How to Make Recovery Wadding for Your Model Rockets

In this short instructible, I will be showing you how you can make your very own recovery wadding for your modelled rockets.

You will need:

1. Paper towel
2. A bowl of water (just a little)
3. Baking soda
4. And something to stir

I first added a little bit of baking soda. The one I was using was a bit old, so it was a bit clumpy. Then add a little bit of water, and stir.

Now you want to grab your paper towel. I folded mine in half so it would fit. Dip it in, and then bring it back out, unfolding it.

Now that you have it all dried, you want to lay it out to dry. I put mine on a piece of cardboard because I did not want this to get on my desk.

If you are interested in how recovery wadding works, you can read step 4. Otherwise, thanks for checking this out!!

Recovery wadding prevents damage to the parachute by functioning as a flame-resistant barrier. The baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is not flammable. And not only that, but this can be used to extinguish small fires, because it releases carbon dioxide when heated, which smothers the flames.