Thread: Home Brew Black Powder........Craft Powder?

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Who me ?

I have a fucking massive blacksmiths anvil
Need to make a stand for it and have it where it's more convenient to use more often

You reckon yours is bigger than mine?


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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

ohhh goodie..... we can test some powder then LOL watching videos of guys doing it is hilarious....

@Micky Duck should arrange a powder test one day.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

I must confess that my main interest in home made BP is being able to feed a cannon or mortar.

I don't really use enough with my 6 muzzleloaders to warrant making my own.

Cannons and mortars do interest me and a proving cannon ( mortar ) would be relatively easy to make.
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Then you would be able to test batches of powder for burn rate and scale loads accordingly.
But really it would be about using handfuls of powder and huge clouds of smoke just for fun.

A bang, large clouds of smoke, and some vague science around distance and 'omph' generated. What's not to like about this scheme?

You might have just touched on another subject entirely there MD - the dark art of anvil launching! I think in that context the question of 'Don't you have an anvil?' could be answered by 'well I did at one stage - I know roughly where it went too!'

Originally Posted by Tedz50

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@Micky Duck should arrange a powder test one day.

Ok Ted
I think we should do it at your place
That would be a fun day out with free overnovernight accommodation in the Hornby holding calls

Originally Posted by No.3

You might have just touched on another subject entirely there MD - the dark art of anvil launching! I think in that context the question of 'Don't you have an anvil?' could be answered by 'well I did at one stage - I know roughly where it went too!'

So now i I need a HiViz anvil

Originally Posted by Tedz50

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@Micky Duck should arrange a powder test one day.

@Tedz50 I love that mortar . What bore is it ?
I bet it's been out to somewhere like Birdlings Flat in the day and lobbed some lead off shore

Ok M.D. so it really is a thing !
I clearly need to get out more often and engage with the real world instead of the on line world

My God What have I done!!!!!

I mention making a bit of 'Craft' Holy Black for the musket and all of a sudden there are huge anvils flying through the air amidst a cloud of smoke

I feel guilty

Not

Originally Posted by NAKED_GOOSE

If you want alot of reading go and find the "my home made black powder" thread on castboolits,
300 pages of experimenting and different methods of making it, only downside to that is, I found the search function on castboolits a bit crap so I'd suggest taking notes as you go.

currently trying to get my hands on a ball mill so I can make some decent stuff as I cant seem to grind it fine enough currently, shame its not as cheap as it is in the US to go an get a harbour freight rock tumbler for $50 :/

take the head off your small sledgehmmer and sit charcoal in a pan,and just keep pushing down and turning at the same time...

I once had the idea to build a 2 Pounder Whitworth Breech loading cannon with a 40mm Bofors barrel.
I found a number of barrels but their owners were reluctant to sell knowing they were going to be cut in half.

But I did play around enough to have a play at making double and triple helix threads in the workshop like the Whitworth Breech threads.
It's great to hand to an engineer and see their face when they realise why the thread looks a bit strange.
The multi helix threads are very cool, so that one turn of the breech block engaged enough thread surface area to contain lobbing a 4 pound projectile some distance

But not as big as an anvil

Akaroa....I didnt think you had got my drift when I mentioned it...lol

Originally Posted by akaroa1

I once had the idea to build a 2 Pounder Whitworth Breech loading cannon with a 40mm Bofors barrel.
I found a number of barrels but their owners were reluctant to sell knowing they were going to be cut in half.

But I did play around enough to have a play at making double and triple helix threads in the workshop like the Whitworth Breech threads.
It's great to hand to an engineer and see their face when they realise why the thread looks a bit strange.
The multi helix threads are very cool, so that one turn of the breech block engaged enough thread surface area to contain lobbing a 4 pound projectile some distance

But not as big as an anvil

I just happen to know where quite a few bofur barrels are..not far from where Im sitting actually

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Akaroa....I didnt think you had got my drift when I mentioned it...lol

I doubt you worry too much about DRIFT with anvil firing !
I'm guessing in serious competition the winner is the team that gets it highest.
I wonder if there is an Anvil Firing association and a chapter in NZ
I also wonder about the rules .... Just asking for a friend

my memory is telling me there is scene in movie of them doing it..sweet home Alabama is nudging me..... there are LOTS of videos of it about.