Match powder is great for a lot of projects as a weak substitute for gunpowder. This method involves a coffee grinder and boxed matches. Thanks for watching, have a nice day, and subscribe if you'd like :D -Whynabile
just put the ground fluff directly into the strainer and you can get all of the powder in one go. so instead of it falling to the bottom of a container, it just falls through the strainer into your bowl
If you have access to cheap distilled water you could just put the coffee grinder slurry into some distilled water, mix it around and skim off the wood fiber, then let the water evaporate. at room temperature the good stuff in the match heads (potassium chlorate) should be relatively water soluble.
Are you saying to grind it with distilled water? And how long do you let it sit before skimming of the cardboard dust? Your idea sounds awesome let me know if you got any answers and tips thanks
There is the possibility of match powder getting stuck between the wood "pulp" and never making it into the sifter. It's like decanting before filtering, it's not efficient to put all the solution through a filter when it's possible to isolate the compound you want through density.
you should extract the chlorate with acetone afterwards, and do a 6,5:3,5 mix (chlorate:sugar), this is about as powerful as Pyrodex by weight. for priming powder you can then mix this stuff with scraped off striking surface matter from the books.
When you watch the video and this is what happens: Good! I always was looking about how to gather match heads. Oh, he also has 1000 matches pack. Wow! He also has paper ones! 🤯 he also bought them for 2 dollars!
Probably you chose a quite ineffective way to extract match powder. Simple washing with subsequent extraction using alcohol is a much easier and effective
You could also take the match heads and soak them in isopropol alcohol or something similar, then filter and evaporate. I think you would recover the most this way, but your way is simpler and you don't need any alcohol so much cheaper. Great video!
Chris Cautillo It is not recommended as the strike anywhere has a white tip which is sensitive to ignition when struck also thereby causing it to ignite the mix in your grinder.
What i do is take a multi tool, crush the tips off trying to get as little wood in as possible, then i have it all in a container try and pick the wood out, and use a hammer/ and container as a morter and pestle but this seems easier maybe not the fluff part but i didnt think of coffee grinder to make it a finer powder
Use the sulfur of the match boxes aswell! Makes it more explosive, but more dangerous too, any pressure may triggers it. And its loud so it can cause serious ear damage, this is why you should use ear protection!
No. These fellas don't understand. He could've extracted with just sitting. Or with isopropyl alcohol or acetone. Something that will evaporated. This seems like he was just bored asf and wanted to make a DIFFERENT way for content. Still works still effective but there are 1000 ways to skin kitties bro lmao
cool idea with the coffee grinder. I use this to grind my pyrotechnic chemicals up. It is a lot faster than a ball mill when you can use it for such. I would try to not grind your match tips quite as long. I think it might work better for you and not make that fluffy paper mache ball you had when you were done. try just pulsing it on off for a few seconds and then check in between to see what you've got in the container. Thanks for posting
It would be easier to drop the whole lot in water. The wood will separate and float. You can dry the powder after. You are losing a good amount of your powder. Even a sifter or a piece of screen mesh would be more effective..
I did this right before I saw your video and the coffee grinder exploded and a ball of fore flew half way to the ceiling! Is it because I used the wooden matches?
put a match on a metal surface and hit it with a hammer. It explodes like a primer. I was doing this when I was 12 years old. I'm 73 and still know NOT to strike a common match even with the high speed blades of a coffee mill. This author is just plain lucky HE hasn't burned himself badly or set his house ablaze. I made lots of MATCH HEAD cannons in my youth and my brother in law found out the hard way to NOT ram match heads into a steel cylinder. He did so and it blew the ram rod through his hand. I was sitting at his kitchen table 10 years later and he was still picking festering paper match residue out of his hand with a needle. 10 years later. I was the one who brought him to the hospital after we threw the HOMEMADE cannon in the river. All the flesh of his palm was removed. I laughed for 2 hours at how STUPID he was. DO NOT IMPACT MATCH HEADS BY ANY FASHION. NOT A HAMMER, NOT A MORTAR AND PESTLE, DONT SQUEEZE THEM WITH PLIARS. I CAME TO THIS VIDEO TO SEE IF THERE MIGHT BE A WAY TO RE LIQUIFY THE TIP TO RE USE THE SUBSTANCE TO CREATE A QUICK CANNON FUSE BY FILLING A COPPER TUBE FOR MY GOLF BALL CANNON. TO EXPLAIN HOW I LEGITIMATELY FOUND THIS IDIOTIC METHOD TO CREATE MATCH POWDER. THIS IS BAD. BELIEVE ME. YOU CAN EASILY END UP IN THE HOSPITAL, IF YOU LIVE.
