Have you considered making your own more primitive mercuric priming agents using fulminate of mercury?
The perchlorates would be easier to make.
Have you considered making your own more primitive mercuric priming agents using fulminate of mercury?
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Have you considered making your own more primitive mercuric priming agents using fulminate of mercury?
The perchlorates would be easier to make.
Yes those are fairly easy to make but one its toxic and the other worst... corrosive! lol
When we got into making initiators for automotive airbags, where we made 10,000+ initiators a day, we had an incident and fire that resulted in about 5 lbs of zirconium potassium perchlorate (inappropriately stored in a work bay) go up. Even though the bay had only 3 concrete walls (the roof and back wall being a tin "blowout" panel). It cracked the 24" reinforced concrete side wall. Damage to the wall was from the shock wave produced by detonation and occurred before any pressure reached the blow-out panels which bulged but didn't actually blow out.
The operator had about 90 seconds to evacuate and was on the phone reporting the fire when the mix went high order.
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Yes those are fairly easy to make but one its toxic and the other worst... corrosive! lol
Worse than that. If you screw up you don't have hands anymore. Maybe eyes either. So the potential toxic effects of mercury or corrosive effects of perchlorates are the least of your worries. This sort of experimentation calls for a maximum of safeguards and a minimum of novelty. Other folks have already lost their fingers over the last 200 years. So it's not a bad idea to copy as precisely as possible, in as small a batch as possible, the conclusions that have already been reached regarding the best way to do this. It's not as fun as playing around with smokeless powder in the hopes of unleashing its inner nitro demon, but it's a lot safer. Really, it's the only way to go with this sort of thing.