Post by archie on Aug 10, 2024 10:11:16 GMT
This is 100% original and I loved doing this. I don't have much else to say so here it goes.
Materials
1. Empty paper towel roll
2. Film canister
3. Corner of a sandwich baggie
4. Gas
5. Black powder
6. Scotch and duct tape
7. Long fuse
8. Model Rocket engines (3)
9. Nose cone
10. A few thousand air-soft BBs
Gas fire ball assembly
1. Cut a large corner off a sandwich baggie
2. Hold it open and pour in some gas
3. Tie it with a string a the top
4. Put it aside for now
5. Drill hole in a film canister just a little bigger than the fuse.
6. Put in about 2-3 tablespoons of b/p
7. Put the fuse in the hole loosely
8. Plug up the rest of the hole with silly putty or something
9. Now put your gasbag in the film canister.
10. Set the whole thing aside.
Nose cone assembly
1. Take a piece of cardstock (same material as index cards) and roll it up like a horn.
2. Take some duct tape and tape up the seam.
3. Cut off the larger part.
4. Set the whole thing aside.
Now take about 4 sheets of printer paper and trace one end of the tube and cut out the circles.
Connect engines to fireball assembly.
Ok this parts tricky.
1. Take your 4 circles of paper and make a hole just big enough for the fuse to fit through
2. Stick the fuse through it until the bottom of the film canister is touching the paper
3. Keep the canister centrered.
4. With the fuse take an engine and wrap the fuse around it like 2 or 3 times.
5. Tape the fuse with scotch tape to keep it in place
6. Take the remaining 2 engines and tie them to the one with the fuse so you have something like this:
NOTE: the canister and engines are on separate sides of the paper!
Wrap the engines in duct tape until the whole thing fits snugly in the tube.
In the top of the tube, dump bbs (and a few paintballs if you want) into the tub until you fill it about an inch (2.5cm) from the top.
Glue on the nose cone and you are good to go!
Yes it does work and no the gas wont eat the plastic baggie.