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I mentioned in another post that I have been shooting smoke-wagons since the early 70's, but have never fired conicals. Well, I cast about 100 of them and decided to make up some self consuming cartridges just for the helluva it.
So I nitrated and cut paper, and then did the whole glue thing with water glass (sodium silicate). The cartridges are damned cool looking, but I'm wondering about the water glass. In the first dozen or so I really slopped it on. Will it retard combustion? I put one big dot on the end of each envelope where the percussion cap should blast through, and folded over a lot of paper relatively speaking. Will this be a problem?
Thanks for the benefit of your experience. This obviously isn't necessary, but it sure is a lotta fun!
So I nitrated and cut paper, and then did the whole glue thing with water glass (sodium silicate). The cartridges are damned cool looking, but I'm wondering about the water glass. In the first dozen or so I really slopped it on. Will it retard combustion? I put one big dot on the end of each envelope where the percussion cap should blast through, and folded over a lot of paper relatively speaking. Will this be a problem?
Thanks for the benefit of your experience. This obviously isn't necessary, but it sure is a lotta fun!