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Materials:
- Nitrocellulose or smokeless powder
- Acetone peroxide
- Acetone
- Acetone resistant container, a butter container works well, I would try to
stray away from glass in case of anything going wrong.
- stirring rod
Procedure:
Measure out your smokeless powder out using weight, and use a ratio of
about 60/40 having more AP than NC. Now take the smokeless powder and
put it in the container and stir in enough acetone to cause the smokeless
powder to be a gel. Next, add your acetone peroxide, and carefully mix it
until it is a thick paste, you should not see any sign of AP in the mixture, it
should all look black/green (if using smokeless powder) it should look white
if using pure NC, so you could always add a small touch of finely powdered
charcoal to your NC before you add the AP, so you can tell its mixed well. I
continued stirring the mixture for a couple minutes afterwards to get a nice
even mix, then I pressed mine between two pieces of 3/8 inch pipe which I
cut lengthwise, and then once I pressed them together, I used a wooden
skewer to put a hole down through the middle, to decrease drying time,
then removed the two pieces of pipe and let it dry.