I have some KNO3 (About 225g) left over from making smoke bombs, and want something fun to do with it. I was looking at making some flash powder.
Ive seen many different combinations of things to make it and I was wondering what people with experience in it think is best. Ive only got KNO3 so I need to buy any of the other "ingredients". I was looking at getting Mg powder to do KNO3 / Mg but it was too expensive. So I looked into KNO3 / Al / S . Al powder + Sulphur powder was cheaper than just Mg powder so I decided that was the way to go.
So basically, anyone have any ideas about the best mixture / cheapest place to get the chemicals in the UK, and how can I make some small bangs.
Preferably without blowing off my fingers or getting the police round.
Thanks
Also I wasnt sure where to put this so sorry if its in the wrong place.
I used to have a thread.. but... well.
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Can I ask where you got the potassium nitrate from, I know you can get it as a fertilizer or stump removed, but haven't found any yet.
Flash power is really dangerous
I live in the UK and I got it from [url=http://www.hobbychemicals.co.uk/]Hobby Chemicals[/url], they are shutting down I believe though.
Got 1m of visco fuse free with it too.
[QUOTE=ksenior;30615605]Flash power is really dangerous[/QUOTE]
If you compress it, then it basically becomes a bomb, and if you get a [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hbTsL3Rnwk]large amount[/url] of it then yes it can be dangerous. But I'm a pretty sensible person, I mostly plan on just making a few, uncompressed fwooshes, maybe a couple of grams.
[QUOTE=Mort and Charon;30615485]Can I ask where you got the potassium nitrate from, I know you can get it as a fertilizer or stump removed, but haven't found any yet.[/QUOTE]
Any hardware/landscape store. I can pick up a large amount from the feed & seed in my town. But I live in the country, I don't expect people to have a feed & seed in a city.
I ate this stuff once and pooped fire
Better get fireworks and cut them for their gunpowders and collect it. Or just pop those fireworks. Firecrackers are the best IMO.
You could pry open some bullets and empty out the gun powder, tightly wrap it in some wax paper and stick a fuse in it.
well -snip-
[QUOTE=Folgergeist;30619703]You could pry open some bullets and empty out the gun powder, tightly wrap it in some wax paper and stick a fuse in it.[/QUOTE]
Do NOT mess with live munitions you idiot.
Bullets don't exactly always need to go off with a gun around them.
All they need is a prying jackhole.
this is mad dangerous. are you really sure you want to do this?
I want to make thermite soon. That seems more fun than sissy "flash powder".
[QUOTE=Lol-Nade;30624722]I want to make thermite soon. That seems more fun than sissy "flash powder".[/QUOTE]
I fully support this decision.
rotten eggs is thataway pal
[QUOTE=Lebowski;30623891]Do NOT mess with live munitions you idiot.
Bullets don't exactly always need to go off with a gun around them.
All they need is a prying jackhole.[/QUOTE]
two plyers is all you need the bullet wont go off if you do it slowly and in a twisting motion.
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clamp one to the casing and one to the led bullet and twist, nothing will set it off.
[QUOTE=Mort and Charon;30615485]Can I ask where you got the potassium nitrate from, I know you can get it as a fertilizer or stump removed, but haven't found any yet.[/QUOTE]
united nuclear
mix bleach and ammonia
[QUOTE=Folgergeist;30625013]two plyers is all you need the bullet wont go off if you do it slowly and in a twisting motion.
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clamp one to the casing and one to the led bullet and twist, nothing will set it off.[/QUOTE]
Multiple stories about how guys tried this exact method and blew their damn hands off.
Don't fuck around with bullets.
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[QUOTE=Lol-Nade;30624722]I want to make thermite soon. That seems more fun than sissy "flash powder".[/QUOTE]
thermite is a good carpet cleaner if you dump a pile of it on the middle of the rug and light it
your mother will be so pleased at her sparkling carpet
[QUOTE=Lebowski;30625571]Multiple stories about how guys tried this exact method and blew their damn hands off.
Don't fuck around with bullets.
