Hope you guys enjoyed! Heres the parts list: Wireless Ignition System: amzn.to/3ikYZ3c 40AWG Nichrome Wire: amzn.to/31jL2sE 24AWG Two Conductor Wire: amzn.to/2hoXHpn Wire Stripper: amzn.to/2hvVuw5

Dude you seem like a guy I could definitely hang out with. You have a ton of information on what you do and a sense of humor as well.

You will find single base and double base smokeless powders. The double base is mixture of nitroglycerin , graphite and nitrocellulose. Single base is nitrocellulose and graphite. You can dissolve the smokeless in acetone before adding to the nitrocellulose.

this was really helpful. Me and my friends decided to see how high we can make a rocket go (with very little prior experience) so it's always great to see stuff like this. it seems difficult to find good tutorials on diy parts that both work and aren't terribly unsafe

Evil genius, with a great sense of humor.

Clever!!! Now I can give my single strand of 30 gauge wrapped in a coil a rest, due to the mis-fires, at a 50% ratio.. I Look forward to this.. Thank you.

This is the best tutorial on ignighters on KZfaq, very well done sir.

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From a chemist's point of view that is a most excellent witches' brew pyrogen. Love your channel.

I'm gonna have to try that ignition mixture out. The electrical ignition system I have is very archaic lol. I use Christmas lights for the cap and just break the glass to expose the filaments and put some Zn+S mixture around them, and hook up either end of wire to another wire I can touch to a 9 volt. Doesn't always work but when it does it's glorious

Saves a lot of money having to buy electric match or E-match as they call it I should maybe try one of these out on a couple of Excalibur shells

Strippers and Just the tip, sounds like fun!!!

As soon as you said "grab a stripper" I said "Hell Yeah!" and started laughing! Then when you realized you said it and then added in "that's always a good time ", I was absolutely crying! 😂 You and I have the same sense of humor and now you have one more subscriber! Keep up the good work brother!!

Thanks EM For Your Reply of The Video of Igniters ! Appreciate It !

The wire ignighters. ive always crushed some matches and used the wifes nail varnish to coat the wire you can always dip it in any other ignition material like black powder or thirmite. but works great nicrome wire basicly fine fuse wire can ignight with 1 aa battery, fuse wire size the higher ampage the higher voltage . yours seamed alot of work but it was very interesting nice video well explained .a1 bud

There is a product called "Newskin" sold as a (painful) dressing for small wounds, it is a nitrocellulose lacquer.

I just switched over to using nichrome/kanthal wire as ignites. Bought 250 feet of kanthal for a few dollars. Kanthal should work better because of higher melting point, but not sure. Currently using 2-3 D batteries with a bunch of speaker wire for distance and kanthal for igniter. Works well.

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Years ago when I lived in Miles away from the closest hobby shop, I learned that you can substitute a bread twist tie after cleaning the paper or plastic off of it in place of ni-chrome wire

Great video. This looks like it would be a good replacement fuse for my Civil War Mountain Cannon.

ur ignition technic easy and good.....with love amd.

AvE inspired? haha, subscribed last night love the content. Keep up the good work!!

Great video man.

Used to use jeweller's soft iron binding-wire, fed from an old battery charger. The wire was stiff and thin enough to be pushed through a squib.

When we were kids, a friend and I made our own ignites out of the twist ties on bread bags. Just strip about 1/2" of the paper in the middle then bend it SHARPLY and pinch a little bit of tissue paper between the 2 halves. Shove that into the engine and hold it in with a bit more tissue. It takes a few seconds to get hot enough, but it works. We also didn't have fancy launch buttons so we used a length of 2 wire with alligator clips to attach to the igniter and touch the other ends to a 9V battery. Come to think we didn't have a launch pad either so we just stuck a copper coated welding rod about 30" long into the ground with a tin pie plate for a shield and a piece of tape wrapped around to keep the rocket from sliding too far down. Also I remember engines had one stage that just made a LOT of smoke to make tracking the rocket easier.

As a recovering pyro, if you've never considered this, add a little graphite powder to your pyrogen and it becomes conductive. I use like lock lube graphite. Then take your wire leads, clip just an 1/8" of insulator off and gap them with just a millimeter of space between them. The graphite allows conduction and it heats enough to fire the nitrocellulose. It takes a little more juice to fire, but I've never had any trouble as long as I was using at least a 12v source. Additionally, as a former amateur rocketeer, a trick I learned to get more pyrogen on the igniter was to double or triple fold the tip before dipping to give more surface area to stick to. Another trick was taking some spare cured propellant, GENTLY using a cheese grater to grind it into tiny pieces (never do this with propellant containing titanium or zirconium!!!) and adding this to the pyrogen to get some extra oomph when needed. According to my parents I started lighting things on fire when I was 4 years old and I can't seem to stop being fascinated by fire and explosions. :-)

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Would a 6 v remote igniter system work on your igniters? What is your voltage? For sugar rockets. Where did you get your potassium perchlorate? Love the tutorial. What volumes of chemical are you using? Any help appreciated.

