I recently found your channel,TY for the info,it is quite helpful . I'm thinking perhaps flash-grade aluminium might serve as a better fuel,and more reliable? Theoretically it should work,ans burn cleaner... The idea of the A.Trisulphide aounds like a bad idea,maybe more power but seems fairly dirty for a primer? Just throwing out ideas here,maybe even a magnallium mixture.. Both L.Stpypnate and L.Azide are a bit too much on the Legality side of things,and far too toxic for my taste.
Magnalium, a spicy fuel and possibly a replacement for ground glass. Maybe even an initiator if hit hard enough, breaking grains and exposing fresh metal to oxidizer.
I haven't even gotten the chance to examine an actual #10 cap. That is how elusive they have been to me. What I want to know is, how filled is the cap to allow it to fit on the nipple? Does the slurry method shrink to half the volume or something?
Depending on how much primer you put in they usually cure out at about a quarter to a third full whether using the dry or slurry method. The slurry method is just quicker because the primer and hardener are all mixed together at once instead of adding the dry primer and then going back and adding a drop of acetone/hardener mix on top of it.
I came across something called "Armstrong's mixture". There is a Wiki article on it. Seems similar to H-48 but uses red phosphorus. Here is a video where a guy "supposedly" is mixing just potassium chlorate and sulfur and it goes off. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V4IHYkPwyGQ.html I see you got bamboo, charred up a paint can full this past weekend. I'm hoping it makes good BP, my back yard is overrun with it.
Red phosphorus is a very controlled substance in the USA because it is used by criminals for the production of methamphetamine. A small amount of red phosphorus can be obtained from the friction strip on match books, it is enough to make a very small amount of Armstrong mixture for educational purposes (but you might just as well buy some toy caps).
Potassium chlorate and red phosphorous can DEFINITELY ignite simply by mixing them dry. So can chlorate and sulfur. Chlorate has largely been replaced with perchlorate which is more stable. A version of Armstrong's mixture was considered by the military as a primer but it was deemed too unstable.
Why not mercury fulminate?........I know ....mercury........the stuff us kids used to coat penny's with........easy to make has been used before in billions of primers ........ya I know it's corrosive.....what isnt.
@@woodrowbrimm2805 in yea olden days mercury was used in the process of making beaver felt hats. It made the hat makers tremble uncontrolably and behave irrationally leading to the phrase "mad as a hatter" and was the inspiration for the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Then it killed them.
