How to Make Sugar Rockets

I got interested in rockets a while ago, but when I started, I began with a sugar based fuel. Sugar Rockets, a cheap and easy way to create a rocket motor. These rockets are farely stable, but do not produvce incredible amounts of thrust.

1. Powdered sugar
2. KNO3 (Potassium Nitrate)/stump remover
3. Empty Rocket Engine Casing
4. Bentonite clay
5. Water
6. Wooden dowel, the size of the engine hole
7. Small Allen wrench
8. Scale

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On all of these steps use safety.

Wear a mask and eyeglasses.

Follow government regulations.

Only put about 10 or less grams of fuel in a rocket.

Wear gloves.

Measure out 65 grams of KNO3 and 35 grams of powdered sugar and mix them together for about 5 minutes

Store in a airtight container away from electronics.

Get the rocket engine casing and set it on a flat surface OUTSIDE.

Add the blended bentonite clay to the bottom of the engine and mash down with the wooden dowel until there is about 3/8 of an inch of clay in the engine casing.

Add about a teaspoon of fuel to the engine casing with the funnel and a spoon, then add a drop of water. Do this until you are about 3/8 of an inch from the top of the engine casing.

Fill the rest of the the engine casing with clay.

Mash down hard.

use a small Allen Wrench about 1/5 of an inch wide to make a hole through the clay on one side. Keep pressing until the wrench is almost through the whole engine.

Add a fuse in the air chamber created by the wrench.

Place the engine OUTSIDE away from flammable materials under a large rock.

Light the wick and run.

Watch and enjoy:)

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