Making Hazard Cartridges with the Crossen Cartridge Molds 

That's too cool!!!

So your family would actually have a voice in Congress when it comes to the Two Aye!

@@dangeary2134 I dont think my family ever got into politics AT ALL!!, in fact my brother and I are the last of our brance of the Wheelocks.

Someone from France commented on my channel finding some in a wall while doing a remodel. I think a lot these went into surplus after the American Civil War.

The French also imported vast amounts of US civil war arms and ammo when they were losing the Franco Prussian war badly.

Thank you so much for your work, Mr. Crossen. Now I have to get my printers up and running right so I can print your files to make cool stuff. :)

From my experience, if the black powder is compressed to much you loose a lot of power (less velocity on the chronograph).

@@Wayne72LEVRAI I was thinking about the .303 black powder pellets and thinking about the same need to precision. 👍

Mr. Crossen has an account with Prusa's Printables web site where you can download the files he uses to make the formers, along with some other useful files he's uploaded, for free. I gotta get off my butt to get my printers back up and running right so I can print a batch using PLA and a batch using PLA+ (or Pro) to see which one can handle the pressure better.

@@wittsullivan8130 I think I have seen them there then - I would use PLA+ in that case as PLA is more glass like brittle on its own. ABS, ASA or Nylon will superior yet but need housed prints. What went wrong with your printer?

It will need water to fully dissolve and polymerize the Dextrin again, so only a fraction can be replaced with ethanol and it increase the fire risk while drying.

Mr. Crossen has an account on Prusa's Printables web site that he links to in his videos. He has quite a few files to print a lot of neat tools you can use with paper cartridges and the Hazard style catridges, even templates to make cartridge boxes for them.

Hope you're doing good foster care sucs

From what I've read, some companies made combustible paper cartridges into the 30's because of the amount of cheap surplus percussion pistols from the Civil War, there were still a lot of surplus cartridges still around. Paying $12 (or less) for a percussion revolver compared to $30 or more for a cartridge gun made them popular for poor folk, especially during the Depression when people had to hunt for food and needed low-income self defense options. (I'm guessing at the actual prices, I'm not a 100 years old and too lazy to do the research) When a company designed a pistol, they wanted to sell the ammo, too, because it was more profitable, just like razor companies, except they didn't give away the pistol to sell you the cartridges. Some companies just made cartridges, like Johnston and Dow. The term "cap and ball" didn't become a thing until paper cartridges were no longer produced, forcing people to use loose powder, until Mr. Crossen and others went to work. :)

Hazard only made sold compressed cartridges from 1862 to 1864

Smart man

I did! Check the link to the firing video at the end of this one.

@robertstallard7836 I don't have a 3d printer set up to print them. I was just curious about the price so looked it up.

@@davinci3259pretty sure you can take those plans and upload them to a 3d printing site and order it as a custom order. Shouldn't cost an arm and a leg these days either.

Mr. Crossen shows off an original cartridge in one of his videos. he's got it in a plastic capsule, but it's held up for 150 years+ so far. :)

Ping pong balls are made with that, aren't they?

i think, it was playing cards,

It varies, the amount of nitration. Low like billiard balls and piano keys are flammable but do not go bang. It is somewhat different from high flash cotton. There are several types and several grades inside each type.

takes a while to 3d print.

Nitric acid was more expensive than nitrate salts I think 🤔

@@fasted8468 Yeah, they only needed to burn down a forest to produce a pound of potassium nitrate... but then they would have to then turn the potassium nitrate into nitric acid to be able to make nitrocellulose. I just didn't think nitrocellulose was invented until after cartridges were invented. I don't know for a fact though.

@@fasted8468 I googled it, but got like 4 different answers. Some say 1851, some say 1855, some say 1862 and some say 1863. Even Wikipedia's short answer says 1855 and 1862 in the same google result of "when was nitrocellulose invented". I have no idea when the skin cartridges and hazard cartridges were used though. (I thought I was replying to a comment on skin cartridges that I watched today... but then realized it was the Hazzard cartridges video. I guess it don't matter either way though. I just figured that with the nitrocellulose being used as an adhesive it would burn too fast and too powerful. When nitrocellulose was invented it couldn't be used as gunpowder, because it burned so fast it would blow up and gun they tried to use it in. They had to invent ways to slow down the combustion first.

Combustible paper cartridges were made using paper that was soaked in a combination of nitric + sulfuric acids during the Civil War Era. It is a dangerous process that should not be done at home. It was the same as modern flash paper. I make mine from flash paper and flash glue and they burn 100% clean without leaving any charred paper in the chambers. They also make 3F black powder burn cleaner. It is a totally different & superior process than soaking coffee filter papers in potassium nitrate and water which is basically an uninformed hoax seen in many YT videos.

@@robertrobert7924 Isn't nitrated paper the same as nitrocellulose? ...and if it is nitrocellulose, isn't it too powerful for a black powder rifle? Even a small amount of nitrocellulose can create too much pressure for a black powder gun... and mixing that with black powder, especially surrounding the black powder, because it can cause the black powder to burn much faster too (by igniting it all at once). I know nitrocellulose isn't always the best quality and poor quality nitrocellulose would work... but I wonder if anyone ever made too high quality nitrocellulose and blew up their gun on accident.

if you shoot it and it goes off it's better than nothing and if you have to shoot it for defense and it blows up they say that's the least of worries because your situation is worse needing to shoot it .../jkes

@@BurntKittyForge-pl8ol Um, thanks. Although this is not the answer I needed ;)

I read this at exactly the right moment

Also explains why he needs " 6 or 7 percent water"

Good boom boom ​@@fasted8468

You must be like Quick Karl trying to eat a Marathon bar……” I do everything fast!” Damn….just shooting caplock revolvers must be too slow for you, in general.

Yeah I know! Did you see the sparks flying out of that scale. In all seriousness, at least use a scoop and not pure from the can.