Preparing For Your Launch Party

Preparing for your launch party.  For your launch party, you need a protractor, a piece of string, and a nut.  You know, like nuts and bolts.   Not like those peanuts that you find in the sofa.  Like the kind found in my poppa’s house.  Anyway, you know it's like one them nuts and bolts like you find in a hardware store.  You just need one.  You use all those things to make a machine that you can use to measure how high your rocket goes, but you need to launch a rocket before you can use the machine in order to figure out how high it goes.  The machine will measure it out, and I forgot that you need some toilet paper without the toilet paper--like the card board from the toilet paper, like the roll.   Just the role.  You also have to make sure that the fins on the rocket are not, I repeat, not broken off by children.  Remember rockets are not to be used for people under twelve years old, except if you're like with an older person who is an adult.   Remember, rockets have engines.  This is rocket science, so be careful. Sometimes they explode if they hit something when they launch, but if you're extra careful when line it up into the sky where there's nothing that you can hit, then you're okay.  We don't want any explosions.  Remember this will be fun for everybody if you can design your own rocket and you're okay, but some the ones on this website work best.   You can make of ours yourself, and after you make the rocket be sure to see how high it goes.   When you know how high it goes you can probably send us some feedback, and tell us how high the one you built went.  I bet it will be fun.  So fun.  Really fun.  Make sure to bring an extra fun meter; yours might explode!  Bye.

Making a Parachute

Why is a parachute and important? A parachute can cushion the fall so you could reuse the rocket over and over again as long as you have enough engines. This is how we make a homemade parachute. These are the materials needed:Cardboard

• Heavy-duty garbage bag


• Hole puncher


• Reinforcing rings


• Hexagon pattern (quilting pattern)


• Exacto knife


• Scissors
  

Print out the hexagonal pattern. Cut out the pattern. Place the pattern on cardboard, and trace and cut out the cardboard. Use the cardboard pattern to cut out a hexagon out of the garbage bag.

Use a hole puncher to punch a hole in all 6 Corners.

Place reinforcement rings on both sides of the holes you made. Then you should have a parachute ready to be strung into your rocket. If you used a garbage bag you will have two parachutes so you won't need to make a second one.

Painting a Rocket

The first step in painting a rocket successfully is to put on primer. The primer helps hold the rocket together, so doesn't fall part. It also helps when it falls from the sky, deploys a parachute, hits the ground and lands safely. Also helps the paint stick to the rocket so it won't fall off, rub off, or drip on your kitty cat. Here's some good colors that we think are good: silver and chrome yellow (kind of goldish). To get an even coat of paint, keep the spray paint far from the rocket so that you can get more distance and more paint on the rocket. It also helps for little short streaks. When you want short streaks just hold the rocket 1 to 2 feet away from the spray paint and start spraying in a line. After you're done painting, it's a good idea to let it dry somewhere where your cat doesn't swallow any paint.

Hard, Easy, and Fun!

The hardest part about making the rocket was making the engine block. It was hard to build the engine block because you had to build the engine block and you had to build the interior diameter mold. The easiest part to build was the nose cone. The nose cone was the easiest part because we just had to pop on the nose cone. The most fun part about building the rocket is also the nose cone. We just popped on the nose cone. I'm looking forward to shooting off this rocket, I hope you can shoot it off too!

Double Gluing

Double gluing is a way of strengthening your fins. You want your fins to be strong so they don't break off when they land or especially when they are in the air. The first step of double gluing is to glue the fins and then you let them dry. Glue them a second time and let them dry again. When you are double gluing you have to smear the glue into the cracks of your fins so that they stays strong. Then you're ready to launch.

Centering Rings and Engine Blocks

Today we will be talking about how to make centering rings and engine blocks. They are made out of toilet paper rolls. The centering rings center at the motor mount into the rocket. The engine block makes it so the engine doesn't fire up through the rocket and explodes.

First, we will make the centering rings. First, I will tell you how to cut the toilet paper roll. Cut the toilet paper roll up the long side, then you cut it into strips.

Then you glue the strips to make the centering rings on the motor mount. Repeat until the centering ring is as big as your rocket tube.

Now, I am going to tell you how we made an engine block. First, we made an inner block mold. First you take some toilet paper roll and you wrap it around a pencil until you get the right diameter of the inside your motor.

And then you stick your inner block mold into a motor.

And then you wrap your toilet paper strips around your inner block mold until it is the same size as the motor mount.

Then glue engine block in the motor mount.

How to Make a Motor Mount

In this post were going to learning how to make a motor mount.

Mark 7 CM on each short side of the card stock sheet. You want to do it carefully that it is the right size.


Connect the two marks with a straight edge.



Cut along the line.



Roll the strip around a used engine. This makes it so it will be the right shape.



Unroll most of the card stock until there is only a one wrap around it. This is so it can be glued easily.



Push the engine so that it sticks out slightly, so we can tape it and it will not unroll fully.



Tape Exposed end firmly with masking tape.



Push engine so it slightly sticks out the other end.



Tape exposed end firmly with masking tape.



Layer inside of the unwrapped card stock with a very thin layer of glue.



Roll card stock around the engine.


Secure with masking tape and let it dry.

We hope you enjoy your motor mount.