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riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: buying model rockets |
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| I've got a club class at my elementary school and I've been thinking about the idea of having them launching model rockets. (it's just an idea) Has anyone seen a place that sells them? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: Re: buying model rockets |
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| riley wrote: |
| I've got a club class at my elementary school and I've been thinking about the idea of having them launching model rockets. (it's just an idea) Has anyone seen a place that sells them? |
No, but if you find one, I too am interested.
I was told (about 4 years ago) that the rocket motors are considered explosives and as such are illegal in Korea. I would love to discover that this is incorrect. |
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Winter Martyrium
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| I remember watching a group of university students set off their 'parachute equipped rockets' on a lovely fall saturday afternoon last year, along with flying remote control planes and whatnot, so I am certain that model rocket engines are available here somehow. |
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Col.Brandon
Joined: 09 Aug 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| What about making rockets out of 2 liter bottles and using compressed air and water. Much safer than pyrotechnics. |
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ttompatz
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Col.Brandon wrote: |
| What about making rockets out of 2 liter bottles and using compressed air and water. Much safer than pyrotechnics. |
We do that at school now. They are fun to play with.
At school summer camp we also made them from 600ml coke bottles and used vinegar/baking soda and a cork. Easier to do, and the kids can do it themselves without the need for the compressor.
The pyrotechnics ( at this point I would even settle for an Estes model kit ) are a personal hobby and not work related - but a display of pyrotechnics on school science day would be super kewl. |
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riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| What about making rockets out of 2 liter bottles and using compressed air and water. Much safer than pyrotechnics. |
In some ways this sounds like a much better idea than my original. (or at least much safer.) How exactly would that work? I would like to organize this into some sort of science based lesson.
I've become rather bored of teaching English and when I was given this club, I was told that I could teach anything. So, I'm doing just that. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| riley wrote: |
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| What about making rockets out of 2 liter bottles and using compressed air and water. Much safer than pyrotechnics. |
In some ways this sounds like a much better idea than my original. (or at least much safer.) How exactly would that work? I would like to organize this into some sort of science based lesson.
I've become rather bored of teaching English and when I was given this club, I was told that I could teach anything. So, I'm doing just that. |
Toy stores here sell "bottle rocket" kits for a few chunwon and then you just need a compressor. Some places have a hand pump that you can buy or you can use an electric compressor (which is what we did at my school last spring). |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:10 am Post subject: |
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How far up do those go? I bet they're much more boring than rockets with chemical engines. I launched a few of those when I was a kid. You can buy rockets with two or three stages, and some have a camera that you fix to the top that automatically takes a few pictures after it reaches the top of its flight and pops out. Then you get to see a rocket go waaay up into the air, and get pictures of where you are from above. You need a really big open space though because the rocket could get blown around on its way down after the parachute opens.
Looking at some Korean sites, a rocket here only costs about 10,000 won and after that you just buy engines to put in and set them off as much as you like. The launcher itself is about 50,000 won. Model rockets are dope. |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| I'm looking for Electric train HO and N scale model supply stores anywhere in Seoul if anyone knows of any. A few years ago Capt. Kirk pmd me and told me he saw a bunch of used ones somewhere but he didn't know if they were dummies or real locomotives. I know Seoul has a little bit of everything, and there's always Ebay, but there's something about going into a model shop and looking at all the new releases from Athern and Kato etc. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:45 am Post subject: |
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How far up do those go? I bet they're much more boring than rockets with chemical engines. I launched a few of those when I was a kid. You can buy rockets with two or three stages, and some have a camera that you fix to the top that automatically takes a few pictures after it reaches the top of its flight and pops out. Then you get to see a rocket go waaay up into the air, and get pictures of where you are from above. You need a really big open space though because the rocket could get blown around on its way down after the parachute opens.
Looking at some Korean sites, a rocket here only costs about 10,000 won and after that you just buy engines to put in and set them off as much as you like. The launcher itself is about 50,000 won. Model rockets are dope. |
You wouldn't perchance have a link to the site that has rockets and motors for sale here in Korea or know of a shop that carries them??
I know I can't import them. I tried.
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:59 am Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| mithridates wrote: |
How far up do those go? I bet they're much more boring than rockets with chemical engines. I launched a few of those when I was a kid. You can buy rockets with two or three stages, and some have a camera that you fix to the top that automatically takes a few pictures after it reaches the top of its flight and pops out. Then you get to see a rocket go waaay up into the air, and get pictures of where you are from above. You need a really big open space though because the rocket could get blown around on its way down after the parachute opens.
Looking at some Korean sites, a rocket here only costs about 10,000 won and after that you just buy engines to put in and set them off as much as you like. The launcher itself is about 50,000 won. Model rockets are dope. |
You wouldn't perchance have a link to the site that has rockets and motors for sale here in Korea or know of a shop that carries them??
I know I can't import them. I tried.
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http://www.edutoys.co.kr/pds.asp?code=0007
http://www.okgundam.co.kr/?doc=cart/list.php&ca_id=i030 |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:03 am Post subject: |
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Thanks!!!
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| It's amazing the government still allows these things to be sold. I once built a kit (I believe it was a "Phoenix" missile) that required one of those huge-ass "D" engines. I filled the nose cone with gun powder, strike-anywhere matches, and screws. When I launched the b*tch she went about three meters up, then shot sideways and slammed into our high school some 300 meters away for some fantastic pyrotechnics. We didn't stick around to survey the damage. |
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Tommy
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| I just saw some this weekend at the big bookstore in COEX. Had to be about half a dozen models but I have no idea what kind, as I was just passing by. |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I just saw some this weekend at the big bookstore in COEX |
That's truly awesome. Flame-spewing rocket engines in a bookstore.
Korea wins the Darwin Award for countries, hands down.
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