cheddacheese
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Hi I'm new here to rocket forums and actually quite new to rocketry as well. I've been building 3/4" by 3 1/2" rockets using KNO3 and sucrose fuel. I'm still perfecting my rockets but I'm having a hard time igniting them as winter in Michigan (yes I'm a damn yank!) is windy. So my solution was to make an igniter. I tried the christmas light igniter but they were too time consuming so I came up with the idea of using a disposible camera capacitor to ignite some black powder. This failed. Today I made some nitrocellulous out of acetone and ping pong balls. I mixed it pretty heavily with graphite powder hoping to have a conductive pyrogen but this also failed to ignite with both the camera discharge system and a 9v bridgewire system. I need help! I'm at a loss here..any suggestions would be much appreciated. Btw id rather not buy any kits, I like to diy stuff.