Gareth0123
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Water bottle rockets can fun and they are relatively safe.
However, 20 years ago today when I was working for Claas Teleporters as a product development engineer I liberated 3 large water cooler bottles from the office: 20 litres each I think.
My very excited son Karl 11, daughter Roseanne 6, along with me 36 and additional sheets of model maker’s ABS, recycled ironed flat pop bottles, sticky back plastic and craft glue turned these water cooler containers into bottle rockets to be powered by a 12 volt car tyre inflator plugged into my White Ford Mondeo estate company car.
The plan was to go to a local park and in the patriotic sequence of red, white and blue launch our three oversized bottle rockets.
One bottle containing Red Cochineal food dye, one of white food dye (from catering suppliers only) and finally one containing blue food dye…… it’s food dye: you put it in cakes, everyone from tiny tots to centenary great grannies eat cakes, its harmless, right?
My two kids and I and our two lurchers…one dog white with black patches and the other dog black with white patches got as far as red in our intended trio of patriotic launches on a hot summer solstice Saturday afternoon.
10 litres of coloured water in a 20 litre container being pressurised by a 12 volt tyre inflator took about 5 minutes to point of lift off and launch………. Which was spectacular as the large container left the confines of the earth on a bright red plume of water……………. That is the moment when I and my children began to appreciate gravity and as it rained down upon us; kids, dogs, and me we all turned a pink colour
Have you ever tried to wash off food dye?
It’s damn near impossible.
My wife arrived home from work to find all of us still coloured pink and that is when I fully understood a potential Newton’s fourth law…………… a male action will always have an equal if not greater female over reaction!
However, 20 years ago today when I was working for Claas Teleporters as a product development engineer I liberated 3 large water cooler bottles from the office: 20 litres each I think.
My very excited son Karl 11, daughter Roseanne 6, along with me 36 and additional sheets of model maker’s ABS, recycled ironed flat pop bottles, sticky back plastic and craft glue turned these water cooler containers into bottle rockets to be powered by a 12 volt car tyre inflator plugged into my White Ford Mondeo estate company car.
The plan was to go to a local park and in the patriotic sequence of red, white and blue launch our three oversized bottle rockets.
One bottle containing Red Cochineal food dye, one of white food dye (from catering suppliers only) and finally one containing blue food dye…… it’s food dye: you put it in cakes, everyone from tiny tots to centenary great grannies eat cakes, its harmless, right?
My two kids and I and our two lurchers…one dog white with black patches and the other dog black with white patches got as far as red in our intended trio of patriotic launches on a hot summer solstice Saturday afternoon.
10 litres of coloured water in a 20 litre container being pressurised by a 12 volt tyre inflator took about 5 minutes to point of lift off and launch………. Which was spectacular as the large container left the confines of the earth on a bright red plume of water……………. That is the moment when I and my children began to appreciate gravity and as it rained down upon us; kids, dogs, and me we all turned a pink colour
Have you ever tried to wash off food dye?
It’s damn near impossible.
My wife arrived home from work to find all of us still coloured pink and that is when I fully understood a potential Newton’s fourth law…………… a male action will always have an equal if not greater female over reaction!
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