lostfido Posted May 17, 2009 Posted May 17, 2009 I was donated a handful of product by a friend who cleans out foreclosed homes. It is all unopened packages from Firefox except for the one from Hummel Croton. Potassium Perchlorate 10 lbs Potassium Nitrate 5 lbs Charcoal 20 mesh 5 lbs And roughly 20 lbs of different colors/types of stars of unknown origin. And then in another container in a sealed bag enclosed in a Ziploc bag is 2 lbs of German Dark from Hummel Croton. I do not know how old any of this stuff is but I am guessing from some literature found with it to be from the early 2000’s Any advice as to what to do with it? Use it or not? Fido
TYRONEEZEKIEL Posted May 18, 2009 Posted May 18, 2009 Your chemicals are fine, they may be clumpy, and may need to be dehydrated. As for the stars, it is near impossible to tell. I am jealous I must say, and I am very glad to hear of your blessing!
psyco_1322 Posted May 18, 2009 Posted May 18, 2009 You should give them all to me I'll pay for shipping
TheSidewinder Posted May 18, 2009 Posted May 18, 2009 Any advice as to what to do with it? Use it or not? Fido Wow. Nice find. No brainer! Use the chems, for sure. And I think the stars would be ok to use in shells, as long as you don't mix them with one another. (No telling what is in each batch.) Ya might burn several from each bag to make sure they're worth the effort, though.
a_bab Posted May 18, 2009 Posted May 18, 2009 (edited) Dear Mr (insert your email account here),The materials you had received are all expired. You should dump them right away, as not only they are totally useless, but they could be also dangerous. A total waste of time if you ask me. I'll give you my address where to ship them (I'm a specialist in "neutralizing" such useless stuff) National bank of Somalia manager Man, this is pure luck. For the stars, I'd test eachone with a stargun, and with some small shells/mines. Edited May 18, 2009 by a_bab
Arthur Posted May 18, 2009 Posted May 18, 2009 You are rather lucky! The single chems would do well kept in a dry place til you wish to use them. The stars are a rather different story! For them I'd advise you to make bag mines. The BP lift has a tissue bag of stars on top and you fire it with QM. My reasoning is that IF the stars contain chlorate then a BP break powder is dangerous because of the sulphur. In a bag mine the lift powder doesnt touch the stars, only the flame touches the stars and by then you want them to ignite. IF you can do analysis for chlorate then you can make better choices and if there is no chlorate then you could easily make shells. Chlorate or not you could break shells with KP or flash assisted sulphurless BP.
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