I was kidding but yes I've been into rocketry. Back in the old days, late 50's early 60's, we could buy any chemicals we wanted. So, I got into making rocket engines (and fireworks) using tools you could order via mail and packing them with something like potassium nitrate+sugar, potassium chlorate+sugar, powdered zinc+sulfur. Made stuff like mercury fulminate. The tool to make the engine was nozzle shaped, spindle turned out of a 3/4" dowel on a base so that when you got thru packing a 3/4" X 8" cardboard tube you had a clay nozzle and then a hole up the middle of the fuel so that it really kicked ass. The fuel would burn side to side like modern solid fuel engines and then the last 3" was end burning. You could finish it off with a clay plug at the top, fuse, and gunpowder charge for a parachute. A "holy" towel was used to pack the engine starting with damp powdered clay as the nozzle and then the fuel itself dropped in about a TBLSP at a time and then packed down with the dowel/mallet which had a hole through the middle of it so it could slip over the tapered spindle. Bought dynamite fuse in 150' rolls....all kinds of neat stuff. Thanks to our Muslim "friends", those days are over.
A man that sounds like he actually knows what the hell he is talking about! Your right all of that comes into play when trying to change parameters for growth. Its all about strain selection indoors or out. Outdoor selection will be looking for different pheno's and traits that better suit an outdoor environment, the same goes for indoors or greenhouse growing. You would not knowingly put a 12 foot Sativa in a greenhouse environment, but that doesn't mean you have to walk away from that strain either. Research and Development is an important factor these days, its too bad not ALL of us understand it.
Obviously you need to go back now...my new age texts are from the 90's...Not that new, actually most of what I have PROVEN is STANDARD PRACTISE in ANY real greenhouse application TODAY. I have shown more than enough proof that you just dismiss when its not what you want to here. You...alexander supertramp, and the staring attraction...uncle ben...DO...I REPEAT...DO know this stuff and for reasons unknown to me you are here just trying to mis-guide people and demean. I will not play you games anymore, not only have I proved my point but have shown the people just what kind of growers(and I use that term loosely)you actually are. Like I said to UB, I don't hold grudges so really its O.K. to ask for advise.
I still have in my possession, a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook I got when I was 18 in 1980. (fulminate of mercury is one of the recipes)I was kidding but yes I've been into rocketry. Back in the old days, late 50's early 60's, we could buy any chemicals we wanted. So, I got into making rocket engines (and fireworks) using tools you could order via mail and packing them with something like potassium nitrate+sugar, potassium chlorate+sugar, powdered zinc+sulfur. Made stuff like mercury fulminate. The tool to make the engine was nozzle shaped, spindle turned out of a 3/4" dowel on a base so that when you got thru packing a 3/4" X 8" cardboard tube you had a clay nozzle and then a hole up the middle of the fuel so that it really kicked ass. The fuel would burn side to side like modern solid fuel engines and then the last 3" was end burning. You could finish it off with a clay plug at the top, fuse, and gunpowder charge for a parachute. A "holy" towel was used to pack the engine starting with damp powdered clay as the nozzle and then the fuel itself dropped in about a TBLSP at a time and then packed down with the dowel/mallet which had a hole through the middle of it so it could slip over the tapered spindle. Bought dynamite fuse in 150' rolls....all kinds of neat stuff. Thanks to our Muslim "friends", those days are over.
No mas!
Believe it or not, we still do make our rocket motors. We're using a much more advanced type of solid rocket fuel than black powder, zinc/sulphur and the like. We use the same basic formulations as the solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle. It's an ammonium perchlorate/aluminum powder mixture held together with a rubber-like binder. It mixes a bit like playdoh or can be made pourable more like pancake batter. When it cures it has the consistency of a super ball- spongy but firm. We fill phenolic liners using mandrels for a specific size core through the center. This propagates flame through the entire length of the motor casing resulting in instant pressure in the motor case. Nozzles are graphite, casings are aluminum and closures are typically held together with snap rings and O-rings. Of course there are hundreds of formulas for mixing different motors depending on burn time desired or color of flame desired. Rocketry has come a long way since we were messing with Estes rockets on the school playground. Just do a search for high power rocketry in Google if you want to see some pretty cool stuff. I like growing almost as much as launching big, obnoxious rockets it just takes a little longer to get the desired results. Funny, it seems there's still as much research and work to get a decent plant yield as there is to launch a somewhat complicated rocket, go figure. For me, the journey is as rewarding as the final result, kinda why I like these types of hobbies.I was kidding but yes I've been into rocketry. Back in the old days, late 50's early 60's, we could buy any chemicals we wanted. So, I got into making rocket engines (and fireworks) using tools you could order via mail and packing them with something like potassium nitrate+sugar, potassium chlorate+sugar, powdered zinc+sulfur. Made stuff like mercury fulminate. The tool to make the engine was nozzle shaped, spindle turned out of a 3/4" dowel on a base so that when you got thru packing a 3/4" X 8" cardboard tube you had a clay nozzle and then a hole up the middle of the fuel so that it really kicked ass. The fuel would burn side to side like modern solid fuel engines and then the last 3" was end burning. You could finish it off with a clay plug at the top, fuse, and gunpowder charge for a parachute. A "holy" towel was used to pack the engine starting with damp powdered clay as the nozzle and then the fuel itself dropped in about a TBLSP at a time and then packed down with the dowel/mallet which had a hole through the middle of it so it could slip over the tapered spindle. Bought dynamite fuse in 150' rolls....all kinds of neat stuff. Thanks to our Muslim "friends", those days are over.
No mas!
Smoking nettles I dont think so. But pick them in the spring, young and tender, and they make a tasty, healthy addition too any diet.
You have a deep seated low self esteem problem.
Very cool. Wish I could send you a PM. My community has a high school rocketry program that is followed by ISD's across the nation and sets the class for future young aeronautical engineers. And the high school built rockets fired are on a ranch only miles from my farm.
New sig material, thank you Sir
Why is it such a problem for you what the guy does and where he learns from dude? Seriously, got bud envy much? To each his own. Isn't it really insecure feeling threatened by what another person holds in hos own head, seriously now?
It's a shame it's come to this, but yeah, I'd be careful of what I say on the internet and social networks like Facebook. Like I said, the only secure form of communication is using PGP. In the old days when there was only Usenet we used PGP (or a form of it) and chain-linked thru many encrypted servers such that you didn't know where it originated or if you were not last in line didn't know where it (the message) was headed. TOR's a damn good program.
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PRICELESS bro
And I agree with you, nothing beats an oldschool outdoor grow. I used to trim bud for a large producer and the size of some of these things was unreal. There were plants tipping the scales at over 2 dry kilograms OFTEN, shit you not.
I believe it. I got an email from Christophe, a breeder and source of Zamal, La Reunion island, and he said they grew some Zamal and hung a swing on it!PRICELESS bro
And that was good seed, good water, soil prepared the way grandpa did it and that was IT.
