I don't always make rocket fuel, but when I do, I like to do it as close as possible to my living room. That way if anything goes energetically wrong, there's a very short distance to all the polyurethane foam in the couches to ignite.
It's been said 1 million times already. My anxiety went through the roof watching you cook that inside. When I was a teen I was showing my older brother how to do this. I left him to mix it for about a minute. Come back and he is overly excited, saying "Look! If you turn up the heat it" *WOOF!* It turns into a pot of fire. We got lucky as all of the windows were open and I was able to toss it outside, then run out and sprayed it with the hose. Black soot everywhere, burn marks on the ceiling to the floor, broken screen, crying from burns on my arm....and probably the most well-earned beating by my grandmother. And it could have gone worse...
I was cooking the same mixture outside when I was about 14. I looked over the pot at jussst the wrong moment, and it ignited and left me with huge red burn marks on my face. No lasting damage luckily because I got out of the way in time. Could have horribly mutilated myself though.
I've done this many times in my old rocket building days. Some tips. Get a portable electric stove and do this outside. A large frying pan is less work and is less prone to burning the sugar that a small deep casserole. For those who have never done this before two warnings!! 1) NOTHING is more painful than a liquid sugar burn on your skin. 2) Do not underestimate the power of your engine. They can go high, and they are fast. They can dis-lodge test stands.
@@tsmith7070 Can't tell you. All I can tell you is that because of the stickiness of the sugar, it's hard to wipe off your skin quickly and it burns and burns.
@@tsmith7070 Sugar carries a lot of heat and you can't wipe it off of your skin; it you try to wipe it off it just gets smeared around and you get a bigger burn. I've never been burned by lime so I couldn't tell you what that's like.
Haha been there, done that. Like 20 years ago, great memories :D Some remarks: 1. Don't use sugar. It's for noobs. You see the brown color? That is caramelization, we don't want that. Use sorbitol or some other sugar for diabetics. It does not caramelize, burns much better, less smoke and most importantly: Safety. It is much less likely to go off when smelting, you can heat it more and as it does not caramelize it is less viscous, easier pouring. 2. Put in the rod for the bore before you pour your rocket fuel in. No work necessary at all ramming that rod through your almost solidified fuel. 3. Do it outside. Don't do it in the living room omfg :D We did it in the garage and outside and still fucked up enough of our clothes or some plants when washing our equipment and too much kno3 landed somehwere... 4. Wear at least minimum level of protective clothes, sandals are not good. I know as kids we were all experts after handling pyrotechniques for 3 weeks or more, but still it's worth it, especially if you show it in a tutorial on youtube. 5. Use some kind of nozzle. You will be surprised how much faster and higher your rocket goes. Especially if you are already a pro igniting with electricity. Then you can easily ignite without damaging your nozzle. Back in our days we made the nozzle from cement, nowadays you can buy so much awesome stuff on ebay, like oven glue, oven cement and what not, that we just did not have 20 years ago. You can make awesome nozzles with that.
The cheap cat litter when mixed with water to a clay then shaped makes good cheap nozzles. Fasten the nozzle securely or use water pipe and Pratleys putty 😂
@@Mkdproductions101Revelation 21:8 (KJV) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
My tips from personal experience: Use xylitol instead of sugar. Lower melting point and better performance as you avoid caramelisation Preheat your KNO3 to get rid of moisture. Roll up a thin tube of fuel in some paper to make a fuse. Coating a string in fuel can work but is much less reliable in my experience. Add red iron oxide (1%) - this improves burn rate
@@baraka629 Disregard the concept of drying your potassium nitrate when close to the ocean. Instead, know that KNO3 is water soluble, as is sugar. Take your desired amounts of KNO3, and add warm water while stirring gently until dissolved. Do the same for your sugar. Take both the sugar solution and the nitrate solution, and mix them together in a single pan. Put the pan on a low heat, and bring it to a low boil. Because the solutions will merge under the raised heat of the water, you can keep the mix at low heat and they will become a single mix (solubility increases as the water temp increases). Continue towards low boil, stirring continuously. Initially under decent light your will notice crystalline patterns appearing on the top of the mix. This is ideal. Stir continuously as the mix continues losing water and becomes becomes a paste. Unlike typical rocket fuel mixes prepared on a stove: this mix should not darken very much. Beige is a reasonable hue. There is no reason at any point for your stove to exceed 150C during this altered process, drastically reducing your chances of combustion while cooking. If it begins to darken quickly or in spots: remove from heat immediately. If the mix is reduced to a beige paste: remove from heat and immediately pour in desired tube and compress, causing it to take shape. Air bubbles in your fuel = explosions in your takeoff. Up to 2% rust can be added to increase burn speed, although burn temperature and pressure will increase as well, causing additional strain on the rocket body and nozzle. Rust will turn the entire mix quite red, and should be added only when the paste is near complete. Up to 14% aluminium powder can be added in the place of rust. This will drastically increase burn speed and pressure, as well as heavily shorten burn time, although these fuels produce the greatest strain on a rocket system short of professional grade fuels like Ammonium Perchlorate. Aluminium will cause the mix to become somewhat grey, and should be added in the last minute before the mix is removed from the heat. Take extreme caution if using a stove with a flame, and be careful opening sealed containers of aluminium powder near heat sources: the ultra-fine powder is obscenely reactive when it feels like it, do not take chances with aluminium powder. Also do not neglect having a salt container, desiccant beads or even keeping silica packets where your mixtures are stored prior to usage. Keeping hygroscopic fuels dry is half the battle. If you're actually in gaza: use cardboard and clay bodied rockets en masse. You're being denied water currently due to siege, but the international narrative is you cannot be trusted with water pipes. They cannot forbid clay and paper. Use it to destroy the existing narrative. Also iron dome rockets cost more, and all wars are wars of attrition. Play accordingly.
