Paper for making combustible paper cartridges?

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I have heard of people just using cigarette paper but I think what you really want for best results is something called nitrate paper or flash paper. You Tube has several videos on making paper cartridges.

Cigarette paper works for me

Been using cigarette papers for over 10 years and it works great.
The biggest problem I have is going in to the store to buy it! I get the strange looks as I am sure the clerk and other customers think its going to be used to roll up Wacky Baccy. I usually find myself joking with the clerk "It isn't for Waccy Baccy, Its for paper cartridges for my BP pistols".
I get the disbelieving smile back in return. I dont care, I can get high on the wonderful sulfurous fumes from the Holy Black!

Nitrated cotton paper is best and most authentic. It will completely burn up, and will not leave behind much residue at all. Less chance of leftover burning embers, and you can shoot longer without the cylinder and barrel fouling. Using "water glass" (sodium silicate) as an adhesive is also historically accurate and very good performance, since said substance is readily flammable and burns clean.

Using cigarette paper though, is the most modern way. Not bad, but not as clean burning nor is it authentic, if that matters to you.

Mix up a solution of potassium nitrate 1 Tbsp in a cut of water. Dip EZ Wider rolling papers in the solution and flatten them out to dry for a day. Roll away. They'll light right up.

No one looks at you funny in Oregon buying rolling papers. Especially if you buy them at the local marijuana store.

I use ordinary copy paper and treat it myself. Get a paint roller pan, heat about a quart of water in a glass container (it doesn't need to be boiling, just hot enough to help the potassium nitrate to dissolve) and mix in the potassium nitrate until any newly added crystals don't dissolve. Pour the mixture in the roller pan, dip your copy paper in for about 5 seconds, and hang it up to dry with a clothes pin or wide paper clip. Once it is dry, cut to whatever size you need. If your mix was correct the paper will burn like a fuse when lit and leave very little ash. I use Hi-Yield Stump Remover from Ace Hardware for my potassium nitrate. It is very affordable and works well. I have been making paper cartridges for my Podewils-Lindner with this method for years without a problem. I store the leftover mixture in a glass jar and just reheat it in a microwave when I need to make more papers.

Curler papers work for me and cheap

2nd washbuster
Curling papers are a lot cheaper than cig papers.

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"Nitrated" paper is paper soaked in water which was saturated with potassium nitrate (put as much potassium nitrate in water as dissolves easy, then heat it up and dissolve a little more - until no more dissolves, actually, then soak your curling or rolling papers and allow to cool). Remove from water and (being separated into individual sheets,) allow to dry on a non-absorbant surface (porcelain plate works). Follow directions (recommend Washbuster's-) and make yer 'rounds'!

Like other people I would say tissue paper fully nitrated with KNO³ for revolvers. Paper in water warm saturated of potassium nitrate and dried on a plate of plastic or glass (never wood: it will drink the water in the same time as the nitrate).
When your paper is a little bit like fiberglass for polyester and dry it will be good and useful for paper cartridges...

I do this way not so much for revolvers (I do not use much of the revolver now) but more for my Sharps cartridges, only the paper is different, I use only Kraft paper or linen tissue. But this is a other story...

Have a nice day.

There are lots of ways to do this but this is one of the best videos I have seen on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=em-upload_owner&v=_JIyc6s8fnQ&app=desktop

He posts on this forum, they are a fun group.
http://1858remington.com/discuss/index.php?topic=9025.0

Here is the best paper for making cartridges but it's in France and people who wants it must have Paypal, Master card or Visa a bit expensive but the best one. Not really like flash paper but treated like the nitrocellulose with acids, seems a bit like flash paper but easier to use without any danger except fire...

http://www.hc-collection.com/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=4235678

Next time you stay in a hotel, take the bible. Nitrate the paper. Just understand you're going to hell for it !

I think He shoots black powder, too.

Ditto on the cig papers. Been using them for years, and super easy to find.

I used to get the same looks from the clerk behind the counter too- Thinking Im gonna use them for wacky weed. I finally took a box of my completed paper cartridges in with me one day to show them what I was actually using them for. lol

John

Here you can find good ideas about combustibles cartridges:

http://www.svartkrutt.net/articles/vis.php?id=51

Wow what a great resource! Looks to be a very authentic way.

There is a Hungarian man who does the "capandball" YouTube videos who makes reproduction cartridge boxes for percussion revolvers. Boy that would be fun to get some of those and fill them up with authentically produced combustible cartridges and head to the range!

I might have to try that for my Colt Navy!

ZigZags worked for me when I made some up for my Walker.

Have a how-to that says regular copier paper will do. Actually says typewriter paper wrapped around a .555" wood dowel.

I just ordered 100 of these bullets:

http://wtsshops.com/Reloading/36CALBP126.html

.36 caliber conicals for my Colt Navy. I'll use them to roll some cartridges using the link in Erwan's post.