Hey all, this fourth of July we're setting off a shit-ton of LE fireworks for a little town we live by, and I plan on making an AP primary and APAN charge to destroy a printer, a la Office Space.

I've made AP before, and I'm fine with APAN, but having never used a charge to destroy something, I'm not sure of the proper amount to use.

I'd like to blow the motherfucker in half.

Thanks in advance, and a to all of those who are about to flame because they have a small penis.

You can never use too many explosives.

You forgot your flame suit fucknut. First of all i wouldn't advise you doing this because for 1 your using AP and for 2 you have no idea what the fuck your doing. If your going to do this use a secondary like ETN

Didn't expect much anyway.

8kg sounds like a reasonable amount to me.
Best advice I can give is use as much as you're comfortable with. DOTI used 75g do destroy a VCR IIRC.

This is coming from someone who left a 200g APAN charge with a AP cap on the side of a train track?

You didn't read the whole thread did you? If you can find the thread i said i went and retrieved later that night and disposed of it.

Yeah after you had been violently flamed anyway it doesn't matter I was only pointing it out.

Good way to cover yourself there! It dont matter if you went and got it at all. You should have went back just as soon as that cop left. Not the next damn day. Lots of little kids walk train tracks and they may be more intitled to throw it around than light it. Your still an idiot for all the dumb shit you do and if I ever meet you in person for some random strange reason its going to be a 2x4 across the head for you.

Exactly I cant quote you exactly because warweed.com is gone but you did say that you would just leave it to self detonate. Only after you had been flamed did you go back and get it.

Damn you shouldn't really have been walking along the train track with a 200g charge in the first place.

Had you posted that on here Vineman and SN would probably flamed you off of totse.

K, I'm not gonna argue, yea it was a dumb move. Fuck vineman and SN like i care what they say?

Yeah just pointing it out, if the police man had caught you with that charge walking along the railway track. How do you explain that one away?!

He'd buy him off with some personal favors.

The cops around here would have dropped him and gone home to twirl their moustaches and jerk off with gun cleaning solvent.

We have psycho-assholes, not pyro friendly, not kitten friendly, not...at all friendly.

Also irresponsible, they left a fucking ordnance magazine unlocked some kids broke in, if you could call it that, and stole a considerable quantity of explosives and det cord. Huge fucking incompetents.

Ozzy, it's not just CHANCE that I am highly respected. It's not just random that people know I know my shit. So when I call you an irresponsible idiot, you can take that shit to the fucking BANK. ANYONE that knows SHIT about explosives would know that you are in fact a GOD DAMN retard after talking to you for not even 3 minutes. Hell, it's probably apparent regardless of a persons educational background.

Hey again, AP noob question again. Sorry for the question and sorry for apologizing for being a noob, that shit gets old.

Anyway, I've made the AP no problem. Turns out boiling down 500 ml to 50 ml, although not at all exact, works pretty well. Anyway, I'm drying it so that I can weigh it, because I need to know if I need more. However, I came back to it a couple hours after I filtered to see if it was dry, and it was still pretty damp. I was planning on taking the AP underwater to the det site and then drying, but I don't know if it will be dry by the time I have to det it. This is a major problem, because I'm really iffy about driving 30 minutes with a large AP charge in my trunk. I need help, badly.

Also, I don't ever think I'm going to make AP again, I don't like the sensitivity at all. But I keep getting this terrible feeling that the table the AP is drying on is will no longer exist when I go back to my area. I also just know that Ozzy will somehow go his whole life without a major accident and I will blow my hand off this time, even though I followed all the safety procedures down to the letter. Just my luck.

Plzplzplz help, I know you guys are nice deep down.

I hate that feeling. Technically drying AP shouldn't be so bad because it's in no way hygroscopic, but I almost always let it dry at least several hours. On newspaper.

The alternative is of course taking it dry. If you choose this way, be sure to divide it up into smaller amounts and store it somewhere heavily padded.

Advice for the future: Make some secondaries. That's where the real fun of HE lies, and even if you can't find a better primary you only need to make small (<5g) batches. A 1g cap works well in many situations, if not there's always making a train.

Yup, I wanted to make a secondary but I didn't have the time to get the chems, and I'm regretting it.

I'm thinking of making a dessicator and spraying the dry ap with just a bit of alcohol to keep it damp, and put it in the dessicator a little before I drive over.

Dessicator not suck up alcohol... (??)

Use 99% IpOH if you have it, denat. sometimes has acetone in it.