Do-It-Yourself Gunpowder Cookbook | 
|  | | | Title: | Do-It-Yourself Gunpowder Cookbook | | Author: | Don McLean | | Publisher: | Paladin Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | July, 1992 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0873646754 / 9780873646758 | | List Price: | $12.00 | | You Save: | $2.40 | | Amazon Price: | $9.60 | |
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Product Description
Learn how to make gunpowder from such items as dead cats, whiskey, your living room ceiling, manure and maple syrup with simple hand tools and techniques that have been used for centuries. This is a practical and safe approach to making the oldest propellant/explosive known. For information purposes only.
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Customer Reviews:
• Simply Informative And Useful 20 July, 2006
Iv'e read some drivel that the processes in this book are too hard to follow, or that they take too long to bear fruit. Look, if you don't want to leach out potassium nitrate, go buy it. I won't tell you where I get it, but if your'e making gunpowder you should be resourceful enough to find your own. Charcoal shouldn't be a problem, and you can order large quantities of sulfur for a good price. Also, you can buy all of these items, follow the processes in the book for putting it together, and still pay less for black powder than you would at the store. It's kind of funny, but I had more success with the sugar and rust recipe than with the traditional black powder. The burn rate was absolutely amazing, and the noise from my fence post driver cannon was too. The only reason that the techniques for resting all the ingredients from the earth were included in the book was to give you an idea of how to make powder from the ground up IF YOU HAD TO. You can easily go buy the ingredients, skip to the recipe pages of the book, and make gunpowder. I wouldn't recommend it though, because it's a very interesting book. I'd say the most important part of the book are the safety rules. I can personally attest to the importance of these. Just remember, someday you will accidentally ignite this stuff. It's a fact. So keep your batches small and separated. Also, if your'e making over fifty pounds of it you might consider an explosives manufacturing license.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3R6SARO5NH0FE
• Excellent 31 October, 2008
This book delivers. It has valuable recipes to make your own black poweder and a sugar related substitute. This book also means it when it say to make everything from scratch. How to make your own charcoal, getting sulfur from unlikely places, and "Growing" a salt peter bed. Its not a thick book by no means but if you someday find yourself in the situation where you need to make all of these components from scratch this is a great book to have.
Just a quick little bit of help. Just because your compost pile is nitre bearing earth your going to be hard pressed to produce salt peter. your better off builiding a nitre bed like the author describes.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3EUA0YG7G0X8Z
• Not As Easy As It Sounds 24 February, 2006
This book is moderately interesting for its history of gun powder, although culturing your own salt peter or sulfur seem like they would be more trouble than they are worth
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3JXUN6DX1MIPT
• An Ok Book... 03 November, 2007
Ok, this book is ok. There are only two different recipes to make is the problem, but I did give it three stars because it has good information and tells you how to get the materials without having to buy them at the store. It also looks like the recipes could take quite a while to make.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A29NUS6UMMM62B
• Cia Tek 23 July, 2008
covers mainly the useless cia tek(precipitation tek)
better info free on the nett. make a ball mill and you can make pro gunpowder easy
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3V4YXXHAECGMA
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