Pro tip: take that manual grinder, unscrew and take the handle off, replace the nut with a regular nut. Get a cordless drill-to-1/4" socket adapter (I just happened to have one), and use a cordless drill attached to 10mm socket to turn the grinder. Makes grinding charcoal batches WAYYYYY faster/easier. Thanks for this video, it's what prompted me to buy a cheap meat grinder for the first step, I already had the manual grinder. I then run my charcoal through 100 mesh, regrind the too large bits, then toss the little bit that still won't pass. Cheers!
I saw the drawings and read the report on a plant in Pennsylvania. They dumped in lumps of charred wood and sulfur as brimstone rock as a 3:2 by weight mix. The ball mill was being kept clear of dust the whole time. That airflow carried the dust out of the ball mill to a storage bin. Right away I saw how a system like that would be great in a place like Arizona where the humidity was lower. They filtered the air and constantly dried it. That recirculated air flowed through the storage to dry it. That was blown over into another bin for weighing. It was blown over to a mixing chamber where it was added to a 3:1 mix with potassium nitrate granules. It was stirred with high pressure air jets. They added water with a high pressure mist by weight but didn't say how much. It was augered to a puck press and hot air drier. The auger then put the pucks on a round perforated cast iron table. A pair of 3,000 pound wheels crushed the pucks and air sucked it down through the holes. Steam and graphite was sprayed on it before it was filtered into 8 different sizes.
Thank you for IDEAS! I too am chasing the craft, to keep history alive! I ordered my same screens, and already thought about my old hand grinder(I used for my fishing chum). FYI I do not have access to much "Willow" but finger sized Guava branches appear to do a good carbon? will test very soon, pucks are drying. I am drying 2x sour mashed distilled grain carbon pucks too, but I used much less pressure, may redo pucking of these once tested? Have great hope for this recipe? I toss my pucks on a scale fresh, then once they stabilize lighter about 10% ish, two days they are dry. Keep your smoke trains SMOKING!
That "dust" that floats around and makes a mess is what you need for making good BP. You need a ball mill and patience to get "air float" charcoal and Potassium Nitrate, commercial Sulphur is normally fine enough. Thorough grinding and mixing is the key to getting a good product.
Did you ever try to char the powder to carbonized those chunks of wood? When I got to the meat grinder it wasn't all charcoal. Took forever to pick out the wood specs.
To get good power, density and durability you need to compress the powder. After they dry you need to break them apart and screen them to size. I'll post another video showing this soon.
I use an old Bullet brand blender I got on ebay for cheap(used). Works great as long as I don't over fill it and stall the cutting blades on start up. Takes all of 10 seconds to make very fine powder :-)
I have a video showing you how. It's part 1 on this series. You can use any kind of wood but some work better than others. People even have success with toilet paper.
@@staffordshires2 Yeah it squeezes/presses the meat through holes and basically makes meat spaghetti. The corn feed/grain mill that you are talking about is nearly identical except it uses the plate for grinding. I use that type of grain grinder to grind my black powder pucks into different size granules. Check out this guy's video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D24DR5OLtds.html
Steve, how about investing in a tripod? You do a lot of talking, but you don't really show much actual working. Don't think people actually know the process. Show them!
@@SuperSneakySteve What I am trying to say is when you are trying to video one handed, you miss a lot of important details that could be readily explained if you used both hands. Just something to consider.
