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Zyklon-A
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Try it again, with a stronger blasting cap of course.
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Turner
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Yes, I tried w/ around 100mg of SADS in the cap and only a very small, weak pop was made, I got up and saw bits of TNT and pieces of plastic
scattered.
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try it again with a larger batch then. With a booster if you can. TNT is an insensitive explosive.
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Zyklon-A
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Did you recover any TNT that was scattered from the blast?
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I need a 1000ml pyrex beakers, I might try a jar but how would this do on a hot plate? I had to dump some remaining acid for the TNT nitration because
my beaker got full.
I might try again, but it's so tedious, time consuming and complex making TNT and then worrying if your product is at the correct nitration level.
Here is the video anyways:
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later this winter I'll do something more.
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Zyklon-A
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I've had a household jar crack on a hot plate before, it wasn't a big deal for me, but I wasn't heating explosives. I think you should get a 1000ml
pyrex beaker, best to be safe then sorry, if the jar did crack and the TNT spilled on the hot plate it would just catch fire and burn, not explode
right?
Here's something that you might want to read, an accident because of faulty glassware, be careful.
[Edited on 4-1-2014 by Zyklonb]
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I'm sorry for the fail bro, how was your blast cap made?
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.8g ETN pressed heavily into a plastic tube and .1g SADS pressed on top, fuse sits on this. Didn't get enough acetylide into the cap.
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If you've compressed the ETN with a wooden rod and a rubber hammer, that might have made it not go off from the pop of the SADS. I'm not sure if the
SADS detonated at all in such small amounts. Did you have tamping above it, like epoxy or some paper piece. Do you suspect lower nitrates in the ETN?
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I have used a cap with similar configuration before, the SADS is pressed firmly on top of the etn so there is like a pellet of etn and SADS stuck
together. I highly doubt lower nitrates of etn. I think there just wasn't enough primary to continue the explosive train.
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Bad luck bro.
"Make it strong enough and then make it twice as strong"
-John Moses Browning
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Zyklon-A
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Good advice Ral123, make it powerful.
[Edited on 4-1-2014 by Zyklonb]
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