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thermite is a good carpet cleaner if you dump a pile of it on the middle of the rug and light it
your mother will be so pleased at her sparkling carpet[/QUOTE]
no no let them
they're asking for it
hurr durr maekin bombs so epic XDXD
- Sulfur Powder (1 ounce)
- Sodium Chlorate (2 ounces)
- 400-mesh aluminum powder
Add your sulfur powder to a beaker, then, slowly pour the sodium chlorate onto the sulfur, and finally, add your aluminum powder to it. Try not to breathe in the aluminum powder. Mix it with a [b]smooth, plastic[/b] object, like a plastic pen. [B]Never use rubbery materials for mixing or packing.[/B] After you've mixed it, presto! Flash powder! Homemade fireworks!
What reason do you have that makes you want to do this anyway OP
[QUOTE=V1ro;30625892]- Sulfur Powder (1 ounce)
- Sodium Chlorate (2 ounces)
- 400-mesh aluminum powder
Add your sulfur powder to a beaker, then, slowly pour the sodium chlorate onto the sulfur, and finally, add your aluminum powder to it. Try not to breathe in the aluminum powder. Mix it with a [b]smooth, plastic[/b] object, like a plastic pen. [B]Never use rubbery materials for mixing or packing.[/B] After you've mixed it, presto! Flash powder! Homemade fireworks![/QUOTE]
I also suggest using the diaper method...
place the powders on the center of a large piece of paper and manipulate the paper by slightly folding it to mix the powders together, this way you don't need anything touching the powders except the paper.
video for reference:
btw, [b] DO NOT tap, hit, grind, or apply pressure to the powder mixure AT ALL. and please do it outside and not in your room or something[/b] and the guy is an idiot for tapping the mixture just saying, video is just for reference to diaper method
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[url]http://www.rotteneggs.com/r3/show/se/423061.html[/url]
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Go to that link, has a full tutorial complete with measurements and pictures.
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OP is a terrorist. Or Demoman.
Either way, we shouldn't be telling him how to do this stuff :v:
July is just around the corner just wait and buy some little dynamites and extract the powder and make a bomb that way.
Or, if you're feeling ambitious, buy about 10 boxes and sparklers and a roll of duck tape
[img]http://pad2.whstatic.com/images/thumb/c/cb/Sparkler-Explosion-the-Second.jpg/251px-Sparkler-Explosion-the-Second.jpg[/img]
[b]Beware of shrapnel[/b]
Give the bitch some flowers. Bitches love flowers.
I used to be really into making explosives a while back so heres a few tips:
Buy the magnesium powder, your not going to be able to make anything decent without it.
Aluminium powder is your friend, buy lots of it. It goes well with a lot of oxidisers, allows you to make thermite and can be used as a filler if you dont have enough magnesium powder.
One of the cheapest and most fun explosives you can make is CuO/Al/Mg. 70% copper oxide 20% aluminium and 10% magnesium (or more if you can spare it). Its not very sensitive, visco fuse will not light it so you need to make a primer. Flash powder is the best. Put a bit where you want your fuse to go, then stick your fuse in it.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntIAgdP6LD4&feature=channel_video_title[/media]
I set it off with magnesium but I don't recommend it because it fails to light 50% of the time.
[QUOTE=Folgergeist;30627010]July is just around the corner just wait and buy some little dynamites and extract the powder and make a bomb that way.
Or, if you're feeling ambitious, buy about 10 boxes and sparklers and a roll of duck tape
[img]http://pad2.whstatic.com/images/thumb/c/cb/Sparkler-Explosion-the-Second.jpg/251px-Sparkler-Explosion-the-Second.jpg[/img]
[b]Beware of shrapnel[/b][/QUOTE]
Oh god sparkler bombs. My friends and I used to twist the sparkler coating off the piece of metal and collect it, then grind it up into a fine powder. The resulting powder was amazing when burned.
It's pretty damn hard to get fireworks in Australia but when i was in Taiwan during Chinese New Year, my uncle took me out to a park at night, buried a ball of black powder taken from a shitton of fireworks in the ground with a fuse sticking out, and set it off and it blew a pretty fat cloud of dirt up in our faces. Was fucking awesome.
Seriously though, for about an entire month during Chinese New Year it sounds like a warzone in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. Explosions everywhere, nonstop. Good luck sleeping.
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