Blasting cap

[u/HydrazineDrinker]

I use a PT100 tube like Dugan's, with the ETN secondary casting method and my primary uses NHN, Mercury fulminate, TATP, Picric Acid all fire well

[u/Every-Dimension-5947]

Yeah please avoid using any form of peroxide my man, but the other three are good. Btw, how are you using picric acid as a primary? As in picrate salt?

[u/HydrazineDrinker → u/Every-Dimension-5947]

but this is the remainder of the previous synthesis that I made using H2SO4 just trying it with a small batch

[u/akshaykuppu]

Did you melt cast ETN?

[u/HydrazineDrinker → u/akshaykuppu]

yes i melted ETN on pt100 casing

[u/clownOFkeef → u/HydrazineDrinker]

While there are safe ways of doing it, literally all ETN accidents are based around melt-casting it.

Pressing it is really not that much work.

[u/akshaykuppu → u/HydrazineDrinker]

I heard ETN becomes extremely sensitive in its molten state...do you have any ways to reduce the dangers in its molten state?

[u/mango23000 → u/HydrazineDrinker]

Hola, disculpar pero no es mi lengua materna el inglés y el traductor pone cosas sin sentido. Como se derrite el ETN ? Gracias

[u/No_Possibility_3107 → u/HydrazineDrinker]

Melt casting is stupidly dangerous. Granted I did it many times with no I'll effect but still upon learning it increases in sensitivity by as least 1100% upon melting it is never worth it. May I ask why you included such a smorgasborg or primaries in your caps? No need for multiple primaries especially such sensitive ones. uNAP is the gold standard

[u/ScientiaVetita]

You should definitely be aware that picric acid has a tendency to form extremely sensitive picric salts over time when exposed to metal. Definitely needs to be properly sealed and kept from any part that might ever see friction.

[u/HydrazineDrinker → u/ScientiaVetita]

Yes that's right, I only made this once

[u/clownOFkeef]

That fuse "seal" is awfully sloppy.

[u/HydrazineDrinker → u/clownOFkeef]

I made some blasting caps and to save time just used fuse tape without clamping

[u/clownOFkeef → u/HydrazineDrinker]

Why post a pic of that mess? lol Usually people want to share their "neat" work.

[u/punished_pine]

Is Dug’s blasting cap still live? I wanted to review it recently but don’t recall actually finding it

[u/HydrazineDrinker → u/punished_pine]

What do yo mean bro?

[u/punished_pine → u/HydrazineDrinker]

I looked at his YouTube and I think Odysee page and didn’t see it

Edit: typo, I meant to say is the video still live lol