Manly old fashioned recipes

[Profpointy]

I thought gun cotton was nitro cellulose, made by treating cotton with mitric & sulphuric acids

 

[slowmotion]

I thought gun cotton was nitro cellulose, made by treating cotton with mitric & sulphuric acids

There are recipes on Google. It doesn't resemble my wood finish........honest, Guv....

 

[classic33]

I thought gun cotton was nitro cellulose, made by treating cotton with mitric & sulphuric acids

I thought the waste, the cloths used to rub it in, was an alternative recipe.

I blame @raleighnut. Spontaneous combustuon hazard.

 

[Drago]

Never tried that. I gave up experimentation with explosives in my teenage years after a brief brush with death. The sound of the shrapnel from a large steel gas bottle unexpectedly fizzing past my head tempered my enthusiasm.

As a wee bairn we'd put bullets in a vice in my Dad's shed and whack them with a hammer and send them razzing out to sea. Anything from .22 pistol rounds up to .303. Happy days.

 

[raleighnut]

I thought the waste, the cloths used to rub it in, was an alternative recipe.

I blame @raleighnut. Spontaneous combustuon hazard.

I'm just passing on a warning,

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...d-rags&usg=AFQjCNGqrZj4Em0ggI8RNWmmmv_bV6alCA