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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Learn how to make gunpowder from such items as dead cats, whiskey, your living room ceiling, manure and maple syrup with simple hand tools and techniques that have been used for centuries. This is a practical and safe approach to making the oldest propellant/explosive known. For information purposes only. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Don McLean | | Paperback: | 80 pages | | Publisher: | Paladin Press | | Publication Date: | July 01, 1992 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0873646754 | | Product Length: | 8.66 inches | | Product Width: | 5.52 inches | | Product Height: | 0.21 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.28 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.3 inches | | Package Width: | 5.4 inches | | Package Height: | 0.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 14 reviews |
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77 of 80 found the following review helpful:
 Simply Informative and Useful Jul 20, 2006
By Scotty_G
"cap sensitive"
Iv'e read some drivel that the processes in this book are too hard to follow, or that they take too long to bear fruit. Look, if you don't want to leach out potassium nitrate, go buy it. I won't tell you where I get it, but if your'e making gunpowder you should be resourceful enough to find your own. Charcoal shouldn't be a problem, and you can order large quantities of sulfur for a good price. Also, you can buy all of these items, follow the processes in the book for putting it together, and still pay less for black powder than you would at the store. It's kind of funny, but I had more success with the sugar and rust recipe than with the traditional black powder. The burn rate was absolutely amazing, and the noise from my fence post driver cannon was too. The only reason that the techniques for resting all the ingredients from the earth were included in the book was to give you an idea of how to make powder from the ground up IF YOU HAD TO. You can easily go buy the ingredients, skip to the recipe pages of the book, and make gunpowder. I wouldn't recommend it though, because it's a very interesting book. I'd say the most important part of the book are the safety rules. I can personally attest to the importance of these. Just remember, someday you will accidentally ignite this stuff. It's a fact. So keep your batches small and separated. Also, if your'e making over fifty pounds of it you might consider an explosives manufacturing license.
22 of 22 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Oct 31, 2008
By Richard Gregory
This book delivers. It has valuable recipes to make your own black poweder and a sugar related substitute. This book also means it when it say to make everything from scratch. How to make your own charcoal, getting sulfur from unlikely places, and "Growing" a salt peter bed. Its not a thick book by no means but if you someday find yourself in the situation where you need to make all of these components from scratch this is a great book to have.
Just a quick little bit of help. Just because your compost pile is nitre bearing earth your going to be hard pressed to produce salt peter. your better off builiding a nitre bed like the author describes.
33 of 38 found the following review helpful:
class act Apr 08, 2000
By Tim Sheane
This book tells you exactly how to make gunpowder from manure, wood, baserock and many other simple around the house and free from the land type materials. I found this book very useful and informative.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 This is a Neat Little Book Dec 19, 2011
By J. Walkup
There aren't many advantages to making your own gunpowder these days, much less your own gunpowder ingredients, but this little book covers all of it, along with some interesting history (including the impressive number of people who have blown themselves up, along with factories, shops villages and so forth). He does remind us of safety rules, but somehow it falls short of what some goofball on the internet might do with the information. Still, definitely something I'd want to be able to do if I needed to, so here it is.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
replacing the one the police in utah stole from me...thanks Sep 09, 2011
By sean smith
it doesn't go in to the rest of the chemistry, but its a good start to learn where some of our raw materials come from...:) it also gives a history of farming and taxes and things, its kind of interesting....:)
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