I have tremendous respect for this man's diligent, almost zealous commitment to systematic testing and empirical evidence.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@mikehoare6093
8 ай бұрын
@@Everythingblackpowder no man, this is a treasure trove right here !
@oldranger3044
8 ай бұрын
Pay attention to how Jake deals with the miss fire. Great follow through, but as important is him keeping the gun on target for several seconds in case of a hang fire. For anyone that isn’t aware, it is possible that the charge could ignite a second or so after the flash. O.R.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Howdy O.R.
@Enjoymentboy
8 ай бұрын
I never expected to hear someone say "that's not as clean as the toilet paper stuff" while standing there holding a gun. Nice job. 😂😂😂
@ddhh6552
6 ай бұрын
Cottonelle clean
@drummer0864
8 ай бұрын
I've been watching for a couple of years and I've come to the conclusion, you are the guru of black powder. I can see the future of a warning on toilet paper wrappers now. "Not For Use In Antique Firearms".
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
😂 thank you
@bigboresledder
8 ай бұрын
Don't forget the Prop 65 warning
@drummer0864
8 ай бұрын
You mean the one that says," If You Live In Cancer, It May Cause California"?@@bigboresledder
@hunteranglin3750
8 ай бұрын
I still think the reason the toilet paper worked so well is because how dense it was.And how it probably made very consistent charcoal.
@vulpesvulpes5177
8 ай бұрын
I’m finding this interesting on several levels. I’ve pulled up some figures on ash content from the USDA. Cotton is 6 grams per hundred. Balsa wood 3 grams per hundred. Toilet paper is not listed, but “wood pulp”, the main component of TP ranges from 5-11 grams/100. All these organics will contain some nitrogen, phosphorous, sulphur etc. cotton is notable for containing a stiff dose of zinc. Presumably the zinc will be represented as part of that ash figure. Now your carbonization process should be reasonably complete. Meaning all the nitrogen, phosphorous, sulphur etc etc is colorized off. Leaving near elemental carbon and ash. And if I’m correct in remembering your figures, ash content would agree with your “clean” appraisal. With the 3pm balsa being the cleanest. Toilet paper is your anomaly. Toilet paper is made regionally. As is pulp wood harvesting which supply’s the wood fiber in the TP. I can find no ash figures for individual brands. But with an ash range between 5 and 11 grams one might conclude that your “best” TP batch was low in ash and your “worst” TP high in ash. Ash also competes for nitrogen in combustion and may play a factor in your velocity differences between and within batches. Toilet paper is wood pulp. Wood chips are pulped using sulphuric and hydrochloride acids. These in turn leave sulfur and chloride organic compounds which may not completely break down on combustion in your fireplace. Presumably these would be part of the ash. However these data come from material combustion in a bomb calorimeter which used a charge of pure oxygen to ensure complete combustion. Your firebox will not be that efficient. Cotton was the favored carbon source for early smokeless powders. Or “gun cotton”. My mind headed that direction until I recalled that this was the artifact of nitrating as many carbons in a long chain molecule. But carbonization breaks these long chain bonds. Maybe not to molecular carbon, but very short chains. I mention this in case someone else makes the association as I did. Erroneously. Clearly you are close to the Holly grail of powders. Do continue to choose wisely. Fox out
@rjo49
8 ай бұрын
Are your wood pulp ash figures from before or after all the washing and bleaching processes?
@vulpesvulpes5177
8 ай бұрын
@@rjo49 They are from a table produced by the USDA. Samples were combusted in a bomb calorimeter used pure oxygen in the combustion. The samples were analyzed based upon weight in 100 gram lots. Gas chromatograph analysis was done before and after to determine grams/100 grams of the constituents. The primary goal was to determine calories produced per 100g of each item, but they also listed the elemental constituents. The work dates to 1972 as I recall. So presumably after the pulping process. Fox out
@rjo49
8 ай бұрын
@@vulpesvulpes5177 Ok, just curious. In reference to wood pulp utilized in paper manufacture, Wiki says "Some of the most commonly used softwood trees for paper making include spruce, pine, fir, larch and hemlock, and hardwoods such as eucalyptus, aspen and birch". That's quite a range of source material to come up with any specific figures regardless of the analytical process.
