Grants original video on sugar rockets was the first video I ever watched on this channel (right back when it was first uploaded) and still remains my favourite of all time! Please can you keep doing more videos like this because I feel like the channel has drifted a long way away from what it used to be with Grant and feels too much like a full production company now. Would be good to do more crazy small scale sceince projects and low budget diy builds...I'm pretty sure others would agree with me too?
This video makes me super happy. I used the original design to win the State science fair 3 years in a row, and this video feels like a beautiful commemoration to Grant.
As a Veteran Air Force Rocket Fuel Handler I found this video really fun to watch. I used to work with UMDH hydrazine and N2O4 nitrogen tetroxide. These were extremely dangerous and poisonous chemicals that we worked with in amounts in the tens of thousands of gallons. I would love to spend a day in this guys garage.
I remember watching the original video and trying it out, could never seem to get it to work, but I also wondered if a two stage rocket was possible. Thank you for making this.
My grandfather recently passed away. He spent 30 years at nasa working on the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and shuttle program. He would have loved this video.
I have found that some of the powdered sugars I've bought seems to be cut with seems to be corn starch, and therefore won't burn as hot, reducing thrust. A friend told me to grind up some pure granulated sugar into a fine powder and try that. My thrust test stand even indicated better performance! Great video!
I am amazed at how well these "sugar" rockets performed. Looks like the engines were the same as Estes engines in their burn abilities. And I know theirs are black powder designs... Thumbs Up!
So glad the smoke from California was finally gone when you all filmed this. Made for a much better video. I couldn't even see the mountains when I was headed through there earlier in September.
Neat! Your vid popped up in my feed and I had to watch. My model rocketry phase came and went 40 years ago may Estes be praised. My first project was a $16 kit I purchased at the Huntsville Space and Rocket museum. The 3.5 foot tall Saturn V. Took a couple of months to put that thing together. And I mean I worked hard on it. Built my launch 'rocket box' with lights, switches, the works. But...I knew about the sugar stuff 50 years ago. My friend BooBoo told me about it. Only my mix was 3 to 2 with regular sugar. Tried cooking with water. What a plastic mess and it spewed less. Ha! Back then you could get the PN at the corner drug store. Yep, still had those things then. My stuff only spewed, of course. I never quite made the leap in logic to using it for rocket propellant.
A better option is to dip news paper in a solution of nitrate and chorate oxidising salt at a certain ratio to water. Once the newspaper laden with the oxidising salt solution are dried , it can be rolled up into a tube and insert into into the rocket tubular body. The advantage of paper over sugar is it is lighter and cheaper than sugar. I have built multiple stage rocket during my childhood days. By the way great videos. Remind me of my childhood days.
Thank you Kennen. Please visit again soon. Or make a few remote videos (upgraded yogurt maybe?). I don't want this to be cameos. I want Kennen as a recurring co-host (and recurring only because he lives in Chicago otherwise regular co-host would've been nice). But the Kennen season with the backlog created during that last visit was definitely fun while it lasted. I miss Kevin too.
I did something like this, oh about 40 years ago, only I used 12 gauge shotgun casings and cooked sugar candy fuel poured around a 1/8" screw which is later removed. On top of this was a Whistling Pete firework to provide even more entertainment. Though the Whistling Pete worked better with Estes D size booster, with a C motor as the 2nd stage. These were taped to bamboo garden stakes.
You can use pictures couplings and cut them down one of each size and they fit into each other to make a half to 3/4 adapter. They also sell adapters so you don't need to shave the 2nd stage down
Imo if you heat the propellant mix into putty like material you should have more consistency in the motors. You want to avoid pockets of air or inconsistent mixed fuel. Also adding a burn rate catalyst such as red iron oxide or sulfur can yield better motors
I remember studying space in science class in 8th grade and we built rockets from paper towel rolls and used a "hollowed" egg for the nose cone. After that we were offered extra credit if we built a rocket (bought from Hobby Store or not) and bring it in and launch it on our field day. I needed the extra credit so I did it. I loved building my rocket, but had some kind of failure on the launch and the engine broke free and shot up inside the body of the rocket where it proceeded to start burning. LOL I still got my extra credit though.