A more easy way is to crunch the top of matches and put it in a sandwich bag then take a spoon and bang the match crunching. It take a bit but yol have match powder👍Always works
this is the funny part. The title says "how to make match powder". Misleading. The match powder is already made, just condensed on a match stick. The video is to merely get people to start purchasing matchbooks in bulk and coffee grinders. (here's how it works: if you own stock in something and what you invested in isn't doing so well just find a project or make a video using what you have stock in. supply and demand. it also works in reverse.)
+Pancho Bauer what I want to know is what do you do with this stuff when you get powder make a big match I'm sorry just don't see the a placation to this stuff
would be easier to put it all on a piece of paper (on a hard flat ground, like an anvil), and then either take a hammer or a metal rod and roll and grind the matchheads ive done it and it works amazing, no need to buy any chemicals (tho thats the most effective method) and less risk of explosion and yes ik its a 7yr old vid
I just uploaded a new video where I extract the potassium chlorate directly out of the matches to make ROCKET FUEL! check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EgbfLakTLcw.html
Yeah that "fluff" is why it's easier to use a knife to remove the phosphorus from the match then just grinding it with the cardboard still on. But if it's working for ya then right on (most people aren't looking to just set fire to it is why they're gripping about separating it)
If you just cut the heads of matches and compress them into a pipe topped off with a fire cracker and fuse sticking out a hole in the center of at the cap it will explode like gunpowder when lit. Did it when I was a kid. A friend (not to bright) used blue tip matches and of course during compression it went off and blew off a couple of his fingers. The idiot. You sure are doing a lot of work for little result. The paper from the match that is left over like dust from a silo explosion is highly combustible. Use it too.
A chemical extraction could be as simple as pouring boiling water through the chopped up matches which would then dissolve the potassium chlorate and then the water could be evaporated.
Your not really making match powder. It's more of a "processing of..." its was already made, produced and used by the company that made the matches. You just made an elaborate "Rube Goldberg " machine...
putting match heads in a coffee grinder is dangerous. I rather add alcohol and water to dampen it a little. then pound and grind it with a moltar. using a silkscreen fabric to strain the impurities. putting it directly in the coffee grinder is suicide.
Alan Lawyer Some people from NOT the USA might be happy to see this. YOu know, not every country has "just go to walmart and buy minigun" gun laws like the USA.
I bet that fluff with the powder would be really flammable without getting the fluff out. Seems like you lost 75% of it so I don't think it was very effective at all. Kind of a fail...
First...you don't actual "Make" the match powder. Second, that filtering out the powder, so restarted. Why waste all those steps when u can just use the strainer in in the beginning. If it doesn't get the fluff the first try, do a second try with the strainer.
You probably can’t buy it off the internet in some countries and any adds for it are probably government bait for gullible people to click and then be sent to prison.
This seems a bit misleading we hit this video to actually make our own matches not recycle them from matches when u can just buy the things in the first place what we want is to learn how to make our own from scratch I feel really let down what do people call this is it click bait or just bullshit
match powder? what? I watched the how to make match powder, and he got a load of powder from 500 books of matches, but........WHY. OK, I'm from the UK so every second person dosn't have a gun hard on! but I thought this dude was gonna do something cool, like blow shit up or something !!! fill me in please someone on the purpose?
