship Rocket From Space!!! #IFT5](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pIKI7y3DTXk/mqdefault.jpg)
I never thought one day I would be using my joint rolling skills to make rockets. Subbed!
you won
Winning at life.
HigherPlanes
exactly what I thought. I can roll 2 rockets at once.
HigherPlanes .classic pmsl bro
So true that
When I was a kid I made rockets out of cans of spray paint. I would sit them on an angle and light a candle under the plastic tip, then run to a safe distance. Preferably behind a tree. Once the plastic tip melted off the spray paint would come shooting out and ignite. Sometimes they would explode on the launch pad, other times they would fly in a corkscrew 50 or 60 feet. Once one exploded in mid air. I imagined I was testing V-2 rockets, and this explained the high failure rate. I lived way out in the country and would have to wait for my mom to leave. Otherwise I would have been in lots of trouble.
We used to throw them in a burn barrel and let the fun begin.
Ar u hitler in 1943
@@mustangthekitten7765 look at his profile picture
oatmeal man haha lol
another rocket system is welding tanks, using a sledge hammer knock off the valve assembly while simultaneously providing ignition.
These can go approx 1/2 mile.
This is one of the best-quality amateur videos I've seen. The pacing, editing, visuals--everything comes together perfectly.
Used this method to launch an assault on our nearby ant colony.
Ants suffered heavy casualties, attempted to rebuild, until another missile devastated their efforts. They retreated underground until firecrackers were planted to destroy any entrances to the complex.
Windex was used to leave no survivors.
Enemy Combatant OMG
Lmao !!!!!
😂
Enemy Combatant I feel like I was there reading that
War is Hell!
Hamas approves.
Too funny
so this is the video my nephew watched right before burning down my sisters house. nice.
I'm wondering why you're not getting any replies to this comment, friend?
@@NibiruPrime2012 lol!
Well that sucks
@Blake's space flight simulator yt put me in that shit
Judge rinder want to speak to you about a claim 🤣
i may regret this....
but I'm going to show this to my kids...
such a neat idea
You will never regret doing something like this with your kids. It fires the imagination and is the first step into interesting science. Good for you.
Chris 😊
Chris I use a paper clip to make the rocket exhaust
And use book matches , they are lighter
No fins
And I make the launcher with a paperclip too
Keeps it stable prior to launch
😊
@@tcmtech7515 sorry to hear that, stupid.
I liked playing with matches in my younger years. When my own kids were young, I showed them matches, how they burned, and explained about the pain and destruction they could cause. Then I told them if they ever wanted to play with matches they could ask me for some and 'play' safely on the brick paved area in the backyard. Strangely enough, neither ever wanted to play with matches; I was a little disappointed.
After burning the living room carpet with a hot rocket casing, I discovered you're better off launching these outside. :D
Honolulu Boy
wtf... i was scrolling down the comments and the fucking second i started reading this he fuckn said it wtf...
I swear to god that’s my high school logo but with a smiley face and arms and glasses
What i was scroling in the commenst and when i read this that second come hooooooly gooood
Yep, black spots on drapes... Wife has not noticed...
You sir, know how to make a fantastic video. The right pace, good presentation, bits of humor, and the idea is interesting, simple, cheap, doable. Hats off to ya.
North Korea is making progress
lmao
Fuck you
u too
@@tyhusky6927 ikr
I legit just cracked up laughing
I remember doing this 40 years ago. Such good memories where we had to create our own fun and toys.
I beat your distance by at least 200 ft., and then lost the rocket. I added 6 match heads, and made it a cruise missile, with aerodynamic lift wings.
John Plissken could you make another? I would like to see that.
Sure. If I remember to when I have time.
+John Plissken, Yeah, plz make a video. oh and how'd you keep it from blowing up?
Nice try, but I added another 6 matchheads and a GPS guidance system, 240v power and a 30kg payload of TNT.
No explosives. LOL. I just gave it lift so it would glide after the fuel burned out.
they let you have matches in the UK? I thought they'd banned them for public safety
you have to be supervised at all times and have the fire brigade on stand by
Yes, and if you try to change a lightbulb without a helmet and three supervisors on hand, the police arrive, taser you and put you in the cells to cool off.
