Glad everyone is enjoying the build video. Remember to always be safe - for you and others - working with model rockets or anything similar, even if they're small. It's only fun if no one gets hurt.
I took an aerospace engineering class in highschool, and when we made model rockets, I mounted the engine retainer wrong so when the second stage went off it blew the entire assembly out the back instead of blowing the cone off and deploying the parachute. The result was a rocket powered lawn dart that landed 20 feet from the landscaper
One thing I noticed for small-diameter launchers is that the rocket will almost always have a super low and unstable exit velocity. If instead the launcher used a sealed tube and ditched the "recoilless" aspect you could get much better exit velocity and a more stable accurate flight. Or use a booster charge with a counterweight to get the same effect.
left for over 5 months after making yokai watch videos for a few years and makes his come back well known by making an entire rocket launcher. this man is absolutely insane and I love it.
Mate this is the first video I've seen of yours, I expected to see more of the same great content, and I've gotta say, yours absolutely great, and I like the direction you're going
I saw the notification pop up and thought it was a new Puni video. Well, color me surprised! I was NOT expecting a full on rocket launcher. Glad to see you're back with new content man. Keep up the good work! (and maybe add an outro so the video doesn't end abruptly)
Glad to see you doing what you like to do, in my opinion making a rocket launcher and 3d Modeling is way more entertaining than puni. Super cool rocket and keep up the great videos
and by adding the ability to give axial rotation to the rocket, we get a more even trajectory during the main part of the flight, which will affect the “accuracy” (well, at least within a meter of the “target”) and the entertainment of the flight: for a rocket rotating along its axis, the exhaust acquires some helicity.
I hope the ATF didn't come knocking. This device may or may not meet the definition of a Destructive Device under the National Firearms Act of 1934. The bore diameter of the launcher is over 1/2 inch, and the rocket ignition system is not primitive (but it is technically separate, so it might not meet the definition of "fixed ammunition"). You could argue it is a "black powder cannon", but it is not a replica of anything made before 1898. It does not have a common sporting purpose. Such a device is legal to make and own, provided you fill out and submit ATF Form 1 and wait for the 5 to 200+ days for it to be approved and the tax stamp (paperwork) to arrive in your mailbox.
Whole thing was fun to watch, fairly informational even though I didn't learn anything, but I'm definitely rewatching so maybe I'll actually pick the information up next time.
I really enjoyed how you did the commentary, even how you admitted that you didn't get it right the first time (but didn't over dramatize the failures like saying; "I only had one more shot to get this right or it was all for nothing" for example). To that end I think the least I can do is leave a like, comment, subscribe and hit the notification icon. Cheers, thanks for the video.
I like how this dudes entire channel is yokai watch (no offense to yokai watch since its one of my favorite shows) and then he waits for a year to come back with a rocket launcher.
Acetone or Butanone are actually great plastic welding agents for any future projects. They have specific plastics and use cases they work better for, but i use acetone to bond bindings for guitar.
Just finished watching the vid, it may be different then the usual but it was time fun to watch, I wouldn't mind if you've convert your channel to a building channel. I could understand If you gotten sick of the game for playing it for so long. Puni puni content or not I'll still watch any vid 👍
Great video. Made me a subscriber. The soundtrack was epic and the build awesome. I would love to have a 3D printer but know I wouldn’t take the time to learn it well enough.
Cool build. I made something similar back when I was abt 12-13. But mine was mostly PVC pipe construction.. I had a handful of model rockets as a kid, most using those same tiny motors you used (about the size of a AAA battery) but I also had 2 Star Wars model rockets that used a larger motor, about wide as a stack of nickels and a little over 2" long. And I had a tube of thin plastic that would fit it perfectly, so I cut a piece down, made a nose cone and some fins and attached the motor, got a PVC tube that it fit inside of nicely, drilled some holes, glued on handles and the rocket starter, ran wires up to the back of the tube to attach to the ignitor, with a rubber band operated safety trigger that dropped 2 pins that rose up a bit in front and behind the rocket to keep it sliding out the tube. After a bit if work getting the rocket weight and balance right it was so amazingly fun and launched far, accurately. I even added a little paintball red dot sight to it. But if it had looked as good as yours did it this build, it would have blown my mind lol. Thats what I pretended it looked like in my imagination rather than just a janky painted pvc pipe.. Still was alot of fun though. And later I made another little brother to it that shot slightly modified small bottle rockets about 3/4" wide and 5" long.. just using the same positioning pins to hold it steady in the tube and a long BBQ lighter that drilled into the tube and glued in to light the fuse. Not quite as long range or anywhere near as accurate, even w rudimentary fins. They just weren't made to shoot horizontally w the weight and balance, without the stick too.. but it made a fun noise and had the satisfying pop about a second after you launched it off... such good times lol.. maybe I should use your files and make me this thing to play around with
First off, great video - very enjoyable! I think it would be fun to see a collab with another RU-vidr where you shoot a rocket that does something interesting, like shoots a drone or something? (Meaning a rocket that launches a working/piloted drone) Keep up the great work 💪🏻
This is superb, really awesome idea and execution! One thing I would say for the future, if you make another version... use PETG, it has higher temperature resistance and is also chemical resistant. On top of that it's generally stronger too by a large degree. You can get it in all the colours you used!
literally did something similar, as a kid. It was rather funny as I had a tube of pvc, and couldn't fit the rocket. So I hot glued fins directly onto the rocket engines, not thinking it through fully. I fired the rocket and it went straight because I actually done some research and built proper fins. But it only went straight for about 10 feet, at that point the rockets fins detached and now it was a completely unguided, finless rocket. It promptly made a 180 turn and flew straight at me. Fun times as a kid.
I built a RPG for my 1985 school science program I did almost exactly this and stabilized the rockets by adding weight to the nose. I added 4 extra fins. I used a metal coat hanger, a 2x4 and broomstick, hinge, and plastic pvc tube, and clear plastic clip board for a blast shield . It hit the target every time.
Nice build, seems reminiscent of the USMC Mk153 SMAW. I wish you had included a full length shot of the launcher after it was completed, in addition to the b-roll tracking shot.
Great build and video! :) I'm currently building a mortar launcher (using CO2 as a propellant). The mortar shell design is done and the launcher is in it's design stage.
😂 I thought I found a Chanel about making stuff so imagine my surprise when I look at the channel and find nothing but Yokai watch! I was so confused because this is very personal and I thought you had to have made videos like this before now 😂