Évidemment, le seul commentaire négatif se devait d'être celui d'un français râleur et incapable d'apprendre une autre langue que la sienne. Qui vous dit que les morceaux de PVC n'ont pas été ramassés comme il se doit, hein ? Pas étonnant que dirigée par de petits esprits étriqués tels que le vôtre, l'Europe interdise ce genre d'expériences ludiques à l'origine de bien des vocations et se retrouve ainsi à la traîne dans le domaine spatial face aux États-Unis.
Unlike the missile the rocket does not know where it is or even where its going. The rocket travels from where it is to where it isn't but since it has no GEA it cannot make corrective movements.
Grants original video on sugar rockets was the first video I ever watched on this channel (right back when it was first uploaded) and still remains my favourite of all time! Please can you keep doing more videos like this because I feel like the channel has drifted a long way away from what it used to be with Grant and feels too much like a full production company now. Would be good to do more crazy small scale sceince projects and low budget diy builds...I'm pretty sure others would agree with me too?
Agreed
Agreed
I couldn't agree more
Agreed. I hope this comment gets brought up for TKOR to see!
Agreed
This is the content I've been missing. We need more home mad science!
Mad science
Mad science
Yes, mad science!
Mad Science
Mad science
Don't show this to North Korea. It will set them forward by about a year
Bruh they have hypersonic missiles how are these things gonna help them. They just launched their Hwasong-8 hypersonic nuclear missle 4 days ago.
@@annuitcptis1447 you didnt get the joooke
🤣
@@annuitcptis1447 Dude have you ever heard of sarcasm?He knows that have some powerful missiles.
@@GermoOKD ok that is smart AF
This video makes me super happy. I used the original design to win the State science fair 3 years in a row, and this video feels like a beautiful commemoration to Grant.
Congrats on the win
The best episode in a long time
Been here since 2012, I don't watch as frequently anymore but it's good to see upgrades to the grant originals.
As a Veteran Air Force Rocket Fuel Handler I found this video really fun to watch. I used to work with UMDH hydrazine and N2O4 nitrogen tetroxide. These were extremely dangerous and poisonous chemicals that we worked with in amounts in the tens of thousands of gallons. I would love to spend a day in this guys garage.
I remember watching the original video and trying it out, could never seem to get it to work, but I also wondered if a two stage rocket was possible. Thank you for making this.
Oh yes me too,
Did yours also ignite but not take off?
@@Softe yeah, I'm fairly sure it was due to the nozzle size or moisture in the KNO3 but i haven't had the time to test it yet...
Nobody mentioned that this feels like an original TKOR vid like the ones that grant made
I still remember his original one.
Fr bro pain …
New members c:
Same I was 4 when I watched it
It's my favorite toke video
My favorite is were he blow up the bottles
Taking the randomizer rocket to the next level, Grant would approve.
The kings of random. What a true name
wow the last launch was incredible!
I'm loving all the videos with kennen. He picks interesting topics and has a very approachable way of going about the projects.
When was he introduced
Yeah when was he
Oop I found it his first video is Can Caulk Hold A Person To The Celling
Doubt he does anything other than act in the videos...
You mean black nate?
My grandfather recently passed away. He spent 30 years at nasa working on the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and shuttle program. He would have loved this video.
Independent variable: How many parts are in the rocket.
Dependent variable: How it flies
Controlled variable: The pipes
I remember learning about that in like 7th grade lol
@@SnickersEatsCookies well it is basic science
Throw back to Grant's original projects! I love it!
I have found that some of the powdered sugars I've bought seems to be cut with seems to be corn starch, and therefore won't burn as hot, reducing thrust. A friend told me to grind up some pure granulated sugar into a fine powder and try that. My thrust test stand even indicated better performance! Great video!
Wonder how spinning sugar in those sugar cone machines would work.
@@robertsmith2956 cotton candy?? also they dont use pwder suger in it
Keep with this content instead of the over the top BS Nate does and ill start watching again.
THIS is the kind of content I fell in love with by TKOR
They would rather watch someone else do it than doing it themselves
I love this kind of content
These are the videos I have been missing
Yess recreating this rocket make me feel nostalgic
It’s good to have Kennan back, he’s great in front of the camera
That explosion edit was actually amazing! Looked real.
