Very nice! How do you assemble your detonators? I used to hold the bottom of my ETN/SADS detonators with pliers during manufacturing but I'm a tad bit afraid if it were to go off that'd I'd be pretty hurt. I thought about having a plastic bottle cut, put a wooden piece in as the base with a small hole to help hold the detonator upright, and fill the surrounding area with sand to absorb shock and help hold it upright. Do you think that's a good idea? Do you have a rig for detonator assembly?
Yes, we too have a rig similar to that. Depending on the initiator, wether it be just a small detonator or a boosting detonator like this one, we have a block of wood with pre-measured holes to keep them in place during assembly. Then we just carefully press in the initiative explosives, until the device is loaded with a designated amount and ready to be fused.
@@ExplosivesLaboratory Thank you for the reply. Is there any sand or anything else to absorb the shock? The hole in the wood can't be too deep or else the wood would become shrapnel. So since quite a lot of the detonator is sticking out, do you guys have anything else hold it up? I'm mainly worried of the concussive force taking out my hand or collpasing a lung (it's happened before to others). I'm thinking if I had sand there it'd hold it up better and also would absorb a good amount of energy making it harmless to my hands and face. With face shield, eye protection, and leather gloves of course.
@@SSS-cp1op very true. In fact it’s all about symmetry in wall thickness. Mfg’d cones and the OEMS only wanted .0003” variation or better. .0005” and above were duds.
Nice, although not perfect, I love the frequent uploads tho! Also it would be interesting to see EnergeticHeretics hypophosphite explosive, should make a video about EFP and try a pretty long standoff distance unlike EH did XD
It was very interesting, don't get tired. In the explanation, you said that you are considering a better explosive with methyl nitrate. I would appreciate it if you could explain what exactly you are referring to? And please explain a little about how to make it, thank you
Do you believe any of your formulations would’ve done a better job against this target? What do you roughly calculate to be the velocity of your Sodium hypophosphite containing casts? This particular ANNMAL I used was around 5,500m/s VoD, so at the lower end of the power gradient required to make an effective unoptimized shaped charge like this one…
@@ExplosivesLaboratory I'm not sure, I did not test them on such thick targets, I guess that the VoD of some of the denser melt casts I used was over 6000 m/s, just a guess.
@@tetrazolelover Yes this is 50.8mm think hardened steel plate, not exactly easy to penetrate…lol. However, where there’s a will there’s a way, and I’m confident we’ll puncture through this target eventually.
@Ꭼxpl๏sives Ꮮab๏rat๏rƴ You have a lot to learn young padawan. You have no viscosity w/ your NM and AL which is a big reason your yield is approximately 20-40%% lower yield than it should be. Biggest mistake is you're using AL 'as your sensitizer' instead of a much better and much more powerful readily available material. The AL plays no role in your charge other than sensitizing your NM when using it as a directional charge "shape charge". Might I suggest what would work a lot better?
@@ExplosivesLaboratory It looks like a larger version of the 4 x 1-1/4 for some reason. Thought it might have been a new tube by them. Optical illusion.
Can u imagine how powerful shaped charge and projectiles have to be to go through thick sloped armor plates ….like some of the beasts of ww2 Tiger 2s Fire Flies and 88s etc
Hey man, I'd like to ask; Does a shaped charge NEED a liner or can the explosion still be directed with just a V-notch? I understand obviously not having a liner will severely reduce its penetrative power, but if someone were to make a V-notch in their explosive charge, even without a liner that V-notch will make the majority of the explosive energy travel in that direction right?
Potente amigo, porque no prueba una carga con CHP ,plastificado con algo de nitrocelulosa y acetona (estilo DR Liptakov),seria muy potente y se adaptara muy bien al cono .El cono puede probar a fabricarlo con cinta de cobre adhesivo superponiendo muchas vueltas sobre un cono molde de carton esta cinta la vi una vez en amazon.
@@DBXLabs Ah yes, I love mini soda. 7.5 fl oz Coke’s are great for getting your daily dose of Phosphoric acid. Pepsi sells them in this size too… Then you’ll get your daily dose of Benzoate.
It is not interesting that you make these, it is interesting how do you getting all necessary chemicals. In my shitty country with greedy government, they forbid EVERY SINGLE CHEMICAL which is any way combustible, not even mentioning explosives. And precursors and mixes too.
For anyone curious, the initiator was comprised of 6g NHN over 4g pressed CHP to act as a small booster.
Very nice! How do you assemble your detonators? I used to hold the bottom of my ETN/SADS detonators with pliers during manufacturing but I'm a tad bit afraid if it were to go off that'd I'd be pretty hurt.
I thought about having a plastic bottle cut, put a wooden piece in as the base with a small hole to help hold the detonator upright, and fill the surrounding area with sand to absorb shock and help hold it upright.
Do you think that's a good idea?
Do you have a rig for detonator assembly?
Yes, we too have a rig similar to that. Depending on the initiator, wether it be just a small detonator or a boosting detonator like this one, we have a block of wood with pre-measured holes to keep them in place during assembly. Then we just carefully press in the initiative explosives, until the device is loaded with a designated amount and ready to be fused.
@@ExplosivesLaboratory Thank you for the reply. Is there any sand or anything else to absorb the shock? The hole in the wood can't be too deep or else the wood would become shrapnel. So since quite a lot of the detonator is sticking out, do you guys have anything else hold it up? I'm mainly worried of the concussive force taking out my hand or collpasing a lung (it's happened before to others).
I'm thinking if I had sand there it'd hold it up better and also would absorb a good amount of energy making it harmless to my hands and face. With face shield, eye protection, and leather gloves of course.