I would not be surprised if very soon purchasing matches will require identification in the U.S.
Was suprised when I went to buy BB's I was asked for an ID at Kmart. I am in Illinois, USA
....It's coming soon to OUR state near ours.
time to build a few of these
@Pierce Lawson did it work?
You all probably dont give a shit but does anybody know a trick to get back into an instagram account..?
I stupidly forgot the password. I would love any assistance you can give me!
@Reign Hugo Instablaster =)
Thanks for the fun video. I remember making match head rockets over 50 years ago with my brothers on our front porch. Best we ever did was about 15 feet or so. Thanks for the improved design suggestions, and now off to buy some matches. :-)
Making and firing Match Rockets in our garage on a rainy day is still a fun memory 45 years later!
We ended up with a very minimal design, still good for about 30’ IIRC. We used paper matches, wrapped a bit of aluminum foil over the head and about halfway down the length. Twist the foil past the head into a point and lay the rocket over a paper clip stand. No need to make a nozzle since the combustion pressure will find a way out.
Fins not needed for stability as long as the center of mass is ahead of the center of pressure. This is exactly why a bottle rocket works without fins, but is unstable without the stick.
That pop of your extra tight wrap seems like something I need to test!
I had great fun playing with these too. 50' plus... Here you come 👍🏻
@@BrainfooTV in addition, it should lighten the load where the pressure requirements are least and improve the center of gravity and maybe even reduce the mass needs at the nose.. assuming you are balancing center of gravity vs just engine chamber seal-strength.
@@baloog8 I found it to be a delicate balance. Too light and the lack of mass works against you. Too heavy and you fall short. I did an awful lot of testing to get the range I did, but that doesn't mean it can't be beaten
@@BrainfooTV yes, but I think part 1 of my comment was deleted. oh well 😅
I was saying you can build a bell nozzle by cutting and rolling a certain way..
@@baloog8 Who knew a match and some tin foil could give so much fun. Fantastic science experiment for anyone really
Instructions unclear, built match rocket 60ft long
Cee Cypher Punk I thought that too
Same here. Used 10,760,000 match heads to power it and sort of shot down the ISS by accident. Scared the shit out of the neighbors dog (and the neighbors) that live 5 miles away too.
Such a Reddit neckbeard comment
I think you won.
he says 2 inchs in the first couple seconds..........
As a general note, do not stick rocket in urethra, it sticks to the walls and causes painful pressure when you try to pee it out
For the love of God....why!
lol
Lemuel Seale funny guy
Extra bonus points for picturing Deadpool as the OP of this thread...
I dont have to listen to you
I regret my desetion
I love it, after burning my house down I decided it would be best to do this outside. subbed
Brilliant! When I was little, I used to use the glass tube in the center of burned light bulbs as a launcher until one exploded in my face. The amount of heat I felt on my face was incredible. I stopped making them ever since.
When I was around 10 years old we lived in Mexico. My mother was a Spanish teacher and she went to college for the summer in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. The small matches were different there than they were here in the States. Here we had small slide open boxes of wooden matches. There, they had small matches with round paper shafts coated in wax. The first time I ever saw someone shoot a match rocket was there in Mexico. The fellow took three of these Mexican matches and took some foil from his cigarette package wrapping it tightly around the match heads. Then he bent the legs to make a tripod look. He placed another lit match under the center of the rocket and off it went! I've never been the same since and I vow to never grow up! LOL. Great video! I've got to try this with three or four match heads in a larger rocket!
DIP THE MATCH HEAD IN PETROL, SHAKE DRY, AND YOU CAN GET 200 FT +
Ok ima try it
Can alchohol work???
Oh ok
@@wth7537 did you try it?
@@germaxicus6670 yeah but it just lit on fire and didn’t do anything
Single 30 year old here, you gave me something to do when I get off work now lmao
Kerbal space program in a nutshell
Gabriel Bailey lmao
Almost 5 years since this was uploaded and it pops up in my recommended, Just as Covid 19 and im stuck in Tier 4, now I have something do.