Awesome job! That seemed to burn pretty well! For anyone considering duplicating these efforts, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT COOK ROCKET FUEL IN YOUR HOME!!! It only takes a second for that hot batch of cooking explosive to go up in flames and set you and your home on fire. Do this outside and use a small electric hot plate to cook it. I've made plenty of DIY rocket fuel in the past, and I am speaking from personal experience.
Few tips: Leave both ends open. Install the coring rod first (well greased), using some clay to hold it in place on the bottom end. This will form the nozzle later. THEN pour the mixture around it. Once the mixture has solidified, pull the rod out and close off the end with more clay. Gets you a more uniform and reliable rocket motor.
I did this many years ago in my mom's kitchen when I was really into rockets, but using ammonium nitate instead as I could get that at the local store. I turned on the stove, went into living room and forgot about it. There was an explosion and a huge fireball came out of the kitchen door. We ran in to put out the fire. My mom had to replace most of the kitchen counter. I was damn lucky I wasn't in the kitchen at the time. This video gave me a major PTSD vibe.
A very long long time ago we used to do this to make smoke bombs, we would shape it as it cooled and stick a couple match heads in them. Strike and toss. One evening in our tent we let the goop get too hot!! A rocket motor/smoke bomb going off in an exposed area made of canvas. Tent gone, sleeping bags gone. Explaining to parents what you were doing: Priceless!!
If the sugar and the KNO3 were dilluted in water first, then this water is evaporated, the mix is more homogeneous thus the burning is better, and for make it more malleable and easy to pour in the tube, a small amount of corn syrup helps. Obviously, with a nozzle the power will be higher and the pressure achieved in the chamber will be substantially high. Regards!
Having done a lot of rocket candy in my teens I can say that getting the water out afterwards is really hard. The mixture is hygroscopic so it doesn't even dry out in a low temperature oven. You end up with a mixture that always has a bit of water left that eats up some of the power. I tried various polar and non polar solvents but never found anything better than water that dissolved both the sugar and the saltpeter
We made many caramel candy rockets, as well as smaller black powder ones, back in the '60s. lots of good advice here, especially concerning safety. We used a baby bottle warmer and did it outside. The quantity of fuel made here in the kitchen is frightening- if it caught, you'd probably burn the house down. It was also cool to burn off the residue in the bottle warmer after a pour- quite an impressive flame shooting into the sky.
Yes when I was a bit younger, this formulae for 'caramel candy' rocket fuel was in the DIY Rocket manual from the Southwest Texas Rocketry Society handbook
As a kid back around 1970s, I did exactly what this dude is doing AND IT BLEW UP!! BE CAREFUL if you don't stir VERY carefully and any section gets too hot and it will all combust. GOTTA stir and go slow.
Yea, go to the dollar store and get a single burner. Then do it in the middle of the yard. I about caught the house on fire cooking it in the porch. Just a small pot and fire went to the ceiling, across the soffit, around the gutter and about 10' in the air. I grabbed the pot and slung it in the yard . Scared the hell out of me.😂
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Also got face burn from around 3 pounds of sugar fuel few days ago. Fucking painfull. Still recovering because of my stupidity :) Be careful with that stuff@@dogman3362
The best way to close off and end of a cardboard tube is to soak that end in warm water. When the cardboard becomes soft, “gently” fold it over to close the end. Once folded over lightly tap the folds on a flat surface. Then, stand the tube up and let the damp cardboard end dry completely.
Great video, ive been making kno3 rockets for a few years now, i need to get my video editing skills up so i can create a video like this, very well done. A few tricks ive learned making the rockets over the years. Use powdered sugar, blend the sugar/kno3 in a blender. Add a splash of water to the powder before heating, blend that as well, then add mixture to heat source. Adding the water will make the heating time go up, but it will be more consistent and easier to pour, you will also get less air pockets making for a more straight and consistent flight. I definitely do not claim to know everything and im still learning tweaks and tricks to building rockets and making fuel. Id love to hear your or others tips in the comments as well!
I think adding like 2 drops of vanilla exract could help with the duraction flight, but im not sure and im not speaking from my expierience so try this at your own risk
Use powdered sugar instead of granulated sugar and no heat is required. Mix well. Insert a wooden (or metal) dowel in the middle of the tube. Tamp the mixture into the tube with a large wooden dowel with a hole drilled in the middle (for clearance with the center dowel). Pull out the center dowel. Put fins on the base of the rocket. Be sure to have a phone with 911 on your speed-dial and a friend on hand for when the rocket blows up in your face.
My recommendations: - Add enough water to the nitrate/sugar mixture to cause the sugar to dissolve in the water, then heat it in a non-stick frying pan until the water is gone. This will ensure the best possible mixture of the two powders and reduce the possibility of it igniting while heating dry materials. - When you boil off the water, the resulting mixture will be hot and stiff so it isn't as easy to pour. If you let it cool, it will become hard and brittle. If you let it cool and harden, you can use a rock tumbler, some 10mm ball bearings, and pieces of the fully dried mixture that you break up with a hammer inside of a ziploc bag. You can pulverize it into a fine powder using the tumbler and BBs. The powder then packs very nicely ensuring there are no voids that would cause the engine to flare out and possibly explode. - If you choose the tumbler method, you can pack and core at the same time by drilling out a hole in a hardwood dowel that fits the core shaft, then just fill it with powder and tamp it down with the dowel. - If you don't want to use a long drill bit, you can cut the dowel into sections slightly shorter than the length of your longest bit, then drill out the center hole on a drill press (or by hand if you are steady), then put the dowels on the shaft and glue the sections back into one long piece. - You can plug the open end of the casing tube with a piece of wooden dowel and wood glue. Elmer's probond max wood glue is the best. Titebond is not bad either, but it's not as good as Elmer's. Tip: don't cut the plug, just glue a section of the dowel into the end of the tube and let it dry, then when you are done packing it you can use a saw to trim off the excess dowel. This way when you are packing it, you can clamp the dowel in a vise making it easy to work with.
