Elvis Ammo has the Spirit of America, Necessity breeds Invention

I never thought I could come to the Elvis ammo and see a chemistry video ... lol... I love it

Looking forward to the whole series.

We now call you professor Ammo.

Just started my journey on make smokeless powder and reloading primers also. It was nice to see that your making some videos doing the same. You rock and thanks for your dedication to your channel.

Thank you. Had to watch before it disappears.

I ran across this stuff a couple years ago when I was trying to figure out how smokeless powder is made. I'm exited to see where this goes, you got me on the edge of my seat. :)

Elvis your are the man you really have paved the way for alot of us guys that make our own bullets thanks man I really appreciate what your doing

Elvis is Breaking Bad.

Can't wait to see the finished product. When I was in 7th grade I saw the formula for gun powder in the dictionary. I bought a mortar and pestle and began making it with a friend and we burned a lot of stuff up playing with it. When I was in the Navy I found formula for making different powders use in firework. I wrote a fireworks manual with the intent on selling them but I couldn't afford to get it published. I still have my original typewritten manuscript I wrote in 1972. Good luck with your experiment.

Guncotton Because of their fluffy and nearly white appearance, nitrocellulose products are often referred to as cottons, e.g. lacquer cotton, celluoid cotton, and gun cotton.[2] Guncotton was originally made from cotton (as the source of cellulose) but contemporary methods use highly processed cellulose from wood pulp. While guncotton is dangerous to store, the hazards it presents can be reduced by storing it dampened with various liquids, such as alcohol. For this reason, accounts of guncotton usage dating from the early 20th century refer to "wet guncotton." The power of guncotton made it suitable for blasting. As a projectile driver, it had around six times the gas generation of an equal volume of black powder and produced less smoke and less heating. Further research indicated the importance of washing the acidified cotton. Unwashed nitrocellulose (sometimes called pyrocellulose) may spontaneously ignite and explode at room temperature, as the evaporation of water results in the concentration of unreacted acid.[11

I make gas check dies. I’m going to try and make primer cup dies- large pistol/rifle first, interested?

Elvis the Mad Scientist!!!! You are the best. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

I FUCKiNg LOVE ELVIS AmMO I Cannot wait to see the finished product

Heck yeah, looking forward to being able to use that for reloading. If it’s possible to regulate.

Very interesting to see. Thank you and looking forward to seeing more.

DUUUUUDE ive been thinking of reloading my own primers. Edit: it seems like you are more on your way to making pistol primer.

This was very intriguing!! I look forward to more on this. I love doing things like this. I hope it works out well for you. Awesome stuff my friend

Thanks for the great info!! We can cast bullets, we can make black powder, but primers is where they have us. There is a company that sells chemicals and tools to reload 22s. They say you can use their chemicals for primers and #11 caps. It cost about $20 for the chemicals.

Ive watched quite a few of these gun cotton vids over the years. Utuber named nilered has a really good/scientific take. But still dyi able. He advised squeezing the excess, then rinsing with a weak baking soda solutiin till the rinse runs clear. It helps neutralize any left over un reacted acid, thus decreasing the chance of spontanoues ignition. Im sure uve already done ur research but give it a look see if u havent already. So i was glad to see u do that. Lotsa folks forget that step

Playing the waiting game and waiting for powder and primers payed off I didn’t have to really look thanks to a fellow reloader he hooked it up and sold 10k plus primers and 20lbs plus powder and thanks to your videos Elvis ammo and fc45lc I have casting bullets and powder coating down..and again thank you Elvis Ammo for all the videos you put out

There are many chemicals in fireworks that will give you what you desire

Hey Elvis! Thanks for showing. Looking forward to see the rest!

So when I learned to make it we used nitric acid and sulfuric acid. A faster reaction with the cotton. Great idea stump remover is easier to locate than nitric acid.