@vulpesvulpes5177
8 ай бұрын
@@rjo49 Exactly. Probably why it has over 100% range. 5-11 gm/100. It’s the government in 1972 after all. I just thought it might give Willard an idea or two. Ash being the mineral component seems like it would correlate to his “dirty” coefficient. He called me a “tech weenie”. That’s the nicest thing anybody’s said about me in a long time! I think I’ll UN-subscribe, just so I can subscribe again to thank him. Fox out
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
😂 thanks Fox
@got2kittys
8 ай бұрын
It's fairly consistent. A good source of plain cotton, no dye or other things added, is cotton painters dropcloths.
@FirstLast-dp3jx
8 ай бұрын
could we postulate, that the reason for cotton ball to not be as clean as cottonel toilet paper, was because cotton balls are more prone to impurity buildup through its physical nature than rolled sheets of toilet paper? Great video btw!
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Seems reasonable
@papanyanz
8 ай бұрын
I think cotton balls are whitened chemically, same as the paper. One should look for natural untreated cotton in this case.
@joearledge
8 ай бұрын
Start playing with mixing different ratios of charcoal. Ex: 50% balsa charcoal and 50% buckthorn, or Cottonel, or 25/75 of one and the other charcoal. The idea being that your are using balsa charcoal as a "fouling reducer additive". Try to find the mix that is clean enough and powerful enough and cost efficient enough. The ideal mix(realistically) won't be 1st place in any of those categories, but it'll be a solid 2nd place in all of them. Of course the dream will always be making it at $1 a lbs, getting 2,000FPS, and pulling out white patches after 10 shots, but if you ever get to that point, you need to patent it and start your own powder company.
@v_Shami
8 ай бұрын
I feel like at that point you've somehow made smokeless powder without actually making smokeless 😂
@joearledge
8 ай бұрын
@@v_Shami That's the idea! mainly because the chemistry and manufacturing processes behind making legit modern smokeless are exponentially more complex than making the highest quality BP possible. Cordite may be possible to make at home, but it's still way harder to do well, than ultra high quality BP.
@MultiMcgruber
8 ай бұрын
@@manitoba-op4jxThere's a bit more to it than that, just nitrated carbon is... A bit sensitive, and unpredictable.
@a-k-jun-1
8 ай бұрын
A lot of us are watching because of logistical issues. Where I live in Alaska, a pound of propellant costs around $ 75 in hazmat fees.
@minigpracing3068
8 ай бұрын
Yeah, hazmat shipping kills options, that's why I'm using 777, I can buy it locally. Butt I might need to break out a roll of TP and set up a system to make my own powder. Maybe call it Shitzen powder 😊
@Godwh1sperer
8 ай бұрын
Cottonball still wipes the floor with Goex, and while dirty, its standardized the world over. Except for the first shot, all others were in the 1780s, very close! Another excellent and satisfying video!
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@Godwh1sperer
8 ай бұрын
@@Everythingblackpowder chemically, we now know that cellulose fiber, in essence polyglucose, in itself will work as a carbon source for making charcoal, without a need for lignin which forms creosote. Creosote accellerates combustion but gums up the "chimney" and we want it clean. A shorter chain polyglucose is starch. It might be very interesting to to make a charcoal of pure white corn starch or potato starch. These themselves are often sources of dust explosions. Carbonized, their already big surface area becomes ginormous. I see a fork of either going for newspaper or starch.
@1boortzfan
8 ай бұрын
It's funny how all these people have the bright ideas but how many of them are actually making their own powder? I know I'm not but it is very entertaining to see you do it. Keep doing what you're doing.
@young-salt
8 ай бұрын
The cardboard tube rant got me lol
@Hoopaball
8 ай бұрын
Hemp toilet paper!!!!
