Nice tutorial 👍

How large is that milling container? What's the media, and how much do u use? How many grams are you putting into a container that size? Is it just the usual 75/15/10 formula? How long is the Mill running for? Sorry about all the questions. Just trying to gather as much information as possible. Thanks for sharing, Dyl

Hi Caleb, I would like to buy this ball mill, could you tell me exactly how many balls should I put in it and the formula divided into grams of these substances: Potassium nitrate, sulfur, carchoal airfloit and dextrin?

Is this a 100% ethyl apinthe?

l am needing to make “FFg” black powder for my .75 caliber flintlock. Any idea on the size mesh I’d need? Can’t really get a definitive answer anywhere.

@alexwang2419

6 жыл бұрын

I'm planning on getting some GOEX ff to see what the size is.

@dmithsmith5880

6 жыл бұрын

TheTyler701 For any muzzle loader use, the powder really should be damp pressed with a shop press in a die at around 6,000 psi into pucks. Once pucks are allowed to dry crush them up and screen to desired size. I catch everything between 20 and 30 mesh for FF and everything between 30 and 40 mesh for FFF. it's the consistency of your grain size you want along with dialing in the measured amount of charge your gun likes. Every brand of powder runs a slightly different size and range of mesh for what they call FF, FFF etc. You can get away with not pressing it but you will find that a storebought 100 grains measure of say Goex will have similar power of about 150 grains of unpressed and will have pretty heavy fouling and not be very efficient because it will not burn as clean and crisp. Properly pressed Black Powder should be pretty close to 80 grains weight at 80 grains volume. Unpressed it's closer to 50 weight per 80 volume.

@dmithsmith5880

5 жыл бұрын

@James Zachary Oh ya my bad.. I meant like 6,000 psi. I am running a 1 5/8 die with a 6 ton press maxed out so..at like 2.11 sq inches @12,000 lbs is around 5800 psi.. really anything over like 4,000 psi as long as you are damp pressing is adequate as long as it is consistent.. my pucks sound just like poker chips on a table. I find 1.5cc of water per 12 grams of meal without dextrin is just about the perfect amount of water. I get like 1 drop of water that squishes out of the die.

@donaldbarnett8045

4 жыл бұрын

FFg Black powder is a grain size that will pass through nothing smaller than a 16 mesh screen. But ffg refers to modern Black powder (the type made since the early 1700) it is compressed into cakes under high pressures (6 tons) or about half its wet size these cakes are then crushed and screened to various sizes such as fg= -12 mesh to +16 mesh, ffg -16 mesh to +30 mesh and fffg -20 mesh to +50 mesh The ffg is the most commonly used type fffg is used only for small cal pistols or rifles under .40 cal.. There is a ffffg size but is used only in flash pans and anything that passes the ffffg screen is called dust and is used only for pyrotechnics.

What size mesh for lifting small shells ?

What size mesh? Audio is a bit distorted.

Could you please tell me do you add dextrin into the mixture before adding alcohol? everytime when I dont use dextrin， I can't get the power into a ball. it just stay like a mess

@buckshot9135

4 жыл бұрын

If you are having trouble getting the black powder to the proper consistency it's either too wet or too dry. The dextrin is used to make the black powder more durable after granulating. Add it before or after mixing BP.

@funkyole1125

3 жыл бұрын

Use dextrin liquor if you having trouble with your mixing. Add dextrin to cold water and set water to boil stirring constantly like your making gravy. Let it cool then add to your meal d powder. I don’t add dextrin to the powder anymore, I make the liquor instead. Works great and decently powerful also.two ounces in a four inch ball shell lifts the shell way too high.

@ArChemistry124

3 жыл бұрын

@@funkyole1125 thanks very much

@23gsxr1k

3 жыл бұрын

You dont need to use dextrin works perfectly fine without it

I always end up with a really tough white residue after the burn, any ideas what this is and how I can eliminate it? I aim to use my BP in firearms and the commercial stuff only leaves black soot but when ever I make it its horrible residue. PLEASE HELP

@scrp7142

6 жыл бұрын

caveymoley be sure to properly mill it

@com3t

6 жыл бұрын

Either your ingredients are impure or you're not mixing it intimately. Study further on how to mix.

@robertlombardo8437

5 жыл бұрын

caveymoley Yeah I get that too! I was thinking it was because I was using palm tree charcoal. Luckily, a bit of warm water seems more than enough to cure it.

@jmartinez1008

4 жыл бұрын

You need to mill longer and use higher grade chemicals willow is best for black powder.

No dextrin?

No idea on grain size.. and the white powder is just black powder residue.