Love to know every and all ways to be self sufficient! You're the man! Thanks for being our test dummy! Lol

Really good information to pass along cant wait for the other videos thank you for all you do sir stay warm an safe God Bless

Genius video Elvis!👍 Keep up the good work 😊👍

Nice to see there are still HAC's out there. I did finally bend to wearing gloves and a mask though. So much fun!

As long as no motor homes come on during the video I am golden lol. Gun cotton Elvis you amaze me.

Elvis . . . the mad scientist!

This was beginning to look like a mad scientist performing an experiment. But I'm beginning to see a method to your madness. Looking forward to the series 👍🇺🇸

There are quite a few youtube videos on this topic. Good job man.👍

👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I know you have done some research and that you know how dangerous this can be but I read a story of this guy who worked in an ammunition factory and how the primer rooms where built out of 2 foot thick concrete walls. He said that they where eating lunch one day and heard an explosion and a shoe came flying through the lunch room so please be safe and do things in a very small quantity

Did I just see Elvis Ammo making gun cotton? I did I did. Well done brother looking forward to the upcoming videos on this to see where and how you go with it. Taking my teacher hat off and putting on my student beanie and listening. Here is an apple 🍎 teacher.

Gun cotton is extremely unstable! Love the channel and I want you to be able to add more videos

Nitrocellios seems more like the start of making smokeless powder.

Great work, as always! Thanks for sharing your info. I just ordered some Prime All to try out, but I hear the back log is a month or so out. Can't wait for the rest of the series 🇺🇸👍👊

You sounded a little rebellious there right in the beginning Elvis. Kinda scared me a little. Great video, keep going!

I had a vibe you would upload a new one today thanks 😊

awesome work Elvis !!!! keep up the good work

Elvis. I've been looking into making Armstrong H48 primer compound. It is basically what Prime-all is.

Elvis Buddy - thanks for the videoo... Please keep up the info on this - we are all in this together.

Elvis I used to spray clear nitrocellulose primer and the over spray that got on the fans I could scrape it off and light it "just playing around" and it would burn like progressive reloading powder was very necessary to use explosion proof fans thanks for your videos

Very cool, I'm excited to see what you come up with! Support from Canada

hey Elvis ,the endproduct depends on the purity of the ingredients and mixtures ,and how safe it is .to store and using it . a good book is . The chemistry of powder &explosives by tenney l davis

Let me just make clear what I have learned about drawing primer cups and making primers. You need both cups and anvils to make primers. The machinery needed to make cups is different from the machinery to make anvils (somewhat) Anvils are easier to make BUT making the dies to cut and shape steel anvils out of sheets of steel must be MUCH more robust than the dies made for drawing the tiny cups. The dies for the cups can be made with a manual lathe. The dies for making anvils can be made by EDM (I believe) or with VERY good CNC Milling...AND sophisticated heat treating equipment. Or they could possibly be etched out with tiny grinding bits like diamond dremel bits by hand. (A very long and difficult process) Then still would have to be hardened . THEN...These types of dies are used in PUNCH PRESSES. Not home shops even have small punch presses. Just like check makers, cups can be drawn one at a time with any type of press including a reloading press. A guy like me with a mini lathe can make the dies to form one at a time primer cups...just like the gas checks that Tom Burson shows in his videos (check them out). So I have been entertaining the thought of making a dies to draw BERDAN cups which do not require anvils. I have made hydraulic Berdan deprimer tools. And I have made a jig to shave boxer primers (small pistol) down to the depth where they can be used in Berdan brass. I have a friend who is THE authority on making priming compounds who has done many experiments on how to reload both Boxer primers and Berdan primers. In my opinion if this drought in obtaining primers turns into a very long term situation, people like Dan Burson and others who are inventive will be able to supply drawing dies for making Berdan primers which will obviously drive the interest in Berdan priming technique. THAT would be the alternative to the Boxer primer supply permanently drying up. UNLESS some one who is already in industry that uses punch presses decided to make the dies for making anvils and start selling anvils. But that is unlikely. So don't get you hopes up for having home made primers soon. Recharging used primers will be the only alternative for a while. Oh, one other thing...the copper or cupronickel that primers are made from is carefully heat treated for the perspective application. One company overseas publishes their practical different hardnesses of copper for different applications (typically the difference between standard and magnum primers)

