Water Rocket Construction - Splicing Tutorial

Air Command Water Rockets demonstrates how to splice two bottles together.
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Science & Technology

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• water
• rocket
• splicing
• tutorial

[fatpeople249er]

Hey gorge I made a new launcher check it out

[gk123434534]

@fatpeople249er Thanks for the update. The launcher looks pretty good, have you launched any rockets with it?

[luisal1895]

Hi, what kind of bottles do you recommend to use? Coca cola are not the best and I don't know of a good bottle, can you recommend me one?

[gk123434534]

@luisal1895 The best bottles are ones with straight sides. You just need to go down to your local supermarket and see what they carry. You may need to check several stores for different brands. Make sure you get bottles that were meant to carry soda / soft drinks, as ones that only carry water aren't designed for pressure.

[MrTomcarnahan]

George -- this is a very well done tutorial based on the number of comments and responses. Thanks for doing it! Question: I am primarily working with 2-Liter bottles. From your videos, it looked like some are 2-Liter bottles. If I am correct, how do YOU splice 2-Liter bottles? Do you get a 3-Liter bottle and shrink it over the 2-Liter ones? Or do you stick with the smaller bottles. Looking at your line of rockets, I noticed the last one was FTC vs. PET bottle. Is FTC the better way to go?

[gk123434534]

@MrTomcarnahan Hi Tom, We are working on a 2L bottle splicing tutorial at the moment that only uses the same size bottles. I will post it in the coming weeks. Whether you go for FTC or PET bottles will depend on what you are trying to achieve. FTC has low drag so the rockets can go fast, but have a small volume so are not suitable for lifting heavy payloads or as lower stages on multistage rockets.

[bsam20uk]

Impressive piece of work with materials that were never designed to do that, real innovation.

[dvebvgz]

The song is terible. Please, stop it.

[fatpeople249er]

Well only 1.5 liter bottles but I'm trying to make a 3 stage rocket

[richardwernst]

Ditto on the music.

[xtremesqueesie]

my ears are bleeding!!! but over all good video

[OgreProgrammer]

I hate how there is always music in tutorials. I would prefer silence over a song mismatched to the content.

The tutorial itself is excellent however.

[Decaff2010]

amazing tutorial. I've been looking for a good set of instructions on how to do this for a while.