More like a mortar or candle. It was built from waste just for the hell of it.
Simply a thin kraft paper tube, sealed at the bottom with wadding and blu-tac. Some waste kitchen paper I had spread some KN/Sucrose/Lampblack propellant out on was rolled up and stuffed into the tube.
A piece of stickymatch was poked into the middle of the rolled up paper/propellant mixture, and a meal-IO twisted paper fuse was stuck into the end.
Finally some wadding was shoved in to close the end, and a little hot-melt glue tacked the wadding in place.
I wasn't sure what to expect, I figured the stickymatch would pop the top and the paper mixture would burn with some sparks.
The result was more like a mortar firing. The paper was ignited and launched out. Not all that spectacular or useful, but a fun use of waste materials.
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