Many Thanks
wow, I was building these when I was about 12 in 1984. Glad to see the improvement and great instruction. I used common paper matches and reached 25ft back then. Thank you for posting
Glad you liked it, I too used to make them as a kid from Swan vesta matches and cocktail sticks
Now, no enemy can hope to MATCH my power
When I was younger, we used to place match heads inside air gun pellets and seal with wax, when you hit your target hey presto, a pleasing crack and occasionally a little flame! Feel free to pinch my idea and make a vid!😀
Thanks for the suggestion, thats something we never did, and we did quite a lot, including the standard dieseling. I love it when someone tells me something new. Thanks.
I started doing that when I was about 10 and 25 years later I do it as a party trick to start a campfire!
Thanks! I used to make these when I was a child.
This was great! I've never seen this type of design before, and those tape fins are ingenious, simple, effective and beautiful! When I was a kid in the mid 70s, I made match rockets out of paper matches, with foil wrapped around the head, and used a pin to slip between the cardboard of the match and the foil to provide a "nozzle" for the exhaust. My launcher was a simple bent-up paperclip. I would cut additional match heads to insert before wrapping in foil for a more powerful engine. I remember them shooting pretty far, but probably not 60 feet! I even mounted them to little paper airplanes to create a miniature jet plane. Oh, to be young again.
I used to do similar in the 1980's using the match and roll tinfoil over the top, so pleased someone developed the idea to make them go further.
great video
Dipping each piece of the coat hanger in cooking oil would ensure an even tighter air envelope between the rocket and the launch rod. In addition it would reduce the friction during the launch. It is just an idea.
For the maximum distance the launch rod needs to be at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to its launching flat surface.
I think a dry lube, like talc or graphite (got a pencil?).
Slightly aerodynamic, so a bit under 45.
Guy: Casually says, “After burning my house carpet...”
Dude, do you realise they could be using this in Syria against our own troops.
💀
I really hope so
I grew up making these and my friends and I would have contests in the garage. However, mine never went 60 feet!!!! Thanks for some fun memories.
This brings back a lot of great memories of my Grandad and a very young me having tank battles in his garden.
10 Embassy regal cigarette boxes could be made into tanks very easily, complete with a turret for the "rocket" shells.
👍
You might not know it but you helped teach viewers some basics for rolling a joint. haha. nice video.
Aluminum foil joints are the best for sure.
I did this 35 years ago when you could smoke at work in the lunch room. I used the paper book matches, ( the whole paper match) for foil used the cigarette foil and covered the whole match and used a tooth pick laid on the match while raping the foil to create a channel for the gases to escape. you would have to make adjustments to the channel by pinching the foil just behind the match head. Pull the toothpick out set the home made rocket slightly over hanging over the soda can point, and with a lighter held the flam under the tip of the rocket. it would go 15 to 20 feet and you did not know witch way it was going. It was a kick, got people to laugh, dodging these little rockets, those were the days!
you died? lol
Hah seriously I thought he meant use the toothpick to poke an in-and-out motion on the foil, thereby raping it to create a channel, lol!
Instead foil we used ball point pen tip, have to say it was pretty dangerous as it could make hole in plastic but it was fun
You poked the foil.
rlarson3232 oh god I feel so sorry for this man or woman if they read the replies. I send my condolences lol
Nice work, simple steps, great details 👍👍
Just brilliant!
Informative, concise, great camera work - thank you so much!
I use to play with these as a kid but then I grew up and starting playing with myself..........you'll get there soon!
Past that, I know play with others....You might get there ;-)
this technique we as kids were using in the 70's ;)
Awe yeah! Used to make these as a kid, good times
I like how the tutorial for this was 7 times the estimated construction time
Like several others here I used to make these when I was a kid but using book matches and chewing gum aluminum foil. Laid a straight pin next to the head before wrapping the foil which left an exhaust nozzle. They weren’t as cool as these though. The hobby shop owner in my town taught me about them and warned me of the dangers of cutting off match heads and stuffing them into a pipe to make a rocket. He’d been a science teacher but got out of it and told me he did a lot of science teaching as a hobby shop owner. I spent hours in that classroom and became a science teacher myself.
