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I actually used sulfur chips that I picked out of acid loving plant azalea and hydrangea fertilizer using tweezers. 😅 But I would imagine it's elemental sulfur which is the choice of sulfur used in the garden and the sulfur in this fertilizer works great for black powder. They sell bags of soil acidifier in the garden center at Walmart that is pure elemental sulfur.

The most dangerous step is mixing and grinding the 3 ingredients together, none of the 3 ingredients are explosive by themselves, this is a very dangerous experiment and assume all responsibility and do anything in this video at your own risk! 😉

Try looking for sulfur in the garden center at Walmart or a nursery or landscape supply center, the bag of sulfur they sell is usually for lowering the pH of the soil, and as for the charcoal, yes you can use charcoal from burning your own wood, that's actually the ideal way to get your charcoal, preferably from a soft wood like from a weeping willow tree is... Perfect... (don't) use hardwood charcoal because the wood is too dense and doesn't allow the potassium nitrate and sulfur to get into the dense wood fiber. Soft wood is more porous to allow the potassium nitrate and sulfur to mix into the charcoal. Willow charcoal and pine charcoal are usually your best option for charcoal, I have seen cedar pet bedding wood chips used for small pets used. Just place the wood (with the bark peeled off) into an empty paint can that you can buy at Lowe's or home Depot and punch a 2 to 3 holes in the lid to allow the wood gas to escape, place the paint can in a camp fire building up firewood around the paint can and you will see a flame 🔥 come out of the punched holes in the lid, that is the wood gas escaping which is what you want, wait until you no longer see any flames come out of the holes in the lid then remove the paint can from the fire and put a damp rag over the lid to prevent the charcoal inside from completely oxidizing and turning to ash, (you want it to completely cool before opening the lid or the residual heat can catch the charcoal in fire and burn up your charcoal. Once it's cooled down you can remove the lid and remove the cooled charcoal and then grind it up into powder.

@@techieunusual2368 Thanks, bro really appreciate you wasted your time writing this hole thing, yea at first i tried using burned oak as a charcoal and soil sulfur but in your vid everything burns smoothly, but for me it's very hard to put that on fire and after burning it leaves some solid material. Btw thanks for the tutorial☺️

@eivydasradzevicius7106 One thing to point out is the kind of charcoal you used from oak is one of the worst kinds of charcoal to use as the wood is too dense and not porous where as softwood is porous and allows the potassium nitrate and sulfur to mix into the porous structure of the softwood charcoal so all the ingredients bind together better, that is definitely one issue with your powder not burning easily or burning very slowly, oak is a hardwood and you actually want a soft wood charcoal, willow is one of the best soft woods of them all, I used weeping willow wood for my charcoal, you can also use pine and even cedar bedding that they sell at any pet stores. See if that helps your powder burn more easily and faster and let me know if if it works or if you have any more issues. 😃

Make sure whatever you order is 100% potassium nitrate in the ingredients, the spectracide stump remover I bought from Lowes is 100% potassium nitrate, I'm not sure what the online ordering restrictions are for Morocco but try ordering that online.

@@techieunusual2368 not really online are so strict when it comes to this and we dont have walmart or amazon here were I live. Its just gradening bags . I will ask for a combination they sell it's 13 0 46 It's 46% potasuim 13% nitrogine Hope this one works

@YoshiToshiSamYou Best of luck to you, sometimes fertilizer is the only way to go to get the potassium nitrate and the sulfur, I actually got my sulfur from fertilizer high in sulfur for acid loving plants, and I literally took the time to tediously pick out all of the sulfur chips with tweezers for this mixture in the video. I didn't show the part of myself picking out the sulfur from fertilizer. But you can see the results work really well!

I used acid loving plant fertilizer to get my sulfur, I literally used tweezers to tediously pick out all the sulfur chips from the fertilizer leaving the rest of the fertilizer behind. I'll give you a tip on what the sulfur chips look like, The sulfur chips are very bright almost white ish yellow color and round in shape about 1 to 2 millimeters in diameter, one side of the sulfur chips are concave and the other side is convex. Kind of the way a (nilla wafer) cookie looks but very very small.

