How do you make homemade rocket fuel?

Question

i want to know how to make rocket fuel. i saw all of the youtube videos and metacafe videos, but i want to see if there is an easier recipe that will produce lift and can make an object fly. and i dont want any illegal fireworks please even though there the best

Answer 1

Don't. Even for NASA, didn't you know how many rocket boosters exploded. Never experiment on this. The whole rocket you do might just become a bomb. The thing to watch is the nozzle when firing. You can't be sure if the whole fuel would ignite simultaneously and explode or not. I am saying this for I am certain that once you got to mixing the fuel, you will fire it to test the effect. So don't.



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The same chemicals you use for explosives are used for rocket fuel. So remember that. The only thing that makes those chemicals usable as rocket fuel is when the combustibility is reduced by mixing it with some inert material that makes it to burn at a slow rate rather than explode. This holds true with solid rocket fuel.



But if you are serious with your intention, liquid fuel is much safer, but you will need pumps and the principle is similar to that of jet engines of aircrafts. But if you are to operate high up where there are no air, you should carry your own oxygen. The process would become complicated though, because there is a need for a combustion chamber where you develop pressure by burning your fuel and generate the thrust as it exits in the nozzle. Boy, that's rocketry you have to master not just in a playful mood.

Answer 2

Solid Rocket Fuel Recipe

Answer 3

Back in the 50's and 60's (1950's and 1960's, that is), before commercial engines were available, and/or before it was illegal to nix your own fuel, we used to mix up some pretty nasty stuff. I am not dumb enough to tell you what was in it. A lot of our rockets blew up on ignition, or shortly after ignition. When they did work, once they were in flight, you could not tell if they were going up, away from you, or coming down, straight at you. A couple of years after Sputnik 1, we figured we could do the same thing, and put a small transmitter in orbit. Even if it was illegal in those days to operate a transmitter without a license, we figured nobody would know who put it there. At the time, there was no license required for dynamite, so posession of some rocket fuel wasn't really a problem. That rule came in shortly after. We got a lot of the project done, but we ran out of money, and our physics teacher in our high school figured out what we were doing, and started to cause problems. In retrospect, the rocket probably would have exploded, or crashed and started a bush fire. Acheiving orbit, even for a few hours or days was not a likely outcome. I can tell you that you are asking for trouble to try to mix some of these fuels, since a solid fuel requires the oxidizer to be mixed with the fuel. The heating/mixing/pouring/cooling cycles are all dangerous, especially if you use an open flame...... Stick with cmmercial engines. If you want something big, you can buy engines up to J, at least, and you do not have to put just one engine in your rocket. Good luck. Don't blow any important body parts off your body..

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The most common rocket fuel is simple black powder. Black powder rockets are fast and easy to make: http://www.skylighter.com/fireworks/How-to-make-sky-rockets/black-powder-rockets.asp.



You can also make rocket fuel with potassium nitrate and sugar but it's quite a bit more difficult. You will want to melt the two together outside as the mixture can catch on fire when cooking it: http://www.skylighter.com/fireworks/How-to-make-sky-rockets/sugar-rocket-motor.asp

Answer 6

baking soda and vinegar?