Amateur Rocket Motor Construction: A Complete Guide To The Construction Of Homemade Solid Fuel Rocket Motors | 
|  | | | Title: | Amateur Rocket Motor Construction: A Complete Guide To The Construction Of Homemade Solid Fuel Rocket Motors | | Author: | David G. Sleeter | | Publisher: | Teleflite Corp | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | May, 2004 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 093038704X / 9780930387044 | | List Price: | $29.95 | | Amazon Price: | $29.95 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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Written for people who arent rocket engineers, "Amateur Rocket Motor Construction" teaches the reader how to make real solid fuel rocket motors with simple tools and easy-to-find materials. Richly illustrated with more than 600 photos and drawings, this incredible 8-1/2 x 11, 528 page book contains everything you need to know to make 5 homemade rocket fuel formulas and 54 proven and tested rocket motor designs.
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Customer Reviews:
• Good Content. The Format Is Too Large. 12 June, 2008
A thorough and well written book about constructing rocket motors on an amateur level. A lot of work has been put in to produce this book. The format, however, is too large, and makes the book a bit clumpsy to use and to bring somewhere you'd want to construct rocket motors (it is a instruction book and should be in a managable size).
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2S1OUEL3JQIEK
• Obsolete Info 16 May, 2008
I was disapointed with this book, basically it's a reprint of old material.
The majority of the book is machinist drawings of needed tools, that unless your a machinist, forget it ! yes, there are alternatives mentioned but they lack the quality needed to construct and use practically.
Notice the other reviews are years old and may have reflected times back then, but the info today is old and obsolete. All the websites mentioned in the book are no longer active and since dead.I bought the book because it claimed build homemade motors from "C to G",not so !!
The motors illustrated are of a phyically different size and have to be modified to fit any standard rocket.You are to wrap tape around the motor until it fits in your rocket,I would be too embarassed to suggest that if I wrote the book.
I would have like to have seen "anything" mentioned about reloads for Aerotec motors.It seems that reloads for reloadable motors would have been a great chapter and highly sought after,but not a single word on the subject,evidence of old info.
The chemical formulations are okay,but alittle more effort in updateing this book should have done before reprinting it.
I've tried to contact the author many times only to be ignored,apparently the only concern is selling copies not interest in the subject.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1O34YB2VYQZ8S
• Very Delailed 17 August, 2008
Old data , current chemicals an d type unavailable dated, but if your experianced or skilled I would read it
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3AJHQKI482B3S
• Best Book Ever Written About Rocket Motors! 28 June, 2007
I have read this book, and the reread it, it is very informative, and educational as well, it tells you the do's and don't of motor building , how to make, and get, and improvise, your own motors. Step by step instructions and I only wish there were more books written about technical "Hobbies" like this one, since most Americans shy away for fear of local state and federal laws, when in fact you can make excellent Model Rocket Motors with sugar and a simple safe easily obtainable nitrate! Not a thing more to make it "blast off"
Even if you don't make the motors,its a FUN read and very educational for the novice chemistry and physic students.
I loved it!
I recommend it....
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2GQ5B05N6G3G
• A Must Have. 14 July, 2004
This is one of the most complete books written on the subject of rocket motor construction. It is easy to read and follow. Everyone from the beginner to the experienced Model Rocket Motor enthusiast will find this book indispensable. Mr. Sleeter will guide you through every step required to get you off the ground. This is a must have for any library. Thanks David great work.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3HP5RYXJGXP1V
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