Soda Bottle Water Rocket Launcher Fabricated Parts Kit + Red Parachute (Rocket NOT Included)
2Soda Bottle Water Rocket Launcher Fabricated Parts Kit + Red Parachute (Rocket NOT Included)
- Soda bottle water rocket launcher prefabricated parts kit + red nylon parachute (rocket NOT included)
- Launcher will enable you to propel a 2 liter plastic (PET) soda pop bottle over 500 ft.
- Launcher supports air pressures as low as 20 PSI up to 120 PSI.
- 24″ red Rip-stop nylon parachute with 6 sides and 6 braided nylon shroud lines.
- Water rocket (2 liter soda bottle), fins, and nose cone are NOT included.
One soda bottle water rocket launcher prefabricated parts kit with adjustable trigger mechanism, launch pad, and instructions for assembly and launching. Launcher ships completely unassembled with easy to follow instructions. Launcher will enable you to propel a 2 liter plastic (PET) soda pop bottle over 500 ft. into the sky using only water and compressed air from a bicycle pump, a foot pump for a car, or an air compressor for tools and painting. Fuel (water and air) is essentially free and rea
List Price: $ 33.99
Price: $ 26.95
Jim Hoerner
Very well designed for the price,
Customer Video Review Length:: 0:26 Mins
Received this kit yesterday and put it together. The instructions were very detailed and easy to follow with color pictures. Everything is included except PVC cement and duct tape. You can tell that the designer of this kit has spent a lot of time optimizing the design of this little rig. If you follow his instructions to the T, you’ll have no problems getting an impressive blast off.
The only minor draw back is that it does not have a built-in pressure gauge. That would be a nice additional-cost option.
I am glad I purchased this inexpensive kit instead of making several trips to the hardware store perfecting my own design.
We tried it out today, and it worked impressively on the first try. After several launches, it’s still working flawlessly without need for adjustment.
There isn’t a kid under 80 years old who won’t be impressed with what happens after the countdown.
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|Stephen T. Patterson “kemosavvy”
A few adjustments and it’s Launch Time,
This package arrived today and I went straight to work assembling the rocket launcher from the PVC pieces and attachments. My work was slowed down by the fact that I wanted to demonstrate to my five year old son how this launcher was put together. I was trying to make this experience into an educational one. In our modern age products just arrive in the mail and they just work straight out of the box, remember the days when you had to be creative and constructive? Me too and I was trying to share that with my son.
After a few minutes of making my way through the instructions, which were excellently laid out for me, my son lost interest in the assembly portion of the project. He just wanted it to be launch time. So just so you know, assembly make take upwards of a half hour. You have to hunt down the needed tools and items (PVC cement, scissors, tape measure, screwdriver, etc.). After that there is aligning and adjusting the pieces so that they fit and look perfectly (I like things to be perfect when it comes to projects).
But after assembling all the pieces the largest amount of time is spent making the necessary adjustments to where the lip of the soda bottle meets up with the collar (you’ll know what I’m talking about when you get to this step). I had to use a little creativity and insert duct tape inside the collar to make a tight fit around the lip of the soda bottle. It seemed as if others had this same problem and as I saw it there is no other option, the collar would not be tight otherwise.
Once I had a good tight fit around the lip of the bottle I used an air compressor (with a tire pressure gauge attached to determine pressure) to pressurize the system. After about 50 lbs water will start leaking out around the sides (a bug that I think is inevitable without the use of rubber seals) but I just continued pressurizing until I was at about 90 lbs. The string on the collar mechanism will need some engineering to work properly but (and I don’t recommend this) what I dis was just pull the collar down by hand. That will send the bottle into orbit, ka-pow, my kids loved it. As for me I got a little wet and was off to chase down the bottle from the neighbors yard.
Overall, great product, lots of fun, but you will need to do some work-arounds to get this to work for you.
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