I made my own out of a piece of 1 3/4 I D steel pipe that I had lying around. Made the cap from 1/8 inch flat stock, again that I had lying around. I use it in my manual 12 ton hydraulic press. Works great and cost me nothing.

Thank you!! This is going to make a huge impact for corning black powder!

Don't tap any 3 of those pieces on anything hard (like each other)! Use wood or a rubber mallet. I'm a precision metal machinist. Over time, tools get damaged, don't speed that up.

@E85_STI

10 ай бұрын

So I do have a rubber mallet but I use the press to extract the puck now. I don’t remember what I did in the video but thank you for the input. You are lucky if you can make your own tools on a lathe or cnc.

Yep, those things work great for pucks and comets! I got the dab press 30mm one in stainless. It works great for a standard 1.91” tube with Ned gorski’s toilet/paper towel tube piston.

It might be better if this were made from Aluminum. Stainless steel and black powder might not be a good mix. (sparking)

@nickallen13

Жыл бұрын

Stainless steel and slow pressing will never create a spark. You'll strike the Powerball jackpot before a spark hot enough to ignite black powder would form from pressing black powder.

@renfield1101

Жыл бұрын

@@nickallen13 General rule, never say never. Nonetheless I'll stick to aluminum.

Why don’t you shorten the 4 tie rod shafts so your mickey mouse and very dangerous stack to get your new tool high enough for the ram travel? Also NEVER use aluminum as a base for any press!!! Also NEVER use your new tool assembly to use one part to tap of hammer upon the other remaining parts of the tool!!!!! That’s what a deadblow hammer is for. One more thing, never hold the pressure for more than a few seconds, as it will not compress the puck any more especially at 4,000 psi. Except for my two cents worth, it was a very interesting and informative video! If I heard you correctly, you got the buy of a lifetime for your new tool!!! I don’t think you could purchase the raw material for any less than you paid for the new tool. BTW, the puck looks absolutely beautiful. First 17 years of my manufacturing career I ran different presses that looked like a steel vault with a very small bulletproof window in the door. When pressing apart large die cases, the pressures were often 100,000+ psi. When the there was a failure of the upper push blocks it sounded like a small cannon fired and the bulletproof glass should have been called bullet-resistant glass, especially when the window had been through one to many failures!!! Also it was nice to have a extra couple of pairs of underwear close by. The loud sound would really scare the poop out of anyone in the close vicinity…. Please be careful my friend!!! Thanks for all your nice videos!!!!!

@carlosliscth7144

Жыл бұрын

Traduçao para portugues

And you could use it as a comet pump and possibly a mini tube support to

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

I want to press a green comet and see how it would work but I only have a 3 inch shell and these are 1 inch so I could fit a few in a shell.

@pa-pyro2804

2 жыл бұрын

@@E85_STI sure thats pretty big for 3 inch but a good c6 or fast charcoal would work. I would use it for spider shells they burn super fast. They stack much better in canister shells

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

@@pa-pyro2804 that’s true they would stack better in a cylinder. I’ve actually thought about making some 3lb double voice crackers to simulate a shell and throw stars in there. Using the pucks like you mentioned would be a great idea thank you for that.

I searched though your videos looking for the follow-up, what do you do with the pucks afterwards?

@E85_STI

3 ай бұрын

So I still have them and they burn really fast when burning small chunks but I keep forgetting to buy a manual grinder to break the pucks down but you can just crush them and they burn really fast.

@MegaMarclar

3 ай бұрын

@@E85_STI I bought a cheap grain grinder to try. Just trying to figure out what everybody's strategy is

Is that gauge pressure to force or pressure per square inch? Two different things

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

It’s only a pressure to force/psi but the pressure per square inch I have the calculations that woodys gave me for the square inch pressure per tool such as the 1/2 inch rammer or the 5/8 rammer.

@alohapyro3062

2 жыл бұрын

@@E85_STI right but I’m saying if you’re pressing to 2500p2f thinking that’s 2500psi then that’s inaccurate. That gague is p2f. Calculations need to be done in order to find out proper psi on the comp. There’s a formula out there somewhere I’d have to find it

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

@@alohapyro3062 I have some calculations that I get with my tools for black powder that I’ve posted on my channel when I was unboxing some of my tools. I get what you mean though for this type of comp and tool but I’ll post a video as the calculations I have do show a 1 inch rammer with a surface area of 0.785” and pressing that at 6,000 psi equals out to 4,710 lbs of force.

So can you make a puck with a c clamp vise with this tool aswell?

@E85_STI

Жыл бұрын

Well from my understanding it requires a lot of pressure for it to make it into a puck. An arbor press gives a good 1,000 lbs of force as I have shown this in a previous video but a clamp vise might not provide enough force but honestly I haven’t tried it with a vise.

