BP ingredients source list. these were taken from the thread in bites some or all is out of context but I tried to leave enough text to explain. Also included are links to other info for making BP. Please give more sources or comments on these. Don't drift so we can have a easy place to find this info.
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Atom73
EBay, scienceforyou.net is where I got mine.
Fatboy
I have found an easy source for salt peter(KNO3) at lowes. it is the spectricide stump remover, MSDS Sheet, and Spectricide web site list it as 100% KNO3 about 7.00 a pound. Thanks Again
Chip
Boz330
if you search around on that earlier link to saltpeter you will find a kid that posted a video on refining KNO3. He mentions the stump remover and says that the Green Life and Spectracide are the 2 purist brands for it. Figures a 12 year old kid would know the best place to find this stuff.
Skipper
Or, you could get 5 lbs of it for 7.50 here:
http://www.seattlepotterysupply.com/...Category_Code=
Wills
http://www.skylighter.com/mall/chemicals.asp?Sort=P
Potassium Nitrate, and other chemicals.
Perotter
FWIW. If ordering for Seattle Pottery Supply, one may want to also buy some potassium carbonate. Then making yellow priming powder for a flintlock can be done. Yellow priming powder is what guys were switching to when percussion cap came out.
Fly
OK guy's here is my buddy's form.I would say he has done more testing than
anyone over the last ten years.Check his test data & also he has a sec on
the different ways of making it ect.
http://www.wichitabuggywhip.com/fire...oal_tests.html
1874Sharps
I found Herr Ulrich Bretscher's website to be of profound help and a source of great technical information (http://www.musketeer.ch/blackpowder/recipe.html). His information is firsthand and well-researched. I made a batch of BP using his procedures and it went quite well.
Boz330
I found Herr Ulrich Bretscher's website to be of profound help and a source of great technical information (http://www.musketeer.ch/blackpowder/recipe.html). His information is firsthand and well-researched. I made a batch of BP using his procedures and it went quite well.
JoptionPane
BP INFO
http://www.pyroguide.com/index.php?t...er_Manufacture
Don't over cook your charcoal!
http://www.pyroguide.com/index.php?title=Charcoal
Red Gum granulating
http://www.skylighter.com/fireworks/...m-BP-short.asp
And if you get serious about things
http://www.brianredmond.net/dwilliam.../bptester.html
Fly
Skylighter is a rip off. Try these guys instead!http://pastimepyrochemicals.com/
Thanks, Rod