Homemade Fuse - Potassium Nitrate and Sugar

This is a really simple homemade fuse that you can make with stuff you probably have right now. For those of you who may have made homemade fuel for your rockets the principle is exactly the same. However, this mixture only calls for about 2/3 of the sugar.

Fuse components

Tissue Paper
20g potassium nitrate
8g sugar

Mix the potassium nitrate and sugar together in a plastic container. For best results, use a cake sifter to mix the two ingredients.

Procedure

Take a small piece of tissue about the width of a rolling paper and twice as long then fold it in half, again like a rolling paper.

Place about 1 teaspoon of your mixture into the fold of your tissue and spread it out as evenly as possible. Roll or fold the paper up over until you have a small cylinder shaped tissue.

You want it to look like a very small cigarette.

Now you want to twist up your tissue tightly. Not too tightly though, you still want your homemade fuse to be able to burn.

Done! Nice and simple fuse that you can make at home.

It should be said that this fuse is not as good as any store bought fuse, but it is an excellent back-up fuse if you run out. Also for us Canadians, we cannot just go buy fuse from the store. It is very regulated.

Well, that is it for todays tutorial on how to make homemade fuse.

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Make Homemade Fuse For Smoke Bombs

If for whatever reason you cannot obtain a firework fuse for your homemade smoke bomb, then there really is only one answer.

Make your own homemade fuse!

This safe and reliable fuse can be made from materials that are quite readily available to residents of the United States.

Canadians may have a hard time obtaining black powder, so for you, please use the link at the end of this post. You will be brought to another page I wrote with video instruction to make another type of fuse made from Potassium Nitrate and sugar.

I hope you enjoy this fuse making tutorial. Enjoy!

Homemade Fuse Component List

1) 2 Bowls
2) Black Powder
3) Water
4) Paper Towel
5) String

How To Make A Homemade Fuse

Step 1

Cut your string into two to or three inch pieces and soak them in a bowl of warm water for 5 minutes. The warm water will loosen the fabric of the string and allow the string to pull in and secure a tiny bit of the black powder as it dries.


Step 2

After soaking the string, transfer it into another bowl that you have filled with black powder and make a mound of the powder over the string. Make sure that you have gently shaken off the excess water from the string before you transfer it.


Step 3

Gently press the black power to the string by squeezing it in your dry hand. Transfer this homemade fuse to a paper towel and allow to dry.

How To Make A Homemade Fuse Side-note.

This fuse will take a minimum of 8 hours to dry, but I strongly suggest leaving it overnight to see best results.

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