I boil KNO3 with sugar, result is described by yours. But is there any difference in performance of fuel, between boiled with water and heated up without it?
@@M65V19 I never measured it so I can't say for sure, but I can say that each time I use the boil method I get consistent results and a smooth burn. I know some people say to use powdered sugar but I prefer not to because it has additives in it to keep it from clumping.
@@M65V19 AFAIK, in theory, dissolved mixed and evaporated mixture should be more homogeneous, that will give more uniform burning. Still this is my assumption, I've never tested it.
@@bumpsangrimez The "insurgents" get most of their armaments from the CIA and other US sources. Playing both sides is what children of satan, aka jews, do.
Nice video showing all steps and end result. But scary watching you cook the fuel. Since you completed the video I assumed the fuel didn’t blow up but I was waiting to see that any second. Wow, talk about lucky. Making rocket fuel outside the home is a must. And wear some flame retardant gloves and clothing while your at it. Actually fire fighting brush gear is inexpensive PPE. Thirty+ years of pyrotechnics with several explosions and no injuries. Safety gear is your last line of protection so take precautions first.
I once did this in a container that I though was for cooking, and I also thought was made of aluminum... it was made of predominantly magnesium, and it melted on the side after the mixture began coagulation... I believe a small hole formed on the bottom because the mixture ignited in my face and gave the magnesium enough energy to ignite... fortunately for me I was outside, and I had placed the setup on top of a large concrete slab, well away from secondary ignition sources.
Won't do that shit like that again will you, 😂 me and a friend was 17 and made a black powder bomb a small one only 10 lbs. we didn't realize at the time how much power we were working with. Nothing went wrong but knowing what I know now if anything would've went wrong we would have had a real bad day real fast
What is important to note here is that this is a nozzleless rocket. The performance isn’t quite as high as with a nozzle but the rocket doesn’t have to carry the weight of the nozzle and you can pack more fuel in. Built well the performance will be within 10-20% of rocket with a nozzle. What is important is to note the diameter to length ratio it’s 10-11 to 1. This results in enough pressure build up to give a good burn rate and is pretty safe as not to much risk of Cato and only paper. You can use iron oxide to increase burn rate etc but the pressure build up will be higher and you need shorter l/d. You can pre warm ingredients separately in an oven. Stick to the recipe, the cardboard case and the dimensions. They are all important.
you can also skip the heating step if you mix the powders properly and pack the fuel mix till its like a rock in your tube, use bentonite clay for your end caps. doing the pouring method has a higher chance for air bubbles to get trapped in the engine and that will lead to catastrophic failure of the engine (it will go boom from the uneven heating of air inside the tube)
Silly question, but I assume you mean to pound the powder until it becomes one hunk of rocket fuel... is there any risk to blow it up that way? IE: does the mixture set off when it is smashed with a hammer or does it only go off with heat/fire?
@@h.a.9880 It goes of with heat/fire so need to be careful not to cause too much compression somewhere (metal on metal) which can produce lots of heat, and don't cause too much friction. I've seen people doing it with hardwood pole just fine.
@@ThereWasNoFreeName Thanks, this sounds like I'd like to test it out myself one day. I knew that there's rocket hobbyists, but I never realized that one could make propellant themselves, quite interesting. Now I learn that it's reasonably safe to handle.
@@h.a.9880as long as you’re doing it outside. The one time you do it inside is the one time it needs to burn your house down. Never worth the risk. Always outside.
For all the young teens trying to figure out where to source the precursors, be very careful while making this. It is not stable as this video would have you believe. The process of heating is very dangerous and can reach flash point very easily. This will be a very sticky substance that will attach to your skin and continue burning. I sustained third degree burns over the top of my hand and fingers. When it was over I could slide all the skin off with my other hand. made awesome smoke for airsoft though.
Bruh, this brings back memories of a better time when youtube was still about the "you" part. Johnny was a fun guy to hang out with, not a boring day went by thats for sure ❤. The Man's a legend!
Seriously, why are people so surprised information like these are everywhere in the open? There were guides on how to made homemade IEDs and bombs with everyday tools and raw materials way before Hamas was formed.
Ahhh . . Potassium nitrate, mom’s kitchen, finished beers (multiple brands), homemade, garbage music, a great launch and a brush fire (forgot the garbage music during the brush fire). Well done
Rather than folding over the end of the tube you can use bentonite clay to block it up. Kitty litter is usually pure bentonite clay. It just needs a good tamp down.
@@mohmih144 no, not cat droppings. The clay based product that is put in the bottom of the tray into which your cat would defecate in order to absorb any liquid and minimise odour.
@@danforbes4513dont pack both ends with clay, dummy. if you do, make sure the nozzle size is large enough so the pressure doesnt cause the engine to burst.
The date reporting the first use of true rockets was in 1232. At this time, the Chinese and the Mongols were at war with each other. During the battle of Kai-Keng, the Chinese repelled the Mongol invaders by a barrage of "arrows of flying fire." These fire-arrows were a simple form of a solid-propellant rocket.
I made this back before the internet was around, after reading about it in the anarchists handbook (distributed via BBS’s back in the day). Unfortunately because there was no video back then, it meant there was no way to know if you were doing the right thing. I tested a really small bit like he did, and it instantly exploded with a cloud of smoke. I thought “cool, I’ve made a smoke bomb”. I had the rest of the mixture set into a plastic medicine bottle, and took it to school (because of course that’s what you do when you are a stupid teenager). After lightning a slow burning fuse I’d made, I moved a distance away, but a huge group of students gathered around to see what the strange burning fuse was. I freaked out that I was about to blow up a group of kids, and my screaming to get away had no effect. Luckily it just spat out a stream of smoke and red flame. Although there’s a heap of negativity to this video, it’s quite helpful for the next generation of anarchists.
I remember the guy that was making pipe bombs in his living room as he was compacting the gun powder the metal dowel rubbed against the pipe and sparked he had the pipe bomb between his legs in the living room while watching television with his family.