@lightweight1974
8 ай бұрын
Lol. Stems, leaves, or buds? It could get expensive. But if you stay close to the vent hole in your retort, you may not care.
@Hoopaball
8 ай бұрын
@@lightweight1974 In general, hemp fibers have a cellulose content of 53-91%, 4-18% hemicellulose, 1- 17% pectin and 1-21% lignin. The cellulose fibers are packed together and bonded via hydrogen bonds and van der Waals interactions, which are coated by hemicellulose and lignin.
@marktwain2053
8 ай бұрын
LOL. Hemp used for that purpose has very little in common with the "Happy Hemp". Cloth made from it is extremely durable, Levi's were originally made from hemp, but they changed to cotton because they could sell 5 pairs of cotton pants to 1 of hemp. Like I say in most things: "Follow The Money".
@rjo49
8 ай бұрын
Hemp charcoal has been used for a long time in Japan as a fuel for pyrotechnic compounds. It is known for relatively high rate of combustion. Takeo Shimizu in his book "Fireworks ; The Art, Science and Technique", originally published in 1912, discusses the use of what he calls "Hemp Coal"; he says it produces a "large force of explosion" when used as a component of black powder, and also finds its way into shell burst charges with oxidizers like potassium chlorate and potassium perchlorate. As a side note, I should point out that as a propellent for aerial shells, black powder functions somewhat differently than it does in firearms, because there is not a tight seal between the shell and the inside of the mortar. A lot of the force produced by the powder is lost as "blow-by", gasses that force their way around the shell and don't provide as much lift. One consequence is that precision of burn rates from batch to batch is not considered as important as it is with firearms. I would also note that the ash content of the charcoal, which is negatively correlated with potential burn rate, can vary quite a bit depending on how the plants were grown (eg, amount and type of applied fertilizers). Last but not least, the conditions of charcoal preparation will have a huge effect on both burn rate and residue. Undercooked charcoal can still have a lot of volatile organic compounds present, and overcooked charcoal can convert to graphite, which has very poor combustion characteristics.
@almightymachine9930
8 ай бұрын
Clean or dirty?
@CoreySimmons85
8 ай бұрын
You’re one of the best guntubers on KZitem in my book. Always interesting subjects and not just vomiting up a review from whoever is paying leviathan group any given month.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@EnglishCountryLife
8 ай бұрын
Thoroughly enjoying this series Willard - like the sound of an updated making video too. Great to see your channel grow
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@howardb.728
8 ай бұрын
Inspirational stuff mate.... your shooting friends are blessed to have you around... the effort and dedication is not fully evident in the final cut of your videos but being an experimenter myself, I understand the workload - you have my respect and gratitude. Cheers.
@harrypjoter5759
8 ай бұрын
wake up honey, everything black powder posted again
@nobody4248
8 ай бұрын
Trully you managed to make "guncotton"
@chuckaddison5134
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for the work you put into these tests. They are very interesting! I also find it amusing that your "go make your own damn video" has been 'borrowed' by a couple of other channels I watch.
@bigracer3867
8 ай бұрын
Cotton balls! 🎉😂 well why not!! Let’s talk about some substitutions for potassium nitrate👀.
@bierakanus5463
8 ай бұрын
Hey brother, I'm happy to hear you're making a new video on your updated process.
@ryanlemons7831
8 ай бұрын
Sir i don’t get excited easily nore am I easily entertained. I’m also in general a negative hypercritical cantankerous and ornery prick.. but I REALLY like, enjoy and appreciate your content sir! You rock!! And Roll!
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Glad to hear it. Thank you
@Miningpastpresentfuture
8 ай бұрын
Another great episode Jake. Please, Keep up the very interesting work.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@nunyabidniz2868
8 ай бұрын
Looking forward to the carbon black: I'd expect soot to make a really sooty BP in turn...
@andrewnawarycz3026
8 ай бұрын
The toilet paper is definitely the most accurate and I'm in total agreement with you 👍🏻. Every morning I hit the same hole accurately without making any new holes since childhood 👌🏻😁
@oregonoutback7779
8 ай бұрын
Tech-weenies ....... Hahahaha. You are without a doubt, the BEST stand-up, black powder comedian performing today !!
