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Picric acid: different instructions
Sorry for my sort of gratuitous use of pictures, but I think this is maybe more the picture Quicksil ...
29-7-2010 at 12:37
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Thanks for all the good advice, and information. I am going to try and track down some of the older ...
29-7-2010 at 09:43
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Thanks for all the info guys.

Didn't mean to give you a hard time Quicksilver, I am well aware th ...
28-7-2010 at 17:58
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Wizard, thanks for pointing out that book, "Compressed Gun Cotton for Military use". I just downloa ...
27-7-2010 at 16:56
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
@Grndpndr
All caps where laid on their side on the barrel. Not a proper test probably, just for fun ...
27-7-2010 at 16:32
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Your Lead cylinder would weigh about 65lbs if I didn't mess up somewhere. A little heavy for shippin ...
27-7-2010 at 08:26
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
I have seen it a few times now with my own experiment, where I got a definate detonation but it did ...
27-7-2010 at 07:52
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
If everything was in fact perfectly optimized and cutting edge then you are probably right. Cutting ...
27-7-2010 at 07:21
by: Hennig Brand
A more durable improvised detonating cord?
ErTeN would definately work in a plastic tube, I am not sure about the Guncotton though. It could be ...
27-7-2010 at 06:27
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Thanks for the input. My caps are definately not perfectly optimized, most likely from every perspec ...
26-7-2010 at 17:47
by: Hennig Brand
A Question of Safety?
There is some really good videos on youtube right now on determining acid concentration and purity. ...
26-7-2010 at 15:27
by: Hennig Brand
A Question of Safety?
Picric Acid is a good place to start, especially if you want the opportunity to learn a lot as well. ...
26-7-2010 at 15:00
by: Hennig Brand
A plea for abbreviation sanity
I understand where you are coming from, and to a large extent I agree. ETN as an abbreviation for Er ...
26-7-2010 at 14:19
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
My last post shows much better results from 2g of the same TNP.

It is the TNP from the picture(m ...
26-7-2010 at 06:19
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
You are on the right track, or at least my couple small tests would seem to indicate that.

I tri ...
25-7-2010 at 14:41
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Here is a close(r) up picture of a section of the rather large hole the ~40g of KNO3 gelatin dynamit ...
25-7-2010 at 07:32
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Here is a close(r) up picture of the hole the 1.5g of ETN made. Note that the ETN actually ripped th ...
25-7-2010 at 07:27
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
I always sort of wondered if putting Al powder in AN based explosives was kind of a waste because of ...
25-7-2010 at 07:23
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Just for fun, here is an old barrel I found and put to good use. I like to call this photo "Barrel B ...
24-7-2010 at 16:59
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
The KNO3 I used in earlier experiments was USP grade, not fertilizer grade, it also dissolves comple ...
24-6-2010 at 13:33
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
I've been gone for most of the last 2 weeks.

Thanks for the compliments Quicksilver and Grndpndr, ...
23-6-2010 at 13:52
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Sometimes it is hard to tell when someone is giving you the gears a little bit, anyway no harm done ...
12-6-2010 at 05:17
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Sorry for the lousy picture, but I am just starting to get the hang of this picture thing. It does k ...
11-6-2010 at 16:05
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
Interesting. I didn't have a proper fume hood, but I was outside with a rather large and powerful fa ...
11-6-2010 at 15:48
by: Hennig Brand
Picric acid: different instructions
OK, for my 50g ASA batch I used about 750mL of boiling water to put the crude product into solution. ...
11-6-2010 at 07:18
by: Hennig Brand
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