It is very easy for the mix to ignite and spray all over the place. Big mess plus damage and or injury. Do this outside on a portable hotplate. Wear face shield gloves an welding jacket
kids science project in Gaza
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Lol
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Well big daddy USA is supplying Israel with weapons of mass destruction right ?
And the nightmare of The Chosen People 😂
I don't always make rocket fuel, but when I do, I like to do it as close as possible to my living room. That way if anything goes energetically wrong, there's a very short distance to all the polyurethane foam in the couches to ignite.
always good to have a bottle of beer with you as well
You are so boring .
It is a real "DudeWhatTF" :-)
Obviously Mum wasn’t home.
Well he can't make it in the shed, that where all the meth lab stuff is.
The price of sugar is sky rocketing.
Just 50 rupees per 1 kg. Not so much high price.
If you know you know
@@vedictv3242 you think everyone lives in india where sugar is available in large quantities?
nice pun
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No nichrome bridge wire, no pyrogen, no fins, no nose cone, no recovery system. Beautiful minimalist rocket. Beautiful flight.
I don't know how it goes so well with no nozzle? It's just a open grain ??
@@scottsteacy4103 I think it's just the amount of fuel burning that quickly lol.
Beautiful fire at the end
Well if you're gonna be sending these at Apaches in the future you want it to be as cheap as possible
@@scottsteacy4103i make bp roxkets with hot fuel no nozzle flys great no nozzle needed
It's been said 1 million times already. My anxiety went through the roof watching you cook that inside. When I was a teen I was showing my older brother how to do this. I left him to mix it for about a minute. Come back and he is overly excited, saying "Look! If you turn up the heat it" *WOOF!* It turns into a pot of fire. We got lucky as all of the windows were open and I was able to toss it outside, then run out and sprayed it with the hose. Black soot everywhere, burn marks on the ceiling to the floor, broken screen, crying from burns on my arm....and probably the most well-earned beating by my grandmother. And it could have gone worse...
😂😂
credit to your grandmother for avenging her kitchen ceiling lol
Be careful papa
I was cooking the same mixture outside when I was about 14. I looked over the pot at jussst the wrong moment, and it ignited and left me with huge red burn marks on my face. No lasting damage luckily because I got out of the way in time. Could have horribly mutilated myself though.
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Definately don't tell mum whats going on in her kitchen. Do a thorough cleanup to remove all evidence of fun
Are they for the redback spiders?
"Mum" 😂😂😂😂 fuking 🤡.. it's 2024 now.. it's properly pronounced, "MOM" M-O-M..
Unless, of course, you have catastrophically "removed" most of it. She will probably, with cause, "caramelise" you.
I've done this many times in my old rocket building days. Some tips. Get a portable electric stove and do this outside. A large frying pan is less work and is less prone to burning the sugar that a small deep casserole. For those who have never done this before two warnings!! 1) NOTHING is more painful than a liquid sugar burn on your skin. 2) Do not underestimate the power of your engine. They can go high, and they are fast. They can dis-lodge test stands.
How does it equate to lime burns? Is it similar?
@@tsmith7070 Can't tell you. All I can tell you is that because of the stickiness of the sugar, it's hard to wipe off your skin quickly and it burns and burns.
@@tsmith7070 Sugar carries a lot of heat and you can't wipe it off of your skin; it you try to wipe it off it just gets smeared around and you get a bigger burn.
I've never been burned by lime so I couldn't tell you what that's like.
Boiling sugar=prison napalm !
@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor Spit is a good heatsink...
"And knowing is half the battle!"
- G.I. Joe
Best caramel recipe out there, my child immediately combusted after firing an incendiary round at him!
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2nd dumbest comment online youtube
I'm sure just by clicking this, we all got put on a watchlist.
Hi CIA 👋
smile, you're on camera!
Oh, come on, it's just usual mixture for amateur rocketry. Calm down.
no
Dude, we were all already on their watch-lists, probably since junior high. The more the better, since they can't watch everyone.
Haha been there, done that. Like 20 years ago, great memories :D
Some remarks:
1. Don't use sugar. It's for noobs. You see the brown color? That is caramelization, we don't want that. Use sorbitol or some other sugar for diabetics. It does not caramelize, burns much better, less smoke and most importantly: Safety. It is much less likely to go off when smelting, you can heat it more and as it does not caramelize it is less viscous, easier pouring.
2. Put in the rod for the bore before you pour your rocket fuel in. No work necessary at all ramming that rod through your almost solidified fuel.
3. Do it outside. Don't do it in the living room omfg :D We did it in the garage and outside and still fucked up enough of our clothes or some plants when washing our equipment and too much kno3 landed somehwere...
4. Wear at least minimum level of protective clothes, sandals are not good. I know as kids we were all experts after handling pyrotechniques for 3 weeks or more, but still it's worth it, especially if you show it in a tutorial on youtube.
5. Use some kind of nozzle. You will be surprised how much faster and higher your rocket goes. Especially if you are already a pro igniting with electricity. Then you can easily ignite without damaging your nozzle. Back in our days we made the nozzle from cement, nowadays you can buy so much awesome stuff on ebay, like oven glue, oven cement and what not, that we just did not have 20 years ago. You can make awesome nozzles with that.
The cheap cat litter when mixed with water to a clay then shaped makes good cheap nozzles. Fasten the nozzle securely or use water pipe and Pratleys putty 😂
wow you have a way of talking that just makes nobody want to like you at all
@@Mkdproductions101Revelation 21:8 (KJV) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
you forgot one thing sugar = 1 euro a KG and sorbitol = 12 euro a KG
@@bomen330 money talks.
My tips from personal experience:
Use xylitol instead of sugar. Lower melting point and better performance as you avoid caramelisation
Preheat your KNO3 to get rid of moisture.
Roll up a thin tube of fuel in some paper to make a fuse. Coating a string in fuel can work but is much less reliable in my experience.
