I have steel wool, shotgun shell powder (3 shells worth), 3 fuses, 3 empty CO2 canisters, birdshot from the shotgun shells, ball bearings, and wires. What the best explosive I can make, if I even can make one out of that stuff? I'm not looking to kill, but to blow the hell out of something or to prank someone. I want to keep everything pretty simple. Any suggestions or comments are welcome.

ok putt the smockless powder from the shells in one of the cartiges only after you put the fuse in. if you want you can ad the bird shot and ball bearings as shrapnell to blow whatever up better i'm not totally sure this will work with the smockless powder though it might not be powerful enough



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I could use a fuse. But I have steel wool and wires. I was thinking about putting the steel wool and powder in the canister and attaching wires to the steel wool. Then I would attach a battery to the wire. Probably one of those larger 6 volts. This would ignite the steel wool, and in turn ignite the powder. Hows that? I'm just posting the questions because I want to see if anyone has any better ideas or suggestions.

get a film canister, put a fuse hole in it, put in fuse, crazy glue around fuse, fill canister with some powder, take cap and put glue around it, put cap on, let it dry and tape it up good.... use your imagination

Drill out the end of one of the CO2 cartridges first. Fill it with the smokless powder and insert a fuse. Tape or epoxy the fuse in place.

Smokeless powder doesn't offer the best performance in salutes and cratermakers but if you're lucky it will do. Otherwise you've made yourself a loud and very powerful rocket...

~Zero

I'm going to ask a pretty stupid question now, but I'm only 14, so I'm pretty clueless. Could I fill the CO2 canister (12 grams) with gasoline? Then throw a fuse in it? It's the most abudant flammable liquid I can optain. All the powder I have isn't even enough to fill the canister. I also happen to have all the parts from the shotgun shells as well as the powder.

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Originally posted by silent_soul:
Could I fill the CO2 canister (12 grams) with gasoline? Then throw a fuse in it?

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YOU WISH! That will never work, dont waste a fuse. So until you can atomize it enough that it could explode, I have proven you wrong.

it wouldnt work because the gas needs oxygen to burn. It won't do anything

How can you prove him wrong if he is asking a question?

CTR

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Originally posted by Genital-Warfare:
How can you prove him wrong if he is asking a question?

CTR

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SHHHHUSH! I was just trying to be a smartass.

You would most likely need to epoxy the fuse in there if you're using the smokeless powder.

Gasoline will not explode. Gasoline vapors do, but not with much force and it would be pretty much useless in a CO2 cartrige. Just maybe if you mixed the gas with some KNO3 or some other oxidiser in a 3/1 oxidiser/gas ratio... I haven't tried that, anyone want to say if it would work or not?

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Originally posted by DavidThePyro:
Just maybe if you mixed the gas with some KNO3 or some other oxidiser in a 3/1 oxidiser/gas ratio... I haven't tried that, anyone want to say if it would work or not?

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I will go try it now.

I tried it. It was extremely hard to get the kno3 to dissolve in the gas. Even though it didnt not all dissolve, I still tryied it. The gas with dissolved kno3 just burnt like gas. The Kno3 soaked with gas also just burnt like gas.

Indeed. Gasoline will not function as a burst charge no matter what you do to it.

~Zero

Well, I never said it was a good idea... We all learned something, though.

God some of you people are stupid. Even after he says that he is looking to kill- you STILL tell him how to make explosive mechanisms, ones that throw off shrapnel on top of that....

my bad

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Originally posted by 6C:
God some of you people are stupid. Even after he says that he is looking to kill- you STILL tell him how to make explosive mechanisms, ones that throw off shrapnel on top of that....

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If you read my original question, I said my intentions were to prank, and NOT to kill.

if your looking for shrapnel the cratermaker idea is the best use the smokeless powder and if it isnt enuff to fill the cratrige 3/4 of the way then use SAFTEY match heads for the rest the epoxy the fuse in gasoline belive it or not is not a magic substance but instead of the cratermaker idea you could use the bp to make a gasoline fireball with i belive eps site has plans for this but i may be mistaken
www.krimsonpyro.com then scroll down and click on the yellow thing that says EP on it

Edit: used a 's' instead of a 'z' in the url

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i redid my profile why isnt it showing up in my location field?!?

oh, there we go but the link doesnt work

Click Here!

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Originally posted by silent_soul:
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If you read my original question, I said my intentions were to prank, and NOT to kill.

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Ohhh my bad.. I read your first post again and realize the error in my ways. So sorry about that.

As you should be!

Here beat me with this stick...