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Hi frends,

this is the sawdust formula found in pyro books

Meal……2

 

Fine charcoal…….1

 

Sawdust…………..1

 

what's effect it gives..?? firespark for long time going down solwly..??

 

 

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I bet it will make a slow burning compound, but dont use sawdust, like from a saw. That formula IIRC calls for sawdust that is highly powdered like from a power sander.
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I bet it will make a slow burning compound, but dont use sawdust, like from a saw. That formula IIRC calls for sawdust that is highly powdered like from a power sander.

 

Correct me if I am wrong, and I often am, but that would be wood meal, no?

 

I made mine from ballmilling sawdust overnight with SST balls. It also cleaned my mill out very nicely BTW ;)

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Hmm.. Now that I think of it. you are probably right. Ive never used it, so you would know better than I. I bet it would clean your mill pretty well man.
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Correct me if I am wrong, and I often am, but that would be wood meal, no?

 

I made mine from ballmilling sawdust overnight with SST balls. It also cleaned my mill out very nicely BTW ;)

 

Was the sawdust really dry? I would've thought it would just polish everything and not really be reduced...

 

When I need wood meal (priming is the only thing I use it for) I just screen sawdust with a 60 or 100 mesh screen IIRC.

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Fulcaneli says that wood meal is finer then 100 mesh, I'm not sure how fine it is supposed to be nor do I know if it matters at all. The cascading of the balls turns sawdust to powder, dry or not, you do have to sift it though and I only use a 60 mesh to sift wood, it clogs up my 100 mesh screen to badly.
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