Add red iron oxide (1%) - this improves burn rate
liquid or crystallized?
Sugar is cheap and easily available.
And a sprinkele of aluminium nitrate 😮
@@baraka629 ECM and bad weather.
@@baraka629 Disregard the concept of drying your potassium nitrate when close to the ocean. Instead, know that KNO3 is water soluble, as is sugar.
Take your desired amounts of KNO3, and add warm water while stirring gently until dissolved.
Do the same for your sugar.
Take both the sugar solution and the nitrate solution, and mix them together in a single pan.
Put the pan on a low heat, and bring it to a low boil. Because the solutions will merge under the raised heat of the water, you can keep the mix at low heat and they will become a single mix (solubility increases as the water temp increases). Continue towards low boil, stirring continuously. Initially under decent light your will notice crystalline patterns appearing on the top of the mix. This is ideal. Stir continuously as the mix continues losing water and becomes becomes a paste. Unlike typical rocket fuel mixes prepared on a stove: this mix should not darken very much. Beige is a reasonable hue.
There is no reason at any point for your stove to exceed 150C during this altered process, drastically reducing your chances of combustion while cooking.
If it begins to darken quickly or in spots: remove from heat immediately.
If the mix is reduced to a beige paste: remove from heat and immediately pour in desired tube and compress, causing it to take shape.
Air bubbles in your fuel = explosions in your takeoff.
Up to 2% rust can be added to increase burn speed, although burn temperature and pressure will increase as well, causing additional strain on the rocket body and nozzle. Rust will turn the entire mix quite red, and should be added only when the paste is near complete.
Up to 14% aluminium powder can be added in the place of rust. This will drastically increase burn speed and pressure, as well as heavily shorten burn time, although these fuels produce the greatest strain on a rocket system short of professional grade fuels like Ammonium Perchlorate. Aluminium will cause the mix to become somewhat grey, and should be added in the last minute before the mix is removed from the heat. Take extreme caution if using a stove with a flame, and be careful opening sealed containers of aluminium powder near heat sources: the ultra-fine powder is obscenely reactive when it feels like it, do not take chances with aluminium powder.
Also do not neglect having a salt container, desiccant beads or even keeping silica packets where your mixtures are stored prior to usage. Keeping hygroscopic fuels dry is half the battle.
If you're actually in gaza: use cardboard and clay bodied rockets en masse. You're being denied water currently due to siege, but the international narrative is you cannot be trusted with water pipes.
They cannot forbid clay and paper. Use it to destroy the existing narrative. Also iron dome rockets cost more, and all wars are wars of attrition. Play accordingly.
Awesome job! That seemed to burn pretty well! For anyone considering duplicating these efforts, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT COOK ROCKET FUEL IN YOUR HOME!!! It only takes a second for that hot batch of cooking explosive to go up in flames and set you and your home on fire. Do this outside and use a small electric hot plate to cook it. I've made plenty of DIY rocket fuel in the past, and I am speaking from personal experience.
For those that have gas stoves need to follow this advice even more...
Been there too, even a small batch can be highly violent! Also keep a bucket of water nearby, I dropped tin can into it and crisis was averted
this and probably don't do 1Kiloton at a time
He's right I had a batch ignite in my apartment and filled it with smoke. Lost my deposit from damage. Young and dumb I was. Do it outside folks.
Single burner induction cooktops are cheap, efficient and safe, and perfect for home chemistry applications.
Few tips: Leave both ends open. Install the coring rod first (well greased), using some clay to hold it in place on the bottom end. This will form the nozzle later. THEN pour the mixture around it. Once the mixture has solidified, pull the rod out and close off the end with more clay. Gets you a more uniform and reliable rocket motor.
Can you make a video your own diy rocket so we can see the difference 😁
can i use a fuse instead of wire?
@@amberbutler3129but what if I just use a fuse? It ignite correctly?
And how to make the colorfull explosion?
good one 😅
Americans can't follow the tutorial after 0:20
Got me a sec😂😂😂
Haha, a lot of houses are brick and ston
I did this many years ago in my mom's kitchen when I was really into rockets, but using ammonium nitate instead as I could get that at the local store. I turned on the stove, went into living room and forgot about it. There was an explosion and a huge fireball came out of the kitchen door. We ran in to put out the fire. My mom had to replace most of the kitchen counter. I was damn lucky I wasn't in the kitchen at the time. This video gave me a major PTSD vibe.
we all do stupid things😂 I once had chlorine gas in my house from electrolysis. It Kills all my window Plants 😅
A very long long time ago we used to do this to make smoke bombs, we would shape it as it cooled and stick a couple match heads in them. Strike and toss. One evening in our tent we let the goop get too hot!! A rocket motor/smoke bomb going off in an exposed area made of canvas. Tent gone, sleeping bags gone. Explaining to parents what you were doing: Priceless!!
If the sugar and the KNO3 were dilluted in water first, then this water is evaporated, the mix is more homogeneous thus the burning is better, and for make it more malleable and easy to pour in the tube, a small amount of corn syrup helps. Obviously, with a nozzle the power will be higher and the pressure achieved in the chamber will be substantially high. Regards!
Absolutely. You can soak string in the mixture to make fuses once dried out, or newspaper to make the guts of a smoke bomb.
I normally add a little glycerin
Having done a lot of rocket candy in my teens I can say that getting the water out afterwards is really hard. The mixture is hygroscopic so it doesn't even dry out in a low temperature oven. You end up with a mixture that always has a bit of water left that eats up some of the power. I tried various polar and non polar solvents but never found anything better than water that dissolved both the sugar and the saltpeter
@@michaelandersen7535 a vacuum chamber would probably do it.
I think that even the Anarchist Cookbook recommends adding water
Seeing this brought me back to where Grant Thompson posted his video on now to make these types of rocket engines.
RIP Grant 😢
I followed his instructions and never had one failure.
@@krisknowlton5935 wow you're way better with your hands than me 😅
This music is hilarious. I love the one note at a time guitar solo that simply follows the chord changes. Most simple solo ever!