Yes, you can buy black powder at any gun store or sporting goods store, I know that Walmart sells it, but this video is just for knowledge and experimental and just for the fun of making it is a head rush in its own. 😎

I just want to explode stuff thank you

Where can I get fuse from

@celestinobianchi3374 If you're asking about a store, honestly I'm not sure but I know they sell them online. I've never bought anything pyrotechnic related from a store other than the ingredients for making them. Haha

@@techieunusual2368 ok man appreciate the help 😀

NO! Potassium chlorate is a strong oxidizing agent and is much more reactive than potassium nitrate. Replacing potassium nitrate with the chlorate salt is NOT a safe substitution! The chlorate/sulfur combination is one the most notable “death mix” combinations in pyrotechnics. The “black powder” resulting from using chlorate in place of nitrate would be MUCH more sensitive to accidental ignition, particularly ignition due to friction or impact. In fact, this mixture would be quite likely to go off during mixing! This mixture, even if made successfully, would be prone to self-igniting in storage. So again, NO. Black powder MUST NOT be made with potassium chlorate instead of nitrate!

@@techieunusual2368 also for making the fuse u have to use nitrate instead of the fuse?

Wouldn't you like to know that I actually did JUST THAT! LOL I have a bag of acid loving plant fertilizer that had sulfur chips in it, the sulfur chips are light yellow round and about 1 to 3 millimeters in diameter, I used a tweezer to literally pick out all the sulfur chips from the fertilizer until I had enough sulfur to weigh out the sulfur in grams to make the black powder. But you can't use the rest of the fertilizer ingredients.

How do you measure the 3 of the ingredients before mixing together

I use a digital kitchen scale to measure the ingredients in grams. The measurements are in the video. 🙂

You can use other materials such as rolling up paper towels or napkins, I've seen that used or a cotton twine that is thicker than the cotton yarn, basically anything that is organic that can burn can be used as (fuel) to be mixed with the potassium nitrate (oxidizer). Gun cotton is essentially cotton balls mixed with potassium nitrate and sulfuric acid which binds the potassium nitrate and the cotton fiber, so you can combine almost any organic flammable material with an oxidizer like (potassium nitrate), you can even mix the cotton yarn or twine with black powder with water and rubbing alcohol and hang that out to dry and you get (black match fuses). Which actually are more reliable fuses than what I have in my video.

It works the way any other fuse work so it could, but I have found later that these fuses tend to absorb moisture from the air which makes them unreliable or useless, it works fine the very first day of making them and I found to extend their life it helps to roll them up in a paper towel and then inside of a plastic sandwich bag to prevent them from getting soggy from moisture in the air, to answer your question about using them for dynamite, yes you could use it if you make these fuses the very moment you use dynamite for mining, but it would still probably be better to buy fuses for that purpose as you don't know if the fuse will go out halfway and that could pose a risk, but if that were to happen you would want to wait 15-20 minutes before walking up to the dynamite to change the fuse.

Mine took 5 weeks from the time of order to delivery to my front door, Sabertrio guarantees 4-16 weeks lead time and I had a few modifications on my blade effect settings which they told me that could take a little longer to work on my saber so I was expecting it to take longer than 5 weeks. Sabertrio is definitely one of the best saber companies out there just like I heard from other CZcamsrs feedback. I highly recommend them, if you get a saber from them now, they are much more modular with the new power core chassis and you can replace blown speaker's yourself now.

thank you sooo much ! you helped me a lot😊

@KwonPiK No problem, my pleasure! 😃

It's safer to get a portable electric burner so it can be done outside without fumes getting in the house and to avoid it burning up in your kitchen, they sell portable electric burners at Walmart for around $15.

I used cotton yarn, but you can use any cord that is organic material and any thickness to experiment, cotton is the best from my research for a consistent reliable burn.

It's safer to use an electric burner as the flames from a butane gas stove could ignite the mixture after the water evaporates.

