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On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 6:11 AM, Lewis Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you find a druggist? > > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 3:02 PM Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But... Happy Wife...... Happy... >> >> On 7/4/18 11:55 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> > Oddly salty. >> > *From:* [email protected] >> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 4, 2018 12:35 PM >> > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Homemade fireworks >> > How do your cornflakes taste? >> > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 2:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Potassium Nitrate is used in preserving meat, like corned beef, it >> > is also known as Saltpeter. >> > >> > If a wife sprinkles some on the husbands cornflakes, she doesn't >> > have to fake a headache that night. >> > >> > At least that is the lore. Not sure if it really works or not. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- From: Jay Weekley >> > Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 11:47 AM >> > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Homemade fireworks >> > >> > I tried gun powder myself as a kid but never got it right. I also >> > bought my potassium nitrate and sulfur from the pharmacy. What >> medical >> > use did that stuff have? The best I could get was a slow burning >> > fizzle. To my credit I also figured out that paper towels soaked in >> > potassium nitrate mixed with water and dried also made a passable >> fuse. >> > All I had to go one were the Foxfire books and had to modify my >> > experiments with the resources I had. I'm lucky I didn't have the >> > internet back then or I may not be around or at least semi intact. >> > >> > [email protected] wrote: >> > >> > Various thoughts.... >> > I used to make all my own fireworks as a kid. Get potassium >> > nitrate from the druggist, grind up some charcoal briquettes, >> > add some sulfur from the druggist, do endless mixture variations >> > until you get one that works and you have your powder. Red >> > devil stump remover is also potassium nitrate. You can get that >> > at home depot. >> > You can mix that with sugar and also get something that works. >> > In that situation you want to cook it to melt the sugar. Rocket >> > Boys (Homer Hickham) used that to do their missiles. >> > If you grind it all up (never did blow myself up by literally >> > grinding these components together in the basement of my parents >> > house) and them mix it with water into a slurry, you can spread >> > it out thin on a cookie shoot and bake it in your mom’s oven at >> > low temps until it is hard. Then you break it up into small >> > chunks. That process is called “corning” and makes the powder >> > work all that much better. >> > Then you can wrap up balls of the stuff (again wet to form a >> > clay type consistency) in paper towels. Then you load a paper >> > towel roll with some powder, a ball, more powder, another ball >> > etc. And you have a great roman candle. >> > Hard to get this stuff to go off like a fire cracker. You have >> > to really compress it. I made a small cannon out of water pipe >> > (hole drilled in a cap for the fuse). Crammed and hammered a >> > bunch into the pipe followed by cotton ball wadding them a bunch >> > of fishing sinkers and solder for the projectiles. Put it on a >> > chunk of fire wood with nails hammered in and bent over the pipe >> > to keep it still. Homemade fuses can be made by soaking paper >> > into a potassium nitrate and water mixture and then then left to >> > dry. Best to roll them into the fuse while wet. Thin paper >> > like yellowpages worked pretty good. >> > My fuses were crap though. On the cannon/pipe bomb the fuse >> > went out so I lit a dry pine tree needle as a punk and probed >> > the hole in the pipe cap to get it going again. Stepped back, >> > nothing. Went back over there and got down and put my ear next >> > to the pipe cap. Yep, could hear it sizzling in there. So I >> > got up and took a few steps back. KABLOOM!!!! Huge huge huge >> > explosion. My best ever. Blew the pipe cap off. Split the >> pipe. >> > My dad came running out of the house looking to see if he could >> > find all of my body parts. I had a grin on my face a mile >> > wide... He demanded that I dump all my powder into the dirt. >> > That was a very memorable 4th of July. I think of this incident >> > every 4th. I give thanks for coming away unscathed. (And I >> > lived in dry land wheat farming country in central Oregon. >> > Always and extreme fire hazard). >> > I also perfected acetylene bombs. Made nitrocellulose in my >> > mom’s kitchen. Tried to make nitro glycerin and mercury >> > fulminate in the HS science lab. They were both flops. >> > Still have all my digits and my eyesight. Probably not going to >> > be allowed to pass this knowledge to my grandchildren though.... >> > people just don’t want kids to have fun anymore.... (I would >> > totally freak out if I knew my grandkids were even thinking >> > about trying some of this stuff). >> > Some say I am not risk averse. I say I get bored easily. >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > *Jay Weekley* >> > *Cyber Broadband >> > * >> > >> > -- >> > AF mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> >> > >> > -- >> > AF mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------------ >> > -- >> > AF mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > >> > >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > >
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