It sounds like a TV commercial.
If you order potassium nitrate in Germany you will have the police nocking on your door the next day
Bestell aus polen
@@maximilianafemann9467 gute Idee
We made many caramel candy rockets, as well as smaller black powder ones, back in the '60s. lots of good advice here, especially concerning safety. We used a baby bottle warmer and did it outside. The quantity of fuel made here in the kitchen is frightening- if it caught, you'd probably burn the house down.
It was also cool to burn off the residue in the bottle warmer after a pour- quite an impressive flame shooting into the sky.
can i use a fuse instead of wire?
I desperately need to learn how to make them. Can you help me?
No you can't. It's not halal!
This was sketchy AF.
I loved it.
I love watching these sugar rockets, no matter how many times I watch.
Only change I'd make is that I'd put the mandrel in before pouring and just coat it in mold release.
Many thanks from the 12th Rocket Company of Hammas.
Your help has been invaluable!
LOL
Israeli bot
لعنه الله ع اسرئيل
frick Hamas.
congratulations you have now created a unguided missle without explosives inside
U can add
Yes when I was a bit younger, this formulae for 'caramel candy' rocket fuel was in the DIY Rocket manual from the Southwest Texas Rocketry Society handbook
Amazing
Can you tell me where to find those manuals
As a kid back around 1970s, I did exactly what this dude is doing AND IT BLEW UP!! BE CAREFUL if you don't stir VERY carefully and any section gets too hot and it will all combust. GOTTA stir and go slow.
Yea, go to the dollar store and get a single burner. Then do it in the middle of the yard. I about caught the house on fire cooking it in the porch. Just a small pot and fire went to the ceiling, across the soffit, around the gutter and about 10' in the air.
I grabbed the pot and slung it in the yard . Scared the hell out of me.😂
As someone who had homemade rocket fuel blow up in their face, I can't agree more!
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Also got face burn from around 3 pounds of sugar fuel few days ago. Fucking painfull. Still recovering because of my stupidity :)
Be careful with that stuff@@dogman3362
The best way to close off and end of a cardboard tube is to soak that end in warm water. When the cardboard becomes soft, “gently” fold it over to close the end. Once folded over lightly tap the folds on a flat surface. Then, stand the tube up and let the damp cardboard end dry completely.
Just Fill it with some clay
@@ifv2089I have a better idea
Why not make a cannon of it
Ofcourse we will use paper balls covering the aluminium core made out of the foil
Great video, ive been making kno3 rockets for a few years now, i need to get my video editing skills up so i can create a video like this, very well done. A few tricks ive learned making the rockets over the years.
Use powdered sugar, blend the sugar/kno3 in a blender. Add a splash of water to the powder before heating, blend that as well, then add mixture to heat source. Adding the water will make the heating time go up, but it will be more consistent and easier to pour, you will also get less air pockets making for a more straight and consistent flight.
I definitely do not claim to know everything and im still learning tweaks and tricks to building rockets and making fuel. Id love to hear your or others tips in the comments as well!
I think adding like 2 drops of vanilla exract could help with the duraction flight, but im not sure and im not speaking from my expierience so try this at your own risk
Thanks now i can made a mini tactical balistic missile.
Use powdered sugar instead of granulated sugar and no heat is required. Mix well. Insert a wooden (or metal) dowel in the middle of the tube. Tamp the mixture into the tube with a large wooden dowel with a hole drilled in the middle (for clearance with the center dowel). Pull out the center dowel. Put fins on the base of the rocket. Be sure to have a phone with 911 on your speed-dial and a friend on hand for when the rocket blows up in your face.
My recommendations:
- Add enough water to the nitrate/sugar mixture to cause the sugar to dissolve in the water, then heat it in a non-stick frying pan until the water is gone. This will ensure the best possible mixture of the two powders and reduce the possibility of it igniting while heating dry materials.
- When you boil off the water, the resulting mixture will be hot and stiff so it isn't as easy to pour. If you let it cool, it will become hard and brittle. If you let it cool and harden, you can use a rock tumbler, some 10mm ball bearings, and pieces of the fully dried mixture that you break up with a hammer inside of a ziploc bag. You can pulverize it into a fine powder using the tumbler and BBs. The powder then packs very nicely ensuring there are no voids that would cause the engine to flare out and possibly explode.
- If you choose the tumbler method, you can pack and core at the same time by drilling out a hole in a hardwood dowel that fits the core shaft, then just fill it with powder and tamp it down with the dowel.
- If you don't want to use a long drill bit, you can cut the dowel into sections slightly shorter than the length of your longest bit, then drill out the center hole on a drill press (or by hand if you are steady), then put the dowels on the shaft and glue the sections back into one long piece.
- You can plug the open end of the casing tube with a piece of wooden dowel and wood glue. Elmer's probond max wood glue is the best. Titebond is not bad either, but it's not as good as Elmer's. Tip: don't cut the plug, just glue a section of the dowel into the end of the tube and let it dry, then when you are done packing it you can use a saw to trim off the excess dowel. This way when you are packing it, you can clamp the dowel in a vise making it easy to work with.
I boil KNO3 with sugar, result is described by yours. But is there any difference in performance of fuel, between boiled with water and heated up without it?
@@M65V19 I never measured it so I can't say for sure, but I can say that each time I use the boil method I get consistent results and a smooth burn. I know some people say to use powdered sugar but I prefer not to because it has additives in it to keep it from clumping.
@@M65V19 AFAIK, in theory, dissolved mixed and evaporated mixture should be more homogeneous, that will give more uniform burning.
Still this is my assumption, I've never tested it.
Thank you. We get stronger every day from your great tutelage and My brothers appreciate the information humdoallah
@@bumpsangrimez The "insurgents" get most of their armaments from the CIA and other US sources. Playing both sides is what children of satan, aka jews, do.
