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dlwdaw Frequent Poster	posted September 14, 1999 10:23 PM could I mix vineger(acetic acid) with lead hydroxide(is there such a thing?) and make lead acetate. also does anybody know where to get magnesium styphnate? and another thing where the hell can I get sodium azide, I want to make some homemade blasting caps. I want to make RDX as the booster(thus the question abou acetic anhydride) and use lead styphnate as the main initiater and lead azide as the secondary initiator. to make this safer could I wet press this, like wet all of them in water and use my thumb to lightly press them in. first the RDX then the lead azide then lead styphnate. and could i bunch some 1/8" cannon fuse to fit in a 1/4" Al. casing. and a helpful hint the garbage bag ties when you strip the paper off of them they make great electric bridge wires. I cought a toothpick on fire after running the current through it for a couple of seconds. they work good. ------------------ If you cant make a mistake you cant make anything - Marva Collins
nbk2000 Moderator	posted September 15, 1999 01:58 AM You can get Sodium Azide from car airbags. It's a dark gray pellet(s) inside a metal screened disc. It's very flammable so be careful. If you can't find one in a junkyard, you could always rip one out of someones car! And as far as wet pressing primary explosives into the case with your fingers, DON'T DO IT! Too fucking dangerous. Besides which, if you press it in and seal it up, how's the stuff going to dry? It can't. You have to press it in dry. I used a heavy vise that I had modified by adding a block of wood with a hole drilled in the center to hold the cap. I would put the dowel in the cap, cap in the block, put a sandbag over the block, and slowly turn the vise handle till it couldn't go any further. That was probably putting some tons of pressure on the cap. The vise jaw that was free to move had a thick plywood sheet attached to it to deflect any shrapnel if the cap exploded (never happened though). You can get a suitable vise real cheap at harbour frieght tools. You want the big bastards. ------------------ "The knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them." www.50megs.com/nbk2000
megalomania Administrator	posted September 15, 1999 03:19 PM Sodium azide can be made by: A) Hydrazine reacting with ethyl nitrite and sodium hydroxide in a solution of ethyl alcohol. The sodium azide is only slightly soluable in alcohol so it precipitates out. It is collected on a filter, washed with alcohol and dried. B) Metallic sodium is melted at 300 °C then dry ammonia gas is bubbled in. The gas that is released is ammonia and hydrogen, this is bubbled into water and is explosive. The reaction is done when no more hydrogen is being released (the water absorbs the ammonia, the hydrogen passes on). This "sodamide" is then placed into a crucible or other vessile, the air is displaced by adding ammonia gas. It is heated to 230 °C and nitrous oxide (N₂O, laughing gas) is passed in while the sodamide is being stirred. This reaction forms sodium azide and water. The water in turn reacts with some sodamide and forms sodium hydroxide and ammonia. The reaction is complete when no more ammonia is released. The product contains and equal amount of sodium azide and sodium hydroxide. This can be dissolved in water and neutralized by nitric acid, this resulting neutral solution can be used directly to make lead azide. Pure sodium azide can be obtained by adding to alcohol, which dissolves only sodium hydroxide. ------------------ Visit Megalomania's Explosives and Stuff at http://surf.to/megalomania
megalomania Administrator	posted September 15, 1999 03:24 PM You get lead acetate by neutralizing lead oxide with acetic acid. Lead oxide, yellow lead, or litharge may be at your plubimg store, it is used for pipes. I think you can make it by burning lead, I'm not real sure... ------------------ Visit Megalomania's Explosives and Stuff at http://surf.to/megalomania
dlwdaw Frequent Poster	posted September 15, 1999 05:47 PM what i mean by pressing with my thumb is take a long dowel and slightly push it in with the pressure from my thumb. dennis ------------------ If you cant make a mistake you cant make anything - Marva Collins

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