Probably might want to lower the oven temperature a little and or reduce the amount of time of baking the fuses, every oven may differ, the baking is just for dehydrating the fuses to remove the water, I found it doesn't take that much time to dry them out in the oven. Also make sure the fuses are centered in the oven to avoid touching or getting near the heating elements. If the fuses touch the heating elements, they (Will ignite!) Please use caution and PPE, and they should should be baked in an hobby oven that is portable so you can do it outside for that reason.

Your welcome, I felt the same way back when I learned, so this is my method I came up with because I didn't want to get a ball mill, we know the ancient Chinese invented black powder and they had to use mortar and pestles back then.

i didnt know this was an ancient chinese style 🤔

@cap-uysilverio1867 yeah, if I'm not mistaken, the ancient Chinese invented fireworks and modern day warfare because of their invention of black powder.

The fumes aren't particularly harmful but I wouldn't advise using your stove in your kitchen as their is the potential risk of it catching fire in the kitchen and the residue can get into your food, this portable electric burner was 15 bucks at Walmart.

I wouldn't advise using the same oven that you use for cooking, it could leave fumes that will get in your food and if any of it spills in your oven it would ruin your oven for cooking.

@@techieunusual2368 thanks for the quick answer

Yep that's what I discovered later on after making this video, I put my fuses in between a couple layers of paper towels rolled up tight and then in a sandwich bag rolling the sandwich bag up tight pushing out any air and then sealing it to keep moisture out since potassium nitrate is hydroscopic.

​@@techieunusual2368bro can I dry in sun I don't have a oven

​@@techieunusual2368is this fuse work in pressure or after smashing please reply

18.2gram

That’s easy math bro, the difference is 12 grams between both elements that means if you have 25g of kno3 just minus 12 and that’s how much sugar you use (18g)

I did find that their is extra potassium nitrate and sugar left over with the 12 feet of yarn, and colored yarn works fine, any cotton material will definitely work, the yarn is part of the fuel source like gun cotton, and die has little to no effect on how it burns.

Yep! that tiny firecracker was a demonstration with using a pinch full of this powder.

​It is important to put the right percentages

Yeah I guessed on the firecracker in the video, it was too small to measure in grams because the diameter was 1/4" x 1" tall and I filled it half way, so I used volume, if I did anything bigger I would measure in grams.

​@@techieunusual2368Ok, so if I mix potassium, sulfur, coal driven out, I will also be able to make very strong firecrackers and sure that it works

Thanks🙂, I'm happy you enjoyed the video and I appreciate your positive feedback, I I didn't heat the potassium nitrate, however the potassium nitrate I used I just bought at the time so their may be less moisture in the potassium nitrate, but I have seen some of those videos you are talking about, something that those channels were doing is making rocket candy mixing sugar and potassium nitrate, sugar is FAR MORE hydroscopic than potassium nitrate. But it's not necessary to dry out potassium nitrate when combined with charcoal and sulfur for black powder, it can still help to heat dry the potassium nitrate kno2 if it was in a very humid place for an extended period of time.

I've tried it, it will burn but the burn rate is too slow, soft woods are what you want like the wood I used was weeping willow which grows faster and leaves a porous surface area that the potassium nitrate and sulfur can get inside to mix better with the charcoal, I've seen people grind hardwood charcoal in a ball mill for 12 hours or longer to get it to burn faster. But I haven't tried a ball mill to be honest. Due to living in a small space with very small backyard, I personally don't feel safe to leave a ball mill unattended.

These fuses were dried in a cheap $20 toaster oven I picked up at Walmart just for doing projects like this one, 🙂 The fuses do need to be baked to be completely dry as both the sugar and the potassium nitrate are hydroscopic (draw in moisture from the air), in fact I forgot to note in the video that from my experience, these fuses last longer by putting them into some paper towels rolled up then put the rolled up fuses with the paper towels into a sandwich bag or freezer bag and keep them stored in the house in a room that is cool or room temperature, keeping them sealed prevents the fuses from getting soggy from the moisture in the air.

Pine charcoal is waaaayyy better than magnesium flakes is so sensitivity and more dangerous

Sounds like a good idea. 🤔 Have you tried flint dust? I have wanted to make better sparks.

