Make gun powder from scratch

[Celt]

Found this helpful article.

How to Make Gunpowder the Old Fashioned Way

 

[Deplorable Me]

This is blackpowder. Be very careful.

 

[Acer-m14]

just seen a vid from a science guy .. made gun powder from pee .. wasnt the best but it did go poof .. no bang thou ..

 

[Deplorable Me]

just seen a vid from a science guy .. made gun powder from pee .. wasnt the best but it did go poof .. no bang thou ..

You want bang, add Viagra .

 

[Blimey]

I used to play with that as a kid many years back. I could get it good enough that it would burn by itself without going out but that was it. I never tried some advanced techniques like watering down the whole mix while grinding to help it mix together better (obviously drying it after the fact).

First time I compared my mix to an unwrapped firecracker I realized how inferior mine was. Btw I was of the understanding that sulfur only diminishes the smoke and that without it u can go 75 salt peter 25 charcoal.

 

[Acer-m14]

 

[Blimey]

Cool vid. In part 2 he gets some legitimate gunpowder out of it that can cause real damage.

Definitely affirms the notion that it's just a lot damn easier to buy some extra ammo before any zombie apoc, though. This is a very time consuming process and requires a lot of practice/skill.

 

[Acer-m14]

if you search his chan .. there in a vid making BANG!!! with glycerin that everyone is buying to vape smoke with .. O.O .. so easy

 

[Jem45472]

Looking around his channel I had to stop. Very neat stuff, and just the kind of stupid shit I would try and blow myself up. I need to stay away.

 

[Magnus]

In my younger days I remember trying to make it once with charcoal and sulfur I got from school. Couldn't get the Nitrate though.

 

[Gunright]

So this begs the question on how smokeless gunpowder is made?

 

[Frankly]

It always amazes me how the ancients came up with these strange combinations and processes by trial and error, really just messing around with impure ingredients and little education... not even Google.

Seems like pee was vital to a lot of stuff.

 

[Blimey]

Looking around his channel I had to stop. Very neat stuff, and just the kind of stupid shit I would try and blow myself up. I need to stay away.

Yep. I seriously spent ten minutes watching him flush mercury down a toilet, an event which concluded with him replacing all the water in a toilet with 240 lbs of mercury and flushing it. Before youtube the world never had such important experiments.

 

[Celt]

I'm certainly not advocating people try to blow themselves up. But, in a shit hits the fan scenario where you can't go to the store to buy powder for projectiles this could be a useful skill.

 

[Acer-m14]

@Blimey did you see the video there ... he has a mercury mine on his property ..

 

[Toecutter]

Salt peter is potassium nitrate, fertilizers may have it in them as well.
We made black powder in high school chemistry , as well as moonsshine , my science teacher was awsome.