[sdiy] DIY rocketry

[CHoaglin at aol.com]

In a message dated 09/29/2001 4:29:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
synth1 at airmail.net writes:


> Around 1973 rocketry was at a peak, and potassium chlorate was cheap. I'm
> surprised I'm still alive. You
> haven't lived until you put 2 cups sugar, 1 cup KCLO4 in a paint can and
> watch yellow flames shoot 30 ft
> in the air, as the can melts, THEN the asphalt melts. Who called the damn
> fire dept.??!?
> 

I've never gotten hold of KClO4, but my friends and I used to play with KNO3 
extensively and NaNO3 to a lesser extent. KClO4 packs a much greater wallop 
of course, with that extra oxygen, but there's plenty of burned asphalt 
around here as well as a patch in the yard where grass didn't grow for about 
a year. Then there was the mobile launcher that shot 3 fiesta balls at a 
time, but that's another story...

-Chris
-"Our records have stickers with a warning from Tipper, cause they're no fun 
for kids, and if we'd get her we'd strip her" -KMFDM


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