How? And how much the measurement?

It was actually windy when I tested this fuse, relatively hard to extinguish it.

Thanks for the advice, ill look into it.

@@techieunusual2368 no problem, potassium nitrate fuses crumble very easily and thus go out... for such a fuse, you need a suitable binder, such as rubber glue, then the fuse is not brittle as in this case ...

How?

Here are a few common compositions for chlorate-based fuses used in military applications: ### Composition 1: Potassium Chlorate and Sulfur - **Potassium Chlorate (KClO₃)**: 70-75% - **Sulfur (S)**: 20-25% - **Binder (e.g., Dextrin or Gum Arabic)**: 5% This composition is highly sensitive and was used in early fuse formulations. The sulfur acts as a fuel, while the potassium chlorate serves as the oxidizer. ### Composition 2: Potassium Chlorate and Phosphorus - **Potassium Chlorate (KClO₃)**: 60-70% - **Red Phosphorus (P)**: 20-30% - **Binder**: 5-10% Red phosphorus can replace sulfur in some formulations, offering a different reactivity profile. This mixture is still very sensitive and requires careful handling. ### Composition 3: Potassium Chlorate and Antimony Sulfide - **Potassium Chlorate (KClO₃)**: 50-60% - **Antimony Sulfide (Sb₂S₃)**: 30-40% - **Binder**: 5-10% Antimony sulfide is another fuel that can be used in combination with potassium chlorate, providing a stable yet sensitive mixture. ### Safety Notes - **Sensitivity**: Chlorate-based mixtures are extremely sensitive to friction, impact, and static electricity. Handling them requires great care. - **Storage**: These compositions should be stored in a cool, dry place, away from any sources of ignition or incompatible materials. - **Handling**: Use non-sparking tools and wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). These compositions were typically used in historical applications and are now mostly obsolete due to their hazardous nature. Modern explosives use more stable and safer materials. If you're working with or studying these materials, ensure you follow all relevant safety guidelines and legal regulations. Take it brother❤❤

@@user-tb3pv7wr6r Potassium Chlorate and red Phosphorus - this mixture was used for percussion caps and primers in black powder weapons. extremely sensitive to friction and impact or sparks.

Yep regular yarn size except it's made of cotton:)

I've tried using just charcoal and potassium nitrate without the sulfur, it takes forever to light and doesn't burn evenly and will go out on its own without burning up the rest of the black powder when I tested it, I'm surprised sulfur is illegal in your area, I would think if anything it would be the potassium nitrate as it is the largest ingredient in black powder and oxidizer, sulfur is usually sold in powder form at nurseries that sell plants because sulfur is used for acidifying garden soil and is used in fertilizer, that being said you wouldn't believe how I got my sulfur, I took the time to pick out all the sulfur wafers in a big bag of azalea/hydrangea acid loving plant fertilizer, it is high in sulfur, the wafers are tiny yellow round disks, it took me hours/days to pick out all the sulfur wafers but it was therapeutic. Lol I then grinded them in my mortar and pestle separately. That is also another reason why I used a mortar and pestle because when the potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur were mixed I could see the little tiny chunks of sulfur were not completely ground up and grinding the black powder in a mortar and pestle allows me to see those sulfur chunks disappear and the powder goes from a black color to a grey color when I know it is finely ground up.

@@techieunusual2368 Yes, potassium nitrate is also illegal here, but I had like 20 year old potassium nitrate (bought back when it was legal) which I crystallized and dried, and it works as if it's new. I also can make potassium nitrate from NPK fertilizers, which include some nitrogen and potassium, but is clearly not pure potassium nitrate, because it contains phosphorus, dyes and some metals. I mix that with water and spread a thin layer of it on cardboard and let it dry, once it's dry, it has turned to potassium nitrate, which I later purify for a better burn. It has worked with all NPK fertilizers so far, and I really don't know the chemistry behind that. Sulfur however I can find that in fertilizers too, but it's not in yellow bits ever. It's always some fine powder with other stuff. Its hard to get sulfur from that because it's only 5% sulfur and has tons of other things that are also insoluble in water. Maybe I can try it one day, but that sulfur would be really expensive. I am pretty satisfied with my sulfur-free black powder though, burns very fast considering how it's made. Firecrackers made with it make a bang as loud as commercial firecrackers made with sulfur, kno3 and charcoal, probably because their black powder burns pretty slow. Btw your sulfur-free black powder burned slowly most likely because of the ratio. When you have no sulfur the ratio should be 70% KNO3 30% Carbon. It's much harder to light on fire also, because sulfur has such a low combustion point.

