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If you have some of the holiday fireworks left over I can’t think of a better way to get rid of them that build a Home Made Rocket Launcher. More pictures can be found here. Cut balsa wood to a fin-like shape, glue onto rocket motor, put in ignitor, profit. This may sound oversimplified but it really isn’t, we were able to achieve a flight of over 2 city blocks with the launcher horizontal with this exact setup. The deviation on the horizontal axis for this flight was about 3′. The engines are about $3 a piece and each rocket ends up costing us about $4 a piece, so you don’t want to throw them away, but it isnt outrageous. You can of course, use a standard model rocket, however don’t be prepared to get it back in any usable condition, and be sure to take out the parachute. We are currently trying out new varieties of fins and motor configuration to achieve a steady flight path with regularity, it may take us awhile to get it right, but i assure you, stable flight or not, it’s damn fun. If you have any suggestions as per the launcher or rocket construction, post and i will most likely try it and give you a field report.”
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July 16th, 2006
Why not embed an engine in a 1 Liter sodabottle
July 16th, 2006
I’m glad he’s on our side…
July 16th, 2006
Will it explode on contact, or just hit it really hard?
July 16th, 2006
And do you insert the racket in the back, or in the front?
July 16th, 2006
so unguided, flaming rockets in a residential neiborhood is now a good idea? I like the design and all, but how about finding a nice lake or quarry to go shoot this stuff at?
July 16th, 2006
i love the choice of music, so eerie to hear the music from elephant(movie about school shootings) behind a movie about a guy shooting a self made rocket launcher, oh the irony!
July 17th, 2006
Cool project! Of course you’d want to team up with the flamethrower guy to guard the perimeter…
Cue visit from homeland security in 3, 2, 1….
July 18th, 2006
That’s what Hezbollah was using before the Iranians helped them.
July 19th, 2006
About that visit from homeland security…
http://www.wkrn.com/node/35909#top
July 20th, 2006
Hi Ed (7), That Flamethrower looks a bit scary (for the operator I mean).
July 20th, 2006
Hey wizardPC (9),
Thanks for the video link. That is too funny, I would have loved to see the look on the agents faces when they see the PVC and popsicle stick creation…
July 20th, 2006
Sticks and stones will break your bones but his homemade grenade launcher will never hurt you.
July 20th, 2006
Flamethrower Guy is an idiot, real flame throwers have much greater range and use jellied fuel so when it is used, the flaming jellied fuel sticks to the target.
July 20th, 2006
I made one of these back in the late 80’s. Except I used heavy cardboard tubing as the barrel for the all-important smoking-gun effect. Also, I used a battery powered trigger device duct taped to the handle to power the electric ignitor. I think it was part of a spy movie I helped a friend make, and possibly a canoe war — good times.
July 21st, 2006
I love the smell of burning flesh in the morning. HooHa!
August 28th, 2006
Instead of making the fins straight, make them so that they spin the rocket to stabilize it and help it go straight. The same way that you put a spin on a football to make it go straight.
September 12th, 2006
Instead of making rockets you should make a giant paintball and lanch that out of the MK-11
September 12th, 2006
Heck, back in the ’60s, we used 3′ sections of 1/2′ thinwall conduit and lots of bottle rockets. Started out firing from the ground like mortars, but soon degenerated to shooting at each other like rifles. Like mini-RPGs, in today’s frame of reference.
September 21st, 2006
hey I just created my own rocket launcher out of a pvc pipe a battery and a lot of wires and a ton of gaffe tape I wont to congratulate all of you out there who have done this before me, I’m using D class hobby rocket engines (only legal thing I can get in australia) I have fired off maybe 5 rockets made out of toilet rolls but they arnt going far I need ideas??? ps Flamethrower Guy you are a idiot.
October 23rd, 2006
Gluing fins to a motor fails. Always. Any kid who’s gone through their rocketry blowing shit up phase knows this, you need length. Using cardboard tube of a thin grade functions, glue plastic fins in place and use an aerodynamic cone. Just buy a cheap model rocket kit and copy that method. Although I’d say your device is highly illegal in almost every country, unfortunately. My first horizontal launcher was a thick cardboard roll tube with the 6v launch system duct taped in place, wire wrapped around to the rear and I used a metal mesh plate at the rear end so it made contact with the two prongs from the launching clip. That way you could drop the next round down the tube, aim and fire, immediately. Good luck, enjoy the blowing-shit-up-phase. Don’t get caught though, cops don’t remember the fun of being stupid, young and wanting shit to go bang.