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
😂 thank you
@Walter-wo5sz
8 ай бұрын
You make a good point about price. I want a fairly inexpensive source of carbon.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
I’ve had a few people leave me comments saying that you can buy large amounts of cotton from beauty supply outfits for a reasonable price.
@dropinota
8 ай бұрын
It's wild how the toilet paper burned cleaner than that cotton balls. Real curious to see how the Carbon Black burns.
@luuk-out-below9804
8 ай бұрын
Dang I had high hopes for them cotton balls!!
@kyleparker2785
8 ай бұрын
Im glad i found your channel. I didn't realize making black powder was so simple. I think that coffee filters could be a good source for charcoal.
@MrPanchoak
8 ай бұрын
It is definitely doable for the hobbiest. But it ain't exactly easy either. If you don't do it right it will not shoot. At all! I tried for thirty years to make good powder but never got anything better than a poor substitute for a smoke b**b. Thankfully I ran across a webpage (no longer there) which explained my woes. You will notice two things about all useable propellant. All the charcoal is home made. You simply cannot aquire it locally anywhere locally. Anything not purpose made won't shoot. Charcoal is everything. Other components not so much. But charcoal simply has to be good. It also has to be absolutely bone dry when measured. If not it throws the mixture all to heck
@civicsr2cool
8 ай бұрын
I’m loving this series 😂
@michaeljoyce3153
8 ай бұрын
Next time use Chinese cotton. The cotton you're using is cleaned and whitened by chemicals. Chinese cotton gets around the same velocity but in my experience it burns about as clean as the toilet paper. Maybe a little less clean. If you can't find Chinese cotton buy vapor cotton at your local vapor smoke shop as it's the same thing.
@papadean.
8 ай бұрын
I don’t believe an American made Black powder video should contain anything from China or maybe we should just get ourselves some Chinese fire crackers and use their Chinese powder, Lol
@alberthenry1026
8 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣@@papadean.
@berns_pratt
8 ай бұрын
As a new subscriber, I'm looking forward to your updated series on making sporting blackpowder.
@Mike-cp3xr
8 ай бұрын
The Foxfire books said willow was excellent. Your channel is exemplary and much appreciated.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@catman4644
8 ай бұрын
That last line about whether or not the video "sucked" just made me give it a thumbs up and to finally subscribe, I just REALLY like this guy's attitude!!!!!!
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@victormartin2774
8 ай бұрын
The cheapest carbon source I can think of would be hay, straw or even cheaper is random local grass though it might no be very clean nor consistent. What I like is there are many carbon sources out there that you can try, in theory the cleaner/purer your carbon is, the cleaner the powder should be but I'm waiting for confirmation when you upload your next video. Note : the microscopic structure of the carbon source might influence the burn rate of your powder, maybe the ligther material will produce more porous grains of carbon, meanig that the salpeter can infiltrate them and make them burn faster.
@paulnormandin5267
8 ай бұрын
I was going to ask for a new vid on end to end production of BP for the reasons you pointed out. Glad to hear it is in the queue. It is nice to see there are viable alternative sources for carbon, you do excellent work and provide meaningful data and information. Thanks again!
@paultroiani9189
8 ай бұрын
The problem with cotton is that it absorbs much of what is in the soil. If specific pesticides are used, they will be in the cotton when harvested. Back when the vape craze started, I was making my own rigs and coils. We experimented with different kinds of cotton, and some were down right nasty to vape with. We used organic cotton consistently after that. The chemistry of black powder is sensitive because it has only three constituents. If you feel up to it, give organic a try. I would bet dollars to donuts 🍩 it will be cleaner.
@rjo49
8 ай бұрын
To be clear, ALL organic sources of charcoal will contain elements obtained from the soil. It's something all plants do.
