Dropping toilet paper rolls from a rocket
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- We had a little fun dropping a roll of toilet paper from our water rocket. We got the idea after watching Tucker Gott's drop from 2000 feet. ( • What Happens When You ... )
Tucker's Channel: / j3cub2009
The way he captured the entire flight with the drone was EPIC. I absolutely love that shot!
Yes , that is remarkable !
It has been about 40 years since the days when I flew model rockets. Some were quit large and multi stage but I'd never imagined one could fly water powered rockets more than about house high back in those days. I've been watching your videos for a couple of years now and this video finally inspired me to seek out our local rocketry club. Their first meet isn't until April but I'll be dragging my adult son and a couple of grandchildren of 10 years and 19 years along to take it all in. I'm sure we'll be flying some form of rockets soon, and I'm thinking I'd like to try water rockets. Thanks for inspiring me to get involved.
Hi Sheldon, welcome back to the hobby! That sounds great that you are wanting to join your local rocketry club. For us it made all the difference about staying in the hobby. I really enjoy having my dad and my boys help out with rocket building and launching. Well... at least they don't complain much. :) Just one word of warning about water rockets.... they are highly addictive!
The ultimate tp run. "Houston, we have a problem"
Such clear footage. When people video record UFOs they always seem to be caught with potato cameras. You never get a clear shot like these.
Probably why they are unidentified. Great video thank you 👍🏽
Express toilet paper delivery seems like a solid bussiness idea nowadays with the coronavirus.
Very funny idea and great implementation! It's funny how in the second launch the rocket captures the toilet paper, probably even with wind, shared trajectory and similar drag of the toilet paper and parachute played the biggest part. Funny experiments that show the joy of physics. Thanks and keep going!
Thanks Francisco. Yeah, it was a total fluke that it managed to get caught up in it again. But you are right, with both falling around the same rate in close proximity and drifting in the same direction perhaps it wasn't as unexpected. :)
Maybe we love physics because it brings some predictability and explanation to life... or just because allow us to make funny things like water rockets :-D
Genius for using nothing but household items.
4:19 BEAUTIFUL CAPTURE, TOTALLY UNUSED HEHE. CONGRATULATIONS.
Cheers Vicente. :)
good on you for cleaning up the TP. it's biodegradable but that was a classy move. subbed.
Super fun video and idea
Good work guys. That drone shot is amazing!
Amazons new delivery system of toilet paper to your doorsteps!
Everyday you see something different on RUclips . Not just one guy with a water rocket - but an organised event. I love it - all this is great to inspire kids to get out there and make stuff. Well done guys.
Cheers Julien. The organised event is our club's monthly launch. All kinds of rockets get flown at these events, but mostly solid motors. It's always good to catch up with everyone and see people's new projects. I don't think we would have lasted this long without being a member of a rocket club.
Very cool. I'd never heard of water rockets looks like a blast!
The water rocket went a lot higher than I would have thought. Pretty amazing.
"What do you do in your spare time?"
" Shooting Toiletpaper with Rockets in the air."
"You kidding me..."
Great job Guys. I guess you rolled it back up so you can use it at home? LoL.
Great shotting from the Drone. That's a lot harder to accomplish than one might think.
This video reminded me of a little water rocket I had as a kid and how well it worked.
Wow, that looks like a lot of fun! I think we should definitely try that as well. It looks so awesome, especially when filmed with the drone. Please keep up these creative and fun videos, I really enjoy them.
Cheers
Julian from Raketfued
Thanks Julian, it was a lot of fun to try this one. It is really easy to set up, though next time I think we would try 1-ply paper rather than the 2-ply we used. I think you would get a much longer streamer that way. I'm happy with how the drone footage turned out. John is getting good at tracking the rockets now. :)
here's a tip, disassemble a pen, drop all the ink-bearing barts in a cup of methylated spirit and you'll have a nice ink that you can generously apply to the sides of the roll or just dip. the roll should stay in one piece. you can also do multi step application by a syringe to get very neat patterns
Some of the ink colours look absolutely gorgeous, need to try a few different brands of pen to find the best result, reds, yellows, greens and purples all look great, even blue and black can look good. one pen should give you 250 mil of decent concentration ink.
occasionally the ink is incompatible with the solvent and nothing works, I think some are silicone oil/gels and/or xylene based inks. but it doesn't happen often.
Interesting idea, thanks for the suggestion, we may have to give that a go. :) Would it cause the paper to stick together?
