Potassium nitrate...where to buy???

Skinny 1950

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I am getting in to black powder shooting and would like to have some potassium nitrate on hand for various projects. I looked all over Vancouver for some ....no luck,seems like 911 put an end to getting the stuff. I can go in to any gun store and buy any type of gunpowder I want with no licence but potassium nitrate noooooooo!!!!!!! Anyone know where I can get some//////:stirthepot2:
 
agrico sales, brenntag, etc, etc

you will need to give ID, etc as it is on the "list"

Make sure you understand that mixing an oxidizer with a fuel will require a manufacturing license.
 
"on hand for various projects", hehehe zoiks! (my internal alarm has a snooze button :)

Try a farm fertilizer supplier.
 
Skinny 1950 said:
I am getting in to black powder shooting and would like to have some potassium nitrate on hand for various projects. I looked all over Vancouver for some ....no luck,seems like 911 put an end to getting the stuff. I can go in to any gun store and buy any type of gunpowder I want with no licence but potassium nitrate noooooooo!!!!!!! Anyone know where I can get some//////:stirthepot2:
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I think I see the black helo now...
 
It does have a lot of uses for the black powder crowd.

I used to use it for a few different things but the only one that I can remember at the moment is soaking onion paper for paper cartridges.
 
"fallen leaf" or "grants" stump remover is potassium nitrate and can be found at most garden supply stores. I saw some yesterday. i've heard it makes wicked smoke bombs when mixed 60/38/2 KNO3/sugar/baking soda, with enough water to make it slightly pasty, and a small drop of honey... heated over VERY VERY VERY low heat in a saucepan stiring constantly until carmelized (20 min-ish) and looks like peanut butter. scoop it into a cardboard tube and insert a firecracker fuse while it's still warm. as it cools it hardens into essentially really smokey rocket fuel... so i've heard.... i've never tried it myself though since it's illegal do do so without a license.
 
rob350 said:
+ 43 bucks to ship it, + the taxes/boarder fees!

Price will be well over triple by the time your done LOL
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Well the OP is in Vancouver so it would be easy for them to have it sent to Blaine or Pt. Roberts then import it themselves and pay the tax.

I have a mailbox in Pt. Roberts and my deciding line for ship here or ship there is $25. More than that, I drive down and pick it up. Less than that, it's not worth my time. Nexus helps a lot with this.
 
cablemonkey said:
Well the OP is in Vancouver so it would be easy for them to have it sent to Blaine or Pt. Roberts then import it themselves and pay the tax.

I have a mailbox in Pt. Roberts and my deciding line for ship here or ship there is $25. More than that, I drive down and pick it up. Less than that, it's not worth my time. Nexus helps a lot with this.
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Why, if you can buy it for $20 for a 50lb bag at the ag store? You are using for gardening anyway.
 
I think a few people on this thread are confusing Potassium Nitrate with Ammonium Nitrate. One is Saltpeter and, while a key ingredient in blackpowder, is not an explosive in and of itself. The other is fertilizer and, when mixed with diesel fuel, becomes AMFO, a popular industrial explosive. I have "played' with both and still retain all my digits and boyish good looks. I must be one of that lucky 20%. :D
 
which one is it?

bdft said:
I think a few people on this thread are confusing Potassium Nitrate with Ammonium Nitrate. One is Saltpeter and, while a key ingredient in blackpowder, is not an explosive in and of itself. The other is fertilizer and, when mixed with diesel fuel, becomes AMFO, a popular industrial explosive. I have "played' with both and still retain all my digits and boyish good looks. I must be one of that lucky 20%. :D
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So is the "fallen leaf" or "stump remover" potassium or Amonium nitrate? If its sold off the shelf (still?) it cannot be that dangerous in its present form. It must be when it is " modified" that it becomes dangerous.

Kids don't try this at home. Go to someone elses home and.....

Cheers. Steve
 
Used to do that as a kid. The local drugstore would only sell me about ten pounds of the stuff, minimum...kept me in black powder and rocket fuel for a loooong time.
Wonder I'm still alive.

Attn: parents....if your kid is in the basement grinding up charcoal brickettes...be afraid...very afraid....:D
 
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