mormanman Posted May 29, 2007 Posted May 29, 2007 Does anyone know how to make snap pops?I know that Ammonium Perchlorate can ignite on impact or with friction so I was wondering if maybe thats how you make it.
al93535 Posted May 29, 2007 Posted May 29, 2007 Snap pops are silver acetylide on sand. It is a pretty sensitive primary explosive, and I would advise you against making it And no talking about high explosives outside the HE area
Pretty green flame Posted May 29, 2007 Posted May 29, 2007 I always heard they were silver fulminate. Indeed they are Mumbles. The ammount in one snap pop doesn't exceed 2mg, don't know about the US but 2mg is standard for the EU.
pudidotdk Posted May 29, 2007 Posted May 29, 2007 Well, kill me if this is too HE butbefore silver fulminate was discovered gold or mercury fulminate was used. The first being quite exensive, the second one very poisonous.
mormanman Posted May 29, 2007 Author Posted May 29, 2007 And no talking about high explosives outside the HE areaI did know/mean for this to be an HE topic. Sorry.
al93535 Posted May 30, 2007 Posted May 30, 2007 Thanks for the correction Mumbles, It is the fulminate. I don't know why I was thinking acetylide.
ns4life Posted May 30, 2007 Posted May 30, 2007 Thanks for the correction Mumbles, It is the fulminate. I don't know why I was thinking acetylide. I think I brought it up in the thread about torpedos. I the packaging of some really old fun snaps called crackle bombs that were mercury fulminate. The box is at least 100 years old.
jaruletzu Posted June 4, 2007 Posted June 4, 2007 try I+NH3 impact sensitive red cristals. nice but too sensitive
pudidotdk Posted June 4, 2007 Posted June 4, 2007 try I+NH3 impact sensitive red cristals. nice but too sensitive Sounds like HE to me. DONT try it as he suggest, it's too sesitive, even a fly landing on it will detonate it.
crazyboy25 Posted June 5, 2007 Posted June 5, 2007 well thats not really up for you to decide since your not a mod and you dont even have HE access. plus this topic isn't really called "how can i make HE's"
al93535 Posted June 6, 2007 Posted June 6, 2007 In my opinion making a snap pop is not really HE even though you use a primary explosive to produce the device. They are still considered fireworks novelties. Don't let the discussion go into anything else though!
Flamethrowa Posted June 21, 2007 Posted June 21, 2007 Novelties or not, there still exists a danger in their manufacture since you will be working with larger quantities more prone to detonating on you. To the other guy: I hope you don't think APC is the only HE board in existance! The guy before you really is right, NI3 is pointless, dangerous, and should not be made. Nor will it be at all useful in snap pops.
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