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Detonation of Double Based Smokeless Propellants/Powder
Smokeless powder is also difficult to ignite.

I have been working on a project to ignite it elect ...
25-2-2011 at 20:35
by: gregxy
PETN synth
The easy way to create your own controller of this type
is with a micro controller. For example th ...
16-2-2011 at 10:35
by: gregxy
Diving Into the World of Fulminates
That method will not work. You can only make fulminates that way with mercury
and silver.


Che ...
6-2-2011 at 15:59
by: gregxy
EBW System Requirements
The voltage you need also depends on the length of your wires. If you have hundreds of feet of wire ...
20-1-2011 at 11:20
by: gregxy
priming mixture for loading percussion caps
Or try electric ignition like this guy did and eliminate the cap:


http://www.ctmuzzleloaders.co ...
16-1-2011 at 16:39
by: gregxy
safer NG alternatives
I think that most of the accidents that have occurred have been
during the nitrations due to run-aw ...
18-12-2010 at 14:27
by: gregxy
Spontaneous Ignition
It would also be interesting to investigate if aluminium carbide is what makes the "dark german" pow ...
9-12-2010 at 10:36
by: gregxy
Cattle prod for electric bridge wire
It also depends on what you mean by initiate.
A laser pointer (or one made from a CD burner) that c ...
7-12-2010 at 12:34
by: gregxy
Firearms design
I have decided to design my own 9mm gun.
I'm interested to know how the peak chamber pressure
depe ...
30-11-2010 at 11:34
by: gregxy
There's a new sheriff in town
This section on the forum really needs a "sticky" on safety. It could prevent
some accidents. Plus ...
28-11-2010 at 22:40
by: gregxy
Flash powder detonation
I think that the main point is that pressing (or increasing the density) should improve the performa ...
26-10-2010 at 13:17
by: gregxy
Direct electrical initiation of secondary
I'll do some more experiments when I get more time,
(I'm moving now so everything is in disarray).
...
20-10-2010 at 13:54
by: gregxy
Flash powder detonation
One way to tell the difference between burning and detonation would be how the sample responds to pr ...
19-10-2010 at 15:09
by: gregxy
Direct electrical initiation of secondary
Thanks for all the helpful references!

Looking at Cooper's book, the description for the ebw fire ...
15-10-2010 at 10:26
by: gregxy
Direct electrical initiation of secondary
Primary -vs- secondary is more of a contimum than a discrete state.
I don't think I could ever init ...
13-10-2010 at 21:46
by: gregxy
Direct electrical initiation of secondary
60mJ did seem to be very small, although it is
difficult to ignite ETN with a flame, let alone a s ...
10-10-2010 at 15:38
by: gregxy
Direct electrical initiation of secondary
Wikipedia lists the amount of energy to initiate PETN as
10-60mJ, not very much energy. Disposable ...
9-10-2010 at 17:48
by: gregxy
Someone PLEASE tell me what happend....
It is an interesting question how some spontaneous decomposition could produce enough heat to detona ...
23-9-2010 at 11:07
by: gregxy
An interesting way to find H2S04 strength
I did some experiments:

Mixing 23g of Rooto with 23g of water (both at 32F),
the temperature rea ...
20-9-2010 at 12:24
by: gregxy
An interesting way to find H2S04 strength
The question often comes up of how concentrated an
unknown source of H2SO4 (like Rooto) is.
Densi ...
5-9-2010 at 13:41
by: gregxy
How well erythritol nitrates in HNO3/H2SO4?
Pentaeurethol is probably easiest to nitrate since each -OH is attached to a CH2
resulting in less ...
28-8-2010 at 17:45
by: gregxy
Quick question on a potassium chlorate cell
If you do use multiple supplies keep the outputs separate, for example
if you use 12 rods tie 4 rod ...
22-8-2010 at 19:38
by: gregxy
Quick question on a potassium chlorate cell
Its an interesting question. Using AC would save the cost and losses
in the diode. But I suspect ...
19-8-2010 at 20:20
by: gregxy
Old Chemistry Lab Manual
When I was growing up in the late 60s in Los Angeles,
there was a store called "Student Science Ser ...
18-8-2010 at 12:34
by: gregxy
Atofina PCUK cycle
Has anyone tried this method to make hydrazine?

It uses NH3, acetone and H2O2

http://en.wikipe ...
9-8-2010 at 10:03
by: gregxy
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