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Looks like a nice working fuse & detcord winding machine. It also looks like you have some experience working with motor control. I always wanted
to make a winding machine, but never got around to it yet.
How thick is the covering, winding, glue and all?
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Quote: Originally posted by Hennig Brand  | Looks like a nice working fuse & detcord winding machine. It also looks like you have some experience working with motor control. I always wanted
to make a winding machine, but never got around to it yet.
How thick is the covering, winding, glue and all? |
The core has a diameter of 2mm and the whole cord is 3mm:
The glue does not practically increase the diameter as it mostly gets absorbed into the layers.
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Going a bit off topic I always had a pet project in my head to make /obtain a few hundred meters of det core and let it rip suspended on poles/trees
strung out in a somewhat straight line. This would create a sound like thunder as not all sound reaches a spectator at the same time (just like the
rapidly expanding channel created by a lightening bolt).
If one were to use ETN how narrow could you go with the center and thus make the cord as long as possible with as little stuff as possible. A pound
should make a hundred meters one would hope.
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I always had a pet project in my head to make /obtain a few hundred meters of det core and let it rip suspended on poles/trees strung out in a
somewhat straight line. This would create a sound like thunder as not all sound reaches a spectator at the same time (just like the rapidly expanding
channel created by a lightening bolt). |
I have had the experience of being perhaps 200 meters from such a suspended det cord shot, with no prior warning- At PGI convention, someone with a
severe passive aggressive problem used a long suspended run of det cord attached with many short sections of shock tube, to ignite individual
waterfall sticks via shockwave:flame transducers- Thus lighting a large tight wire "waterfall" (Fargo? Can't remember the year).
The audience effect was not like hearing rolling thunder. It was like being HIT by lightning. Everyone was just holding their ears and cursing as the
poor waterfall burnt placidly away...
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At what point should we rename this thread 'det cord experiment'. Really excellent cord though. I wish you would've had more luck than only PETN.
Have you tried initiating a charge at the other end of the cord?
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At what point should we rename this thread 'det cord experiment'.
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roXefeller has a point- It could aid anyone searching on this topic.
markx, would you agree to a change of the thread title?
Something like:
Home made PETN det cord via Bickford type spun fuse machine (was "Shock tube experiment")
Or other title of your choice...
PM me if you would like the thread title edited?
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Just tested the uncoated cyclonite core:
   
It's a no go at this diameter....
For comparison the PETN core at the very same setup:
 
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oooo I like the multicolor thread, kindof like raising the technology to a higher, artistic level. But I'm thinking you could've just grabbed what
was available/on-sale.
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| Quote: Originally posted by roXefeller | | oooo I like the multicolor thread, kindof like raising the technology to a higher, artistic level. But I'm thinking you could've just grabbed what
was available/on-sale. |
A colorful coincidence, yes, but not by design 
Although there are countless ways to weave a specific pattern for marking purposes. Just it is too much of a pain to reconfigure the weaving machine
with separate threads for every different formulation.
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| Quote: | | Makes an awesome doorplate |
Indeed, and the art world is waiting . . .
I'm not joking, BTW!
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Writing immortal quotes into metal with det cord is rather boring and simplistic....imprinting different natural objects (leaves, feathers etc.) into
metal with a thin layer of plastique detonated over them, now thats way more awesome
Google Evelyn Rosenberg, she is the grandmaster of the detonographic method. Really cool and unique art.
I have attempted the method on a simple basis, but fortune has not favored these experiments so far. I've had failed initiations and all sorts of just
bad luck every time I rig up a piece. But I'm not giving up...it has to work at some point:
    
And after all the preparations the det cord failed to initiate the plastique....left a nice imprint of it's woven structure along the edge of the
backplate and disintegrated the artwork and the charge. If I had folded the cord twice or even three times along the edge of the plastique, then it
probably would have had enough impulse to kick off the plastique. Hindsight....sigh...the only true precise science.
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And what follows. Yes, I know, it's not so nice. The old pot is terrible. The whole thing is terrible. But try it could.
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Detonographics are cool.
initiating such plastick sheet is a hard lesson I know
2 mm core is little in combination with soft shock-dampening twine,
Seems to be the issue with the RDX cord too, if initiated right it might be a go
20% binder is a lot.
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Digressing from the topic of the thread, but here are the remnants of the same plastique from the failed detonography test (20% inerts are quite ok
for PETN based compositions):
   
Packed behind an "exotic" coin, placed on top of a 13mm steel plate and disposed of in a responsible manner. Leaves quite a mark, especially on the
bottom side...the plate is not cast iron, although one could assume that from the coarse cristalline structure.
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Nice
Did you try a initiation with the exposed core in direct contact with the plastique?
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Seeing your test made me think that it was time to try detonating some plastic explosive with my own detcord. My own test was also unsuccessful. The
plastique used was 81% ETN, 19% inerts. There is a dent in the steel where the plastique was sitting, but that extra effect could have just been from
the confinement the plastique provided for the detcord, or possibly the plastique between the cord and steel detonated, but not the rest.
This cord is the same 2m piece that was made in 2011 and discussed here:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=14204&...
Notice how one half of the detcord is more yellowed than the other half. Each half was made from a different batch of ETN and it would seem that
residual acidity was better neutralized in the less yellowed half and/or the ETN in that half was better stabilized. I don't know if it is obvious
from the picture, but it is fairly obvious when holding the cord.
     
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I think the dent come's from a positive detonation of a small part of the plastique. no plastique tamping effect.
Unless there are other factors to consider like it was inserted into the whole length of the charge, or the cord has no bare cut inserted but was
capped or plugged.
probably the major part just snottified before the shockwave ran past the bare cut.
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The cord was run most of the way through the charge. The charge was however very small (~12g) and the impulse from a single strand of detcord is not
nearly as powerful as from a number 8 blasting cap (or similar equivalent). The detcord used has about 14.6g of ETN per meter of length at a density
of about 1g/cc. This corresponds to about 0.37g of ETN per inch of cord length at the low density (relative to a typical blasting cap base charge) of
about 1g/cc. The vinyl tubing, explosive core covering, is about 1mm thick, which is reasonably thin, but still considerably thicker than the aluminum
blasting cap casings I normally use. From reading some of the old U.S. army field manuals it seems that even the military issue detcord is normally
knotted, or doubled up in some way, where it will be used to initiate secondary explosives. I haven't tested it yet, but I imagine a single strand
would initiate dynamite reliably.
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detonography
The first attemp.
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Nice impression you made there.
Regarding dynamite initiation with the homemade vinyl tubing detcord, a test was just performed and it was positive for initiation. The dynamite used
was actually nitroglycerine powder (10% NG), so it was not one of the more sensitive dynamite type explosives. All dynamites are sensitive though,
relatively speaking. The explosive used weighed 25g and was 10% NG, 10% corn starch and 80% ammonium nitrate. It was lightly tamped to a density of
1-1.1g/cc in a polypropylene pill bottle. An unsharpened pencil was forced through the explosive to the bottom of the casing, making a void, and then
the detcord was inserted and the explosive gently packed around it. The dynamite was successfully initiated, but in comparison to plastique it is very
ineffective against steel.
   
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detonography
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Those look excellent.
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Very nice L of L
Looks like a more cost eficient method for amateur detonografy.
Did you tamped the whole thing in sand? or in open air?
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detonography
The whole assembly was in the sand. Thank you. Further tests will follow.
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wet gypsum
As the transmission medium used wet gypsum. Other configurations identical.
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