Blackpowder

[jjamna]

Anyone ever made any Blackpowder? I got some recipes and think I am going to try it. Any Pointers?
Jeff

Sorry this should have been down one column

[missionary5155]

Years ago as a young teen we made a 3/4 water pipe cannon. We soon ran out of the only supply of black my dad had "hid" in a drawer. We looked in an encyclopedia and walla a recipe. Sulfer was a road flare... cruched up some charcoal for the black stuff and salt peter was found in the large kitchen matches. We mashed, stirred, and the stuf was a real fizzle.
But a 12 inch 3/4 inch water pipe loaded with about 50 small little pebbles is a nasty water churning device when fired from the upper river bank down into the river from about 35 feet.

[MT Gianni]

Use real charcoal not the 1/2 concrete product market for bbq's.