Making black powder

[Blackfire]

Who makes black powder? How?

[BayouMan]

Broken down into steps.
1. Must make Charcoal out of the following wood.
Willow, Alder, Birch, Fir, Oak, Beech, Ash, Pine, Balsa
Use a one gallon new metal paint can and drill a 3/8 hole in top of lid. Place your wood chunks into paint can and place can into an open fire for two hours.
Instead of an open fire I use a charbroil big easy turkey fryer.
After charcoal is made step two is grinding the charcoal to a fine dust.

2. To grind the charcoal use a vintage manual meat grinder with a Crumb grinding attachment and sift the charcoal # 30 mesh
Keep running the charcoal through the sifting screen until all complete.
Store your charcoal in a mason jar

3. Mix the following together in a plastic mixing bowl
potassium nitrate (saltpeter), sulfur and charcoal.
Use chart for correct measurements.

4. Place the green powder in a rotary tumbler with hopper filled 1/4 full of .50cal lead round balls.
Tumble for 72hours.
Do not tumble close to living area.

5. Take the green powder out of tumbler and store in a plastic airtight container. Now it’s time to make pucks.

6. You will need an 8ton or above press and a 30mm Rosin round press mold. Use small plastic container add 7 TBS of green powder and a plastic fork to mix add 70% alcohol and until green powder starts to get slightly damp.
Add green powder inside of the rosin mold and press for 30 seconds. Pucks should be 1/4 in thick. Follow these steps until all green powder is used.

7. Next place pucks in food dehydrator for 24hours.

8.Take pucks and break up into bean size pieces and run through a ceramic burr coffee grinder

9. Separate by using the following mesh size picture will be attached. With everything smaller then what you need can be re-pressed again.

Make sure to use all plastic hardware or rubber mallets.
No metal to metal.
Never store final powder in Masson jars only plastic air tight jars

[Blackfire]

Looks like l have more equipment to get.

[BayouMan]

Data to use.

[BayouMan]

Data.

[BayouMan]

Rosin Press. Puck press

[BayouMan]

Pan set.

[BayouMan]

Grinder

[BayouMan]

Charcoal grinder with crumbled attachment.

[7000grain]

Broken down into steps.
1. Must make Charcoal out of the following wood.
Willow, Alder, Birch, Fir, Oak, Beech, Ash, Pine, Balsa
Use a one gallon new metal paint can and drill a 3/8 hole in top of lid. Place your wood chunks into paint can and place can into an open fire for two hours.
Instead of an open fire I use a charbroil big easy turkey fryer.
After charcoal is made step two is grinding the charcoal to a fine dust.

2. To grind the charcoal use a vintage manual meat grinder with a Crumb grinding attachment and sift the charcoal # 30 mesh
Keep running the charcoal through the sifting screen until all complete.
Store your charcoal in a mason jar

3. Mix the following together in a plastic mixing bowl
potassium nitrate (saltpeter), sulfur and charcoal.
Use chart for correct measurements.

4. Place the green powder in a rotary tumbler with hopper filled 1/4 full of .50cal lead round balls.
Tumble for 72hours.
Do not tumble close to living area.

5. Take the green powder out of tumbler and store in a plastic airtight container. Now it’s time to make pucks.

6. You will need an 8ton or above press and a 30mm Rosin round press mold. Use small plastic container add 7 TBS of green powder and a plastic fork to mix add 70% alcohol and until green powder starts to get slightly damp.
Add green powder inside of the rosin mold and press for 30 seconds. Pucks should be 1/4 in thick. Follow these steps until all green powder is used.

7. Next place pucks in food dehydrator for 24hours.

8.Take pucks and break up into bean size pieces and run through a ceramic burr coffee grinder

9. Separate by using the following mesh size picture will be attached. With everything smaller then what you need can be re-pressed again.

Make sure to use all plastic hardware or rubber mallets.
No metal to metal.
Never store final powder in Masson jars only plastic air tight jars

Awesome step by step write up Philo. Making my shopping list now. lol.