well both i guess. how many grams of each make a good poof like that? 50/50 mix by weight? what container? how sensitive/dangerous is this stuff mixed? how do you mix it? do you need a steel backing for it to work or just the thing alone works? are copper bullets needed or does regular lead work just fine? any info is greatly appreciated. for my safety... thanks!
do you think you could initiate this at 300fps with a 50cal musket ball?
dan999ification 3 months ago
jason... it doesn't matter. depends on how big you want to make it. grams or kg. you could make it huge!!!
Jwdrummer5 2 years ago
grams
The glass slide container is the thing you put the glass slides used for microscope in. I just happened to have a couple of these and they worked.
I'm thinking you could probaly use something simliar, like a small plastic bottle maybe even a plastic baggy
superman13246587 3 years ago
can you please post a video on how to make these?
jasonm621 3 years ago
Are you looking for anything specific? like what type of container I used, or the rather the compositon?
superman13246587 3 years ago
well both i guess. how many grams of each make a good poof like that? 50/50 mix by weight? what container? how sensitive/dangerous is this stuff mixed? how do you mix it? do you need a steel backing for it to work or just the thing alone works? are copper bullets needed or does regular lead work just fine? any info is greatly appreciated. for my safety... thanks!
jasonm621 3 years ago
Heres the formula I used:
44 CuO
10 Bright Al Flake
The bright flake was the -325 coated Al off of Skylighter
I used glass slide containers, which seemed to work better then the empty syringe containers I was using.
They were about 4 inches tall by 1.5 inches wide by .75 inches deep
I thought they were pretty unsensitive. They withstood the 6 hour car ride to get the shooting area.
superman13246587 3 years ago
For mixing it, I just took how much I needed of each chemical added them to a cup, closed the top, and shook to get them evenly mixed
We just used a piece of wood as the backing. If you were to use metal you would have to watch for ricochets
We were using copper jacketed lead bullets so nothing special
These are extremely fun, if you can hit them
superman13246587 3 years ago
units of measurement? 44 and 10 Parts?grains? Grams? and what are glass slide containers? thanks so much!!!
jasonm621 3 years ago
@superman13246587 Is your ratio by weight or volume?
benner2000 1 year ago