I knew it worked on paper towels, but wasn't sure about TP. so just did a test. I made two colour batches of ~100mil, applied with pipet to one side. the after giving it about an hour for some of the spirit to evaporate, I applied the second batch to the other and let it all dry up.
I ended up with a roll with a band of colour on each side and a white strip in the middle, which is what I was going for. btw, the paper was Coles recycled homebrad. I also lightly massaged the roll after each application just to compact it a bit and see if it would stick at all.
I can experimentally say, my bog-rolls nominally :D my test roll did not stick or deform in a perceptible way.
That sounds cool. Thanks for doing that test, good to know that it didn't affect the unrollability(TM) of the paper. :) Multicoloured roll would definitely be a lot more visible.
:D no problem
You guys based at inner west sydney? maybe I could even bring a few to a lunch day :)
are there any active clubs around here? haven't seen much aside from you guys and some occasional UNSW stuff
There really aren't any other active clubs in the Sydney area (that I am aware of) due to the limited number of suitable launch locations. There are also the Canberra guys that fly near Yass, but it's a bit of a trip.
SO COOL!!! Do you think you could make a water rocket payload compartment for dropping many different things from a high height?
Sure. Quite easy to do. One of the previous requests was if it would be possible to drop CanSats for peoples experiments.
nice one George! Lake and I loved it. Beautiful drone shot, wow!!! Looking forward to the thunder from down under videos too :]
Thanks Stu, glad you and Lake liked it. :) Thunda is still a while off, but it will get here before we know it.
Great experiment George. Not only meteorites fall from the sky. toilet paper also comes down. :) Definitely go for a try. Nice drone shot!
Thanks Luc. :) We had fun doing this one.
Super-cool idea!)))) Similarly, a long time ago they created interference for radar, dropping strips of foil from aircraft.
Perhaps that might be an interesting one to drop. A roll of aluminium foil. That would sure sparkle. :)
Exactly!!! But be careful, it may be mistaken for an unidentified flying object (UFO)))):) Thin foil can be found in old electrolytic capacitors.)))
Air Command Rockets bird reflective tape for magpies might be more visual, also it won't interfere with "aircraft radar".
Great job on the video.
They didn't even waste the toilet paper for fun, "well done." l thought the Best toilet paper drop's are at the footy; wrong. l see a GUINNESS WORLD RECORD.
Nice work, great video. I don't understand why there are any dislikes
Thanks David. :)
Toilet paper supports rocket falling from the sky!!
I vote for multiple rolls linked.
Parachute men make a good payload for water rockets. I taped a pill bottle to the top of a 2l soda bottle, when it reached apogee and flipped over the two parachute men I had in the bottle dropped out and floated down.
Great fun indeed! Well thought out mechanism which worked first time (unless otherwise edited ;-) )! Excellent drone footage of the first launch - congratulations to your son! What a bonus getting the streamer caught on the 2nd launch - no amount of planning would have managed this! In hindsight, you should have used pink toilet paper!
Thanks Willie. Yes thankfully it worked first go. I was hoping it wouldn't mess up the normal parachute deployment. :) Catching the paper again was totally unexpected, I guess the rocket cleaned up after itself. Have a great day.
Try to use drone in your next videos, because that video from drone was awesome)
I love your channel
Ahahaha we've been. throwing toilet rolls out of planes for 50 years at least
Well done
I wonder if adding sodium bicarbonate to the water would produce better acceleration ?
This is so cool!
Can you shoot that over to my house ?
I ran out of TP and im stuck in the bathroom 😞
Wow, another channel I like, Everard Junction, used that exact tune, didn't expect it here too! What a weird connection :D
Also didn't know toilet paper behaved like that when falling, it's fascinating!
Cheers! :) The tune just came from RUclips's audio library. I am sure its been used 1000's of times on various videos. Have a good day.
I wonder if adding sodium bicarbonate to the water would produce better acceleration ?Or
is there something else that can be mixed with water to give better results . I'm no chemist , but is there anyone out there that can think of something better ?
Could you do colored chalk, some way to dump chalk in various colors?
Sometimes chalk powder is used during parachute deployment to create a visible puff to make it easier to spot the rocket at altitude. You could certainly put the chalk powder inside the parachute and then when it deploys and it opens it releases the powder.
Nice
I actually ran out of shit tickets today. Gotta hit Costco after work.