October 23rd, 2006
Oh, one last aside; I recommend tapering the plastic fins so they’re vortical, creating a spin on the rocket means a much straighter fligth path.
November 8th, 2006
Hey,
I’d like a more detailed description of the construction of the actual bazooka (not the wiring)
Thanks heaps
November 8th, 2006
Hi Karl,
Have a look here:
http://www.vancouverassassin.com/rocketlauncher.html
January 11th, 2007
that is an asome gun let me have it
January 11th, 2007
what do use for the ignition?
January 30th, 2007
this website i think is a really good it has good deatial but you need to put more gagetts on here
January 30th, 2007
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January 30th, 2007
Join Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, etc., they’ll teach you how to make working home made rocket launchers and rockets.
February 13th, 2007
Maybe make the fins in a swastika design, to achieve stability
February 19th, 2007
well its nice me and one of my freands made one out of pbc pipe dint look as good but i meen there still fun to do nice work
March 1st, 2007
u guys r really stupid…
March 3rd, 2007
Piss poor design
I did better when I was 12,
try a wind tunnel first,
built one when I was 12,
understand center of gracvity vs center of pressure, obviously not…….
I could hit stuff, you can’t
March 3rd, 2007
Piss poor design
I did better when I was 12,
try a wind tunnel first,
built one when I was 12,
understand center of gracvity vs center of pressure, you obviously do not…….
I could hit stuff, you can’t
March 7th, 2007
This is really good for people who want to make these sorta things but one question. What kind of engine did you use?
March 10th, 2007
thats really cool and if u get the modle rokets u could make them exsplode by filling the nose cone full of gun powder and then cut off the very tip untill u can see though and put a primer from a bullit or shotgun shell on that opening and when the nose cone hits somthing hard it will exsplod PS after u put in the gun powder seal it off o ya do it some where where cops cant find u. ha fun dont blow off ur hand
March 10th, 2007
tell me if u got it to work
March 15th, 2007
Hey, this ain’t rocket science…trust especially me…wait a minute maybe it is…..hey *&%*$*#!!! Use a paper towel tube with flights mounted with a glue gun and make a nose cone out of balsa with a lead weight embedded in the center point for stability. Use a lower power rocket engine and back stuff the tube with a damp towel and you will get an amazing thrust.Just don’t aim the damn thing at anyone. You’re trying for an enclosed missle effect and it’s harder than an open rocket launch. The rocket launcher looks kinda cool….it would scare the shit out of any law enforcement types who saw it from a distance. Have fun!!
March 29th, 2007
Looks like they got the idea from the book the poor man’s james bond
March 29th, 2007
this is what i do when launching, put in a smaller metal pipe that only the engin fits into. Dont use fins, with this set up you will get much more range(and also prabably more accurate cuz ur fins kinda suck and may be messing the flight path.)the metal pipe will build more pressure and cause much greater speed and accuracy. alo i didnt c the cone u used but the best way to build i have found is this:
1 get an A-C model rocket engine.
2 Find a cone that will line up with the engin(the back plug will go into the gap at the fron of the engin and the sides will be smooth.
3 put the cone in and grab some electrical tape and wrap it around the cone and engine all the way to about the end opposite the cone.
4 prime, insert into pipe, launch.
March 29th, 2007
some extra comments
1 make shure the pipe that u put into the launcher for the engin is only slightly larger than the engin it self(if ur sneaky make a rocket and take it to the store and test fit)
2 make shure after u fit the smaller METAL pipe into the larger orrigonal frame that u make shure u fill the spaces somehow so it dosent move when fireing( I suggest u cut 2 wooden rings for the ends with a circle opening in the center for the metal pipe and fill the inside with annything from dirt …eh kinda heavy, to insulation… good but expensive depending on where u buy. really just plug up the inside b4 putting on both ring end caps.
3 the rings r kinda hard to make and if u dont got the time/tools to make then i suggest this:
1buy a shitload of dowl roads, u can put in the metal pipe and keep jaming them in till it dont move. If u dont like this than u can use cardboard CAUTION CARDBOARD=FLAMMABLE(coat it with a small patch or insulator stapled to it.
