Winokur 20 Experiments - 6.4 mm Rocket Delay Test
Date: 2006-05-08
Description
A simple 1/4" bottle rocket; made on Rich Wolter "short" tooling using normal contaminated BP propellant, charged into a pyrotube casing. Once charged above the core, Winokur 20 was rammed instead of BP to make a delay before the MgAl Flash report that filled the remaining space in the tube.
The top was sealed with paper wadding and hot-melt glue. The normal techniques were used for all other details of the device; bamboo kebab stick hot-melted to the case, wax treated clay nozzle, blackmatch fusing.
Comments
Kinda poor.
Winokur 20 doesn't appear really suited to delays in such a small rocket. It did produce a sparse glittering effect but D1 Glitter has proved many times in the past that it works much better in 1/4" motors.
I think Winokur 20 would probably be fine in larger rockets.
Attachments
| title | type | size |
|---|---|---|
| Test Video | video/x-msvideo | 2.422 Mbytes |
| Pre-Test Picture | image/jpeg | 23.556 kbytes |