@RohitSingh-qc6rb

5 жыл бұрын

Powder Men brother what is thate liquid

@RohitSingh-qc6rb

5 жыл бұрын

Name of the liquid

No dextrin?? No water mixed? Arent they needed?

@dmithsmith5880

5 жыл бұрын

No dextrin needed at 6,000psi it makes no difference and just makes the powder not burn as clean and crisp. I use 1.5cc of straight water to 12 grams of meal mixed together well and die press it in a 1 5/8 die at around 6,000 psi. Makes really nice stuff. IMHO the water helps mix the comp better making the chemical bond tighter on a molecular level and improves the quality to some extent then just going dry... Another thing is people tend to use alcohol in the water to speed drying, again IMHO its counter productive, kno3 is not soluble in alchohol so it's not helping out at all with your intimate blending of ingredients.

Why this process it important? I have coffee mixer makes it so ffffine powder. Am I need to corned it? Why?

Are those steel bearings?

Can you regranulate the powder if it granulated too big first time

@mihael64

Жыл бұрын

Yes

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Instead of 70% alcohol can we use 91%?

@arvintahmasebian8571

2 жыл бұрын

I'm no expert, but I have seen people use all ratios of isopropyl. I would recoment 70%, that's what I use and it works well. Although, I doubt it matters.

Can you tell me what alcohol has been mixed in it?

@jamesluck2969

5 жыл бұрын

It's just 70% rubbing alcohol I think he uses 50/50 mix water to alchohol.

Can I have a recipe for making star-burning stars?

@isaac-vb1ng

4 жыл бұрын

I believe its rocket candy granules coated in black powder that makes the stars

@funkyole1125

3 жыл бұрын

A simple star is 44,44,12. Add dextrin to water to make a “gravy”,then use to wet the star mixture.cut to the size you want to use it for and dry before use. Pot nitrat, charcoal,sulfur is what the above is.

You also need te put water in it

Not when you are making it with alcohol. The alcohol kinda binds it.

@jamesluck2969

5 жыл бұрын

I've tried this a few times with the standard 75/15/10 BP mix without much success in producing suitable granules, my granules always end up being weak and crumbly even from minor movements. I dont know if this us a standard for this style if graduation. It wont be a problem I haven't produced large quantities of it yet, and I'm expecting some high quality dextrin in a few days, just to keep things constant. Any insight that you could give me would be appreciated. James.

@amarkundu2272

5 жыл бұрын

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@parthakundu6272

5 жыл бұрын

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5 жыл бұрын

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@donaldbarnett8045

4 жыл бұрын

The alcohol only makes it dry a little faster it is the water in the alcohol which dissolves the potassium nitrate and recrystallizes part of it into the charcoal that makes it burn faster. BP was made quite successfully using only water for hundreds of years. This processes is more correctly called" corning" granulation infers a more modern commercial compressed powder. Sorry! only a few picky points great and useful vido please make moore.

Could you share with me the formula for making rocket launcher can't fly high?

@edsz6458

4 жыл бұрын

Try to heat a Kno3(60%) and sugar (40%) mixture at VERY low flame. After the mixture started getting brown color,put it in a thin metal wall pipe, it should work

@truongminhnguyen6500

4 жыл бұрын

Could you share me the formula for making explosives from Nh4no chemical3 m

Curious about how the alcohol 'binds it'. KNO3 is not soluble in alcohol, while a bit of water will dissolve the KNO3 and have it bind better; also a little water won't cause large crystals. The last batch I did, no binders etc, I did with pure alcohol. The powder was fast, but I'm not sure how durable it will be. But then, I go through it pretty fast also..

@0xzie

3 жыл бұрын

Water dissolves the KNO3 add allows it to crystallize, this lowers the power. Alcohol dissolves the resin in the wood( as long as you're using soft wood like willow/cedar). It also drys much faster.

@mihael64

Жыл бұрын

I don't exactly know, when I tried it, it was rathet hard, burned slower than the original powder and worked preety much the same up to 3 months after

@mihael64

Жыл бұрын

@Patrick I did

Does it have to be isopropyl, or can i use just regual ethanol?

@23gsxr1k

3 жыл бұрын

You can use regular water in a spray bottle aswell if you dont have either it will just take longer to dry

@sinyokentos4204

3 жыл бұрын

@@23gsxr1k what if thinner used?

@footingball5566

2 жыл бұрын

Helo

@mihael64

Жыл бұрын

Ethanol is probably the best since I'm guessing it evaporates fastest but water, isopropyl and possibly even methanol eill eork too

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