can i grind fffg to make ffffg?

[FlinterNick]

I wouldn’t not really worth the trouble.

 

[nkbj]

Use it up,
Wear it out,
Make it do
Or do without.

 

[Redlemur60]

Fit aint broke ? If 2f iz working why fiddle

 

[maillemaker]

Yes, you can grind powder to make smaller grains. I make my own BP and it starts out looking like a hockey puck, and then I grind it repeatedly and sift with screens until I get 2F, 3F, and fines.

Naturally when you grind it you will convert some of it to dust, rather than whatever you are after. Not a problem when making your own BP as the fines go right back into the incorporation tumbler.

But, as others have noted, 4F is not really required for priming. I shoot my Brown Bess using 2F and prime from the cartridge. It shoots fine.

Here's mine going off at the 3 minute mark:

 

[ffg]

For 50 years I have been usen ffg for everything, what do you think they used back in the day? they would use what was on hand, BP was BP

 

[Redlemur60]

For 50 years I have been usen ffg for everything, what do you think they used back in the day? they would use what was on hand, BP was BP

Actually, powder was powder
Black being added afer the advent of smokless-ish

 

[Gordoncourtney]

I made a stone grinder already published but just took the motor off to lash up a tumbler I’ll be happy just to make Bp ( that’s for making black Paint ).
As you are not allowed to make BP in uk paint is ok

 

[Redlemur60]

Your also not allowed the topic of making bp here

 

[Gordoncourtney]

Yes I am aware of that I don’t shoot theses days ,but the historical manufacture of gunpowder is most interesting I am making black paint not black powder as I spend a lot on paints as I am always artistic painting. But the grinding down of chemicals is so very similar

 

[Redlemur60]

And of course all you f.a.'s were tragically lost in a boating accident
copy that!

 

[stickmann00]

Great answers to a question I had. I have several pounds of 1F black powder that needs to be ground down to 3F. Now I know.

 

[Ed Pilkington]

Do it all the time Brother. Eons ago, while directing the outdoor drama HORN IN THE WEST, I undertook research into one of the lead characters, Daniel Boone. I seem to recall a passage or two about grinding powder to match the gun and caliber. If it wasn’t Dan’l. It might have been John Sevier or one of the Over Mtn. Men. A hollowed out piece of hard rock was the vessel. I bought, quite a while ago, a small mortar and pestle. On a cold, rainy night i will sit by my desk and grind only the month’s shooting amount.

 

[kaotikross]

My buddy grinds some with an old plastic.. "pharmacutical grinder" from the early 90s. It was made to turn powder into finer powder for easy inhalation of an illegal substance. I bet they still sell them though and that would work pretty good. It pushes the powder through screens and has a couple with it, the more you do it, the finer it gets.

 

[Eterry]

I have used everything from 2FF to Null B. They all go bang. I recall Turner Kirkland in a much less litigious world advising using a coffee saucer and a spoon to grind a small amount. I sure miss his nuggets of wisdom.