Make an Airsoft Smoke Grenade
This article will tell you how you can create your own airsoft smoke grenade. You can use them in such times as a POW situation, skirmishes, gathering the injured, and more.
Steps
- Put potassium nitrate and sugar in a pan at low heat. KNO3:sugar, 3:2 ratio. Stir constantly until looks like peanut butter.
- Add colored dye (can use mixtures to create colors), and stir.
- Fill card tube with mix.
- Push a thick pen, pencil, or chopstick into the mix. then let it set for 1 hour.
- When thickened 1 hour later, pull the pen out of the mix.
- Insert firework fuse, then cotton ball to hold in place.
- Cover the tube with duct tape, but don't forget to leave a small hole at the top, and an optional tiny hole at the bottom. Your smoke grenade is ready.
- Go outside and light up the smoke grenade!
Tips
- If you buy just red, blue, and yellow dyes, you can mix them together to make more colours.
- To avoid burning yourself, you can add some electrical tape around the grenade, this traps heat and also helps you grenade burn longer!
- Use in POW, search and rescue, skirmishes , medical missions (rescue the injured from the field, and more situations during airsoft).
- You'll need a lighter to light the fuse of the smoke grenade.
Warnings
- KNO3 is slightly toxic so don't breathe too much, just go through. NEVER stay inside the cloud!
- Be careful, throw it right after or before it ignites because it will get really hot
- Check with local authorities, as these smoke grenades may be classified as a firework, and fireworks are illegal in many areas.
- Throw it right away to avoid burns.
- Use colored smoke so if somebody sees it, besides the other airsofters, they don't think there is a fire and call the fire department and police.
- Don't throw at people so it doesn't come undone!
- Always use precaution when playing in a wooded area, or such because of the fuse.
Things You'll Need
- Potassium nitrate (aka saltpeter or stump remover) is found at garden shops, pharmacies etc.
- Buy sugar (found at any grocery store).
- Buy colored dye (found in hobby shops, and places that sell hobby materials)(see why in warnings).
- Baking soda to slow combustion.
- A sparkler or firework fuse, or ring ignition(firework fuse works best)
- toilet paper roll or soda can.
- Cotton balls.
- Duct tape.
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