@vulpesvulpes5177
8 ай бұрын
@@rjo49 That’s correct. Cotton is notorious for up taking zinc from the soil. So much so that it “depleted” the soils of the south in short order. Requiring that cotton fields be constantly moved to new ground. Presumably the zinc as with all the other inorganic elements wind up in the “ash”, that is the chemical ash, not the colloquial ash. At about 5mg/100 g Zn, that’s a lot of zinc to be smoking cotton. If I understand your use of “vape”. Fox out
@Glenfilthie1
8 ай бұрын
Good work as usual fellas. (I like the hecklers at the rifle range). I apologize if it is a question that you have been answered oft before: is it worthwhile to mop the bore between the shots? Would bench rested tests for accuracy be worthwhile? Just curious, I like that you are testing the powder under real world conditions too. I am loving the videos, guys! Please keep them coming...
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
If you get better accuracy from swabbing every shot then sure. I find swabbing every three or four shots works just fine for me.
@johndally7994
8 ай бұрын
I admire your commitment, technical expertise and generosity in sharing it with us. Thank you!
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@AZ762SHOOTER
8 ай бұрын
They will be planting cotton here in Yuma soon if they haven't already. After they bail the raw cotton there's a lot of waste. You could fill trash dumpsters with what falls off of the bails. You're giving me ideas again...
@timkaldahl
8 ай бұрын
These experiments are great. I personally stick with Triple 7, but I'm always trying new stuff and making powder at home is right up my alley.
@FordGTmaniac
8 ай бұрын
Aside from different sources of carbon, what about tinkering with the sulfur? Sulfur free powders already exist, so maybe try enhancing what it already does? Tetrasulfur tetranitride produces lots of expanding gas as it decomposes and leaves behind elemental sulfur as a byproduct, so with some tinkering you'd have a boosted powder with a burn rate that continues to accelerate as long as there's more to burn. Potentially really high velocities with that, I think.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine
8 ай бұрын
That's interesting, though I would be worried about pressures, maybe try that out with a junky gun you don't care much about, with a string from behind a tree or cactus.
@KulKlas
8 ай бұрын
you should try leaf when seasoning coms. And try leaf of diffrent kind of trees, its free to.When i was young i made alot of black powdered home made, making it whit alder. Never had a gun even if it’s license free here. If the gun is made before 1890. Then its is license free here. But then we come to the sad part of a license free gun,price cost like 2000$ and up for a decent rifle from thet age 😮 Lives in boring europ! always nice to see good content how life could be if i living in America!!
@wadedeeds1738
8 ай бұрын
Just found your videos. Absolutely love em.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@mikegagnon9901
8 ай бұрын
Have you tried sumac wood yet? It definitely makes great kindling for starting fires. There's something about that wood
@robertstump4740
8 ай бұрын
One of my favorites. Not quite as clean as Swiss but faster. Sycamore (another great fire starter) is just as good.
@fredford7642
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for a very good video on making black powder. Sadly I have NOT seen your video on making Cottenelle black powder. It is very encouraging to see the possibility of making good black powder, other than buying regular over the counter "black powder" Thank you for very good videos!
@vaquerojoel2026
8 ай бұрын
This has been a fascinating series, I wonder if the slight difference between cottonel and swiss is a variation of the granular sizes? You have inspired me to start making my own antique muzzleloading propellant, I just have to wait until I move this summer. I'm intending to try all of the local carbon sources in the south central Alaska area and see what happens. Keep up the good work.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Glad to hear it. Thank you
@robertstump4740
8 ай бұрын
Good point. I screened some Swiss 1.5F with my own screens and got: 3F 33% 2F 59.5% >2F 7.5% So, with my screens, almost none of Swiss 1.5F is actually 1.5F. To compare different powders make sure the granules are the same size and measure by weight, not volume, as densities can differ. In Alaska, look for plants described as "invasive" or "fast growing" as the charcoal from these tends to make pretty fast powders. This is a fascinating project and you can make your own equipment.
@vaquerojoel2026
8 ай бұрын
@@robertstump4740 Thanks for the advice.
