Impact Fuse/Exploding Arrow

This Instructable will teach you how to make a small impact triggered explosive for almost no money. I mount them to the ends of arrows, but there are a lot of uses for this like rockets that explode on impact, homemade firing-pin style guns, land mines, etc.... PLEASE RATE!!!!

PS: I am not responsible for anything you do with this. Don't do bad stuff.

Step 1: Materials:

-Paper caps
-scissors
-thick steel wire (or small nail)
-wire cutters
-paper
-masking tape
-Dixi-whistler rockets
-foil

Comments

[akinich]

Very nice instructable!!! can u add a video of u making the explosive tip
the steps are a bit too complicated to read and understand or maybe i am just too sleep ! :P
thanks
Akinich

[Dornier335A]

This is a very good instructable =)

I have made similar impact triggered missiles.
But I built them so the g-force at impact ignited the cap, and not the impact itself.
I don't have to put it at the tip of the arrow and it will still go off when the arrow hits something.
I used it in my mini missile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Jdc5JrTk0

[Jaycub]

Cool, the deceleration trigger is a good idea.

[Wooginator]

Do you have any idea what the chemical composition of the powder you suggest using is? I don't really have access to fireworks, but I could most likely get the chemicals to make the powder if it's not too complex (as I suspect it isn't).

[Jaycub]

I don't know what the powder is, but somewhere I got the idea that it was some variety of flash powder. You could just use gunpowder, but I don't know if it is sensitive enough to be ignited by the cap.

[Dornier335A]

It's whistle mix.
70 % potassium perchlorate and 30 % potassium bensoate.

[Jaycub]

Thanks.

[Colonel88]

Good idea for distraction! Not even just hurting people, but distraction.

[Jaycub]

Yeah you could shoot this like 100 ft away from you and someone would look there instead of at you. For "hurting people" a plain arrow would be better.

[mettaurlover]

Making when I have the time. I may just use some Nitrogen Triiodide for the explosive and use just a tiny amount; that way, I'll get not too much smoke and a bit of boom.

[Jaycub]

cool but I don't think that will work, Nitrogen Triiodide is WAY to sensitive. But mabey if it is wet it would work. You might try making some HMTD or TATP instead.

[Jaycub]

Doesn't anyone else have any comments? And by the way, does anyone know why this instructable doesn't come up when you search for it?

[recyclebin]

my one smoke bomb instructible doesnt show up when searched for either. i tried asking people, but never got a responce

[Jaycub]

Yeah, I even asked an administrator and got no response.

I am told that they don't like to let sponsors see "dangerous" instructables but I don't know if that is actualy true.

[Father Christmas]

really? I searched "bang" and it was on the first page...

[Jaycub]

That's odd, that isn't one of the key words... But at least it shows up. thx

[lemonie]

Well it obviously works! Is there any way of using the bottle-rocket tube or is this the wrong size? And do you think that you could you use a steel-ball in place of a pin? (I have a few, and a lot of fireworks) L

[Jaycub]

You also might try putiong a thick coat of your waterproof fuse mixture around the paper cylinder.

[Jaycub]

Sure, you could do both of those things. But I don't know if the powder would explode in the tube it comes with. You also don't have to use bottle rockets, they just have a powder that is more potent than what you find in other fireworks usualy.