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[Creepin_pyro]

I am having major problems with making 'lift' powder. I have tried just plain 6hr milled BP and this did not really work. I have tried using pulverone and this also does not really work!

I tried playing with the amounts of 'lift' i used and this had no real effect.

Does the 'projectile' (in my case a small charcoal star) have to fit snugly in the tube?

So please help! Im not sure if it is my BP or something else? Any thoughts or help GREATLY appreactated!

How fast does the powder burn on its own? Does it take fire instantly from a smouldering splint? Does it burn with a "whoompf" or more of a "sssssss"?

What were the dimentions of the tube and star? A snug fit is always good, but not completely nessicairy.

What happens when you try using the powder straight out of the mill? How exactly does it not work?

Have you tried using tissue wadding above the star in the tube?

[Pretty green flames]

What about using corned BP not pulverone for lift

[broadsword]

when it lights which it does quite easily! I did 1.8grms and it sort of went sss...whoomph (if that makes sense)

EDIT: Video of 5 grams of Pulverone.......... Click Here

Edited by broadsword, 16 December 2004 - 03:24 PM.

[broadsword]

Is it possible to make coloured lights with KN03?

[Matt]

Is it possible to make coloured lights with KN03?

You did not seriously just ask that. Search mate, please.

-Matt

[paul]

Both links don?t work. Please re-up the videos.

[Yugen-biki]

Quotes by broadsword

am having major problems with making 'lift' powder. I have tried just plain 6hr milled BP and this did not really work. I have tried using pulverone and this also does not really work!

6h should be OK in a ball mill that operates optimum. Mill it longer, say turn the mill on in the morning and turn it off when you go to bed.

I tried playing with the amounts of 'lift' i used and this had no real effect.

I use this ammounts of lift +-5g: 2"=15g; 3"=25g and 4"=35g. Depending on the wheight of the shells (my shells wheigh about (+-50g; this depends greatly on the stuffing ) 2"=100g; 3"150g and 4" 200g). Sperical shells.

Does the 'projectile' (in my case a small charcoal star) have to fit snugly in the tube?

No. Not at all.

So please help! Im not sure if it is my BP or something else? Any thoughts or help GREATLY appreactated!.

Mill it more and/or use another kind of coal. I use the superpulverone method in best of AFN III. I mill my C+S for 60h. A tip off a spoon is enough to blow my startesing papertubes into shrapnells if i use a to big paper plugg to hold the star in plase.

[broadsword]

You did not seriously just ask that. Search mate, please.

-Matt

I did search! I could not find anything?

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Look here

http://www.ukrocketr...?showtopic=1097

[broadsword]

Cheers!

[broadsword]

i made a starmine using This tutorial today, But i was quite unsucessful!
I copyed the exact instructions and when i lit it it did not make the sound the one in the tutorial did nor did it go very high!
May this be down to my pulverone? video here

Video coming soon!

Edited by broadsword, 19 December 2004 - 11:39 PM.

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Just a quick qustion.

I heard something about cocoa powder beeing stronger than normal Bp.
Here's my Q: Is it safe to ball mill cocoa powder.

[Phoenix]

Cocoa powder isn't stronger than normal BP - it was designed to burn slowly for use in really large guns.

[neo]

stupid guys, cocoa powder dosen't burn! you have that in cookies
have acually never heard of it, would someone like to tell me what it is, or any lik? I only find the good cookie stuff.

[chris17]

stupid guys, cocoa powder dosen't burn! you have that in cookies?
have acually never heard of it, would someone like to tell me what it is, or any lik? I only find the good cookie stuff.

http://come.to/pfp

Look in the database under 'Black powders' and then 'Firearms-specific powder.

Edited by chris17, 20 December 2004 - 10:46 PM.