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Introduction
ROCKET NEED THRUST-ER. For this we need two ingredients. First is anything that makes you fat when you ingest enough of it. To keep it cheap and simple we opted for white bitch ass powdered sugar.

But just burning sugar is no real fun. So we need something that makes it BURN BABY BURN. An oxidizer. Potassium nitrate. Problem here is that you cant just get your hands on it willy-nilly. You need top be able to give a reason for it, good thing we have just that. With this impending economical collapse we need to think outside this city shaped box we were born in and consider ways to live sustainably off grid.
Now it turns out that potassium nitrate is a great fertilizer so that we can buy too much of it for our sprouting tomato plants. Got some full spectrum LED’s at home to get it GOING.

And the excess.. yeah.. what to do with that. In SUPPOSE we could use that to make rocket fuel… I mean.. waste is bad right.
Render section view thrust-er showing internal composition
Thrust-er make-up
By weight, 65% Potassium nitrate
rest powdered sugar.

(make sure your KNO3 is dry)
Nozzle
White Mix
Delay Mix
End Cap
Parachute Charge
20:3
white mix : baking soda

ratio
Bentonite clay powder
Bentonite clay powder
Black powder + insulation