@@techieunusual2368 yes, urea has the nitrogen and dirt which they put urine over has the potassium. That process takes a year to get a good amount of potassium nitrate, but I just had to let my fertilizer dry. The fertilizer I used probably contains lots of nitrates already, but the drying process washes out everything unnecessary. When you try the sulfur-free black powder again, let me know if you see any changes!

Thanks! 😃 yeah I noticed most other CZcamsrs only show using a ball mill so that made me want to make a video for making gunpowder the primitive way.

Technically it is a "firework" , just very small, but indeed it is very easy to make. 😜

@@techieunusual2368 so My dad told me dont make more cannons cuz i was making Blow things up like 200 meters from house in safe places at open he said dont do that cuz he thinked Police could come or something idk so i Needed to consume15 grams of strong flash powder and thats how i did It but i used like 1.5/2 grams per time cuz i dont think but if i put more maybe It could explode idk

@@techieunusual2368 its a nice piece of pyro art for US cheap pyrotechians

Yeah I just love to know how to make pyrotechnics, there is just a satisfying feeling like nothing else in knowing that you can make it at home, it saves a ton of money, it's the ultimate chemistry science experiment whether it's big or small scale.

That's an interesting suggestion. 🤔 I tried dipping the fuses in candle wax which didn't work, I thought it would make them waterproof and to resist moisture from the air as potassium nitrate is hyroscopic, they just wouldn't burn with the wax coating, but spray lacquer I could try.

I considered transparent shrink wrap, though not cheap might work!?

​@jack1d1ps46 did you try that?

It can be tricky for me to do, you have to get both of your fingers to press both auxiliary and activation in at the same time, For CFX soundboard, First make sure the saber is out of deep sleep mode, then press and hold both the auxiliary switch and activation switch in at the same time and it will say volume, then to increase the volume do quick press of the auxiliary switch (small switch) and to lower the volume do a quick press of the activation switch, and then to select that volume press and hold the auxiliary switch.

Cycle through to the system menu on the saber. Selection like a sound font and one in there you can adjust volumes for the menu, beeps and sound fonts. Once you have them to your liking hold down the aux and cycle to the Darkseid because we have cookies.

Nope,🤣 that's funny! The potassium nitrate and sugar is called rocket candy, basically a black powder substitute.

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Thanks for your positive feedback. 😀 I'm honored that my video could be helpful for you. Congratulations on your Vahlken Saber, that's awesome!🙂

I got inspiration from multiple youtube channels including The king of random, you really know your CZcams videos. 🙂 Great thing about the CZcams platform is you can be inspired and learn from CZcams and then create videos on CZcams based off what you learn from CZcams and either change the concept a little by simplifying it or taking it a little further, my method of simplifying the homemade fuse making is to use a $20 Walmart toaster oven for hobby purposes only instead of a kitchen oven range so it can be done outside which is safer and less expensive because you can't use an oven for cooking mixed with heating contents that are for the purpose of a hobby as fumes can get into the house and/or leave unhealthy residue in the oven range that can get into food.

My pleasure! Thanks for watching!😃

Mine took 6 weeks to get mine, sabertrio has a lead time between 4-16 weeks, from my research, most orders typically take 4- 6 weeks from other CZcamsrs, congratulations on getting your hands on a sabertrio.😃 they are hard to get your hands on one.

@@techieunusual2368 thanks appreciate the response. I also have the neo senza coming as well !! Been waiting a long time for this !!

No problem, I'm glad I could help😃 yeah I do believe the senza is currently sabertrio's most popular hilt model.