03-12-2013, 08:22 AM
(10-19-2012, 08:04 PM)BlackRock Wrote: Uh excuse me, but ball bearings wrapped around flash paper and black (gun) powder don't make a smoke bomb, they make make a fragmentation grenade that shoots shrapnel (ball bearings) out at 200 mph! Are you a terrorist?
A...Ah...Ahahaha...Okay, firstly, you are doing the instructions in the wrong order, the ball bearing is the core, covered in caps, with the flash paper wrapped around it and the black powder outside that. The bearing acts as a weight to set off the caps, igniting the paper, and then the powder. Second, that little black powder, not pressurized in any way, would do nothing more than smoke. Its not explosive, its just highly flammable. Without an airtight seal, you would get no propellant at all, much less 200 mph. That number is ridiculous. The whole thing is sealed with FOIL for gods sakes!