Thanks~~~~
Doug over here killin it
The two of yours reactions are WAY better than the rocketry. Well done and thanks for sharing. :-)
cute
finally it feels like i am watching a TKOR video i am sooooo happppyyyyyyyyyy
I am amazed at how well these "sugar" rockets performed. Looks like the engines were the same as Estes engines in their burn abilities. And I know theirs are black powder designs... Thumbs Up!
Now THAT'S the content I have been looking for.
These are my favorite type of TKOR videos
I love this video! I’m glad your finally making things, not just doing garbage experiments
Perfect recreation of my favourite TKOR video of all time!
Last week we launched Landsat 9 and we are all so happy it didn't have the same fate as Landsat 6. Yeah, we are all happy when everything works.
So glad the smoke from California was finally gone when you all filmed this. Made for a much better video. I couldn't even see the mountains when I was headed through there earlier in September.
No film was used so... No filming 👍
These are he type of videos I subscribed for. More please
Here we go. The content I love to watch.
Finally I made it. I am so happy. 😄😄
Lovely thanks! Nicely explained! Kind attitude without posturing: rare and valuable these days!
Neat! Your vid popped up in my feed and I had to watch. My model rocketry phase came and went 40 years ago may Estes be praised. My first project was a $16 kit I purchased at the Huntsville Space and Rocket museum. The 3.5 foot tall Saturn V. Took a couple of months to put that thing together. And I mean I worked hard on it. Built my launch 'rocket box' with lights, switches, the works.
But...I knew about the sugar stuff 50 years ago. My friend BooBoo told me about it. Only my mix was 3 to 2 with regular sugar. Tried cooking with water. What a plastic mess and it spewed less. Ha! Back then you could get the PN at the corner drug store. Yep, still had those things then. My stuff only spewed, of course. I never quite made the leap in logic to using it for rocket propellant.
A better option is to dip news paper in a solution of nitrate and chorate oxidising salt at a certain ratio to water. Once the newspaper laden with the oxidising salt solution are dried , it can be rolled up into a tube and insert into into the rocket tubular body. The advantage of paper over sugar is it is lighter and cheaper than sugar. I have built multiple stage rocket during my childhood days. By the way great videos. Remind me of my childhood days.
instructions please
You should put a little bit of those collored smoke bals powder in the rockets, like different collors for different stages so its realy visable
Thank you Kennen. Please visit again soon. Or make a few remote videos (upgraded yogurt maybe?). I don't want this to be cameos. I want Kennen as a recurring co-host (and recurring only because he lives in Chicago otherwise regular co-host would've been nice).
But the Kennen season with the backlog created during that last visit was definitely fun while it lasted.
I miss Kevin too.
I did something like this, oh about 40 years ago, only I used 12 gauge shotgun casings and cooked sugar candy fuel poured around a 1/8" screw which is later removed. On top of this was a Whistling Pete firework to provide even more entertainment. Though the Whistling Pete worked better with Estes D size booster, with a C motor as the 2nd stage. These were taped to bamboo garden stakes.
I didn’t ask
Tbh this is the content tkor needs to make more.we need more diy stuff like the desktop weapons or the blow gun and not your experiments
The last launch was awesome
14:57 Rocket engineer here. I can confirm that when we finally get our crazy batshit ideas to finally work this is exactly how we feel!
In the words of Jebediah Kerman: "needs more boosters"
heeyyy fellow ksp player!
Love that built off of Grants design. Great job TKOR
I think i had almost as much fun watching the launches as you did! Best video I’ve seen in a long time!
I remember watching the original rocket motors when he posted this. RIP
You can tell by Kennen and Grace's energy and eye contact that they've slept together. Haha
bruh what
Can you link the clay you used? Might need some v soon
I dont know where he got his, but I have bought mine from the dollar tree
If you watch in the begining he shows that he uses kitty litter and what brand and how to do it
Dollar store cat litter....unscented non clumping.
its Benzanyte clay
Wow, that was so much fun just watching it happened. Thx 4 sharing on Utube.
