air propelled rocket launcher

[gingerstu]

Hi All,

Just bought one of these for my neice - its is possibly the best toy in the world, ever!

Rocket.jpg

Now, my brother and I want to take this a step further and would like to replace the air balloon for a compressed air cylinder for propolsion. You can see where this is going, and where it will probably end up.

We need to cobble together some sort of fitting with an appropriate hose. Anyone got any ideas? where's Woz?

Stu

[Dave Crampton]

It'll all end in tears......

You'll ave someone's eye out with that.....

[PeeBee]

good job it comes with a supply of spares, a couple of years ago I watched a couple of lads in the park with something similar, they spent ages setting their launcher up, packing the parachute to brin g the rocket down without breaking anything or hurting anyone, they gathered a hell of a crowd and finally launched the thing, up it went and up and up... parachute deployed perfectly and down it came ever so gently. only to land in the river 50 yards from where it took off.

Lads gathered up all the launch paraphernalia and left.

Very sad.

[Foggy]

Ahhh youth, and youthful pursuits...

we just used a nail and a hammer to puncture CO2 cylinders.

Sparklet types were pretty good, but soda-stream ones went to infinity and beyond!


LOL, Paul

PS firing these is irresponsible 'cos they may seriously hurt someone, so don't try this at home!

PPS that "don't try this at home" was NOT a challange

PPPS No it really wasn't

PPPPS Forget I ever mentioned it, I cannot be held responsible for the actions nor inactions of others

PPPPPS No I am not implying that you are one of the others - this is not an us and them situation

PPPPPPS - the moral is "don't start, unless you have a very big ladder to get out of the hole"

[PapaBear]

Im not saying that this is a good idea, but if you get it working, video please.....

[J00ls]

I did not say this…

Anyone ever wondered what happens if you can rig one of these to go from 20m? I’d love to know.

Water Rockets

Bigfoot Water Rocket Launcher Systems

Jools

[Digger]

I reckon an old pony cylinder, weld some fins on the outside, fill it with water, blow to 232 bar, turn up, prepare for launch, pull pin.

Digs.

PS - Like Foggy said.

[RogerViking]

i remember those well done ...let us know how it works out...have a green

[recurve]

Arghhhh, we used to half fill an old washing up liquid bottle with water, jam an old bicycle tyre valve in the little squirty hole and start pumping. Eventually, either the valve would pop out the bottle or the squirty hole bit would blast out. Either way, it would easily clear a house and you were guaranteed to get soaked.

Saw a tv programme doing similar, using 2litre fizzy drinks bottles and a 'hozelock' type coupling that held it all together till you pulled the release back and off it went.

Must say, I like the idea of launching a 'Polaris' from 10m down in Stoney

[narked at 90]

to me this is all great fun i've got a bit of a track record for getting my self in far to much trouble with rockets ....well any thing that is either dangerous or goes bang so when i found an unexploded bomb a couple of mouths back and wanted to have some fun in a big field with it, didn't faze people to much
but i saw wisdom and called the bomb squad before any one gets arsey....... i let them have all the fun.
it's taken all this time to get the pictures of the little beasty off an old phone so here they are for the first time ever
kind regards john