Jacques

I made Black powder using homemade pine charcoal, its very messy job.
Its burn extremely faster but is just not the same speed that real black powder you buy in gun shops , It burns to fast to time with a stop watch, its less than a second.
So my big problems were the charcoal.
So people do you think it will burn even faster if I use willow Charcoal.
I've seen the charcoal you get in bags to make fire is very hard and fine powder if you crush it. But if you make your own charcoal its air floating and the other BB charcoal not
That's weird for me can someone explain that please for me

I'm working on 75/15/10 by the way

The spaghetti sticks I think, make an orange flame not sure +-6 years ago it hade left no impression on me so I don’t remember it so well.

The flash where bright white “very fast” it looks like a terror show it made me scared after that I never open

I’ve pulled tow tips out of the 303 bullets its that powder that makes a white flash and the spaghetti stiks that burn rate sucks it burns VERY slow

And the 9mil all contains that fast powder. I don’t know if its flash powder because then the bullet will probably explode

The spaghetti sticks its unbreakable if you bent it will not snap, that’s weird

That stuff I I?m talking about is small bendable spaghetti sticks brown color ?I used this stuff for a fuse because it burns so slow?
And the stuff making the big flash is almost like grains made of iron flat it looks freaky but it burns quite good, I assume its flash powder because it makes a big flash

Yes guys thank 4 the comments, i'm only weekends on internet because “south Africa” you know tech lags.

Yea i’m just joking about that flash powder stuff. Its because I got fed up with my problems i’m trying now the water mix one where you ball mill the S + C and mix it with KNO3 warn water it seems to get better.

But I think it’s probably my charcoal or sulpher, I’m not using briquettes.

My standard 75:15:10 still sucks, I leave huge white bubbles then burning

I’m still styling with my 66.6/22.2/11.1 I get the results and speed out of that
I getting the idea there somewhere I hug error in one of my chemicals

And I know how dangerous are flash powder because +-6 years I opened 9mil and .303 bullets and light it all with a fuse and then it all burned I almost crapped in my pants because I makes one bright probably 10000000000 candle power flash, so guys please leave that subject

Ok, I had seen if I made my Black powder standard mix in mill 1 day into fine dust and boil it in a pan with water for +-20 min and then mill it for 1 day or more it burns faster only with +- Average = 2.13 sec after in mill for only 1 day

And my 66.6/22.2/11.1 mix in the mill for 2 full days that are very fine but it seems to burn very faster @ Average = 1.87 sec so I?m confused totally

My ball mill works with a 500ml bottle 43 marbles and does 100g load on a shot its works very well if I compare it with my first I hade made