@MrPanchoak
8 ай бұрын
I don't really care if my powder isn't the best that a fellow can buy. I just want my flinters to shoot well. Dirty powder Is a pain in the butt. You need to pick the vent hole and clean the flint and frizzen after each shot, I also tend to run a wet swab after every couple shots. but if you do that both of mine are very reliable. Out here in Idaho real antique propellant isn't very easy to aquire. But if I make it, I can use it whenever I please without having to worry about running out. I have just used home made charcoal out of River Willow. I know it ain't Willow, but I didn't know that until you told us. And it shoots fine. Soooo..... Love your channel.
@ThatBoi_
8 ай бұрын
considering how the toilet paper came out I think that maybe this will be quite interesting, also I have an idea for "washing" the powder, maybe instead of washing the actual powder try grinding the wood to a paste or sawdust and wash it then?
@JCGver
8 ай бұрын
Have you tried activate charcoal yet? To activate the charcoal they often use superheated steam, so i'm guessing it's should be a pretty clean source of carbon. Comedy suggestion: Diamond dust as the carbon source. When you want some more bling.
@ThatBoi_
8 ай бұрын
@@JCGver Ah no I have not I will try it next time! thanks for the idea
@JCGver
8 ай бұрын
@@ThatBoi_ You can buy boxes of it at aquarium stores. Dunno how save it is to grind the potashium nitrate and charcoal together, but would be interresting to see if using the active charcoal abilty to absorb a whole lot of stuff makes for a better mix of the two. So soaking the activated charcoal in a liquid solution of pot. nitr. before grinding it.
@cedhome7945
8 ай бұрын
As a cannon user from the UK (yes we can have big guns you just need the paperwork) the cost of hiring us as a group with 4 cannon and several matchlocks is getting very expensive with powder at £15/20 per 500g .the experiments you have been conducted are interesting and amusing.i would state the obvious but it's the trace elements and not just the carbon that effected the difference between charcoal types so if you could ask someone with chemical knowledge they might help you by adding the elements or chemical components directly to your mix ....just a thought 🤔
@genebishop1405
8 ай бұрын
Again, another awesome video!! I enjoy watching you do these tests. I hope that at some point in the future that you do a video on the Bamboo TP. Keep up the great work, thanks again!!
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@joeyhardin1288
8 ай бұрын
Don't know why YT doesn't let me know when you post things! Thank you. God Bless and stay safe.
@keithjurena9319
8 ай бұрын
Wood pulp contains some mineral matter like silica, calcium and potassium. This makes ash..you could try burning charcoal until only ash remains to compare ingredients. Making sporting powder for testing establishs primary performance, ashing charcoal should show why. The ash would make the powder carbon lean. This would explain the dark patch with cotton
@Diogenes425
8 ай бұрын
You are right about the TP charcoal. The inventors of BP ( Chinese) had to have used Bsmboo. There will be a difference in dry ( dead) & green. The green is pretty good, will try dry dead next. Looking forward to you experimenting. Keep up the educational work. Your ignition is a key too. Pointers on how you go about getting good sparks every time would be greatly appreciated. TY.
@CalvinMays
8 ай бұрын
Very good video. You are doing a great job with experimenting with making black powder. My only thought would be to change the ratio. I know you don't do that typically, but I would love to see what the cotton ball black powder would do if you had a 78, 12, 10 ratio. Since the Buckthorne Alder and Toilet paper and the Cotton ball are all about the same velocity, you are using the potassium nitrate efficiently. Since the cotton ball gives more fouling in the barrel , there may be too much carbon vs potassium nitrate. Therefore changing the ratio to have more potassium nitrate you might burn more of the carbon and get better performance as well. Once again, a great video.
@johngallagher2313
8 ай бұрын
This journey through sources of charcoal is interesting. keep them coming
@wastedangelematis
8 ай бұрын
Black powder cotton : explosive fantasy sheep monsters
@curly__3
8 ай бұрын
Awesome! Love these vids. It would be interesting to see what plain 'ol scott tp would do. That stuff is dense and probably as 'pure' as it gets... and cheap.
