My attempt at making homemade priming compound

[27hand]

I'm going to see how your trials go before I start on these.

I have collected about a 30.06 depth in a vitamin bottle.

2021-02-28_09-19-28 by poofy27, on Flickr

[rifleshooter2]

https://youtu.be/jGJj-9on5rM

[t1066]

[bogey1]

Impressive.

[rifleshooter2]

Impressive.

Thanks. Still room for improvement I think the glass in the mixture was too fine. My next batch will be a little coarser

[Hoppy]

This is great. I enjoyed your videos a lot. I'll have to give this a try someday. I remember when I made homemade black that I added denatured alcohol to the dry powder to cake it and then it's ground through a mesh to get the sizes corned. Fun playing with chemicals..

Did you ever have misfires with the Star with new primers? I did a trigger job on my sp101 and the trigger is great but just light enough to miss on a few primers here and there. Do you have a chronograph and any plans to see the same load new primer vs reloaded primer?

Thanks again for sharing all of this. Great stuff.

[bogey1]

Sulfur makes kclo3 and aluminum powder shock sensitive, try adding a little more sulfur.
Also, make sure the chemicals are ground very fine, like baby powder, the finer the better.

[Ricochet]

There's a guy with a youtube channel called Elvis Ammo and he's trying something similar out.
He also does a lot of good reloading videos.

[fallenleader]

cross contamination on hands was quite unhappy.
maybe make a small ball mill and use glass beads or lead or something non reactive to tumble the powders to the right grade before the mixing party?

i envision something like a medicine bottle with some glass beads and something to rotate it on spindles or bearings.
tinyrocktumbler.

[Hoppy]

cross contamination on hands was quite unhappy.
maybe make a small ball mill and use glass beads or lead or something non reactive to tumble the powders to the right grade before mixing the party?

i envision something like a medicine bottle with some glass beads and something to rotate it on spindles or bearings.
tinyrocktumbler.

Good point. My best black was made when I ball milled everything. I took a small round tupperware container, used a bronze bolt through it and .44 lead balls. I only milled a small anount (2-3 tablespoons) at a time. I chucked it in a cordless drill which was set in a bench vise. Tape the trigger for slow turn and let it go for 20 minutes. Worked great.