3-D Printed Smokeless Powder - It's coming!

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David Reiss posted this 22 August 2020

Check out this article.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/07/21/3d-print-gunpowder/

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David Reiss posted this 22 August 2020

May or may not be true, but the concept is conceivable with all the advancements in 3-D printing just over the last couple years. The problem for the reloader would be having access to the compounds to make the powder. Either way it is a very interesting thought. 

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GP Idaho posted this 23 August 2020

Thanks for sharing David. Pretty interesting. Maybe some day I can send my powder coated bullets with a printed plastic propellant. Gp

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Bud Hyett posted this 23 August 2020

Will the 3-D printers also perform energy content per weight, rate of burn, propellant surface burn inhibition for uniform burn as the surface area decreases, etc.? There are too many factors in the safe manufacture of powder for me to run out and get a 3-D printer.

In 1948, the Israeli Army in 1948 used camera film as their source of cellulose for making nitrocellulose and pounding out used primer cups (Berdan) with then adding the phosphorus from wooden matches for their reloading, but they were very desperate. 

Very interesting first step.

Farm boy from Illinois, living in the magical Pacific Northwest

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RicinYakima posted this 23 August 2020

As a firefighter, I was on two abandoned movie theaters that had fires from old nitrocellulose film fires. I seems that in the 1920's and 30's when you bought a movie, you got to keep it. That is why they had film vaults as it decomposed and exploded.

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