You could mix up the dip in a small test tube, and thusly:- * needing much less material * slowing evaporation of the acetone * getting a consistent length of coating on the wire * using a stopper, be able to store it (carefully) for next time

Elemental can I use speaker wire then throw on some nichrome wire to make an igniter for black powder rockets?

Solution of ZnCl2 works like a charm when it comes to soldering NiCr and stainless steel

Fun stuff. Thanks for sharing these demonstrations.When i was 10 or 12 i would twist a couple strands of copper speaker wire around fire cracker fuse connected to. a 100 foot extension cord and set it off with a car battery. on the other end Id place them where i could set them off as someone walked near. My brother's was more often my target. Fun times. Thank you. ::SUBBED::

Hey ElementalMaker, have you ever trier a lower/higher gauge wire?? I've tried 32AWG Ni-Cr wire and it heats up well but only if the wire is about

I love your videos. Thanks!

i use resistors. i enjoyed your video greatly but the resistors are so much easier and better. but probably only work on larger engines.,

This is always a fun topic!! :D

Great video

Nice job !!!

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This was a VERY VERY good video! Very high quality content...🤔 Shiiiiit... wish I had you on FB... Would love to share ideas and story's. ☺️🤘

Could you take a thin cardboard or metal tube and pour a tiny amount of the ignitor solution into it with the NiChrome setup, and make a small blasting cap with it?

Do you think some magnesium powder would work. Or too reactionary ?

Thank you

That squib burned for a while.. Nice job.. Good recipe...

Excellent

Wonder if this mixture can be used to make cannon fuse? I have used black powder and tissue paper to make fuses before.( You have one more subscriber now, your vids are awesome!👍)

Luv how you made the igniters, unfortunately I’m unable get gunpowder in England. I have a couple of Jetex motors but no fuses.

Hi, I tried making this, but the smokeless powder seems to not dissolve in the solvent (Laquer), even after nearly 30 minutes. Also, when i tried to burn this in homogeneous mixture i was getting a slow burning flame, no way close to what you have in the video. Can you suggest, where i am possibly going wrong? Thanks

smokeless powder is mainly composed of nitrocellulose. You could just uses smokeless and acetone to get the goop. If you mix black powder instead of the aluminum and iron oxide you could make some fire work stars. depending on what other chemicals are in the powders the color of the flame can be different lol

Would be awesome to see your build for a DIY remote trigger box.. You got a sub off of this, sweet video. Like how you explain things.

For an easier method, if you can't get hold of smokeless powder for whatever reason, the material on the heads of safety matches works pretty well, and will easily ignite from the heat of glowing nichrome wire too. Just crack the material off the matchsticks with the smooth section of a pair of long-nosed pliers, and crush it to a coarse powder under a plastic screwdriver handle on a smooth ceramic or glass dish. Only do this on a small scale (10 matches worth at a time, at most), and whatever you do, don't try to grind the stuff in a pestle-and-mortar, since that kind of friction can easily ignite it - I've made that mistake before! But it can be combined with nitrocellulose lacquer, wood varnish or clear nail polish (or even superglue if you're quick about it) to make a thick paste, which you can then apply to the head of the electric match and let dry. I think the match head material is mainly potassium chlorate with some sulfur, which is a pretty easily ignited and high temperature burning mixture, which is enough to ignite most solid rocket fuels. Just don't make the mistake of using "strike-anywhere" friction matches - that stuff goes off far too easily and you could end up with a premature ignition just from the friction of inserting the match into the rocket motor. For igniting thermite, if you don't have access to magnesium powder or ribbon, you can use a bit of potassium permanganate powder and a dribble of glycerin. Take a little bit of your thermite mixture (about half a teaspoonful) and mix with an equal volume of permanganate, then deposit this mixture on top of the rest of the thermite. Make a small depression in the mixture and add a few drops of glycerin. Within about 30 seconds, this will auto-ignite, and burn at a sufficiently high temperature to ignite the rest of the thermite, giving you a nice time delay fusing mechanism.

to my mind, it's very interesting

Elemental Maker - How do you think Estes makes an igniter which only requires 6 volts (4 AA's) to light? I've tried several mixtures of pyro-stuff (based on what you describe in this video) to coat the tip of 36 gauge kanthal wire, but it won't light. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Would Magnesium help it?the fire starters and a file should ger some fine Magnesium power and it if light burns very hot!

Tech tip for the pyrogen, pyrodex dissolves in water, then just dip and dry on the nichrome wire, you can then dip in the nitrocellulos lacquer to seal it up

I used to take merely one strand of copper wire from any stranded wire and either used just that, or a match head installed as well and never ever had any problems. JMHO

If you want to be really simple I just file and break the tip off of a glass old Christmas tree light and fill it up with the nitro cellulose ignite mix that I made with acetone,smokeless powder and powdered aluminum and I little bit of black powder dust shove the end of the fuse inside and let it dry. Attach that to an appropriate length of two conductor wire plug it in to your ingition box for model rockets and off you go. Works everytime and sho doesn’t have a shitload of old Christmas lights lying around.

