Adam's Paper Rockets
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You'll want the instructions and one or more variant of template:
The templates are all the same except for different fin designs, so print whichever you want!
Required Materials (for organiser)
You need:
- Printed instructions (on normal paper or whatever)
- Printed template (ideally on cardstock e.g. 90gsm, but paper can work too)
- Plain A4/letter paper to roll into body tube
- Scissors and tape for everyone
- Estes A8-3 single-use rocket motors, available in 3-packs and 24-packs (part number D-ES1781), e.g. from rapidonline.com or modelrockets.co.uk or elitemodelsonline.co.uk
- Hot glue gun and glue for it
- Enough space to launch the rockets, recommend 20m clear radius from launch pad
- Some sort of ignition system for the motors, can be purchased commercially or home made, just needs to put ~1A through the e-matches that come with the motors for a couple of seconds
- Some sort of launch rail: at least, a thin metal rod the rockets can slide up (around 60cm-1m long) and a metal plate to go below them to avoid burning the ground
- Let me know anything I forgot...
Extra Steps (for organiser)
Once the rockets are constructed as per the instructions:
- Using hot glue gun, smear some hot glue over motor and insert into bottom of rocket, making sure it is the right way around: propellant down, empty space up.
- Check launch lugs fit on rail and slide freely
- Let me know anything I forgot...
Source Files
instructions.pdf
instructions.svg
fins.dxf
lug.dxf
nosecone.dxf
templates_1.pdf
templates_1.svg
templates_2.pdf
templates_2.svg
templates_3.pdf
templates_3.svg
templates_4.pdf
templates_4.svg
templates_5.pdf
templates_5.svg
templates_6.pdf
templates_6.svg
templates_7.pdf
templates_7.svg
templates_8.pdf
templates_8.svg