Why do grown men like me find these vids so satisfying? Am I alone?
I made a gigantic one of these with 10 match heads, and it flew 75 feet! (I used the trees in my yard to estimate that)
if you lubricate your launch rod with a bit of vegetable oil, you can create a liquid seal
vaseline will give a better effect
Vaseline... my body is ready for this.
Will it help if I lube my nipples?
Vaseline would create more friction against the rocket an the launch rod, potentially causing the combustion from the match to expand inside of the tip of the rocket and not launch it off the rod, possibly exploding the rocket.
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! X-D
Kids be like, "it flew a mile for me!"
Well mine made a really loud bang and I couldn't even see it anymore. Then after a few minutes I looked at my feet and there it was. It only took it a few minutes to go around the planet and land back at my feet. Amazing!
+mrkiky 👍
DID TO !
I got 130 feet with this design using a very small amount of gun powder from the blank of a nail-driver (equal in power to 3 matchstick heads but it might burn quicker) and a little longer rocket. I have a trick for raising the pressure inside the chamber. At the base you let there be only 2 layers of aluminum foil which is about what you're doing with that taper. You use a wood skewer and drill the smallest hole you can with a drill bit. Then you stick in a finishing nail through the two layers, into the hole. Using tensile strength of aluminum you can calculate the layers needed to get the max pressure in the chamber and you calculate the max pressure your chamber can allow also with it's tensile strength. Theoretically based on this and density of aluminum and if there were no air resistance, you could get up to 2000 feet. But what I found out is that aluminum weakens with heat and bursts so I doubt over 200 feet is possible without a major redesign. I tried a little to fix this by using a mechanical pencil's steel eraser cover as the "ignition chamber" but gave up after a few tries. A steel design theoretically could reach 40,000 feet distance, minus air resistance. It would have to be incredibly small to use only 1 matchstick making air resistant a big factor (500 feet probably the limit). If you use 10 match sticks, it's as much explosive powder as a small bullet and a similar distance can be reached. This is not really a rocket design because there is no nozzle exhaust pressure after lift off. This is a more efficient use of the fuel than a rocket can achieve, as long as air resistance is a bigger factor than the gain in efficiency. This is like putting gun powder in a gun barrel, then sticking it onto a shaft and making the gun barrel as light as possible. So the shaft is like a bullet that's held in place and the gun is allowed to recoil. I actually tried making it a two-stage pressure build-up using a long tail on the end of the aluminum with slack in it and another nail. So it does not break from the 1st nail until pressure is high and assuming the powder has not finished burning, it lets it expand to where it is almost off the stick, then 2nd nail makes it pause until more pressure builds up. But I'm not sure that can help.
If you add an extra match head it qualifies as "class 5 guided weapon" under the NATO's Guided Weapons Act. Great Vid!!!
pretty cool, my father taught me how to make these when I was a kid
Yeah, I learnt from other kids.
And I thought I was a deviant. ;)
Me: *sees this video*
Also me: *Looks back and stares at 50 foils thinking about mega sized*
I bet you're brilliant at rolling a spliff mate. :D
Tributary House Ltd. You need to listen to a bit of Bob market mate...
@Tributary House Ltd. It's a 70's term for "Joint".
I know.
I spent my formative teen years ALL THE WAY through the 70's.
Good Times -- GOOD TIMES.
By the way, as kids, we used to take paper matches from match books, cover the head of a match tightly with a little bit of foil, then torch the head of the "Missile" with another match and these baby's could travel 15 to 20 FEET.
But not ALWAYS.
The average flight distance was about 10 to 15 feet.
Sometimes more -- sometimes less, depending on how well you made them.
We would set up a tissue paper fort and fire off the rockets at the enemy's fort and sometimes we could set the other fort on fire.
That was how we determined the winner.
Like I said --- Good Times -- GOOD TIMES.
