"Eric Pinnell" see my web site wrote in message
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| On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:31:22 -0500, Glenn Ashmore
| wrote:
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| Back when I was in high school we had a rocketry club. We didn't have
| all these prefabbed rocket motors. We turned nozzles out of aluminum or
| molded them in ceramic. Bodies were aluminum tube and we cooked up a
| concoction of neoprene, powdered aluminum and ammonium perchlorate in an
| electric frying pan with a Rube Goldberg remote stirrer. We had a
| healthy respect for them but nobody got upset. In fact the paper came
| out and covered one of our launches. Made the front page bragging on
| the quality of the local science education.
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| We would probably go to jail for that today.
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| The ATF desperately wants to put AP on the explosives list, but
| they can't because it isn't. Now that the model rocketeers are ****ed
| off, they've got a political hot potato.
| Me, I figure the more ATF and its ilk oppress people, the sooner
| the revolution starts.
| Of course, using ATF logic, we should ban gasoline, because that
| can be made into an explosive. Ditto fertilizer.
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| Eric Pinnell
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Actually, AP is explosive. The APCP (AP Composite Propellant) rocket fuel
in its binder can not explode. Under ANY circumstances. The binder burns
but the AP bits are too small to propagate an explosion.

TK

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