Next time try doing it with the SINGLE PLY TOILET PAPER not glued to the cartoon spool so it will thermal soar like SPIDER BALLOONING.
PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'VE UPLOADED THE VIDEO, THNKS.
Very interesting. Learning some thing new all the time. Love the blast off shot from the air.
Looks like a great way to t.p. the wite house.
Are these value bog rolls? They don't seem to give very much yield. I'd soon get through one of those after a curry and a few beers!
It was 2 ply toilet paper, so probably only half the length. We'll have to get one of those super cheap 1-ply rolls. May get a bit more milage out of that. :)
Why didn't the toilet paper cross the road?
It got stuck in a crack.
👍 good one
This is more awesome than launching a Tesla!
Thanks much appreciated
If this is Whalan reserve in western Sydney, I never realised you guys were there doing this!?! If so, I live a couple of suburbs away. Would like to come and watch.
Yup, that's the one. We've been there around 4 years now. Why not come out to one of the NSWRA launches? We normally launch on the last Saturday of each month. :)
Nice video. Realy enjoy watching Your Channel .lots of insparaton. Terje, norway
Cheers Terje :) Hello from Sydney.
I am building a rocket myself, and I was wondering if I could use Liquid Nails Construction Adhesive? I am using the bottle splice technique.
I don't believe liquid nails will work unless it is polyurethane based.
Okay, thanks👌
Was the whole roll unwind?
Yes, the whole roll took only a few seconds to fully unwind.
Is it just the challenge that inspires you to do this? Obviously, if you just wanted to see TP drop from the sky, the drone taking those photos could take it higher and drop it more accurately.
It was purely something fun to do on a warm day. :)
Fair enough.
Just a Q. Can you buy the unformed pet bottle tubes
Yes. Just look for "PET preform" on e-bay. There are lots of different sizes
I wonder how cool it would be to launch with near boiling water on a very freezing day?! It's heading for -25c here today, guess what drove the thought. Brrrrr..... :)
That's way too cold! We've had days here between 28C and 32C. Boiling water would be interesting, I think it would make really nice clouds during take-off. Though I have to admit I don't think I would want to be anywhere near a pressurised container filled with hot water. :)
This is the inspiration... ruclips.net/video/JS4oQbJ-L5k/видео.html Just thinking it would be like this, but in reverse (kind of) since it's going up.
I think it would look really cool especially if you could release the water over a longer period on the way up. You would need to use something other than plastic bottles though, as they start to deform around 65C.
So do we launch toilet paper to the people in Venezuela?
Kids, launch toilet paper not bombs
Just think make 10 small ones what you could do to TP a house.
bery vinteresting
Did it fully unwind? Or was it an extra short roll?
It did fully unwind, but because it was 2-ply it would have been half the length of a single-ply.
Okay gotchya.
Also, most likely, we in America are so spoiled to have such 'super sized] rolls that they would be aerodynamically destabilizing to the rocket at the diameters yours appear to be built at.
What is the name of that hollow plastic you use for the fins, and where did you buy it from?
I have not seen that in the states in forever and I have a real solid project I want to use it for if I can get any.
One of the names the fin material goes by is Corriflute. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrugated_plastic You can typically find it at most sign makers, especially on people's lawns during elections. Sign makers often have offcuts that they will give away for free. We just buy it by the sheet for a few dollars from the local hardware store.
If only it was methanol
Isn't this littering on a grand scale? 😂
Toilet paper from Uranus.
Don't you mean "for" instead of "from" ? :)
Yes
Jajajaja great idea! Available for everyone! What is the possibility to catch the paper with the rocket downs? 0.0000000kats!!
Cheers C3 :) The rocket decided it needed to clean up the sky.
Eat your heart out, Elon Musk.
My payload is far more interesting :-)
um salve do Brasil + like. papel higiênico e foguetes? será que funciona? parece que sim. e é engraçado
:( i ran out of toilet paper today :(
Sorry about that, I'll send some right over. :)
Ola tú eres un crack jajajajajja
Anne McCaffrey would be proud. (anyone?) :)
Sorry don't understand the reference?
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THREAD alert
What ever
This is not a rocket...
The way you captured the entire flight but just kept cutting it repeatedly just before a completed completed visual made this miserable to watch just absolutely miserable stop cutting the shot just let me see it from beginning to end without any cuts from any angle whatsoever if you have to cut it let me see one shot of it going up and then another shot of it going down all the way up and all the way down not most of the way up and most the way down like this is
Awesome! :)