And we weren't little PUSSIES that had to go to our "Safe Spaces".
We lived life DANGEROUSLY back in the day.
Good Times -- GOOD TIMES.
.
.
I use to make these when I was a kid...I even experimented with making them with multiple stages by adding more match heads along the longitudinal axes. So cool when one works correctly...
Excellently produced video! Efficient narrative, good props and thank you for your research. Making your own is much more satisfying than ready made.
one of the most beautiful video i ever seen thank you
“I “discovered” you’re better off launching these outside” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So why NASA spend Billions to launch a rocket?
Pure liquid oxygen is better than it trapped in phosphorus and as you know IT ISNT DIRT CHEAP
+basil fawlty nasa is one of the few organizations that actually help mankind advance and you actually have the courage to say something as stupid as that?
what about your fucking army that wastes a hundred time more money than that on literally nothing but murdering people? honestly think nasa isn't funded enough.
basil fawlty it's not fake
Johnny the moon was 400,000thousand kilometres appointing to the measly 60ft
In what way are they fake? Give me one good reason.
looks fun! Your childhood was fun too!
Any tips for rolling? Mine are just too loose whenever I do them, and they just spit out a puff of smoke through the back, but no lift off.
What about using more than one match head? That would increase distance perhaps.
It's a delicate balancing act, it dosent work as quite as well as you would think.
adding more pressure means the casing has to withstand it. Think of it as a filling your tire that holds 50 you dont want to add 100 cause that would explode the casing the air is exerting pressure on the wall of tire. Same for this toy rocket your creating more pressure . Like nasa when there rockets explode from a leak .
John Dearing
Or you will burn down your house
Try using a flux capacitor
Reassuring to see that the Brits have at least one type of missile that launches.
Yeah and if that doesn't work we can launch the Queen.
The Royal Society has determined that Her Royal Flatulence is highly weaponizable.
Geez... You both are funny af!
M4T1J4P0 lmfao
M4T1J4P0 yes....that's why I'm building a rocket right now
I like how he says after burning his carpet, he decided that out side would be better. well duh. lol.
Something so small and easy, yet so big fun. Great video
Damn. I didn't know I needed a new hobby until I saw this!
I killed a fly with it lol very lucky shoot!
That's just WOW! That is probably the first fly killed by a ballistic missile in recorded history lol.
mosquitos have been killed by cannons before, however this Is the first fly with a missile.
surface-to-air missile text gone wrong gone sexual WARNING:may contain graphic content
lier
lyre
I little hint, dip the tip of your match head in candle wax. Too much chokes it off, so don't over do it.
You are Welcome!
What effect does adding the wax have?
It gives it a slightly longer burn time, for more distance.
If you use too much, it chokes it off and you fizzle out. If you use just the rigth amount, it practically doubles the flight distance and speed.
Using a paper match from a standard matchbook, I shot one all the way across a restaurant one time. It had to be 25+ feet from our booth to the cashier. We were on total opposite sides of the building.
Thanks for sharing I never knew that. I though I'd done nearly everything with match rockets over the years, and then you learn something new :-)
You are welcome! have fun experimenting!
Hi
That's epic!!! I'm going 4 it! : )
Thanks 4 the happy times, super interesting video! Awesome!
So cool that you posted this! I had completely forgot about these!
You sir have too much time on your hands....and I love it !
Why is this in my recommended?... More importantly, why did I watch the whole video??
Don't know about the recommended list, but I know why you watched it all...same reason I did and I bet you're looking for a metal coat hanger and tinfoil right now... ;)
Gives ya something to tell your therapist..
looks like you can roll a mad blunt
and that's a dab torch
More like I Brule torch you fucking pothead
no need to swear sir
you know he's taking dabs with that torch
hi chowder, doctor got you back on the meds yet?
Next: a large guided rocket able to take planes down.
This is great. I'm glad the template is free so anyone anywhere can try this. Excellent job. You get a thumbs up from me!
