I'm budling a dual deployment rocket and I need help finding what type of black powder I need and where to get it?
Chris' Supplies has SCHUETZEN 4F BLACK POWDER but he is down south.I'm budling a dual deployment rocket and I need help finding what type of black powder I need and where to get it?
But why not return the powder to the original container and use it later?
I would recommend against this. I did this when I was 15 after my moms friend permitted me to do it. I was too stupid to know otherwise and apparently so was he. It all just burns NOW!If you want to dispose of it by burning, just pour it out in a long line about 1/8" wide and put a match to one end. No loud noises, just lots of smoke.
But why not return the powder to the original container and use it later?
I absolutely love this story and can relate but I will never tell my stupid BP story... You know youthful indiscretions.Since the thread has deviated to BP stories, when my 93 year old uncle was a kid he liked to play practical jokes. His father/my grandfather smoked cigars and had a fairly large ashtray on a side table next to his easy chair. This ashtray had a large gauge cigar ash screen on it above the ash well. My uncle "though it would be funny" to mix in an unmeasured quantity of black powder with the ashes in the well to surprise his father. After getting home from work his father settled into his easy chair to relax with a freshly lit cigar in hand.....until it of course needed the ashes knocked off the end. Shortly after lighting up my grandfather was neither relaxed nor amused, aside from some first degree burns to include no remaining hair on the back of his "cigar hand" and forearm the entire living room filled up with BP smoke and most of the large pile of ashes had been blown out of the tray and all over him along with the nearby furniture and carpet. I heard this story one night over a family dinner probably 40 years after the fact and it took that long for my grandfather to be able to laugh about it.
We have too many gun shops around here. Makes it easy.
I my grandpa was the gun smith in rural NC so I have lots of contacts to get my hands on it still can’t get FFFF just FFF.
Perhaps I spoke too soon. I didn't ask, just assumed because they were gun shops they'd have it.Gun shops here only have BP substitute.
Perhaps I spoke too soon. I didn't ask, just assumed because they were gun shops they'd have it.
I'll attend my first club launch with Pittsburgh Space Command tomorrow. I wonder, bring that it's only 11 to 3, if any vendors will be there.
I'll attend my first club launch with Pittsburgh Space Command tomorrow. I wonder, bring that it's only 11 to 3, if any vendors will be there.
4# at Graf and Sons is $148.25, whereas 1# at Chris' Supplies is $94.44. Both prices include shipping and Hazmat, and exact pricing could vary a little depending on where you live - these numbers were calculated using my address in OR. If others in his area/club need BP, then you can split the Hazmat costs and pay a lot less per pound. Or he can buy something approaching a lifetime supply (which is what I did - I have 8# in my "collection" ).Chris' Rocket Supplies has 4Fg BP with a minimum of 1 lb.
https://csrocketry.com/recovery-supplies/ejection-supplies/schuetzen-black-powder.html
Graf and Sons has a 4 lb. minimum
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