Smoke Grenades

[Sniper1]

I get my smoke from www.iheats.com. They burn orange smoke for nearly 3-4 minutes and can float on water. We bought a box of 16 of them a few years ago and have been using them ever since.

edit, I see they're now $11 each. Wow, when we bought them a few years back they were $7 each. I guess they're a lot more popular now (or more difficult to make).

Yea but are they cool burning or non pyrotechnic... thats what we are looking for...

[Sniper1]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1774399648040485199&q=Paintball

and thus why hot burning and pryotechnic smoke grenades are not allowed

im sure you would love havin this chucked at you and land in your bunker...

[cowboy_00]

the guy on the armotech forum was a complete moron, I went through his entire work and the biggest problem with using Pot ash is the danger of inhalation problems.

I worked through about 20 diffrent compounds and couldn't find a single MSDS sheet for a powder that wouldnt have an inhalation risk.
Its FAR safer to use a commercially made smoke. or wait for me to complete my work on a baffled grenade like this one.
Baffled smoke (commercial)

But mine will use a simple buildable and replaceable striker and using these


I've worked out the baffling and the ingnition for hte most part. the only problem now is the one you have with every smoke grenade. you get a pillar of smoke and very little dispersal.

if anyone solves this i would appreciate the help. PM me if you wanna work on it and ill send you what ive done (or some of it).

these will be reusable you just have to replace the charge and maybe the cap. the striker/nicrome system is housed inside the first baffle so it isnt a fire hazard (there is also a fire marshall approving this at the end) and he's the saftey advisor for my field.

kinda rambling but if anyone has suggestions glad to here em. (and the armotech guys design used a shotgun primer, which would NEVER be approved on a pb field.

[Rudz]

hmmmm

these would be kewl at shatnerball....

[Ydna]

Yep the Iheats grenades are cool-burn, they are good to use. The field that hosts the Big Game format events I attend have the same rule (and for good reason, as stated above)

Note, I'm talking about the orange canister pin types sold by Iheats. I know they sell some other smoke-emitting devices that will definitely set fire to surrounding stuff.

[cowboy_00]

all the true Cold burn ones are made with a solid internal component in A baffled system. where the flame is contained by the first (inner) pocket, then you have a section of dead space that fills with smoke but allows the smoke to cool before going out the front.

the smoke being hot isnt so much the possible fire as the flames that shoot out of a lot of cheap Smoke grenades, once you isolate that flame they are a lot safer.

[Sniper1]

all the true Cold burn ones are made with a solid internal component in A baffled system. where the flame is contained by the first (inner) pocket, then you have a section of dead space that fills with smoke but allows the smoke to cool before going out the front.

the smoke being hot isnt so much the possible fire as the flames that shoot out of a lot of cheap Smoke grenades, once you isolate that flame they are a lot safer.

The heat from the can its self is also a problem some ones ogign to be throwing these things and last thing u need is some oen to pick up a hot can.

Link up some schematics i may have a few ideas for you I can do it in 3d right away too CAD/Studiotools For The Win