home made black powder

[Hammerhead]

then i can fill the jug with somethin other than cool aid

[crazell]

Thank you Mr Pharmacist

Kris we like you and would really rather you stuck around to see your 21st Birthday!

I would like to 2nd that emotion !!!!!!

[DEADDAWG]

Even though I made powder in my younger and dumber days, I don't recommend it. But if you're hell bent and bound and determined to do it, you can get your chemicals here: http://www.cheap-chemicals.com/filter.asp?f=CH8062%2CCH8064%2CCH8066%2CCH8068%2CCH5300%2CCH5302%2CCH8315&m=2&cm_mmc=Google+AdWords-_-Chemicals+-+Black_Powder-_-black%20powder+-+Phrase-_-+--+1884395813%7C-%7C100000000000000042444&cm_guid=1-_-100000000000000042444-_-1884395813

You can also use potassium perclorate or potassium clorate as a 50 % substitute for potassium nitrate.

My advise though is don't do it. I got lucky and didn't get hurt or killed.

[William]

Let me make this perfectly clear!  (yeah I know...) 

This site does not encourage the making of your own powder. It is a very risky undertaking and even following the appropriate safety steps it is still highly a dangerous undertaking


However there are a few recipes on the internet if you do wish to try it...

Bump- yes, I know, I'm being a wet blanket but this kind of stuff does get monitored by government types sometimes.

[old salt]

OK I have said this before. I have made just about every kind expedient explosive from black powder to nitro.. Thank God I got away with it, but you are playing a very dangerous game of Russion roulette. When I did this I was in the military and was working in a fairly controlled situation. One small mistake and you have lost a hand, an eye, or your life.

[William]

OK I have said this before. I have made just about every kind expedient explosive from black powder to nitro.. Thank God I got away with it, but you are playing a very dangerous game of Russion roulette. When I did this I was in the military and was working in a fairly controlled situation. One small mistake and you have lost a hand, an eye, or your life.

Agreed.  There are a number of high school chemistry teachers that lost body parts and their jobs after concoting a nitrogen/iodine explosive that is harmless until is dries out, then becomes shock sensitive, meaning that like nitroglycerin is will go off when you breath on it the wrong way. 

[captkody]

i posted it for informational purposes only

[DandJofAZ]

I never got killed by black powder as a kid....just burned the hair off my face and left side of head and turned left arm a nice shade of BLACK..lived through it and was more careful after that ....had help from little brother....he managed to drop a match into the bag we were blasting things out of..he ducked and I burned. It will boom without being contained!!  We hadn't even made pipe bombs yet..(needed the fuse)..

Doug

PS  Kris--it really isn't worth it...stick with smoke poles...

[mongrel]

Kris, your enthusiasm for this pasttime is admirable, but in this case your enthusiasm is precisely the quality that could get you injured or killed. In a young man of your age the line between "enthusiasm" and "impatience" is very fine, and in this case crossing it might very well mean you won't be coming back. There's plenty for you to learn, yet, without messing with this.

So far as the recipe having been posted for informational purposes, I notice it was after multiple warnings and admonitions and with full awareness that Kris is fascinated with the whole idea. At the same time that a person has every right to say what he pleases, and give out whatever legal information he wishes, with every right comes a responsibility to consider the potential consequences of exercising that right. Blow yourself up and I couldn't care less -- I'll chalk it up to Darwin having been right and go about my business. Giving a kid the information that makes such a mishap possible, though, and declaring it was just for informational purposes (and, I suspect, that whatever happens as a result is HIS problem) -- well, I realize that with my opinion and a dollar I might be able to buy a cup of coffee, but my humble opinion is that it was a hugely irresponsible thing to have done.

[old salt]

I am locking this topic because safety reasons for all concerned.
There will no further dicssion allowed
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