Great vid Elvis as always thanks. Wondering if battery acid (bought at any auto parts store) which is approx 50% sulfuric acid wouldn't be an easier way for that component ? I bought 5 gallons a while back for doing some DIY anodizing and I'm thinking it was around $10 gallon . I dont know squat about any of this so just throwing the thought out there in hopes that someone who knows will comment before I accidently blow up my garage lol.

When you burned it Elvis I was like oh hell yes 👍🏻 this is going to be a kick A$$ video Series

You are really the MAD SCIENTIST now . I hope it all go's well .

Wow! Thank you very much!

You can use PH papers to check that all the acid is gone. When ph is neutral all the acid should be gone. Neutral ph is 7 but check your rinse water to make sure. Not all tap water is because of the mineral content.

Next time please use a glass stir stick and maybe get ahold of a gas respirator also i would suggest making alot more soda solution like a 5 gallon bucket worth incase the glass cracks and it goes everywhere

Thank you ordered my prime all kit they took my money but no kit looking forward to reloading primers only way we will ever get any

Check out prime-all. I just ordered 3 just in case my primer supply gets low.

How is your home insurance policy ? I would use salad spinner to dry the cotton ;) , Be safe man , love your videos!

Great video, can't wait for the others.

Get a buchner funnel my dude, and a vacuum erlenmeyer flask, as well as a vacuum pump. Will be much better for rinsing allowing you to remove all the acid. Also need ph strips to test the effluent to make sure you are nuetral.

Nitrocellulose Is mainly used for gunpowder Smokeless gunpowder

Elvis...I love you man...please get some PPE! This is way more gnarly even than a 20lb pot of 800F lead.

I'll take any aspect of making somthing work

I was scared just watching you with that lighter. I could see the big bowl in the background and know it was wet but still I had visions of a flash fire big enough to see on the 6 o’clock news.

Too cool elvis. You can make commercial grade priming compound but the one critical additive is not available. You have to make with a process that only chemists can figure out. Sorry so vague I'm not chemist for sure. Crushed glass for friction and toy caps for ignition. There is .22 cal. Primer compound out there. Just need the anvil with old primer cup. Looking forward to your next ingredient. There is a pdf online of military primer and spec's from the soldier who came up with the u.s. military recipe.

Interesting. You should call this one "Hold my beer". 😁

Yes so looking forward to the rest

Great info. Thank you.

They call what you made gun cotton or flash fiber Ie. Nitrocellulose I can tell you from first hand experience don't handle a lot of it at once k Smaller is better k What you have is very close to nitroglycerin k just a little bit more stable k Just saying

Another great video. Thanks for the knowledge bro.

This is pretty interesting!

what you've made is gun cotton! but I don't see yet how thats going to get you to primers ? any way I'll watch and learn and see how thislab experiment turns out!!

Elvis you have me spellbound. I can't wait to see what's next. How in the world do you come up with this stuff? Are you really Stephen Hawking's brother? Do you know why the acid bath makes the cotton burn like that? Do we need to add some firefly butts to the cotton now? Where does the ground glass come into play. So many questions. Don't leave me hanging like this. 👍great video.

Can you make a video showing how to reload primers using Prime All?

When is your next video on your homemade primers. I am running out and can’t find anywhere. Very interested in this. Thank you so much for all the info you share with us unselfishly! It is much appreciated! Impatiently awaiting your next video!

Where is your follow up videos of finishing this process? Thanks. I've subscribed btw

great video looking forward to the finish Thank you

Science nice!

