This is the main thing everyone who loves fireworks and pyrotechnics wants to learn. The base for all the kinds of fireworks is Black Powder. In this post, I will show you how I made a very good quality Black Powder to use in my fireworks. Ingredients and main formula: - 10% Sulfur (from agriculture store) - 15% Charcoal (homemade from Willow wood, see here for a tutorial ) - 75% Potassium Nitrate (from agriculture store) - Distilled water and alcohol Usually, to prevent accidents (or minimize the effects of a possible accident), I allways make black powder is small quantities, for example, a max of 100grams each time, so, consider, for example, using the percent of the ingredients in equal weight in grams. Tools: - Ball mill (with lead media or pellets). - Mortar and pestle or any wooden tools to crush the pucks into grains - Hydraulic press (for pressing and corning) with die (you can make one with a PVC tube and an engine piston) Instead a ball mill, y...
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