Ball Mill (Home Made)

I put this ball mill together using a second hand 12 volt motor ($20NZ) and a few old scraps from around the workshop.

The tin holds 1 litre. I used lead fishing sinkers, the largest I could find as media. On the first test it appears to be able to mill 250g for black powder in 2-3 hours.

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[flyinbryan1619]

so thats how they make balls!!!!!!!

[aForkandaSpoon]

After about 10 times I realized you didn't mean the second hand of the worlds biggest clock.

[ChilloutAreaDude]

Hey! That´s great! I´ll use it for my stars!

Thx for this great video! Really awesome!!!

[Austyg]

"Hornady Lead Buck Shot

Regular Price: $25.99

Item: IK-213690

UPC: 90255264142

Premium Buckshot is cold swaged using lead alloy hardened with antimony to prevent deformities. Strict roundness tolerance of ±.001. Per 5 lbs."

[1StIwY1]

240p, we meet again...

[nath261291]

I want to ask....

what you use the motor to rotate the ball mill?

please reply, because I want to make it

[DavidRothe]

@UTubeisSHIT523441 Well, not really. My BP out of the mill burns very great, although I granulate it anyway. I use it as liftpowder for mortars and it works as fine as ballmilled or handmade BP, so I don´t think, it´s bad. And when you think, I got my fingers on the grinder while working - don´t be stupid.

[UTubeisSHIT523441]

@DavidRothe There is no way you can coffee grind the BP SAFE, and even if you succeed the coffe-grinded BP will burn like shit, unless you transfer it to BP to balll-mill for another hour, or two..

[DavidRothe]

@UTubeisSHIT523441 Black powder does NOT ignite because of friction. The stainless-steel-inner parts of the grinder does NOT provocate electrical discharges(by the way: BP doesn´t even ignite well with electrical sparks of that short time).

Try it. Take a small amount of BP, and hammer on it as often as you can. It will not ignite. Take a little piezo-igniter(7.000 Volts out of an electric lighter), and try to ignite it. Have fun.