Title: Build a simple but effective rocket launcher. R.J. Date: 2/7/88 Time: 11:55 am File #4 in the "Simple devices" series, written by R. J. MacReady. This issue will discuss how to construct a simple rocket launcher. Materials: ABS piping (at least 8 inch diamter, so the fins of the rocket can be fit inside, and it should be about 4 feet long). Also get a smaller piece of ABS piping about 1 foot long and 3 inches wide (home hardware will tell you what diameters the piping comes in exactly). This one foot piece will need to be cut in half with a hack saw. Switch (get it at Radio shack) 9 volt battery Alligator clips (Radio shack of shit) Small rocket (buy smallest size at Merry Land toys at Bloor and Yonge) 3 "A" sized engines. Solar flares (3 come with the engines, but it's good to get another pack of them) Mine (see file #1 in this series). This is if you want an explosion at the end. Relatively easy (as I always say) to build. After you've cut the small pice of ABS in half. Tape the two "handles" to the bottom of the larger piece of ABS (the launcher itself), one will act as the front handle, and the other will have the "switch" on it. Tape them in places where it's comfortable to you. You will be holding it most likely on your right shoulder, and your left arm will be out front supporting you, and your right arm will be close into you, ready to pull the switch, and the back end of the barrel will be resting on your shoulder (don't worry, barely anything comes out the back, just a bit of smoke). Next put the rocket together (you can read the instructions yourself). *BUT*, since the rocket only supplies fins for the back end (because your supposed to be launching it up, not less than something like 70 degress (which is considered "ballistic" ALLRIGHT!)), you will have to make makeshift fins for the from so the rocket is pointing straight ahead inside the launcher, not the from end sagging down, and only the back end up. The good part about getting the smallest rocket is, the transparent film cannisters (once again, they are the better of the two types, so ask for those), have sort of a circle that juts out on the lid, which fits EXACTLY into the cardboard body of the rocket. So, viola, you can put a mine (tm) on the front (see file #1). It seems they make these things fit nicely just for us anarchist's doesn't it? Anyway, once you have the rocket built, you should now hook up some long wire to the switch you have, and have one end going to the battery, and from the other terminal on the battery to the rocket, and the other end of the switch to the rocket. Here's a diagram, for the eletrically ignorant (just joking, I'm just a shitty explainer). ________________________ ________________<-----__ < rocket inside II *II ^ * = switch front handle Close up diagram. + - _____________________] ] < put alligator clips [ _____________] on ends of these &&&&&&&&&&&&&[&& H & ]&&&&&&&&&&&&&& wires (which should [ & A & ] be taped along the on/off > \# & N & ] body of the switch [ & D & ] launcher) and clamp [ & L & ] them to the solar [_& E &_] flare, which is in the back of the engine. & = ABS plastic Obviously, if you have a mine, the "button" on the top of the mine will be facing outwards, so when it lands, boom. The weight of the engine should balance the weight of the bomb on the front. Well, there you have it. Just point, and launch! Look for more files from R. J. MacReady.