I have one question, this primer material is made with various acids, is the end result corrosive ? Do you know if there's a way of home-making any non-corrosive primers ? I'm all for the home-made (mainly for budgetary reasons mind you, that and the pleasure of shooting something you can proudly say "I made this myself"), but I wouldn't want to fire corrosive ammo in my guns... Thanks for your work, your videos have been among my main sources of info from the start in reloading, bullet casting, and powder coating.

the 22 primer compound is good but it is corrosive to the gun you have to clean it after each use, im working on EPH-20 witch is as close to the real formula of primers you can make I think im waiting on a chemical to arrive from Bulgaria and then I can make the real stuff.

nitrocellulose will dissolve in acetone. then when it dries it will be a solid plastic like mass. your smokeless powder is nitrocellulose with some burn control additives. if you use smokeless use the fastest burning that you can.

Elvis look in to Prime all I think this product could be a game changer in the primer shortage

A big thumbs up here and I am already subscribed. Watching closely I am also working on a receipt for primers and musket caps. Keep us informed. thanks

Not sure I would be stirring up anything with metal utensils. How many fingers you got left?

I'm going to make a rival channel to this one and call it Beatles Blammo. 😁

you should read the msds sheets on any chemicals you play with.

This is great!!

Might I highly suggest that you wear a full face shield and a hat while you experiment with acid of any flavor. In 2011, I had a "backyard" experiment to blow up, I was only wearing those basic safety glasses, and the explosion rained HCL down on my head, ran behind my glasses, and I went from 20/10 vision to legally blind in about 1 second. I still suffer from the effects and several painful, costly surgeries to my eyes, and I am still legally blind. Just a suggestion from personal experience. 👍

Regular matches not waterproof matches not storm proof matches but regular matches with the strike pad is your best option and easiest option to make your own primers. Look into it

Big question here, what is the strength of the sulphuric acid? To me this is an important. Is it 1%,2% maybe more? Just asking for a friend... thanks 🤔

WELL HAY ELVIS AMMO !!!!!!! Hay hay Elvis how you doing brother love the channel. And this video series is going to be extremely interesting.

Elvis Ammo progresses to a mad scientist lol

The back yard sientist new channel name 🤣🤙🇺🇸

Never thought about just using a nitrate compound in the sulfuric acid to create the nitroniun ion.

I like that green shirt. Did you check out Aardvark reloading? They are in NC.

Outstanding!

amazing I hope it actually works keep it coming.

elvis your target temp for your nitrating solution is below 70deg F, over70 degrades your end product. even though its slower to react youll end up with a better gun cotton...ice baths are your friend

you might want to get some of the goggles that fit flush against your face. also, rinsing off the cotton balls and then pouring the water off into a separate container would be a bit quicker and get more of the nitric acid out of it. a final rinse with rubbing alcohol will help it dry more thoroughly and more quick, and storing it like echota said just a little damp with alcohol will help reduce the chance of an incident. acetone will dissolve the nitrocellulose and make a goopy mixture that isn't very good for the applications you're looking at, but it's good for some woodworking stuff. if i was going to make a primer with nitrocellulose, i'd be thinking of something that makes a small spark when struck, at the base of the primer where it gets hit. if you're going to make any shock-sensitive chemicals, be sure to do a bunch of reading on them first, and watch people handling them. don't wanna lose a finger. also, with those you'll wanna do everything in plastic containers, so if something goes wrong you don't have any shrapnel.

If this does not work... You made what Magicians use for magic. So you can do magic shows instead of re loading videos... Good to see that EARRL has a big dollar empty jar sponsor for the channel... 😆😂 Uncle Jim would bid on your Jar on eBay.

Elvis be careful I don't want to see you blow yourself up!

Have you looked at prime all ?? Looks easy to do...

You must have a happy marriage te be allowed to use that kitchen bowl ;-) Interesting video by the way!