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Title: Build a simple but effective rocket launcher. R.J.
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Date: 2/7/88
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Time: 11:55 am
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File #4 in the "Simple devices" series, written by R. J.
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MacReady.
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This issue will discuss how to construct a simple rocket
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launcher.
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Materials: ABS piping (at least 8 inch diamter, so the
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fins of the rocket can be fit inside, and it
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should be about 4 feet long). Also get
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a smaller piece of ABS piping about 1 foot long
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and 3 inches wide (home hardware will tell you
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what diameters the piping comes in exactly). This
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one foot piece will need to be cut in half with
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a hack saw.
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Switch (get it at Radio shack)
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9 volt battery
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Alligator clips (Radio shack of shit)
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Small rocket (buy smallest size at Merry Land toys
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at Bloor and Yonge)
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3 "A" sized engines.
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Solar flares (3 come with the engines, but it's
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good to get another pack of them)
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Mine (see file #1 in this series). This is if
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you want an explosion at the end.
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Relatively easy (as I always say) to build. After you've
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cut the small pice of ABS in half. Tape the two "handles"
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to the bottom of the larger piece of ABS (the launcher
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itself), one will act as the front handle, and the other will
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have the "switch" on it. Tape them in places where it's
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comfortable to you. You will be holding it most likely
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on your right shoulder, and your left arm will be out front
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supporting you, and your right arm will be close into you,
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ready to pull the switch, and the back end of the barrel will
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be resting on your shoulder (don't worry, barely anything
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comes out the back, just a bit of smoke). Next put the
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rocket together (you can read the instructions yourself).
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*BUT*, since the rocket only supplies fins for the back end
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(because your supposed to be launching it up, not less than
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something like 70 degress (which is considered "ballistic"
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ALLRIGHT!)), you will have to make makeshift fins for the
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from so the rocket is pointing straight ahead inside the
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launcher, not the from end sagging down, and only the
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back end up. The good part about getting the smallest rocket
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is, the transparent film cannisters (once again, they are
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the better of the two types, so ask for those), have sort
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of a circle that juts out on the lid, which fits EXACTLY into
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the cardboard body of the rocket. So, viola, you can put
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a mine (tm) on the front (see file #1). It seems they make
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these things fit nicely just for us anarchist's doesn't it?
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Anyway, once you have the rocket built, you should now hook
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up some long wire to the switch you have, and have one
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end going to the battery, and from the other terminal on
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the battery to the rocket, and the other end of the switch
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to the rocket. Here's a diagram, for the eletrically
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ignorant (just joking, I'm just a shitty explainer).
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________________________
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________________<-----__ < rocket inside
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II *II
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^ * = switch
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front handle
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Close up diagram.
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+ -
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_____________________] ] < put alligator clips
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[ _____________] on ends of these
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&&&&&&&&&&&&&[&& H & ]&&&&&&&&&&&&&& wires (which should
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[ & A & ] be taped along the
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on/off > \# & N & ] body of the
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switch [ & D & ] launcher) and clamp
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[ & L & ] them to the solar
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[_& E &_] flare, which is
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in the back of the
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engine.
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& = ABS plastic
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Obviously, if you have a mine, the "button" on the top
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of the mine will be facing outwards, so when it lands, boom.
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The weight of the engine should balance the weight of the
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bomb on the front. Well, there you have it. Just point,
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and launch!
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Look for more files from R. J. MacReady.
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