@PanSaltzCaballeratos
8 ай бұрын
I've done something similar (but different). I don't make charcoal out of cotton but I soak it directly into boiled bad quality black powder. Once it dries out it becomes a fluffy black cotton that ignites WAY faster than before. It is not as good as proper black powder but it significantly improves a bad batch.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Interesting
@Pitchlock8251
8 ай бұрын
For a future "Will It Antique Muzzleloading Propellant?" printer / notebook paper?
@chrisbeard9113
5 ай бұрын
I’ve searched online for balsa scraps, and you can find balsa shavings for around $1 per pound. I’ve been wondering about charcoal from the tinder conk mushroom, or Fomes Fomentarius , because it grows prolific here in Alaska and has interesting properties for firestarting and is fairly sponge or cork like. Looking into balsa wood, I found it contains much less lignins than most wood, these are described and plastic cement like globules holding the cells together. Low lignin plants are also desired for higher potential as biofuels. Maybe that’s a path of research that would contain some leads on what is making your balsa charcoal work so well.
@richarddean3154
8 ай бұрын
Congratulations on your channel taking off. You have excellent content - I am surprised you haven't run afoul of the powers that be yet. I like your videos and don't think they suck - so I liked and subscribed. Great outro.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@mrfancypanzer549
8 ай бұрын
I wonder how anthracite coal dust would do, its mostly pure carbon, would probably br dirty though.
@rjo49
8 ай бұрын
Black powder was used by the ton in battles in Europe and America over hundreds of years, and there are written records of many experiments with various materials and techniques to produce the best powders for various uses. Given that anthracite dust would not require any cooking to reach an optimum combustible state, someone would probably have discovered its use.
@robertcole9391
8 ай бұрын
Many always professed soft wood charcoal. I think the TP was excellent. However, here in Florida you don't find much willow growing. So... Water vine for soft wood. Now I was curious also if palm tree or coconut wood, Philippines, would make a dependable soft wood charcoal. Just a thought. Keep the videos coming. I love it!
@fhorst41
8 ай бұрын
Funny how many of us suggested cotton balls. Must be on a wavelength.
@grantcox4764
8 ай бұрын
Only just found your channel, so now I have the pleasure of binge watching your back catalogue. Great idea for a series and very entertaining mate...
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Glad to hear it. Thank you
@luuk-out-below9804
8 ай бұрын
We all kind of assume that charcoal is pure carbon. But it is not. The more purer the carbon typically the more unreactive it is. It tends to form carbon to carbon structures like strings, rings or cubes which means it doesn't burn well. Often you will see an approximate chemical formula for charcoal listed as C7H4O.
@daverodney9556
8 ай бұрын
Great videos can't wait for the rest ... I curious about the dirt cheap TP
@tjrubicon5463
7 ай бұрын
I read, years ago, the black powder manufacturers, of old, preferred willow wood.
@PalKrammer
8 ай бұрын
I enjoy your videos a lot and am looking forward to your updated tutorial on making black powder. One thing I would like to know more about are the necessary safety precautions. when handling or making the powder. Obviously no open nearby flame or sparks, but what about materials - for example, I see that Goex changed from metal cans to plastic containers.
@blueduck9409
8 ай бұрын
Any traditional black powder has been, traditionally hard to get. No problem finding pyrodex, and it use to be very cheap. Nowadays, traditional black powder is easier to get thanks to the internet. I always wondered how phone books would work for making powder, but phone books are relics these days.
@nunyabidniz2868
8 ай бұрын
Save those phone books for rolling your paper cartridges! Tsk...
@minigpracing3068
8 ай бұрын
What's a phone book? Haven't seen them for nearly 10 years.
@MrBenski81
8 ай бұрын
love ya heavily informative vids mate. Aussie enthusiast taking notes! Thumbs up!
@luviskol
2 ай бұрын
Cotton wool balls are often blended with Rayon as well
@Guntank214
8 ай бұрын
Bamboo toilet paper would be interesting 🤔
@claydallen5308
8 ай бұрын
Very interesting information, thanks. I suggest using grape vines.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@wildernesseducation
8 ай бұрын
Mabey try unbleached toilet paper next or a carbon source that has minimal chemical processing to make your next batch.
