make your own BP?!
You know, it takes all types. There is actually an idiot advocating making your own BP and willing to sell you the kit (ingredients) to make 12#. Of course, this is for fireworks grade stuff but,...
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Good for you 'Nug! Making black powder - the height of foolishness.
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Believe it or not, if you peruse volume 5 of the Foxfire books you will find a chapter on making your own BP. The author spells out the procedure in plain English, and it requires refining potassium...
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Herschel House, and his brothers (Frank & John), are among the most well versed and talented of today's custom rifle smiths who use wholly traditional techniques to make their creations! Wallace...
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Herschel House made a Tennessee rifle (no frills version of the "Kentucky" rifle) for the Foxfire people, and he used the technique of hammer welding a bar of steel (or was it iron?) around a mandrel...
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eagle7 wrote:Herschel House made a Tennessee rifle (no frills version of the "Kentucky" rifle) for the Foxfire people, and he used the technique of hammer welding a bar of steel (or was it iron?)...
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As I noted above, making BP is not at all difficult; Just highly DANGEROUS. As TP pointed out, you should not do it because you can. Remember, part of the manufacturing process consists of crushing a...
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nothernug wrote:As I noted above, making BP is not at all difficult; Just highly DANGEROUS. As TP pointed out, you should not do it because you can. Remember, part of the manufacturing process...
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I was always amazed that such small things like what type of wood was used to make the charcoal made such a big difference in the quality of the powder. Remember reading that the ladies of either the...
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I've made a couple of small batches of BP in the long ago. It did work, but not all that well. Suspect that had it gone off while I was making it, there would have been some bad burns, but probably...
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Yeah, think if you stick to using wooden and brass equipment and maybe ground everything to guard against static, you'd be pretty safe. Seems I remember hearing it was the breaking the cake into...
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Was watching Gunsmoke the other day and it was the 2 part episode where some bank robbing safe crackers hired a guy (David Canary) to 'extract' nitroglycerin from dynamite so they could blow the...
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If one ever gets down to SE Pennsylvania, take a walking tour of the DuPont properties. Along the river, you'll see the small buildings with roller arrangements that are water-powered to make the...
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I remember reading that on the buildings where black powder was made, the boards on the side of the building were held on loosely by pegs. The idea was that if a detonation occurred, the boards would...
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I recently watched a video of a guy making and testing his own black powder. The process, once all the ingredients were assembled, was quite straight forward and easy, and he made his in small...
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Years ago Doc White started the Green River Rifle Works in Roosevelt, Utah ( I live about ten miles from there and he was my family Dr. for years ) and eventually he put together a black powder plant...
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