Daniel's scratch Rockets

Greetings people, my name is Daniel Burmas, my hobby that I'm making my blog on is building scratch rockets. The reason why I'm doing this hobby and blog is to get some new experience on things with rocketry and to take a break from building kits from model shops all the time.

I have never built any scratch model rockets before but every time I build rockets is when I buy some from shops so I'm getting to the point of taking a break of building kits and moving on to a new event like the one I'm talking about. The meaning of scratch is another way of saying homemade. I will be getting to the point of starting to build some homemade rockets and then I will take my skills of rocketry to a whole new level.

Some of you people would think that I'm crazy of building homemade rockets, it's too dangerous and I could get hurt or worse, if you have asked a question like that, then believe me it is not dangerous but the only thing that is dangerous is when you're making a homemade rocket motor. Some of you might have learned why it's too dangerous making a homemade rocket motor is because of the fuel of the motor when making rocket fuel, without a Licence for this experience, it is too dangerous and against the Law. People could get hurt or could die when making homemade rocket fuel without a Licence if they're not being careful because sometimes with the fuel when being molded into the motor if the fuel is melted down to a liquid form or mixed the ingredients with water then stirring for an hour until solidifying to a mashed potato form, there can be air pockets if the fuel is not compacted properly. Use one of the scenes of October Skies for example when lots of model rockets that Homer Hickam built kept on exploding because at the end of that event, the four rocket boys figured out that air pockets in the fuel was the cause of every explosion.

So back to the event, if other people are reading this blog then sometimes when I've added photos and/or a video of how to make some, then some people might be interested on giving it a go. Making scratch rockets will be a hard experience in the beginning for me sometimes to whoever's reading this blog but when time goes by after practice, I'll get some better experience.

Sometimes it's also okay to customize my scratch rockets to see how they perform while in flight and sometimes you can use scratch rocket parts to customize kit versions, sometimes for repairs or modifications.

I've been building and launching model rockets for years now and haven't thought about stopping and I'm not ever going to want to stop. I've build my first kits back in 2011 or 2012.