Bombs and fireworks from home (homemade)

I found a great set of instructions on how to make explosives of any size from your POCKET(hint) to the limit of the materials you are allowed to buy without being arrested, which in some cases is quite large. I thought that it would be good to publish them here. I am not including all of the instructions, because I do not want to tell you how to make a pipe bomb, you can read it in the original. I am simply cutting it down to the ones that are either most useful, easiest, cheapest, most fun, or the most interesting. They will be broken up as chapters, each page will have only one creation, but some have multiple recipes.

Please do not use any of these recipes to hurt anyone or anything, I take no responsibility if you hurt yourself, someone else, or cause any damage of any kind.. Some of these mixtures are illegal to possess. Be careful when buying ingredients, or you could be put on a list by the government. That isn't good.

I take no credit for the original work, it came from this website.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7839531/Explosives-How-to-Make-Bombs-Book-1

Please mention any typos you find, there are probably quite a few,the guy is British I think. If you have any questions, please name what step you're asking about, there are a lot of them.

Step 1 Simplest

The following are the easiest to make, because there are not many ingredients and/or they are easy to find. The recipes in this chapter are as follows.
Black powder, several recipes.

Comments

[knexnerd]

if u are interested, i waz looking on how to make a good pullring smoke bomb and i found a video in utube it has 46.2 g potassium nitrate 25.2g powdered sugar and 28.6g wax thats normal candle wax i searched forever and i promise u if u do this right and use visco fuse with a bit of kno3 to ignite the mixture i gaurentee u it will work in fact it made sooo much smoke that i couldnt see the woods around me look up "how to make a long lasting smoke bomb (easy) on utube and click the frist one

[MrMadmonkey4]

you can also make napalm out of tree sap (I might post an 'ible on it soon)

[Jaycub]

I've read that the detonation velocity of cyclonite (RDX) is as high as 8750 m/s, but the astrolite sounds much easier to make if you can get the hydrazine.

Does this require a blasting cap?

[lobo_pal]

I don't believe so because I am not aware of liquid explosives requiring that, although I wouldn't want to be quoted on that since I am not an expert. I would say test it first.

[book505]

where can i get zinc powder

[Jaycub]

Also you can melt post-1983 american pennies in a steel soup can and file powder off the resulting shiny gray metal (zinc).

[lobo_pal]

Try a chemical supply store. You i found fertilizer that uses sulfur to counteract alkaline soil, but I am to preoccupied to do much searching right now.

[Jaycub]

I did this about a year ago. It dosen't explode instantly like you say, and actualy took several seconds of propane torching to light it.

It burns with an intense green flame, which gave me the "there is a colored oval in front of my eyes" effect like a camera flash but worse.

[lobo_pal]

I've got to ask, how did you get here? I can't find it in the searches myself.

[Jaycub]

I have the same problem with my instructable and am told they try to hie explosives-related stuff so the sponsors don't freak out. I found this because it was here: http://www.instructables.com/answers/Pyrotechnics-in-crash-course-abc-tv-show/, in a comment on a question that was related to my instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/Impact_FuseExploding_Arrow/#

[lobo_pal]

Really, I will note that. Thanks. As I said I still am unfortunately unable to have tried all of these yet.

[bounty1012]

umm, would the flash bang thing be good to use as like a flashbang nade in an airsoft war?

[lobo_pal]

Possibly, the problem with that is controlling the size and making sure you don't hurt anyone. Not because i care if they are hurt, but because hospitals are expensive. If it's to large, it could start a fire. I like the idea though, try test firing some first. It would work great with airsoft grenades.

[bounty1012]

k, although I dont have the ingredients...

[lobo_pal]

That's the problem, I am probably going to link a lot of instructables to this one in the future. They will mostly be directions on how to make acids, but there may be others.

[bounty1012]

ok.

[lobo_pal]

Got some acids added to the end, 2 links to instructables, and 1 to youtube.

[codongolev]

I burned my hair once. I was looking into a potato cannon (thankfully, not the business end) to make sure the sparker was working.... it was.

[lobo_pal]

We were testing ours and shot it over our neighbors house and broke a window. They still don't know who it was.

[wizkid7]

I have gun powder. Can I use that, may nearest gun store does not carry black powder for some reason. I only have gun powder, can I use that?

[lobo_pal]

It depends on what you want to use it for. If you're using it in any mixtures then I would stick to the directions because the chemical make up is different. If you just want to blow some stuff up then go for it. There are some differences between gunpowder and black powder. Gunpowder was made to produce less smoke and is also causes a more violent explosion. What is it that you want to do with it.?

[wizkid7]

I was thinking since I never did this before, just make firecrackers. I probably don't need a mixtures of other chemicals for that. I was just gonna use gun powder I have, unless maybe my local walmart has black powder.

[lobo_pal]

It may, but I don't think they will carry it. Try a sporting goods store. It's usually sold around black powder replica pistols and rifles.

[wizkid7]

I tried dicks, they were out of stock, i'll check tomorrow though.

[bounty1012]

Lolwut?

[lobo_pal]

Good luck.