alright so my friend found a box of old shotgun shells the other other day and we decided to empty them out and use the powder. Heres the basic plan, im taking a sheet of either tin/scrap metal i found in my basement, cutting out 1 1/2 inch by 4 inch strips, rolling them into cylinders, plugging the ends, filling them with the powder, sticking a fuse in it and watching em blow. the only problem im having is deciding the best way to bond both ends of the metal stripps together to make it an air tight cylinder. i dont have any way to weld the ends together or enough money to buy the supplies for that, so im stuck with variations of glue and soder, any suggestions?

ok 1st off dont use metal casings it will cause shrapnel 2nd use paper tubes or make some (vide a video on how to make em) and use either paper or kittylitter (not tidy cats lol that a waste use the one for removing oil stains) and then with a mallet and dowel pour soe kitty litter into the end caps and compress them and you should get some rock like end caps but befire you close the second end fill the the black powder and then close it got it?


or u can fuck all of that and just buy some damn end caps and paper tubes off the internet

and shot gun powder is more of a pusher than an exploder. so it wont be too excellent

use flash or black

Well, if want to proceed with using Metal, use ether metal Epoxy( retails for $1.75-4.99, and can be found at Walmart/ job lot/hardware store) and clamp it close untill dry, or use QuickSteel( they sell it in automotive stores, and walmart, its used for high temp, high pressure jobs, it gets hot while it cures) somtimes when i can't find a shell/tube to use, i make it entirely out of Quicksteel. i would not reccomend using metal, but if you do, make sure it wont spark when hit with another metal object.

Black powder was originally used as a pusher.

yes, but it classic and fun. im a sucker for the classics

true


but black powder works better than shotgun shell powder (in my experience)