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Boys i have made a sugar rocket with:

6mm nozzle

7cm core length (without the nozzle) and 3mm wide

round 50gr of fuel and 24mm ID

The motor weights round 150gr

And i took from it round 800-850gr max thrust, it is good ?

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well, you measured the thrust, so i'm assuming it worked, good job!
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Boys i have made a sugar rocket with:

6mm nozzle

7cm core length (without the nozzle) and 3mm wide

round 50gr of fuel and 24mm ID

The motor weights round 150gr

And i took from it round 800-850gr max thrust, it is good ?

 

Hi there,

 

Without knowing the burn time it's hard to say how good/efficient your motor is.

 

It looks like your internal bore is 3mm diam and the nozzle diam. 6mm?

If so, it's probably a bit of a waste of fuel as you don't really get much thrust happening until the core gets to about the diam. of the nozzle.

 

Good effort though, about 6g's max.

 

What sugar fuel are you using - powdered, melted, recrystalized?

 

Cheers, Steve.

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Sugar can be almost twice the ISP of black powder. Its a much more powerful, and easier to obtain/cast fuel. Drawback is its not as pretty, and you don't get that nice sulfur smell.

 

Google nakka rocketry...you will be able to build a working pvc sugar rocket motor based on his plans.

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Hi there,

 

Without knowing the burn time it's hard to say how good/efficient your motor is.

 

It looks like your internal bore is 3mm diam and the nozzle diam. 6mm?

If so, it's probably a bit of a waste of fuel as you don't really get much thrust happening until the core gets to about the diam. of the nozzle.

 

Good effort though, about 6g's max.

 

What sugar fuel are you using - powdered, melted, recrystalized?

 

Cheers, Steve.

 

My nozzle was 5mm but why you must never make the core smaller than the nozzle ?

 

Here my first successful PVC engine test ( without CATO ) a small problem with the end cap but next time i will fix it

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Here a second attempt with he KN round 200, nozzle blow out, i dont know if it is because the overpressure or a building mistake of the engine... that do you think guys ?

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Boys now i was trying to make some PVC rockets and i have notice that the core is not exactly straight and exactly at the middle... is this a serious problem ? maybe that is why i have many CATOes ? Edited by THEONE
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