I made my first batch of BP here in Tennessee. I used the same charcoal I had brought from New Mexico. The receipt was the same. The KNO3 was prilled. I milled that for some 48 hours. Some of this came out kinda weird. There was some of it that came out like a "stiff foam?" Sort of like the green stuff they put in a vase to poke flowers in. It broke down with simple pressure and acted like "float". I'm not sure how they prill the stuff? Is it a coating or a way to "pill" the KNO3? Don't know. Anyway, Everything else went the same. I corn, or screen to what I've always used for my cannons. Here's the difference: All other times the BP comes out hard. Very hard. Puck Hard. This new stuff I can crush by hand to powder. It seems as fast and loud. And as smoky. It kinda irks me that there are so few decent empirical methodologies to test BP. But I've always enjoyed sharing with you folks. Thoughts?
OK, Why is my new BP different?
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Officers'Wife
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I have to admit that is something I've never run across before. My guess would be that a filler was added in the prilling process to aid liquification that is reacting with the manufacture. Let me know what happens on your test fires.
Patocazador
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If the humidity is higher in Tenn. than it was in NM, that could be the problem. Water and BP don't do well together.
PWC
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Cannonman- Go to CASTBOOLETS.COM, black powder, my homemade black powder, and post the above, just as you have written it, for Fly. He is the most knowledgeable person I've ever come across on making BP
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Pwc..i was about to suggest the exact same thing
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Cannonman if u dont mind me asking where did you get your prilled KNO3 from? I get prilled KNO3 from duda diesel, i have to break it up in a coffee grinder before adding it to my ball mill. I highly recommend the castboolits website.. Heres a direct link to the sticky
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?103852-My-homemade-black-powder/page137
its over 130 pages of years worth of accumulated knowledge and tests from many different people. Fly ( jim, his username is Fly) is by far the most knowledgeable and always willing to help so id definately would try asking him
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?103852-My-homemade-black-powder/page137
its over 130 pages of years worth of accumulated knowledge and tests from many different people. Fly ( jim, his username is Fly) is by far the most knowledgeable and always willing to help so id definately would try asking him
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