How to Make Black Powder Coated Rice Hulls
So, what are black powder coated rice hulls? Black powder coated rice hulls are used to burst most aerial fireworks shells.
Black Powder Coated Rice Hulls
Since you can’t buy black powder coated rice hulls, you have to make them. A new video shows you how to make really good, coated rice hulls yourself. This is the same rice hull method that commercial fireworks makers use for the shells they use in the big fireworks displays you see on the 4th of July.
The process of getting black powder to stick to the rice hulls is pretty simple. But you need to know what to do before you start. Especially if you want to make your shells burst the same every time, and do it safely.
What are rice hulls? When rice is harvested, you first have to knock the tough outer shells off. What we eat is the inner part. The hulls are too tough eat, and they normally get thrown away.
Black powder coated rice hulls are the burst powder inside an aerial shell. And rice hulls are the carrier for the black powder.
Why not just use straight black powder? Because it’s too heavy. Rice hulls are like black powder helper. They let you use 1/3 of the black powder to do the same job. That cuts down on shell weight and black powder cost.
The trick to making black powder coated rice hulls is to get it to turn out the same every time, so you get predictable results with your aerial shell bursts.
Here is how.
First, get some dry rice hulls. Then soak them in water. Make up some black powder. Mix a little dextrin into the black powder. Dextrin is a powdered glue. Then drain the wet rice hulls. Finally, coat the rice hulls with the black powder and dextrin mix. The key is not to over wet them and to apply the right amount of black powder. It is important to use the same ratio of black powder to rice hulls every time. Then dry your rice hulls for a day or two.
Where do you get black powder? You have to make it yourself.
The reason you have to make it is that you need a very small grained black powder that you can’t buy unless you have a BATF Explosives license.
Black powder is easy to make. We will show you exactly how if you don’t already know. And the US federal government says it’s completely legal to make black powder and fireworks.
Black Powder Coated Rice Hulls
Black Powder Coated Rice Hulls
Since you can’t buy black powder coated rice hulls, you have to make them. A new video shows you how to make really good, coated rice hulls yourself. This is the same rice hull method that commercial fireworks makers use for the shells they use in the big fireworks displays you see on the 4th of July.
The process of getting black powder to stick to the rice hulls is pretty simple. But you need to know what to do before you start. Especially if you want to make your shells burst the same every time, and do it safely.
What are rice hulls? When rice is harvested, you first have to knock the tough outer shells off. What we eat is the inner part. The hulls are too tough eat, and they normally get thrown away.
Black powder coated rice hulls are the burst powder inside an aerial shell. And rice hulls are the carrier for the black powder.
Why not just use straight black powder? Because it’s too heavy. Rice hulls are like black powder helper. They let you use 1/3 of the black powder to do the same job. That cuts down on shell weight and black powder cost.
The trick to making black powder coated rice hulls is to get it to turn out the same every time, so you get predictable results with your aerial shell bursts.
Here is how.
First, get some dry rice hulls. Then soak them in water. Make up some black powder. Mix a little dextrin into the black powder. Dextrin is a powdered glue. Then drain the wet rice hulls. Finally, coat the rice hulls with the black powder and dextrin mix. The key is not to over wet them and to apply the right amount of black powder. It is important to use the same ratio of black powder to rice hulls every time. Then dry your rice hulls for a day or two.
Where do you get black powder? You have to make it yourself.
The reason you have to make it is that you need a very small grained black powder that you can’t buy unless you have a BATF Explosives license.
Black powder is easy to make. We will show you exactly how if you don’t already know. And the US federal government says it’s completely legal to make black powder and fireworks.
Black Powder Coated Rice Hulls