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2006-12-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF, Shin Bet arrest Hamas weapons manufacturer

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Posted by Fred 2006-12-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Get the recipe for their propellant and cut those supplies off, too! Might even be able to get UAVs to sniff for the propellant as well if they knew what to sniff for!

/hope off

Posted by gorb 2006-12-22 01:12|| 2006-12-22 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Kassams use potassium nitrate and sugar for propellant. Sort of hard to stop fertilizer and sugar. The good news is the stuff isn't really storable. It has the tendecy to absorb water from the air. This is most likely why they are so erratic in their performance. Now if some one could fudge the salt peter so it was more reactive.
BTW the potassium nitrate I use in the greenhouse comes from Haifa Chemical. Real nice fine powder that cries to be made into "Rocket Candy".

Posted by bruce 2006-12-22 07:11|| 2006-12-22 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 If only they would eat their saltpetre, like good little soldiers.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-12-22 07:48|| 2006-12-22 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't even think about it bruce. Sign the NAR pledge, else I'll put your eye out myself.

Posted by Vern Estes 2006-12-22 10:12|| http://home.pcisys.net/~gelder/estes/estes.htm]">[http://home.pcisys.net/~gelder/estes/estes.htm] 2006-12-22 10:12|| Front Page Top

#5 how bout free nitro glycerine for paleo rocketeers

/chanelling her flatness, corrie

Posted by RD 2006-12-22 11:19|| 2006-12-22 11:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Whatever it is, I guess it blows up if you stop stirring it during its manufacture. There's gotta be a way to use this! :-)

Posted by gorb 2006-12-22 12:30|| 2006-12-22 12:30|| Front Page Top

#7 I always thought these stories REALLY need the old ESTES BASEMENT BOMBER graphic.
BTW been there done that! In my youth I reloaded a used estes casing with my scienitfic formula of KNO3 and sugar. Put it in an old rocket took it out to the backyard. Now my launch controller needed Dad's car battery to work and I didn't have any jetex wick. So i made a fuse out of a couple inches of scotch tape dusted with some black powder from my brother's powder flask. Lit the "fuse" and whom! Next thing I knew I was doing a wily coyote impression. The thing must have flown since there was no debris, but then my hand started to hurt. Nothing broken or missing but my hand was really messed up. Told Dad I caught my hand in the garage door.
Recently my brother asked me what the whole story was behind that incident He laughed and said I was a victum of hollywood. They use SMOKELESS powder to make those powder trails in the grade b westerns. Black powder goes up in an instant smokeless burns much slower when not confined. So kids don't do this at home and really don't do it if you don't have a garage door you can use to explain what happened to your hand.

Posted by bruce 2006-12-22 16:20|| 2006-12-22 16:20|| Front Page Top

#8 When I was in High School we made rockets using potassium nitrate and powdered sugar as a propellant. You are right about it being unpredictable.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-12-22 17:00|| 2006-12-22 17:00|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL Bruce, we'll let you keep your eyes, now that you've lerned your lesson.

Posted by Your Friend Vern in Penrose 2006-12-22 17:54|| 2006-12-22 17:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Expect a rush of work accidents as the race for a replacement is on.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-22 18:07|| 2006-12-22 18:07|| Front Page Top

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