Why YOUR screened black powder SUCKS!

all right guys today i want to talk about binders screen powder versus puffed and corn so let me show you first this is my uh pumpkin corn powder i started with half pound and let me find my other sample this is my screen with a binder so first why screen versus puck this takes a lot more labor a lot more difficult to create and you're also getting a lot less yield so both started with a half pound of material the jars are slightly different but you can see there's probably two to three times more powder here so if i start with a half pound i probably lose five percent uh two fines uh if i start with the puck i'm probably losing i don't know maybe 50 percent to find is every time i crunch a granule i get dust and with this you're not really doing that so that's one reason this i can make if i have my ingredients not counting ball time i probably haven't made it i don't know half hour this i have to press i have to get them out of the pucks i gotta smash it and do lots of sorting to get the grain size i need now this is a lot more powerful this is about 20 percent more density and 20 percent more power so if you're doing uh 60 grains per volume you're getting about 20 percent more power than you are with the screen so if you have to get some durable grains something that has a lot of power for volume you need to use the puck the screen though like in the muzzle loader you're not limited on volume so you can just add more at 20 percent more all right so this is good it's probably the best and it's close to the commercial grade but now i want to talk about screened so why your screen powder sucks okay so if you watch all the black powder videos on youtube you'll see you just add the three ingredients you add some either water or alcohol or a mixture and you push it through a screen right that's what you get here because usually they're not using a binder so let me try to get some out and show you the problem so you can understand it better let me see if i can find a little dipper here's my dipper i know i'm unorganized guys i'm sorry about that i usually have a little dipper hiding hiding somewhere okay maybe i don't so i want to scoop it out let me just pour a little bit right here now if you can see this powder if i get this in my hands see it looks granulated a little bit of finger pressure and look is dust right because there's no binder in it can you see a little pressure and it's dust right so it looks good but in practicality it's not really that good maybe for fireworks and stuff but otherwise needs a binder so what about the puck power how is this so hard without a binder well it does have a binder the sulfur is the binder if you compress it really hard that sulfur will plasticize and become really hard it's like ceramic super hard without that pressure this stuff here you know look at that it's dust right so i made you this demonstration i don't know maybe it's not worth it i was going to fill this up okay what the hell do it for you guys so you can imagine that is the barrel of your gun looks good right okay and now you go with your ramrod and you go to pack it in this is not a lot of pressure guys so what do you got in that barrel this is just light well you got dust it immediately turned to dust right so you need granules that's why you have 2f3f4f right you need grains not for the oxygen because that's in the potassium nitrate but you need it so the flame will go around those kernels and everything ignites at once if you get a dust ball at the bottom like that just packed in dust you don't have that and when trying to use this in a muzzle loader it'll shoot but if you're not very very careful how you pack it down just gently it's hard to get the ball down all the way without compressing it more than a few inch pounds right so i would get some poofs where i feel the noticeable recoil difference in my shoulder and the bullet will drop a foot at 50 yards right because you're just getting this dust so what do you do to fix that you need to use a binder now i've done a lot of experimenting with commercial dextrin which you find in this clear powder fiber powder i've used some commercial dextrin i've used homemade dextrin i've used red gum in alcohol my latest one i'm gonna try gum arabic but what i've really really fell in love with is a soluble glutinous rice starch three percent do your ball mill and i'll show you how this is done later but you mill it for eight hours and then for about 10 minutes drop in three percent of this and you're going to have to wet it with water no alcohol so i got some scraps here right now this i'm pressing with my fingers can you see that that's as hard as i can press right and it's still hard okay so doing the same demonstration let me get some of this in here i know it's hard with a scoopy doop scooper this is just leftover stuff that i can play with but you get that in there and you get the old smash you'll hear some crunching i know this is a bad demonstration but what's inside is still granulated it's not thin powder right so you can take the rice starch formula pack it in as hard as you like and you're still going to get a consistent velocity right so i just want to make that clear before i actually get into the process how to make this the only real difference like i said is adding in that binder and then being very careful with how much water you use i use a spray bottle so i can just mist in a little bit of water and you if you get too much water i mean this rice starch gets slimy when it gets wet okay you don't want a slime ball because you'll produce noodles instead of grains it's going to be hard to press through your screen you also have to sort it with a screen one size larger because this stuff is is pretty sharp but you can polish it too and i may show you how to do that where you just basically put it back in the ball mill without the balls and rotate it and maybe put in just a tiny bit of powdered graphite if you really want to go through a meter well but if you're just scooping roughly this stuff works really well so hopefully that makes sense and again i'll show you how much better this is than this

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Length: 8min 38sec (518 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 05 2021