@ishnifusmeadle

Жыл бұрын

Yes you can but it's ultimately not worth it...a c clampgenerally can't put out enough(unless you get an absolute monster but then there's other issues). I vice works but again, you have to have a beast, like an old machine shop one to get enough leverage while not compromising the vice block. Honestly your better off taking a cheap bottle jack and bolting/welding up a frame if you can afford the small 1 or 6 ton at harbor freight or similar.

The link to the tool no longer exists, is there a brand name or company that we could google and purchase outside of Amazon?

@E85_STI

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you can just check Amazon they will have them as the link is for a vendor that probably sold out.

@smartmeis

Жыл бұрын

just look up stainless steel cylinder pre-press form

How much moisture did you add.

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

Not very much probably about 3ml or 4 sprays from the alcohol water mix

@troymusillami9394

2 жыл бұрын

Was just about to ask this. I just ordered one and I'm stoked to use it cause granulating sucks in my opinion and hopefully this will work better

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

@@troymusillami9394 it does I just broke it up into chunks and it burns

What are the pucks used for?

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

You break them up and place them in grades for lift, burst, etc.. it’s much faster than granulating as I pressed this puck quickly. Besides the wait time for the press I’m sure you can just press it with high pressure for a few seconds and be good.

@tonyf.8858

2 жыл бұрын

The finished pucks are crushed and then sifted thru 2 or 3 different size screens to make different grades of BP for different applications, for instance, a larger size may be used for lifting a shell into the air while a smaller size might be used for the burst charge, as it burns faster, (I think that's how it goes), but you get the idea.

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyf.8858 yup I have broken them up and starting to grade them a bit but I don’t have all the screens I want just yet.

@tonyf.8858

2 жыл бұрын

@@E85_STI When you get all your screens, can you let me know what sizes you used to grade your BP? I know I don't have all the right screens, either.

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyf.8858 so right now off Amazon I bought an 8 mesh and they sell different sizes but they do sell on pyrocreations the set of smaller screens for sorting out the FFG and FFFG sizes but I can make a video talking about it.

Could make some 30mm comets

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I was just looking at my green torch mix which I could press into a bigger puck/comet. That’s an awesome idea.

@millah6110

2 жыл бұрын

Make a glitter comet to put on top on a rocket add a passfire and send er

@E85_STI

2 жыл бұрын

@@millah6110 yeah that’s a great idea. I’ve been actually thinking of making a parachute with a flare at the end. I have a rocket with homemade parachute but I have to maybe fuse the flare on the end.

We're did you order that at

@E85_STI

Жыл бұрын

I got it off Amazon it’s a rosin press but I don’t smoke so I use it for this. They have a rectangular one as well.

What is the purpose of this????

@E85_STI

Ай бұрын

This speeds up the process for granulation but also when compressed like this it forces the nitrate into the charcoal and gives you a very fast powder. People that make BP for shooting guns actually do this process and grind it to their F size needed.

@whisperingdeath308

Ай бұрын

@@E85_STI Awesome thank you for explaining that to me. I watch everything black powder and just subscribed to your channel. Really wanna learn more.

@E85_STI

Ай бұрын

@@whisperingdeath308 I do show how to make your own charcoal and since I’ve been making it I haven’t bought any in about 4 years of making this powder. I do also have other compositions such as colored smoke, stars and whistle fuel on the channel if interested. Now for a really good puck to form you need something like 12 tons of pressure and it almost turns to a glass after it’s pressed but I only have 6 tons so these still burn really fast but it’s also the chems I use

6.8 "aluminium just like this " ??? If this is aluminium i am astronaut my friend ,sorry to say that but the sound doesn't hear like aluminium plus you say it multiple times "this is heavy " which aluminium isn't heavy maybe an alloy with aluminium in it yes but solid aluminium no..! It hear like 304 stainless steel and be careful because if it spark's we never see your videos again!

@Ntwadumela1

Жыл бұрын

This is a Rosineer Pre-Press Cylindrical Mold made of Stainless Steel. He knows what he has.

@willowpine2604

Жыл бұрын

​@@Ntwadumela1I hope so because the results will be devastating if a spark occur...i use harden brass 50mm and the wall have thickness 15mm... 20ton bottle jack and the density of the puck is exactly 1.68 cc!

@Ntwadumela1

Жыл бұрын

@@willowpine2604 I don't think even hitting the hammer on the piston would produce sparks in this case, not to mention pressing it slowly with a press. 1.68 cc? You probably mean g/cc. How did you measure it so precisley?

@willowpine2604

Жыл бұрын

@@Ntwadumela1 yes sorry g/cc by cutting a square cube (1cm each side) and then weighting in 5 digit's scale !

@willowpine2604

Жыл бұрын

@@Ntwadumela1 it isn't only the shock to produce spark is the friction also because how sure can you be that this piston doesn't contain ferrous metals in it ! ?

Does anyone know where to buy one of these? I looked on Amazon with no luck