NB Water Rockets blog

[arjan]

Fiberglass Water Rocket

Again it's been way too long since I posted something here... Time to update!

I'm still struggling with splicing bottles, every time I give it another try the splice looks good but when I pressure test them they fail at < 100 psi. The problem seems to be that the bottles just aren't strong enough and they delaminate. Is PL Premium really the only glue that works? Hope I can get my hands on a tube of PL Premium some time to test this...

So I switched to another project, I first wanted to try to build a rocket with a FTC pressure vessel but unfortunately FTC is not a common product here in the netherlands, there are some online stores that sell FTC but they charge 25 euro shipping costs! That's way to more than I'm willing to spend on a few pieces of FTC.

Read more: http://n-bwaterrockets.blogspot.nl/2013 ... ocket.html