Safely removing powder from CTI?

If somebody has a min diameter rocket for example and wants to use a CTI motor without an motor ejection charge for electronic deployment charge only for cases where Apogee happens way after the maximum delay length and a motor eject backup is impractical. What steps to remove the stock ejection charge from a CTI product? What steps to put dog barf where? Pictures please. With AT motors we simply don’t include the powder and I am familiar with that process for AT not for CTI. Thanks.

 

What Tim said. Pics are not really necessary, it's just a paper cap. I use a small screwdriver.

 

I try to not use metal tools around BP. Chance of sparks if I slip and hit something else. I use a sharp wooden skewer to puncture into the paper cap and flip the cap off. Then the BP can be poured out.

 

There is nothing in the BP well to create a spark. Nothing against caution, just saying.

 

I understand, but if I slip with the scalpel and hit a nearby tool, or drop in on the metal bench? I'd rather not have any unnecessary frights thanks! They use wooden tools around fireworks for a good reason I think.

 

Nylon spudger seems like something good to add to my range box anyhoo.

 

Thanks.

 

I've always used a lit cigarette. Have I been doing it wrong?

 

Yes, a cigarette is bad for your health and probably doesn't have the thermal capacity to burn all of the paper. Try using an Oxy-acetylene torch, it's finicky work so forgo a face shield so you can see it better.

 

The couple times I've done it, I put some masking/electrical tape over the tip of a small flat head.

 

Thermite works well too.

 

I always wondered what "head end ignition" was

 

Set fire to your hair
Poke a stick at a grizzly bear
Eat medicine that's out of date
Use your private parts as piranha bait.

Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die...


Love that song .


BTW I wrote those words from memory.

 

Invite a psycho-killer inside

Scratch a drug dealer's brand new ride

Take your helmet off in outer space

Use a clothes dryer as a hiding place

 

I fell over laughing.

 

I jab the two jaws of a needle nose pliers through the paper cap covering the ejection charge and then peel it off. Then I add the powder to my medicine bottle full of BP. I wear safety glasses while doing anything with BP. I put a little grease into the well.