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Black Powder Manufacturing,
Testing & Optimizing
Ian von
Mandatory Milling
About ten years ago I corresponded with a fellow enthusiast who was experimenting with making
Black Powder. His one memorable comment to me was: "You must ball mill. The difference
is as night and day." I ball milled — and the difference was just as he had described!
Some form of milling is mandatory if one wants to make fast Black Powder. There is just no
way around this fact. Believe me, I have searched diligently for other methods that would obviate
the need for milling. I have yet to find any. I have yet to find anyone who has.
I have tried the CIA method without milling. I have investigated heating up the sulfur and melting
it into the charcoal. I have perused experiments done for the US military in exploring solvents
that would dissolve sulfur. None of these have yielded any meaningful gains when compared
with milling. So milling lives, like it or not.
Beyond hand milling with a pestle and mortar, ball milling is the method of choice for most.
Thus when milling is described from now on in this chapter, ball milling is assumed unless
stated otherwise.