March 29th, 2007
O and yes 1 further comment over time i have also found this to work quite well but is much harder to make:
1 same size engins A - D
2 get a larger cone that dosent go smooth but sticks out a bit (will explain)
3 get a lightweight cylinder(cheep plastic tube works but not as good as very very thin alumanim
4 u make it fit smooth with engin and cone(make shure u upp pipe size will be a bit larger)
5 u either heavy duity glue or weld due to materil to the tube (that will fit t cone/engin later)
some fins that do not make it unsmooth, yes internal fins can make spin and more stable flight.
When done it should look like an O with some fins on the inside of it.
6 the internal fins (depending on how skilled u are) will give it the needed spin needed while still fiting in the metal pipe which greatly increases speed/distance
the pipe speed/distance works this way:
1 when a rocket is launched in the open or a larger pipe the blast goes down and out.(regular thrust)
2 when u put it into a tigher pipe (very lillte extra room but some about what a panny looks like if u look at its edge) the pressure is forced down and only down this makes the pressure build much greater. the resutling pressure fires the rocket with much more force and speed.
watch out the first time u launch on scale test with bottle rockets in a small pipe they went 3 to 4 times further than normal
Good luck with these new ideas plz post weather they helped/worked.
March 29th, 2007
PvC/metal(pvc is cheeper but may egnite) on off water valve also gives it more speed and range to use this mode simply glue/screw in/sodder on the valve.
next u drop the rocket in from the front and prime while its in the tube.
close the tube as much as u can(all the way if u dont got an electrik lighter that u need room for the wires)
I have found that this gives enourmis range and speed and advise that when using this u use extream caution (showed my freind how to build one, he shot it at a 45 degree angle and hit an aparment complex about 2000-3000Ft away with a C model rocket and the police where everywhere)
where we lucky they didnt find the rocket that mista bounced off the building.
March 29th, 2007
=P just thought id show u something else me and my friends have made b4 thats fun but = very very VERY dangerous cuz well…. just watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nMTBe8z8YE
March 29th, 2007
Until we are invaded and need to start our own insurgency, why not paint your launchers/flamethrowers/etc. neon pink, like mine are? Something so cute couldn’t be dangerous (unless you press the little button).
March 31st, 2007
it needs to go more strate
April 11th, 2007
i need more instructions on how to build the rocket
April 11th, 2007
This kinda reminds me of when I was a kid building model rockets. This would sure have made it a little more interesting.
April 14th, 2007
I think this and a flamethrower photos that i’ve seen are manipulated
April 16th, 2007
neeeat thanks but need metal launching pipe dont ya hmmm
April 21st, 2007
man is that for sale if call 9911503
April 25th, 2007
hey…why not try using no nose cone cuz if u dont get the nose on PERFECTLY straight..it WILL veer off course. and also try
using smaller tail fins and try to get them on the motor STRAIGHT. try all this and take a video of it and post it on hacked
gagdets. ty
April 26th, 2007
Hey, I just stumbled across your launcher, and I’ve two recommendations.
First, I notice your fins are kinda wonky. Even the most basic understanding of aerodynamics has got to suggest that you get those even. I’d recommend making a form to hold the fins in place while your glue sets. I’ve never built such a thing, but if you were to take a tube slightly larger than the diameter of your engine, and cut 4 notches into it at equal distances, it would hold your fins in the proper place, and that should help your stability.
The second thing probably isn’t going to help this particular design much due to the length of the fins being almost as great as the body itself. Actually, for some reason I can’t recall, I don’t think you should have fins with that much surface considering the size of the body, and the speed you’re going (can anyone confirm or correct?) Anyway, in something longer, and tube-fired, I would recommend using a sabot that can discard itself. Some sort of split O-ring that will make the rocket “fill” the tube would keep the rocket on a more stable trajectory and should fall off when it exits the tube.
Sorry for the rambling. Hope some of it’s useful!
April 27th, 2007
plz give me detailed instructions n a list of every thing i need! cn u email me them ty
April 27th, 2007
The last image should give you a good idea of how to build it. If you need more details contact the creator of the unit. A link to his site is in the article.