I personally use wood meal and fine saw dust instead of sand, since we do a lot of lumber processing there is an abundance of it available.
@@ExplosivesLaboratory Smart choice. Thank you for the information and keep up the great content! :)
the cone angle must be 90° and the correct stand-off must be 3x the diameter ;-)
Yes we are aware of that. This charge was unoptimized and therefore not very effective. Future experiments will be better.
@@ExplosivesLaboratory top!! i can't wait for that mate :-))
in modern HE-MPAT shells quite narrow cones are used
A cone angle does not have to be 90°. It’s most effective that way but there is a pretty big tolerance in angle.
@@SSS-cp1op very true. In fact it’s all about symmetry in wall thickness. Mfg’d cones and the OEMS only wanted .0003” variation or better. .0005” and above were duds.
Nice, although not perfect, I love the frequent uploads tho! Also it would be interesting to see EnergeticHeretics hypophosphite explosive, should make a video about EFP and try a pretty long standoff distance unlike EH did XD
Thank you. We’ll definitely try something like that down the line. I find that EFP video of his very cool.
Those detonations are wild
Oh wait, that’s one thing I forgot to mention, the composition of the detonator…
@@ExplosivesLaboratory lols
Excellent detonation!
It was very interesting, don't get tired. In the explanation, you said that you are considering a better explosive with methyl nitrate. I would appreciate it if you could explain what exactly you are referring to? And please explain a little about how to make it, thank you
Nicely done!!
Do you need a larger diameter charge with about a 6 Og stand off
Oh I almost missed this video. It looks like the jet went pretty straight, but anyway, nice explosion!
Do you believe any of your formulations would’ve done a better job against this target? What do you roughly calculate to be the velocity of your Sodium hypophosphite containing casts? This particular ANNMAL I used was around 5,500m/s VoD, so at the lower end of the power gradient required to make an effective unoptimized shaped charge like this one…
@@ExplosivesLaboratory I'm not sure, I did not test them on such thick targets, I guess that the VoD of some of the denser melt casts I used was over 6000 m/s, just a guess.
@@tetrazolelover
Yes this is 50.8mm think hardened steel plate, not exactly easy to penetrate…lol. However, where there’s a will there’s a way, and I’m confident we’ll puncture through this target eventually.
@Ꭼxpl๏sives Ꮮab๏rat๏rƴ You have a lot to learn young padawan.
You have no viscosity w/ your NM and AL which is a big reason your yield is approximately 20-40%% lower yield than it should be.
Biggest mistake is you're using AL 'as your sensitizer' instead of a much better and much more powerful readily available material.
The AL plays no role in your charge other than sensitizing your NM when using it as a directional charge "shape charge".
Might I suggest what would work a lot better?
That was awesome Pyro
I gotta come stay a weekend by u man lol ....I’ll bring my doctors kit ....or should I say rolling lab lol 😂
hehhehhehheh
Подскажите пожалуйста, как смешать компоненты? И сколько можно хранить это вещество?🤓🔥
Where you find that oversize gloss red tube?
CF, the 1¼” ID ones.
@@ExplosivesLaboratory It looks like a larger version of the 4 x 1-1/4 for some reason. Thought it might have been a new tube by them. Optical illusion.
How you make your liner
Can u imagine how powerful shaped charge and projectiles have to be to go through thick sloped armor plates ….like some of the beasts of ww2 Tiger 2s Fire Flies and 88s etc
Hey man, I'd like to ask; Does a shaped charge NEED a liner or can the explosion still be directed with just a V-notch? I understand obviously not having a liner will severely reduce its penetrative power, but if someone were to make a V-notch in their explosive charge, even without a liner that V-notch will make the majority of the explosive energy travel in that direction right?
Not the majority, but it will focus some of it.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 thanks man
Where do you find the math for calculating the termination depth and optimization?
seems you might have had some weird steel alloy, maybe hardened steel even, even if it wasnt optimized that just seems weird
Yeah I was expecting it to be slightly more effective, but none the less, it was a neat experiment…
Potente amigo, porque no prueba una carga con CHP ,plastificado con algo de nitrocelulosa y acetona (estilo DR Liptakov),seria muy potente y se adaptara muy bien al cono .El cono puede probar a fabricarlo con cinta de cobre adhesivo superponiendo muchas vueltas sobre un cono molde de carton esta cinta la vi una vez en amazon.
Interesante, nunca antes había considerado formar un cono de cobre con cinta de cobre. Suena como un concepto genial, debemos probarlo.
@@ExplosivesLaboratory Gracias bros! ; ) me hace ilusiona mucho que lo probeis!.
Damn, seemed very good. You already have snow? It snows here like 3 times a year lmao
This is my state, the land of 10,000 lakes for you. We get plenty of snow right away in November usually.
@@ExplosivesLaboratory Minnie-soda
@@DBXLabs
Ah yes, I love mini soda. 7.5 fl oz Coke’s are great for getting your daily dose of Phosphoric acid. Pepsi sells them in this size too… Then you’ll get your daily dose of Benzoate.
No está mal amigo al menos explotó fuerte prueba con un diámetro más grande
Todavía fue divertido probar un explosivo con forma por primera vez.
Как сделать?
69 AN ?25 NM? 6 AL?
A What is "NM"?
@@rizalmikhail2217 NM - NITRO METHANE
It is not interesting that you make these, it is interesting how do you getting all necessary chemicals. In my shitty country with greedy government, they forbid EVERY SINGLE CHEMICAL which is any way combustible, not even mentioning explosives. And precursors and mixes too.