@godfamilycountry4211
8 ай бұрын
Thx for making this content. I'm sure I speak for all your subs. Keep the vids coming.
@DNGJustSnakes
8 ай бұрын
Just read an interesting article about using coffee biochar to make stronger concrete...might make stronger black powder also...
@carlericvonkleistiii2188
8 ай бұрын
Cotton quilt batting might work. I'm 3xploring prices and content.
@sylvainlalonde5061
8 ай бұрын
Heard that coconut shells make the best charcoil... in chemistry! Have a nice day, love your videos!!!
@kd5inm
8 ай бұрын
I wonder what cotton directly off the plant, a cotton boll would do. Around my area after the harvest you can see cotton on the side of the road and some still stuck in the plants where you can go out and pick it.
@dustyak79
8 ай бұрын
Corn cobs stays in line with the TP plus if you already need corn for animals you actually save money on corn and get a free powder source
@roddecker1900
8 ай бұрын
So ;, do I want whiskey, do I want gun powder? What would Shakespear say? 🦬🐎
@tarangryphon3914
8 ай бұрын
I wonder how pure cellulose sponges would work considering. They seem to be relatively cheap on amazon and id totally send some to you if you wanna test it for the rest of us 👀
@a.r.m.4you182
8 ай бұрын
Always appreciating the info you share. It's hard enough to put the video together let alone the time involved putting the parts together to conduct the experiment. Thanks again for the info.
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@temerenomine9698
7 ай бұрын
thanks for this test, you are a legend man.
@Everythingblackpowder
7 ай бұрын
Thank you
@PINKISH1942
8 ай бұрын
Awesome video! I just gotta ask what about filter charcoal for fish tanks should be pure already ground into pellets should work
@FoulPet
8 ай бұрын
Nice to know my TP brand has another use.
@dannyfoster1623
8 ай бұрын
I still would like to see you make some out of grapevine. Where I live there is a lot of it available.
@brianr555
8 ай бұрын
Dangit! I really thought the cotton balls would have been the cleanest…but im no scientist either…i think im gonna have see about getting stock in a particular toity paper! Thanks Jake! Great info and video!!!!
@rutrutbella600
2 ай бұрын
Ty brother love your pursuit of the perfect black powder ty so much from ol' FL boy
@tynelson4672
8 ай бұрын
In the last of the Mohicans when Daniel day, Lewis’s character is trying to cover a long distance shot to protect and messenger he uses silk. I think he’s referring to using silk as a patch, but it does make me wonder if you use silk or carbon black or felt or wool of course this could lead to a lifetime of trial and error. Have fun!
@JWheeler331
8 ай бұрын
Good stuff right here.
@lepesh87
8 ай бұрын
Glad to hear you're updating black powder making video!! Sorry for asking but I'm planning to get a shop press for other projects (cetme c build etc.) Question is could I get away with a 12 ton to corn black powder or is 20 ton a necessity? By the way, we all have performance issues from time to time😵💫
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
12 ton will work if your die is under 2 inches in diameter
@whisperingdeath308
8 ай бұрын
Which powder have you noticed has burned the cleanest?
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Balsa, without a doubt
@whisperingdeath308
8 ай бұрын
@@Everythingblackpowder Hobby lobby has a 3x3x12 block how many would be enough?
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
Nope
@whisperingdeath308
8 ай бұрын
@@Everythingblackpowder Nope????
@Everythingblackpowder
8 ай бұрын
lol sorry I miss read your question. I would start with 4
@ThomasGellos-e6v
8 ай бұрын
Very interesting work🤔
@texan4truth506
8 ай бұрын
A very intelligent elderly man at a gun show told me blue jeans made the best that he had found
@wileythompson639
8 ай бұрын
Going to try balm of gilead /balsam poplar as it is almost like a balsa wood when dry .
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