Nice video showing all steps and end result. But scary watching you cook the fuel. Since you completed the video I assumed the fuel didn’t blow up but I was waiting to see that any second. Wow, talk about lucky. Making rocket fuel outside the home is a must. And wear some flame retardant gloves and clothing while your at it. Actually fire fighting brush gear is inexpensive PPE. Thirty+ years of pyrotechnics with several explosions and no injuries. Safety gear is your last line of protection so take precautions first.
Let’s play with the national guard by launching OUR science project 💀
Tell me you are South African without telling me you are South African. 😂😂😂
Good work boet...
3rd dumbest comment online youtube
Pointy nose cone and tail fins = twice as high. That’s freaking awesome!!
the nose needs to be pointy !
a pair of those on a core stage and you get SRBs
A nozzle might do something also
Putting a clay choke nozzle in the bottom would get you some significant height as well. That rocket had NO NOZZLE!
The shape of the missile top has nothing to do with aerodynamics.
I once did this in a container that I though was for cooking, and I also thought was made of aluminum... it was made of predominantly magnesium, and it melted on the side after the mixture began coagulation... I believe a small hole formed on the bottom because the mixture ignited in my face and gave the magnesium enough energy to ignite... fortunately for me I was outside, and I had placed the setup on top of a large concrete slab, well away from secondary ignition sources.
Won't do that shit like that again will you, 😂 me and a friend was 17 and made a black powder bomb a small one only 10 lbs. we didn't realize at the time how much power we were working with. Nothing went wrong but knowing what I know now if anything would've went wrong we would have had a real bad day real fast
@@mattburns7380 10 lbs is a smal bomb?
I did everythink just like you exept doing it outside, shit ignited instantly after starting to cook it
@@Shaiba_tema if you did it the way described it wouldn't have ignited until you launched your rocket, ergo you didn't do it the way described.
So this is the hamas way of building rockets.
What is important to note here is that this is a nozzleless rocket. The performance isn’t quite as high as with a nozzle but the rocket doesn’t have to carry the weight of the nozzle and you can pack more fuel in. Built well the performance will be within 10-20% of rocket with a nozzle.
What is important is to note the diameter to length ratio it’s 10-11 to 1. This results in enough pressure build up to give a good burn rate and is pretty safe as not to much risk of Cato and only paper. You can use iron oxide to increase burn rate etc but the pressure build up will be higher and you need shorter l/d.
You can pre warm ingredients separately in an oven.
Stick to the recipe, the cardboard case and the dimensions. They are all important.
you know why you're here
مقصد مت بھولنا بھائی
How's that?
Never ever did I expect to see black label and ricoffy in a homemade rocket tutorial XD
Gaza people be taking notes
you can also skip the heating step if you mix the powders properly and pack the fuel mix till its like a rock in your tube, use bentonite clay for your end caps. doing the pouring method has a higher chance for air bubbles to get trapped in the engine and that will lead to catastrophic failure of the engine (it will go boom from the uneven heating of air inside the tube)
Silly question, but I assume you mean to pound the powder until it becomes one hunk of rocket fuel... is there any risk to blow it up that way? IE: does the mixture set off when it is smashed with a hammer or does it only go off with heat/fire?
@@h.a.9880 It goes of with heat/fire so need to be careful not to cause too much compression somewhere (metal on metal) which can produce lots of heat, and don't cause too much friction. I've seen people doing it with hardwood pole just fine.
@@ThereWasNoFreeName Thanks, this sounds like I'd like to test it out myself one day.
I knew that there's rocket hobbyists, but I never realized that one could make propellant themselves, quite interesting.
Now I learn that it's reasonably safe to handle.
@@h.a.9880as long as you’re doing it outside. The one time you do it inside is the one time it needs to burn your house down. Never worth the risk. Always outside.
@@doesitmatter1667I am getting a kilogram of pottasium nitrate on Amazon for $5, is that a good deal?
Imagine a group of Hamas dudes watching this trying to make their rockets
-Mum, can I cooking, please?
-Of course, honey! What do you want cook?
- It's a surprise ! Where is the potassium's nitrate?
In the US: Look in the garage
In Europe: *SPECIAL FORCES BREAK IN *
For all the young teens trying to figure out where to source the precursors, be very careful while making this. It is not stable as this video would have you believe. The process of heating is very dangerous and can reach flash point very easily. This will be a very sticky substance that will attach to your skin and continue burning. I sustained third degree burns over the top of my hand and fingers. When it was over I could slide all the skin off with my other hand.
made awesome smoke for airsoft though.
Are you okay, brother?
Launch rocket buttton - 6:51
youtube sees a someone show a ww2 mg ...demonitized
then there's this
Now I understand why my father bought me one of those microscope kits and not chemistry. He must have known.
DudeWhatTF are you doing, pouring that mess right next to the furniture!??!
YOU ARE GROUNDED!
"And this, kids, is how i lost my arms ! "
Wow. Awesome 👍 Who would think that such a simple fuel would work so well.
The Hamas, for one
Hamas tramps
Because of Newton's 2nd law, the rocket goes up and caramel rains down.
I feel like the CIA, NSA and FBI are watching me at the end of this vidoe.
Hamas: Let them bring tanks
Hamas: We have home made rocktes . Let's scare there cats n dogs
Chosen people leaving in body bags after entering Gaza lol
@@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko Then stop crying about gazans
Target successful reached Tel aviv😂😂
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Message to Mossad: I am not Hamas. Thank you!
@justanicechannel7999 oh shittt 😱
We all know why this video is recommended to us 💀
Why's that?
The only natural predator of politicians
Apparently there was a certain organisation in Ireland back in the 80s that got quite good results doing this.
Bruh, this brings back memories of a better time when youtube was still about the "you" part. Johnny was a fun guy to hang out with, not a boring day went by thats for sure ❤. The Man's a legend!
Israelis watching this getting heart attacks
Seriously, why are people so surprised information like these are everywhere in the open? There were guides on how to made homemade IEDs and bombs with everyday tools and raw materials way before Hamas was formed.