I was told by a rocket scientist that they only handle movement outside of earths gravity. You’re still in aerospace realm with rocket propulsion.
this guy is way better than that other dude
I saw this channel and suscribed thanks to rocket manufacturing videos and that kind of stuff. Good to see you guys doing serious stuff :)
My dad introduced me to TKOR when I was 6, we made so many of his products together
Probably the only channel watched in Gaza?
That’s messed up
You did it - congratulations
Painting or decorating the rockets is not a trivial task. It makes them easier to photograph and see in real time.
This was awesome!
I’d like to see this combined with the colored smoke videos from the past.
This is the kind of content i subscribed for
You should have tried a 3/4 coupling on the top of the first stage with the top of the coupling cut down and used 3/4 second stage with minor bevel.
Now THIS feels like the king of random
Next tutorial: how to make nuclear missile from the potato
The great thing is that i just got into model rockets in the last week and have been looking at grants old videos and this just came out
Sugar has as much energy density as gasoline! Awesome.
I want to make an engine that runs on sugar, for drones. This will make them safer to use.
I too tried to make a 2 stage rocket but now I can because of this video
Bout time we got some more rocket stuff.
You can use pictures couplings and cut them down one of each size and they fit into each other to make a half to 3/4 adapter. They also sell adapters so you don't need to shave the 2nd stage down
friction fit of those would keep them from separating. You would still need to sand down the tube.
So good to see Grace!
2:06 Nice sync 😎
"I AM not a rocket scientist"
Correction - you WERE not a rocket scientist.
Cool video! Handmade rockets are so neat!
Imo if you heat the propellant mix into putty like material you should have more consistency in the motors. You want to avoid pockets of air or inconsistent mixed fuel. Also adding a burn rate catalyst such as red iron oxide or sulfur can yield better motors
Great video!!! It would be cool to see these made into rocket cars!
Great video it's rocketed in my books 🚀
GRANT sugar Rockets! 🚀 ❤
Thanks for for giving nice detail with nice breafing🎉🎉🎉🎉
I remember studying space in science class in 8th grade and we built rockets from paper towel rolls and used a "hollowed" egg for the nose cone. After that we were offered extra credit if we built a rocket (bought from Hobby Store or not) and bring it in and launch it on our field day. I needed the extra credit so I did it. I loved building my rocket, but had some kind of failure on the launch and the engine broke free and shot up inside the body of the rocket where it proceeded to start burning. LOL I still got my extra credit though.
C’est sympathique de disperser autant de PVC dans la nature !
Évidemment, le seul commentaire négatif se devait d'être celui d'un français râleur et incapable d'apprendre une autre langue que la sienne.
Qui vous dit que les morceaux de PVC n'ont pas été ramassés comme il se doit, hein ?
Pas étonnant que dirigée par de petits esprits étriqués tels que le vôtre, l'Europe interdise ce genre d'expériences ludiques à l'origine de bien des vocations et se retrouve ainsi à la traîne dans le domaine spatial face aux États-Unis.
Dude .... This is a great video ....... I like listening to you and your subject matter is right on ....... 😊 😊 😊
Bro you got every equipment in your kitchen nice
Your happiness is so contagious! 😁👍👏
This is what I've been missing from you guys
Now I want to watch October Sky again, kind of ironic that this came out in October too lol
This is the king of random I remember
i subscribed cause of 7/32. we use that in the yacht industry. not standard so i love it.
Quick tip- don't Hammer things in the middle of a table, do it in the corner over the leg so it's more solid.
Sweet rockets indeed!👍
Unlike the missile the rocket does not know where it is or even where its going. The rocket travels from where it is to where it isn't but since it has no GEA it cannot make corrective movements.
I like this new guy.
They were so excited that I got excited too. 😆
Thanks~~~~
@@pnnedbytkor9013 ,thank you so much.
Its good to see yall doing grant style videos
You blasted music into your ears so you wouldn't hear the noise you were making? Nice. 👍🏻
Brincaram como crianças 😀😀 parabéns!!!!!👍👍
You guys are still killing it:) Fun like always:)
Thank you! This is what we love
Nice....I'm impressed
That was sick.