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Sodium Chlorate
Posted: October 12, 2011 in Survival
Tags: improvised primers, Sodium Chlorate
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Sodium Chlorate can be used to make gun powder but is also used in making impact sensitive
primers when combined with sulfur and can replace mercury fulminate in improvised
ammunition, and when combined with wax or Vaseline at 10 parts to 1 can be used a a plastic
explosive.
almost all shells in WW1 were lled with Sodium Chlorate
Sodium Chlorate Production:
Sodium chlorate is a strong oxidizer used in the manufacture of explosives. It can be used in place
of potassium chlorate in low and high-explosive mixtures.
Materials Required:
2 carbon or lead rods (1 in. Dry cell baeries (2-1/2 diameter x 5 in. long) diameter x 7 long)
Water
car baery charger
2 wires, 16 gauge (3/64 diameter approx.), 6 long, insulated

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1 gallon glass jar, wide mouth (5 diameter x 6 high approx.)

Salt
Sticks
String
Teaspoon
Trays
Cup
Heavy cloth
Knife
Large at pan or tray
Procedure:
1. Mix 1/2 cup of salt into the one gallon glass jar with 3 liters (3 quarts) of water.
2. Strip about 4 inches of insulation from both ends of the 2 wires.
3. With knife and sticks shape 2 strips of wood 1 x 1/8 x 1-1/2. Tie the wood strips to the lead or
carbon rods so that they are 1-1/2 inches apart.
4. Connect the rods to the car baery Charger with the insulated wire.
6. Submerge 4-1/2 of the rods into the saltwater solution.
7. let this run for about 3 days, adding more salt water solution as it disappears
10. Shut o the charger. Remove the rods from the glass jar and disconnect wire leads from the
baery charger .
11. Filter the solution through the heavy cloth into a at pan or tray, leaving the sediment at the
boom of the glass jar.
12. Allow the water in the ltered solution to evaporate at room temperature.
13. Whats left over after evaporation is Sodium Chlorate.
link to the industrial process they add acid to control the PH because chlorine gas dissolving in
the water raises the PH (hp://www.ercoworldwide.com/products_chlorate.asp)
See US Army Publication TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions.
Potassium Chlorate is somewhat similar to potassium perchlorate in usage, most strike-anywhere
matches are tipped with a combination of Potassium Chlorate and some other junk.
The main thing is not to damage the anvil!
This is not hard. I have done it, and so have many others. Matchstick primers DO work; you just
need to take a few things into account:
* you need to use strike anywhere matches. or Sodium Chlorate and sulfur
* you need to prepare the match heads properly to aain a reliable priming compound.
* you need to meter the compound consistently to get reliable ignition.
A man by the name of Delmar developed this procedure:
1) crush the heads o the matches using needle-nosed pliers
2) CAREFULLY grind the match heads into a ne powder

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3) remove the anvil from a spent prime using needle nose pliers
4) take a punch and hammer, and strike out the old primer dimple
5) ll primer cup with ground match head powder.
6) take your punch and CAREFULLY tamp down the priming compound.
7) repeat steps 5 and 6 until primer cup is full of compressed match head powder.
8) re-seat the anvil by pressing down with your punch.
9) seat re-loaded primer into your cartridge.
In my experience, it takes at LEAST 3 match heads to provide enough priming material for reliable
ignition with large pistol primers in 45 acp. you have to top-o and compress the powder several
times to get it all inside the primer cup.
Another thing you need to know, is that matchstick primers do not store well. you need to use
them within a few days or the moisture in the air will kill them.

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