Where did you get the radio controlled ignition box? Got a link?

Hi E/M ! Just Wondering when you will make the Video showing how to make the Firing Controller You used in this video ?

Sometimes I want to thumbs up twice. We need a button for that.

Does potassium nitrate not work for an oxidizer on this?

did you ever make the controller, I am interested in the remote

Could this be used for lighting fuses on pyrotechnics?

how would you like to have nonexplosive impact primers?

I do solder mine. I just lay the joint on the table and let a ball of solder cool over it. And then I squash it. I've had continuity issues with just wrapping/crimping. For igniting anything other than rocket engines, I stopped bothering to dip them in anything. I use AWG 30 nichrome @18v and it never, ever fails to ignite flash, BP, NC, fulminates, etc.

Would celluloid guitar picks work to make the lacquer?

Elementalmaker, try out using Christmas lights. I call them tangle lights. Nip off the tip of the glass and fill it with ignition powder. Hot glue or something to cap it and it's ready to go.

You mentioned that you had a top coat on the intro igniter but didn't on the ones that you set off at the end of the video...what do you use for your top coat on them that gives them the pop that you were talking about?

Can anything be used as a substitute for the potassium perchlorate? In theory wouldnt any decent oxidizer do? What about potassium nitrate?

Could you use KNO3 Pot Nit for the oxidizer?

where you buy that yellow cable, link only show black intercom cable.

i’m actually from iraq, (i’m iraqi) i found this funny. Thanks for the tutorial tho 😂

Amazing! Do you think you can ignite high power AP motors with one of these? Maybe with a few more coatings for a J-class motor or above? They sell packages of 3 for about $14 dollars... not too bad, but I’m sure it’s a lot cheaper to make your owns!

Old demo-school trick to stop accidental early ignition. Twist the standing ends of your wires around each other. Split the wires apart from each other if their coatings are bound to one another, and twist the pair together down their entire length. Bind the twist with taoe if need be to keep it twisted. Prevents accidental early ignition due to radio wave interference. This is especially true if you have an ignitor wire anything over 1 foot long.

2:20 "...Sadly they are longer out of business..." . The same could be said about effective proof reading.

I think your as crazy as me I want to know how everything works then I get two things I worked out then find a way to add them together to make something completely different normally electronic but am thinking I should try alchemy love your work very interesting and intelligent

hi mate will 38 gauge nichrome wire work thank such a great Idea

I don't know why but my pyrogen igniters never worked that great. they were never able to ignite my motors, I always had to shove up a match with them. I'll have to try your method though as I only added BP to mine.

What are your percentages of metal, oxide and perchlorate in your mix?

Good video. How many turns of Nichrome wire did you use?

I'm curious, since you mentioned that the smokeless powder was mostly nitrocellulose couldn't you just dissolve that in the acetone instead of making the lacquer with the ping pong balls. I would understand having to use it if you were using black powder but since your'e using smokeless I would think just dissolving it in acetone would be sufficient. Keep up the good work.

What would adding magnesium do to the formula?

Never mind his lady fingers one of the best videos on manufacturing ignighter’s on the tube.

All you really need between one end of your wires is some #0000 steel wool. Once you connect it to a power source like a 9volt battery, the steel wool will glow red. It’s a lot cheaper and can be made in seconds, plus it don’t stink as bad.

I have found that for powdered sugar rockets like you make that no pyrogen is required. I have needed pyrogen for PBAN based propellants.

I made a fuse by emptying Pixy Stix wrapper cut it in half and filled it with some rocket fuel twisted the end insert into rocket light with match worked every time

what amp is the igniter? how much power to set off the igniter?

What component majes that smell terrible? And whats it smell like?

I used to use my front teeth for stripping wire but eventually through _wear & tear_ I had em pulled last week. As much as your teeth might feel perfectly joined to your jaw & skull (in youth usually), stripping wire is best left to tools and/or a blade, otherwise look forward to Summer-Teeth (some are here, some are there) when 'ageing' :D

could u use 36 or 38 gauge nichrome wire....cant seem to find 40 gauge

You could probably use vape coil nichrome wire as a substitute

Haha "grab a stripper" I didn't get that until you noticed yourself lol :) Too funny!

Did you ever post a follow-up video?

Just the tip baby please i promise lmao i like your humor

Subbed! Where did you get that wireless ignition system. The only one I found was it apogee rockets in Colorado Springs. $45 beans

Do you have a brand name on the ping pong balls? All of the white ones that I have found are thin poly ethylene or something.

can you give information on your remote controlled detonator?

....the MOAB (GBU-43) contains TNT and aluminum powder (to increase the heat factor)...maybe you should be working at Eglin AB...😉...

What brand is that cordless igniter setup? Looks like a cool little unit.

Instead of nicrome wire you can use 0,25W carbon resistors or 1206 (or smaller if you can handle them) SMD resistors. You get them on reels of 3000-5000 pieces for a few buck in electronic surplus shops. The resistance depends on the battery voltage. For my homemade "blastingmachine" wich works at 250V I use 150 - 250 Ohm. This works also with long (100m) wires.