I found an old steel pan and use a hammer on a block of wood. It's labor intensive tho - I'm rooting around for something I could adapt to the job. A big grinder. A mill of sorts. Heh - make a wind-mill with a pair of mill-stones... I tried a coffee mill and it works pretty well on small amounts - but it's more to test the concept than for practicality. Currently, it's a hammer and patience. But I'll build that mill - I have tons of wood ready to be charred...
Be well,
Mike
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Originally Posted by wim
What's the best way to powderise charcoal?
When I was 15 I tried to make gunpowder (charcoal, potassium nitrate and sulphur). I put BBQ charcoal in a plastic bag and smashed on it with a hammer until the plastic bag was broken (after 1 or two hits, that is). Cleaned the mess up a bit and used a glass bottle to grind it further down to powder ... or at least I tried.
End of the story is, the gunpowder I made only gave a huge flame, a lot of heat and a lot of toxic smoke (great to root out wasp nests in the ground). Now that I think of it, that may be the reason why I'm still alive with all my libs, eyes, ....
For me it was a hard time to powderize a small amount of charcoal, how do you powderize lots of it?
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