Log 9

While I’m stuck in FUEN1, let’s talk more about the current status of the project.

Nilson is finishing to adjust the Von Brawn’s measurement station and is going to be fully operational by the end of the week, so we can test saturday morning. We have 2 rocket engines on stock, ready to be fired. One of them I think won’t work well because we didn’t cook right the fuel, so we are going to start the tests with this one. The other one will hopefully work fine, but I think we are going to have bubble issues. I didn’t told you guys that in all of our former tests, the combustion wasn’t uniform. I have this theory that air bubbles were formed in the middle of the rocket fuel and they were messing up with the combustion process. So after saturday’s tests, if we have no surprises (like things blowing up!), we are going to cook the next amount of rocket fuel in an electric pan, so we can avoid sugar caramelization and in the same time dry the fuel as best as we can (humidity is a serious problem!). I know just the solution of our bubble problem (if my theory is correct, of course!). We can put smaller amounts of rocket fuel inside the PVC tubes before compress them with a piece of wood (we already compress the fuel, but I think we are putting to much fuel before each compression). After that, when we make the hole (we have to make a hole in the center of the tube to act as a combustion chamber) I’m gonna compress even more the rocket fuel. So I think our next rocket engine will be just perfect.

Ok, as I told you, I’m still stuck in FUEN1 and I don’t know when I’m gonna find the solution, so the guidance computer (formerly called embedded computer till I realize this name sucks!) won’t be ready soon, but fortunately we have plenty of work to do, which means daily logs for you guys (uhul)!