Nitrate salts scraped from the morter and bricks of an old cow shed, a truly pathetic amount but a very fun experience this is heavily contaminated but shows that it is possible to find it out in nature, soon I will be making my own traditional nitrate bed and will be trying a separate expedient method ( if you count two weeks as expedient)
If anyone has visited homemadegunsmith you may have seen this file, does anyone think that 12-15 match heads would be suitable for 9mm it’s not listed in the instructions but just going on what is I think it’s a good fit
Anybody here use it in mixes or anything? Would anyone recommend it? 🤔
An interesting phenomenon applicable to mining and demolition. Non ideal binary explosives can see a net increase in VOD 40-100% when confined instead of being open air. Compare that to 1-5% increase for ideal legacy explosives rdx, petn, tnt.
Logic being a faster reaction zone due to an ideal explosives having close chemical contact from the get go. Where confinement for non ideal explosves allows to speed up the reaction and reduce critical diameter.
Source: MDPI "Effect of confinement on detonation velocity " 2022.
Los Alamos &Sandia Cylinder Tests.
Jackson & Texas A&M Aluminum Confinement Studies 2010.
Has anybody attempted this?
I am messing around with a little etn and decided to use my large ultrasonic cleaner to force a more defined boundary layer before decanting.
In doing so I realized the main layer of the raw wet material was far more dense than I’d expected.
Testing of material is tbd. But I’m fascinated by the simple thought and safety of potentially increasing densities in this and other sensitive energetics.
Update- it appears that 20kHz is the industry standard. My cleaner runs at 40, so I just saw the tip of the iceberg with this.
Anybody here ever made any? I know it’s not the “coolest” compound by any means, nor the most efficient compared to other stuff, but I think it’s pretty neat as a “legacy energetic”.
Im taking a piss in the title but apparently Ukrianians devised the same thermobaric tech like the kid who was posting on here trying "thermobaric mixes" to break in or break out of some wall. Lol