DIY Single Water Rocket Launcher Plans

DIY Single Water Rocket Launcher Plans

This launcher is a must have for anyone wanting awesome and cheap backyard entertainment, anyone looking for a new hobby or anyone that loves model rockets but wants a cheap alternative to the usual "fire-in-the-hole" engine rockets! A great gift for kids that brings out their creativity and keeps them engaged in outdoor activities! Great for science classes too!

This launcher is designed for homemade water rockets constructed from plastic pop bottles. The bottles are one of those rare miracles of serendipity: although designed for something else altogether, they are nearly perfect for making water rockets. They're designed to hold liquids at high pressures, they're very lightweight, and they have a conveniently located ring molded around the neck that's handy for holding the bottle down while pressurizing it. About the only thing that could make them better is to have the fins and nose cone molded in for you!

The rockets made from these bottles are surprisingly powerful. A standard 2-liter pop bottle 1/3 full of water, pumped to 80 psi and then released, will eject all its water in less than one-tenth of a second, and at that point ("burnout") will only be about 2 meters off the ground. Amazingly, its velocity at burnout is around 76 meters per second. That's over 170 miles per hour! This means the average acceleration during thrust is 111 g's! Yowza! Safety rule number 1: Never get in the way of one of these rockets...

A plain bottle is of course aerodynamically hopeless, and tumbles fluffily after burnout, rarely going higher than 60 or 70 feet. But if you add fins and nose weight, transforming the bottle into an aerodynamically stable rocket then all that initial thrust can be transformed into truly amazing altitudes of over 300 feet. You really have to see it to believe it.

You will find that this is a fun activity for anyone to get involved in. Designing and building rockets made out of empty 2 liter bottles allows the creative side in anyone to come out (adults included!). The thrill of having your first "successful" flight keeps you coming back for more. Looking for a new hobby, then you gotta get one of these launchers!

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Description:

This is a very easy to follow DO IT YOURSELF assembly manual for a water rocket launcher. If you're handy or know someone who is, this is just the thing for you.

If you would rather have a completed launcher shipped to you, you can purchase one for $14.99 + shipping (depends on location and shipping method). Search my other listings to find them.

This manual includes:

Complete Materials List

Step-by-step procedures with pictures for each step

Launching Instructions

Launcher is FUN and EASY to build with ordinary tools.

Design, build and launch rockets made out of 1 or 2 liter soda pop bottles hundreds of feet using water and air from a bike pump or compressor.

High quality launcher made out of durable PVC tubing.

Unlike some launchers, this one has a launch tube which allows for a slower release of fuel (water/air) and allows for longer "thrust" time. It also gives your rocket more stability during initial take-off.

No additional expense since the fuel is water and air! Absolutely NO O-RINGS that break and need replaced.

Launcher supports air pressures as high as 130 psi. These things really fly high!

Trigger mechanism allows for high pressure launches (tested @ 130 psi) without rockets prematurely leaving the launcher.

Great for fun, science projects, school classes, parties, etc. and will most likely draw a crowd of onlookers.

Encourages creativity with rocket building out of household materials. The need to build bigger and better rockets is unavoidable for most people.

Included with your purchase is access to my water rocket website which contains:

Tutorials on constructing various types of rockets, recovery systems using household materials and the extreme water balloon thruster to use with your launcher.

Several demonstration videos and pictures of which you can post to

Access to a community of water rocket enthusiasts that are constantly sharing ideas and tips relating to various aspects of water rocketry (expect several e-mails a day).

Custom search engine with results specific to water rocketry

You are purchasing the manual on how to build the launcher yourself which will be e-mailed to you. If you want to purchase a completed launcher and have it shipped to you, see my other listings.

Shipping:

FREE! Instructions to access the plans where you can download the pdf will be e-mailed to you instead of sent via the postal service. Watch your inbox including your spam mail folder.

Payment:

I accept PayPal. Payment is due immediately.

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I sell 4 DIY manuals each for $3.99. I don't sell the angled DIY manual individually but its included in the bundle! You may purchase one or more individually, but you're better off purchasing the bundle of 5 for $9.99 to save a few bucks. View my other items to access the bundle listing. Again, the bundled deal includes the following manuals:

1) Single Vertical Launcher

2) Triple Launcher

3) Quatro Launcher

4) Angled Launcher

5) High Velocity Marshmallow Cannon

DIY Single Water Rocket Launcher Plans

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