May 12th, 2007
Kay this stuff is awesome. Can anyone tell me where to get an actuall engine or at least how to make one if you can. I donno much about rockets right now but I wanna learn. Also what can you use for an ignighter? If anyone can help me that would be awesome and I live in the boonies so it would not be a waste of time. You look like you stole that from the army man that’s killer peace.
May 15th, 2007
THIZ SHIZZ IS FUKIN OFF TAPP!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOO……. FIAH
yes i am iraqian..lol… not realy
June 11th, 2007
If you made something similar to an actual model rocket, like by rolling a paper tube with glue, and added a set of fins on the top and the bottom, you could really get better distances, and maybe actually be able to hit something. Right now, it’s not really controllable.
June 12th, 2007
we dont get rocket engines here and i am too poor to buy them online.. can someone tell me of an easy way to make em at home (i can get salt petre or potaasium nitrate) or a good website that does?
June 12th, 2007
if you take a paper tube cut it into a square so it still has the curve in it. use thin cyanoacrylic glue cover the cut paper tube with the glue. let dry. attach base with cloth and a spring. that way when the projectile pops out the fins do to. smaller barrel more acurate more punch.
June 12th, 2007
if i had one my neighbor hood look like it was from doom.
June 12th, 2007
von braun is right itd be cooler and better if the fins pooped out when it leaves the launcher, oh and by the way he sould make a fire bomb rocket you konw it goes a ways then explodes in a busrts of flame, like it could have a small liquid bomb in the tip (like lighter fluid) and when it lights a smaal cord in the spine gets lit and depending on how long you want will burn towards(and evetually into)the liquid part causing the tip which should be wood on the outside to explode and turn into deadly flaming shrapnel.
June 12th, 2007
von braun is right it would be cooler and better if the fins popped out when it leaves the launcher, oh and by the way he sould make a fire bomb rocket you knon it goes a ways then explodes in a bursts of flame, like it could have a small liquid bomb in the tip (like lighter fluid) and when it lights a small cord in the spine gets lit and depending on how long you want will burn towards(and evetually into)the liquid part causing the tip which should be wood on the outside to explode and turn into deadly flaming shrapnel.
how nice right?
great for parties….
and the nieghbors stupid taco bell dog that won’t shut up
June 12th, 2007
sorry, second version i revised like it says popped instead of pooped….
June 13th, 2007
i would like to prepare homemade rocket launcher so i need step by step process of rocket launche jfjfj
r so u can u give a format and procedure.if u want i will pay something
June 21st, 2007
Cool guys but you can put poppers ( the stupid things you throw on the ground) on the end of it to get the same effect [fill the cone on the end full o those things and popperz explode on impact] cheap and effective!
June 23rd, 2007
I got an idea that could make the rocket launcher w/ a trigger.
take two wires, a switch from radio shack, and a fuse
1: wire the fuse of the engine to a switch
2: wire the battery to the switch
now the wires will heat up at the flip of the switch and set off the fuse safely.
put the switch in the handle so you don’t have to take it off your shoulder
June 23rd, 2007
Man this thing is awesome. I’m only thirteen and I have had some of the best times of my life in this blowing crap up phase. I started with my friends shooting plain engines out of pvc pipe and then we added cases made out of beware of dog sing. now I have a large pvc ground launcher that I spay painted camo and put the decimater on it. My latest project though is a motorized launcher that can swivel and raze and lower the barrel to different angles. I also want to attach velchro onto the arm and onto the different barrels so I can change for the size of the projectile. I’ll send a picture of it in once its done
July 2nd, 2007
very nice i made one and i sorta blew up a car… it was sweet
July 21st, 2007
check this rocket launcher / spudzooka out. it can fire rockets or if your bored, you can blast potatoes. http://youtube.com/watch?v=77s0DVysSMc
tell me what you think. its 6 feet long
July 27th, 2007
where can i buy one of these? or, do u have to make one by urself?
last time i tried using something like this, i owe my life to the rag i had wrapped around it. so, culd u sell these on ebay, or something?
July 27th, 2007
I built it myself. I could sell you one for around 100 bucks. I also can sell you spud cannons which are really fun to use for around 50 bucks. comment back
August 2nd, 2007
dude i realy liked ur rockete but i dont have money to buy an engien can you try to
explain to me how you can make your own thank you!!!! and good job!!!!
my e-mail lucasbossan@hotmail.com if anyone wants to explain to me please do so!!!
