Comments on: Jihadi Rocketry Club? http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/15/jihadi-rocketry-club/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:41:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Quilly Mammoth http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/15/jihadi-rocketry-club/comment-page-1/#comment-66334 Quilly Mammoth Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:57:15 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/15/jihadi-rocketry-club/#comment-66334 Correction: There are people using Karo and Potaasium Nitrate to make rocket motors: http://www.jamesyawn.com/syrup/index.html My goodness. Correction: There are people using Karo and Potaasium Nitrate to make rocket motors:
http://www.jamesyawn.com/syrup/index.html

My goodness.

]]> By: Quilly Mammoth http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/15/jihadi-rocketry-club/comment-page-1/#comment-66333 Quilly Mammoth Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:30:37 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/15/jihadi-rocketry-club/#comment-66333 I think these guys had the material they thought would allow them to go into the woods and experiment with propellant int eh hopes of making their own version of the Quassam rocket. Too bad the details keep changing. Part of the problem is that either the Assistant US Attorney is an idiot or he is lying to us. "In the trunk, deputies found four small sections of PVC pipe, at least three of which were stuffed with a 'potassium nitrate explosive mixture' of potassium nitrate, Karo syrup and kitty litter, Hoffer said. He said the kitty litter served as a binder to keep the substance from coming out of the pipes, which were not capped." Kitty litter is often used to model nozzles. Or even _be_ nozzles of lower thrust motors. You use a form and tamp the clay (aka kitty litter) around it to make the cones. Moreover, I seriously doubt that a mixture of Karo an Potassium Nitrate could be made to explode, much less ignite. OTOH, the members of the Jihadi Rocket Club are morons as well. They seemed to be using Karo as a replacement for regular sugar. I do think they were up to no good. The video of the Quassam, which is alleged to use gasoline as one of its components, is proof enough. I think these guys had the material they thought would allow them to go into the woods and experiment with propellant int eh hopes of making their own version of the Quassam rocket. Too bad the details keep changing.

Part of the problem is that either the Assistant US Attorney is an idiot or he is lying to us.

“In the trunk, deputies found four small sections of PVC pipe, at least three of which were stuffed with a ‘potassium nitrate explosive mixture’ of potassium nitrate, Karo syrup and kitty litter, Hoffer said. He said the kitty litter served as a binder to keep the substance from coming out of the pipes, which were not capped.”

Kitty litter is often used to model nozzles. Or even _be_ nozzles of lower thrust motors. You use a form and tamp the clay (aka kitty litter) around it to make the cones.

Moreover, I seriously doubt that a mixture of Karo an Potassium Nitrate could be made to explode, much less ignite.

OTOH, the members of the Jihadi Rocket Club are morons as well. They seemed to be using Karo as a replacement for regular sugar.

I do think they were up to no good. The video of the Quassam, which is alleged to use gasoline as one of its components, is proof enough.

]]>