ok, its been an exciting past few hours. I've calmed down mostly. What happened was...
We started in August, after seeing the video above, and ordered 1 lbs of Potassium Nitrate off eBay. We nearly forgot about it when it arrived in the mail one month later, September 12th. About a week ago, we made our first test, a small one smoke bomb, at my friend's house. Everything went well. We didn't put a cover on the top of the bomb so when we set it off there were massive spark-flames for about 4 seconds while the smoke let it. It was awesome, so with lots of Potassium Nitrate left, we decided to make more, a lot more.
We came to my house this time, my mom unsuspecting of any wrong doings of her angel-like child, and carried on. We mixed 12 tablespoons of KNO3 with 8 tablespoons of sugar, instead of the 6 tablespoons of KNO3 and 4 tablespoons sugar we used last time. We decided to make one big smoke bomb, one medium sized, and then a tiny little guy just for shits. We filled the last, little container but the mixture was hardening quickly and sticking on the pot, so (heres where the story gets interesting) my friend says "lets heat it up again so it unhardens and we can get the rest out." sure i thought, but as we put it on the stove, he decides the quickest way to get the job done is throw the stove on full heat, stupid thing is, it is a gas stove so there are flames, and higher heat= more flames. Some of the mixture was sitting on the edge at the top of the pot and happened to catch some of the flame, a little fire started up. The fire then travelled into the pot, and ignited in his hand. The sparks/flames go really high for a short amount of time for this mixture, but we panicked so he started to run outside with it in his hand yelling "GET THE DOOR!". as he is running, he goes right by the 3 smoke bombs that are sitting on the granite tabletop and THOSE ignite. I start yelling "holy fuck and go! go! go!" like a little girl, and as my mom runs in and sees the 6 foot flame (no exaggeration, try it yourself) ontop of the granite, hitting the ceiling, with a ton (A TON) of smoke coming from the bombs. My mom starts yelling "CALL 9-1-1, CALL 9-1-1" I yell back, "NO mom its ok, just give it a sec!!". So a few seconds later, the spark/flame comes down, now just the cardboard and plastic on the granite table are on fire, so i grab the fire extinguisher from under the sink and spray it down (first time using the fire extinguisher). we can barely fucking breath in all the smoke so we open the 2 closest doors and run out side to catch our breath.
We can see all the smoke rising up and going upstairs. We go into the main hall and look upstairs where it is full of smoke, i could not see the walls. Me and my friend grab a breath and run up stairs to open the windows. We run back outside, regaining our breath, and can see all this smoke just pouring out from the windows. My friend took a pic with his phone i'll post up later.
Anyways, After the smoke cleared and the smoke alarms turned off (they went off for a while and were so fucking loud), we started to clean up.
result: an hour later after cleaning floors, wiping shelves, and cleaning the roof, it looks back to normal. the type of smoke that was emitted didn't leave any residue and didn't make the fabrics smell or anything, thank god. The only things that are fucked is the roof above the granite, a circle with a diameter of 2 feet is just burned, and the vacuum we used to clean up now has black throughout the hose so it is fucked.
Bad experience, don't try it.
btw is KNO3 bad to inhale? lol
We started in August, after seeing the video above, and ordered 1 lbs of Potassium Nitrate off eBay. We nearly forgot about it when it arrived in the mail one month later, September 12th. About a week ago, we made our first test, a small one smoke bomb, at my friend's house. Everything went well. We didn't put a cover on the top of the bomb so when we set it off there were massive spark-flames for about 4 seconds while the smoke let it. It was awesome, so with lots of Potassium Nitrate left, we decided to make more, a lot more.
We came to my house this time, my mom unsuspecting of any wrong doings of her angel-like child, and carried on. We mixed 12 tablespoons of KNO3 with 8 tablespoons of sugar, instead of the 6 tablespoons of KNO3 and 4 tablespoons sugar we used last time. We decided to make one big smoke bomb, one medium sized, and then a tiny little guy just for shits. We filled the last, little container but the mixture was hardening quickly and sticking on the pot, so (heres where the story gets interesting) my friend says "lets heat it up again so it unhardens and we can get the rest out." sure i thought, but as we put it on the stove, he decides the quickest way to get the job done is throw the stove on full heat, stupid thing is, it is a gas stove so there are flames, and higher heat= more flames. Some of the mixture was sitting on the edge at the top of the pot and happened to catch some of the flame, a little fire started up. The fire then travelled into the pot, and ignited in his hand. The sparks/flames go really high for a short amount of time for this mixture, but we panicked so he started to run outside with it in his hand yelling "GET THE DOOR!". as he is running, he goes right by the 3 smoke bombs that are sitting on the granite tabletop and THOSE ignite. I start yelling "holy fuck and go! go! go!" like a little girl, and as my mom runs in and sees the 6 foot flame (no exaggeration, try it yourself) ontop of the granite, hitting the ceiling, with a ton (A TON) of smoke coming from the bombs. My mom starts yelling "CALL 9-1-1, CALL 9-1-1" I yell back, "NO mom its ok, just give it a sec!!". So a few seconds later, the spark/flame comes down, now just the cardboard and plastic on the granite table are on fire, so i grab the fire extinguisher from under the sink and spray it down (first time using the fire extinguisher). we can barely fucking breath in all the smoke so we open the 2 closest doors and run out side to catch our breath.
We can see all the smoke rising up and going upstairs. We go into the main hall and look upstairs where it is full of smoke, i could not see the walls. Me and my friend grab a breath and run up stairs to open the windows. We run back outside, regaining our breath, and can see all this smoke just pouring out from the windows. My friend took a pic with his phone i'll post up later.
Anyways, After the smoke cleared and the smoke alarms turned off (they went off for a while and were so fucking loud), we started to clean up.
result: an hour later after cleaning floors, wiping shelves, and cleaning the roof, it looks back to normal. the type of smoke that was emitted didn't leave any residue and didn't make the fabrics smell or anything, thank god. The only things that are fucked is the roof above the granite, a circle with a diameter of 2 feet is just burned, and the vacuum we used to clean up now has black throughout the hose so it is fucked.
Bad experience, don't try it.
btw is KNO3 bad to inhale? lol