They're butt hurt their irondome can't do shi*
I think hamas learned from this video
If you had to defend your homeland while besieged by your enemy, you would have learned it too.
@@ASB-A2B yup, gonna look for the nearest garden supplies for KNO3
Actual kids primary school science project in South Africa.
Single handedly defeated the iron dome.
Watching him cook this in his kitchen made me pucker.
I learned that lesson the hard way, the paint on the ceiling is still bubbled
@@zits56able same here. Burnt the hell outa my arms and shoes 😂
slightly fuel rich mix but for ease of pouring the mold i accept.
The ignition temperature is about 15 degrees F over the melting point. ANY hot spots in the heating can result in letting the smoke out.
Yup, 😂. We were cooking outside at least.
I watched in horror, knowing how badly this could go, and how fast.
@@JMGilberto Seems like some fireproof gloves/sleeves and a face shield might be good ideas?
Failed attempts do not make a good video... Stick to the internet and you see only happy people that were lucky. Such an untrue picture.
I’m crying I know it’s a fun science project but can’t help imagine all the commenters giving advice as militants sharing experience lmao
Ahhh . . Potassium nitrate, mom’s kitchen, finished beers (multiple brands), homemade, garbage music, a great launch and a brush fire (forgot the garbage music during the brush fire). Well done
Hamas wants to know your location
😂
Love the bottle rocket ending. That's do much more satisfying than an actual rocket body to me.
Also, that used to be a nice transit tripod.
Hamas enters the chat
Yes, wondering what to do with all the fertilizer and sugar donated by UNWRA.
😂😂
The fact these entered into US D sucking technologically advanced is*real is funny
Nice. Dude made a hammas rocket without the explosive warhead!
Hamas joined the chat
Rather than folding over the end of the tube you can use bentonite clay to block it up. Kitty litter is usually pure bentonite clay. It just needs a good tamp down.
Cat droppings? An explosive is used
@@mohmih144 no, not cat droppings. The clay based product that is put in the bottom of the tray into which your cat would defecate in order to absorb any liquid and minimise odour.
It would blow up
@@danforbes4513 not if you only close up one end.
@@danforbes4513dont pack both ends with clay, dummy. if you do, make sure the nozzle size is large enough so the pressure doesnt cause the engine to burst.
That sounded like an air defence rocket 😄
Hamas watching dis:🤔
Don’t get that confused with your mash potatoes and put it in the microwave 🚀
This is like some undercover Hamas training program.
Well we know it's not IDF training because they need the USA to fight for them
Isn’t inserting politics into anything and everything you possibly can more of a reddit thing? Keep this garbage off of the last good platform
From the burnt grass, It appears it kept burning even after dropping to the ground. Fantastic
ofcourse it did, it doesn't have a nostle to keep the presure accelerating the burn time, after it burns out the core to the bottom
Bit of a fire hazard that way so should best be handled with care, but still really cool stuff
@@Nero_Karel
very flammable, sugar, especially if it contains impurities, instantly char and flares.
Someone has to clear out all that dry brush before the government sets it on fire and claims "wildfire".
back in my day rockets were just starting to be invented. i love how far this has come in my old age.
You were born in the 1700s?
@@josephmatthews2089 More like medieval times
The date reporting the first use of true rockets was in 1232. At this time, the Chinese and the Mongols were at war with each other. During the battle of Kai-Keng, the Chinese repelled the Mongol invaders by a barrage of "arrows of flying fire." These fire-arrows were a simple form of a solid-propellant rocket.
I made this back before the internet was around, after reading about it in the anarchists handbook (distributed via BBS’s back in the day).
Unfortunately because there was no video back then, it meant there was no way to know if you were doing the right thing.
I tested a really small bit like he did, and it instantly exploded with a cloud of smoke. I thought “cool, I’ve made a smoke bomb”.
I had the rest of the mixture set into a plastic medicine bottle, and took it to school (because of course that’s what you do when you are a stupid teenager).
After lightning a slow burning fuse I’d made, I moved a distance away, but a huge group of students gathered around to see what the strange burning fuse was. I freaked out that I was about to blow up a group of kids, and my screaming to get away had no effect. Luckily it just spat out a stream of smoke and red flame.
Although there’s a heap of negativity to this video, it’s quite helpful for the next generation of anarchists.
And thus began a long story of firing weapons in college ...
That and a 12ga shot shell with a nail wrapped in split shot or bb's makes a Hamas rocket (scaled down).
Just wanna say Hi to my FBI agent. I have Mountain Dew in the fridge if you are thirsty
I remember the guy that was making pipe bombs in his living room as he was compacting the gun powder the metal dowel rubbed against the pipe and sparked he had the pipe bomb between his legs in the living room while watching television with his family.
Kids, eh.
Am I right?
It was a beautiful memorial 🌹🌷🥀
I love the way the dude is making a rocket with an empty beer bottle in the background 😂😂😂
"Hold my beer and watch this," said the Darwin Award candidate.
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Hamas missile tutorial
Wow! With that piece lit on the floor I was impressed! I never thought it might be be lit so easily and quick...
As a volunteer firefighter with the CFS, I can definitely say he's not the brightest star in the sky…
This week on the Darwin Awards…. Grass fire at the end was fitting.
You tube recommending me this on October 2023 is just perfect timming.
Hamas: Thank you!
if you think this fuel can pen a tank you are a clown
It is very easy for the mix to ignite and spray all over the place. Big mess plus damage and or injury. Do this outside on a portable hotplate. Wear face shield gloves an welding jacket
Hamas :- Ohh yeah. Thanks Dude
next you need to make an iron dome
Great tutorial to learn how not to make rocket sugar fuel
Iron oxide powder added acts an accelerant, increasing output by 20-30%.
or aluminium powder
now we know where Hamas learned to build all these rockets
Now , i found what Ilon Mask is doing in SpaceX 😂