70.000 SKS and ammo...

AK said:
On second thought, maybe I won't bother posting what they tell me. If this is the kind of crap I can expect to be directed at me as simply the messenger of someone else's decision, I'll just keep the knowledge to myself.
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Crap directed at you? Good one.

You took on the role of defending a government agency. You were the one making up scenarios to explain NRCANs actions. You were the one with the "ignorance" and "unreasonable" comments directed at other posters.

If you want to take your ball and go home, that's up to you.

PS: And yes, I do think I should be allowed to have a machine gun with a 75 round drum of tracer ammo. I'm a responsible, law-abiding citizen and there's no good reason I should not have one.
 
AK said:
As an explosives professional I happen to know the people at "NRCAN" (properly the ERD). They like working with industry and end users to make life easier. In fact, amateur fireworks manufacturing is about to become licensed and fully legal due to lobbying and consultation with the ERD by enthusiast groups. That means Joe Average will be able to obtain permission to manufacture his own explosives. How do you think that incredulously significant milestone was achieved? By diplomatic and friendly talks, or hateful rants about how they should cowtow to your demands? Wake up, people.
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Holy crap that was illegal before?

I assume you mean only low explosives like BP whistle and flash only...
The US has a permit available for DIY HE too... fireworks not needing a permit.

Seriously, you call licensing a milestone, but in the US you need no permit to do DIY fireworks.

Anyway, I am doing a PhD in explosives chemistry currently, how does the job market seem on your end? How did you get where you are?
 
pie1 said:
Holy crap that was illegal before?
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Depends on how you interpret parts of the Explosives Regulations. It was "tolerated" as long as you kept your mouth shut and were smart about it, ie. don't be testing your 6" multibreaks at dusk in the local playground. Most people involved in the hobby are smarter than that.

I assume you mean only low explosives like BP whistle and flash only...
The US has a permit available for DIY HE too... fireworks not needing a permit.

Seriously, you call licensing a milestone, but in the US you need no permit to do DIY fireworks.
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That's only partly correct. Several states require licenses and any storage of 1.3G definitely requires an ATFE approved Type 4 magazine. The ATFE also has several license types for manufacturing, the requirement of which depends very much on what you are doing. If you want to do any sort of transportation of the explosives you make you're required to get licenses, even for fireworks. USDOT has charged people that didn't.

In this political climate it is unreasonable to think that manufacturing explosives would be permitted without a license. The idea with the hobby license is to prevent things like an apartment dweller from mixing five pounds of flash powder in his suite for instance (an activity that, by any measure, demonstrates a negligence of the highest order!).

Anyway, I am doing a PhD in explosives chemistry currently, how does the job market seem on your end? How did you get where you are?
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Decades of hard work, experience, and study. A PhD in explosives chemistry will be useful if you intend to engineer explosive compounds but not relevant to working with explosives in the field. I would say 99% of the people I work with haven't got a clue about how explosives work or why, but know how to handle and work with them safely. I learned the ins and outs simply to satisfy my own personal desire for knowledge.

What is it you want to do? Work in the lab at Orica, shoot large fireworks displays for your town/city, tour with rock shows, or bust rock with 5,000 ton cast shots? The job market varies for each. I'm involved in the middle two and business is very good.
 
AK said:
What is it you want to do? Work in the lab at Orica, shoot large fireworks displays for your town/city, tour with rock shows, or bust rock with 5,000 ton cast shots? The job market varies for each. I'm involved in the middle two and business is very good.
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Thanks,

I would like to know more about this lab in orica?

My passion is the design and synthesis of new explosives, which is what I am doing now. Pyrotechnics was a hobby when I was young, but I have always intended to get my display license. I take it you are display supervisor or higher? Wanna take on an apprentice :D (Eventually....I am not even in Canada for my studies)
 
pie1 said:
Thanks,

I would like to know more about this lab in orica?

