Computers for children (soldering)

From: Brett Crapser <brett_at_xnet.com>
Date: Thu Jan 14 23:29:05 1999

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
> always follow the rules that well -- making rocket fuel out of sugar
> and potassium nitrate in a saucepan on the stove can turn the stove
> to shrapnel if it gets too hot, ours didn't. (We should have been
> using a double boiler, but Bob's mother wouldn't let us use hers and
> my mother didn't own one).

Ah - good old Caramel Candy!

> Nowadays, of course, it's difficult to
> get many of the books or raw materials we used back in the Sixties.
> (But I nowadays know enough first principals to get or make many of
> the raw materials we used to buy at the drugstore, potassium nitrate
> and several of its chemical cousins being among the main things our
> maternal government doesn't want us to have). Nowadays I also know
> a bit more safety procedure as well.

Wellllllllllllllllll 8-) Now you are on ANOTHER hobby of mine 8-)

If you remember the way Estes does the engines - A B(A*2) C(B*2 or A*4)
Now you can buy 1/4A all the way to M (figure it out yourself). Most of
the engine today are AP (Ammonium Perclorate with resin binder) You can
also use Hybrids - Cellulose and N2O up to about a J (maybe M).

These are the legal consumer products. Experimentals got up to Q and R
size motors now.

> WARNING: The Attorney General has determined that Alcohol, Tobacco,
> and Firearms can be hazardous to your health -- and get away with it.

Well - ya you still have to deal with these guys if you go above a G 8-(

Email for more info 8-)

BC
Received on Thu Jan 14 1999 - 23:29:05 GMT