Inspiring video! When I was a kid back in 1968, I tried jamming about 30 crushed Swan matchheads into a light steel tube (a used steel ballpoint pen refill). Not recommended... The resulting explosion set fire to me, my bedroom carpet, and my parents wrath. I still have a small scar on my eyeball. But I'm gonna give your design a try anyway!!
Yeah I know that one, I burnt my fingers powering a toy car with crushed match heads, luckily outdoors though so no carpets damaged.
"I'll tell you one thing, I wont be drinking brainfoo".
I got branfoo ad
How can i make it guided?
Employ NASA? ;-)
Cut slits in the fins and bend them to the desired pitch roll and yaw before flight
Good Idea, or maybe a tiny section of drinking straw and guide it on a cotton or nylon thread?
quality clickb8 canser heatseeking?
BrainfooTV but then there would be drag and weight, the length of the rockets definitely would not go as far.
how to roll a joint without rolling a joint
Is there an issue with holding the match head while cutting the stick? I don't mind if the stick flies away after cutting, and that way I know I have the main ingredient in hand....
Rocket or no rocket, this is a very well made video. Well done!
I got this rolling part down says all of the heads in the world, lol.
I live in the U K will I need to show I D to buy matches?. I am 70 years old.
lol😂😂
WARNING:
Do not attempt this at home
It may result in severe injury or even death
Seek advice from a trained professional who enjoys explosives and is possibly a pyromaniac
-- Now go have fun !
I doubt it
Yes
i used to make these things as a kid back in the 70s. hours of fun. :)
Thank you for teaching my kids to play with matches.
3:38 How to roll a joint
rocket joint
Jeebus, if you rolled a joint in tinfoil, you would burn your lips, just use a cigarette pack pipe like everyone else 8- p
Justin Anderson was thinking the same thing
People on dope don't have a 60-second attention span.
not true...showed this to some stoner buddies and they made like 50 of them but I know many successful and productive potheads lol
hahahaha...this is one of my toy when i was seven, i just use alumunium foil of ciggarette pack
can you believe i did these in high school english class 1983? today i would be jailed for terrorism.lol they had no fins and regular paper matches. and i had no idea where it could go. also made smoke bomb click pen .and firecracker cigarettes. we had smoking area back then.
I too made a smoke bomb inside a pen, got me detention that did. Letting it off during a lesson was stupid.
BrainfooTV oh ,me too, it was worth it.
TheDowner oh the fun we had.
BrainfooTV Probably made you the Class Hero for a week! ;-)
Cap gun firecrackers, anyone? (c. 1970's)
Would you not be able to get more fuel for the equivalent weight if you were to harvest the Red phosphor from the match heads instead of having the unessesairy weight of the wooden tip?
This is very cool. I used to make similar match rockets when I was a kid.
Yeah me too, the simple things are the best
Soon in 4 years he will make a gold knife
Ya
Kim jung un: *GRAB A PAPER AND WRITE THAT DOWN NOW!!!..*
Better than an iPad game.
...so call now! Only 19.99, operators are standing by. Amazing mini rockets! Brilliant!
Can we make big ones with multiple match heads?
Now we just have to find a way to remote launch them and we'll be able to put them on RC helicopters
1/24 scale Hydra 70s, oh man...
Too easy bro. Even a gatlin version would be easy. But attach to drones!
The King of Random also did a video like this
And so did lots of people before him. Just saying.
crapper , just saying...
Yup. Just saying.
Do this with some black powder and see if there is a difference.
I used to make small black powder rockets, the go well but black powder is hard to get hold of in the UK, and its a lot more work.
In 1976 I did this in a different way, we would get 3 to 4 stories height. We only used blue tip strike anywhere matches, cut off 5 heads, then use one complete match and place 2 heads next to it, , like 3 in a row, next place 3 more above (top of rocket) with blue tips facing down, now you have 2 rows of 3 config, wrap in foil. The blue tip is what makes all the power, the rest is just for the smoke trail, having 6 heads they have a good kick.
I used to make them when I was a kid in the early 70’s. Tried once with a book of matches - didn’t end well
I set my patio on fire 🤪.
Get my ass beat !! Great kid memories
That was so cool! I like that extra crimp that gives it extra boost.