My passion is the design and synthesis of new explosives, which is what I am doing now. Pyrotechnics was a hobby when I was young, but I have always intended to get my display license. I take it you are display supervisor or higher? Wanna take on an apprentice :D (Eventually....I am not even in Canada for my studies)
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Yes. Senior pyrotechnician, display supervisor with all endorsements, and blaster. Where you live has a tremendous bearing on how fast you can obtain qualifications. I know some folks that have half the experience I do but have worked at Disneyland doing displays simply because they grew up in the right location. I've had to work a little harder for my certs but things are stepping up. Worked on KISS last year for instance.

Orica is a manufacturer of high explosives. I don't actually know what they have for a lab but a firm that large definitely has significant R&D capability. If developing new HE compounds is your fancy, Los Alamos or Sandia may be more up your alley. Say, care to hook a brother up with a few pounds of nitrogen cubane? :p

Apprenticing is always in the cards. Have to pass along the knowledge to the next generation. I figured you weren't in Canada for the moment when you mentioned you were studying explosives chemistry as no insitutions here offer that and very few in the States last I heard, unless it's just the thesis you chose?
 
AK said:
Say, care to hook a brother up with a few pounds of nitrogen cubane? :p
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Shuush don't you know that is ultra-mega-top-secret ;)

(and octaazacubane does not yet exist) :(

octanitrocubane, yup that exists....synthesis is very long though :(
 
AK said:
I'd like to see the VOD of that... How many moles of N2 get liberated when THAT detonates?
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4 moles N2, OB=0, balanced to CO2
VOD between 9.7 to 10 km/s depending on program used to calc.

Synthesis so annoying that no one has bothered to make enough to experimentally measure VOD. But the programs calculating it are often within 5% error of experiment.

Interestingly enough, heptanitrocubane is a bit better, worse OB, but higher density gives it a very slight edge in VOD and det pressure.
 
westrifle_sks said:
you lost me :(

Ammo ????
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Since you are an importer and have a better idea as to what is involved in bringing in ammunition what do you think would be the best approach to get NRC to loosen the ammo purse strings? A rifle doesnt do much good if all you an do is throw it at things. No rifles and lots of ammo or lots of rifles and no ammo is the same thing as far as I'm concerned.

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Voiced opinion is one thing. It takes 1,5 to 2 years to get a factory registered before it can be imported. It is ind of too much. In mean time all of the people that have it approved can charge arm and a leg for the ammo. Free market enterance does not exist. Many importers say screw that if I have ISO certificate this is all I need to import to USA in Canada it is not enough. We have NRC which by the way nobody looks after or controls, Only complaint you can make is to your local representitive. Which does not do much I can tell you. This NRC has to be evaluated somehow by someone. It is not controlled by anyone at the moment.
98%Brent said:
Since you are an importer and have a better idea as to what is involved in bringing in ammunition what do you think would be the best approach to get NRC to loosen the ammo purse strings? A rifle doesnt do much good if all you an do is throw it at things. No rifles and lots of ammo or lots of rifles and no ammo is the same thing as far as I'm concerned.

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westrifle_sks said:
Voiced opinion is one thing. It takes 1,5 to 2 years to get a factory registered before it can be imported. It is ind of too much. In mean time all of the people that have it approved can charge arm and a leg for the ammo. Free market enterance does not exist. Many importers say screw that if I have ISO certificate this is all I need to import to USA in Canada it is not enough. We have NRC which by the way nobody looks after or controls, Only complaint you can make is to your local representitive. Which does not do much I can tell you. This NRC has to be evaluated somehow by someone. It is not controlled by anyone at the moment.
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Then the ombudsman would be the first step and walking in with a petition with a few thousand signatures would probable help put some weight behind it as well. Their job is to go after agencies that lack supervision and look at their practices as an organization.

Do you think this is a bad idea?
 
The irony of how some people throw the term "Sheeple" around here, then turn around give others hell when they don't agree with them is not lost on me. Wow.
 
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