My homemade black powder

[Whiterabbit]

So, ran 3+ pounds last week. Need to work on productivity:

Need a good way to pulverize pucks. Im using a mortar and pestle, but the chunks are too big for the coffee grinder. I need a better way to take down the pucks to manageable sizes. Any ideas on a better way?

First thing i tried was backing out the grind ALL the way and crunching the chunks to manageable sizes the adjusting back down to 3F, but it still jams up my grinder plenty.

Maybe a conical cup and ball and use the press to smash?

[LAGS]

I took a section of 2" PVC pipe about 6"long.
Put a PVC cap on it.
Then would drop the pucks into it , and break them up into smaller chunks with a Hammer handle.
The cap I used was one with a square end.
But I am sure the ones with a slightly domed end will work just as well.

[swamp]

I use tile nippers or the wire cutter notch on pliers.
swamp

[Boz330]

Baseball bat with thick aluminum pan works for me. But I do like the PVC hammer handle idea.

Bob

[Fly]

That is how I do it also. Base ball bats are quick & easy. It works for beating the women off me also.(wink)

Fly

[Vettepilot]

Oh no! Don't "beat those women off!!"

Too many women, so little time...



Vettepilot

[LAGS]

Funny.
Around me , the women are holding the Bat

[Vettepilot]

Ha ha ha,,, yep, that happens too! (Reminds me of both my sister, and my sister in law!)

Vettepilot

[brass410]

I've heard sometimes they are the bat, maybe bat was short for battleaxe, not sure. It came up in poker conversation last week I think.

[Hotfxr]

Just a quick question, has anyone kept track of how well homemade BP stands up to long term storage? I have some commercial powder that is over 50 years old and it seems to work as well as when it was new. My guess is that as long as it was kept dry that is could last just as long, but I have nothing to back that guess up with.

[Boz330]

The deer that I shot this past season was shot with some powder from 2012, she didn't seem to tell the difference.

Bob

[Dapaki]

Just a quick question, has anyone kept track of how well homemade BP stands up to long term storage? I have some commercial powder that is over 50 years old and it seems to work as well as when it was new. My guess is that as long as it was kept dry that is could last just as long, but I have nothing to back that guess up with.

My source for commercial black powder had WWll black powder in cloth bags for artillery a while back and it works as well as SWISS I bought last year. I even watched a documentary about casks of BP being found in the rubble of buildings that were hundreds of years old and still worked fine.

[Nobade]

Once it's mixed together it works from then on unless it gets wet enough to wash the kno3 out of it.

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[Vettepilot]

And all this with NO added preservatives or corn syrup!!!



Vettepilot

[Dapaki]

Too bad its so hard to find good KNO3 nowadays....

[Dapaki]

try the fertiliser store/ag supplies - 99.9% pure, greenhouse grade, soluble - 50 lb bag - should be less than 50 bucks

Not around here, it's all reported now and none of the 3 dozen agri stores I have visited or called will sell to an individual, gotta have a company account that uses it (hydro-seeding) as part of their offerings. I was buying it for $17.00 a bag for the prills. DUDA has it but its $100.00 a bag delivered.

[Freightman]

Ebay has it all the time. just type in KNO3

[Dapaki]

Ebay has it all the time. just type in KNO3

Too expensive, $1.00 a pound would be fine.

[Vettepilot]

Besides pricing going up, and fears of terrorism, what kills you is the dam price of shipping these days.

A while back I shipped 3 fairly light, medium size boxes to my daughter, 350 miles away. Cost me 85 bucks!! (USPS) I truly could have driven there, AND BACK, for less...

VETTEPILOT

[LAGS]

@Dapaki
Looks like you live on MN.
Did you look up Pryo Chem Source?.
That is where I get my Kno3 at about $3 a pound
They are out of MN.