August 2nd, 2007
Not sure if I would recommend making your own rocket motors…
August 12th, 2007
This rocket launcher was modeled after yours with slight modifications. Its 6 feet long and extremly fun to shoot. we built full size rockets and used E engines ( $8 each). The last one was so heavy though and it spun out in the ground and exploded…. CHECK IT OUT THOUGH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxB6eBs5um8
September 17th, 2007
That’s just incredible!
September 30th, 2007
yeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHhhh!!!!! i want one of this!!!!
October 2nd, 2007
Sweet
October 10th, 2007
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o o o o ooooo IS ILEGAL AND I WILL REPORT YOU ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS JK IM JUST AS BAD AS YOU GUYS LOL
October 11th, 2007
*chuckles* I can’t wait to get my hands on this. My army will be pleased, and my arsenal shall grow!
Prepare for the end…
October 13th, 2007
hey guys.
I have a new screenname on youtube its pyromachine. I have cleared up my rocket launcher a little more… you can watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBJZU44VSGg and tell me what you think. ALSO>> do any of you want directions on how to build a rocket launcher like this or want to know how to build the rocket or anything please let me know. Watch my vids on oyutube and leave good comments that would be great..
October 16th, 2007
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
p.s. nice shirt
October 29th, 2007
hahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
October 29th, 2007
hahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahhaahahahhahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahahhhahahahhahhahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahaahh
October 29th, 2007
joebob johson loves rocket launchers! hahaha
October 30th, 2007
je moeder is een hoer
November 12th, 2007
bunch of nut bags……
November 15th, 2007
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November 29th, 2007
OMG thats soooo tight dude!!!!!!!!where can i get one!?!?!?!?!?!?! ur soooo lucky. im so jealous man. fun fun dude
November 29th, 2007
dud mail me one right now
grang haven MI 49417
January 12th, 2008
ahhhh….. the right to bear arms embraced. angle the fins to make it spin. and pack the engine with flash / gun/ blackpowder (don’t mix) for a report instead of secondary charge $h*7. don’t get caught!
February 11th, 2008
i wish i thought of that
February 19th, 2008
try making the rocket balanced. build it so that if you place you finger in the middle of the body, the rocket will balance. this should give you a much more predicatable flight path.
March 22nd, 2008
i want a rocket
March 30th, 2008
dude im only 13 and my rocket launcher would kick your Rocket Launchers ass email me at sjberendzen@aol.com and Ill show u some pics for fin put a circle around them and turn virticle
April 3rd, 2008
i likey! maybe my next project, great job…
April 4th, 2008
hi i think its really good that roket-launcher id love a go with one
April 16th, 2008
Ok, I’m 15, when I was 14 I made something better than that, now it was ugly as hell, I used parts from a desk, trophys, packaging tape, wiring, a 9 volt,and a computer power button.
I threw it away though,
I don’t know if the picture will show.
If not use this link. http://i25.tinypic.com/kd22l5.jpg
April 17th, 2008
yep the pic showed up and looks really cool, when the rocket exits do u catch any sparks?
April 29th, 2008
i think your rocket launcher sucks eggs your a dork
April 29th, 2008
your rocket launch desine is so bad you should be asamed of your self go get a life loser loser
April 29th, 2008
dude i can make a sub morfcompactko39embarisor with home made supplies email me a jimmy nuetron.org loooo
May 3rd, 2008
I think you should close toilet flang end of the lauch tube so the rocket’s thrust pushes off something to push it forward instead of shooting out the back. you’ll have to come up with a new way to insert the eletrical launch wires though. Also try a fin configuration like the nurf vortx football’s. I haven’t tested this yet, but those nerf balls go pretty far and are pretty stable in flight. just don’t go around with your launcher saying anything about jihad unless you want to be answering a lot of questions.
May 4th, 2008
so, how straight does this rocket fly
May 4th, 2008
I would call it more of a spiral motion.
May 12th, 2008
have you thought about useing real rockets
May 13th, 2008
hey somebody used my name in here to make NEGATIVE comments! anything negative is not by me, srry.