Build orange smoke bombs

Build orange smoke bombs

This video tutorial will show you how to make a smoke bomb with simple household items.You can use this smoke grenade for cover and concealment for your mock military operations, or simply for a prank to freak your friends... you can eve use it for special effects in a cheap film, for a large cloud of orange smoke.

You will need:
-ping pong balls
-sugar
-baking soda
-potassium nitrate (KNO3)
-organic powdered dye

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henry_nguyen 8 months ago
thank!
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wwsdewe 8 months ago
genial!
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fib3roptix 8 months ago
Where do you get KN03 i think its illegal in MI
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fib3roptix 8 months ago
Most funny at school because they think its a fire just use black dye.
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Hamer 8 months ago
will fertilizer work instead of potassium nitrate?
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Jack V. Edwards 7 months ago
Ya, I used "Spectracide" Stump-Remover, they have others with more KNO3 but i couldn't easly get my hands on it. I don't know about fertilizers for a "Smoke Bomb" but you can make one hell of a BOMB with a chemical fertilizer.
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leolon4 2 months ago
lmao! nooo i tryed that it ruined my pan.. my spoon.. wasnt even flamabe..
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deankk 8 months ago
Umm. Found the nitrate, got baking soda, got sugar, cant find dye, and where the hell do i find a firework fuse. Im under 18, cannot buy ingrediants. Any suggestions?
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v0lquete 7 months ago
fuse:cannonfuse.com or see the pull ring for smoke bomb vide made by this user

dye:art stores or hobby stores. it's optional to put dye in.
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dylantierney6 6 months ago
use sparklers
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Rabbits 3 months ago
People under 18 homake your fyse by breaking match heads and mixing them eith water. The dip a thin peice of string in the mixture
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V13TC0NG 7 months ago
Sweet! Good video
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divemastermike 7 months ago
look on www.unitednuclear.com for missing ingredients...
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buttman80 7 months ago
it sucked
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18D00108 7 months ago
AWESOME!!! it seems to make much more smoke than the other videos and ways to make a smoke bomb too.
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duckship 7 months ago
will any dye do?
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v0lquete 7 months ago
thank you!!!!
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longbowsniper 7 months ago
I would recomend more bakeing soda to make a slower burn it will produce the same amount of smoke just over a much longer period of time
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v0lquete 7 months ago
me and i friend tried this. everything went well, until we lit it up. fire shot out of the top and looked like a roman candle! awsome,but what did i do wrong?
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v0lquete 7 months ago
oh i bet its cuz we took off the top (we failed at making a pull-ring and it took off the top)
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guardianares 7 months ago
I used Spectracide Stump Remover as well. According to the MSDS sheet for the Stump Remover, the ingredient is 100% Potassium Nitrate, if anyone was curious.

Also, I spent about $6.95 for 1 lb of granulated crystals at Lowe's Home Improvement. I also found it at www.skylight.com for $.40 cheaper per pound, minus shipping.
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Wrench 6 months ago
Sweet, perfect for paintball.
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Bolt15 6 months ago
will it harm you if you breath it in?
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blackmagic1937 6 months ago
is it harmful to ur lungs?
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blackmagic1937 6 months ago
and or eyes
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killersson 6 months ago
woooooooow! that was cool! id better to try it!
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T-B-B 6 months ago
fark yeah!
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zfacter8 6 months ago
im under 18, where should i buy the pottasium nitrate, and is there anything else that will work?
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zfacter8 6 months ago
oh and would food coloring work?
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phyroguy 5 months ago
really cool! the first time i heatet it to much and it was being black, but the second time it worked!!
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boat2231 5 months ago
Great
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ryanemma42 5 months ago
cool
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HeadMeat 5 months ago
Honey, u r soooo hot!
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xeither 5 months ago
That would work fairly well if you were lost lol
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darkaryan 5 months ago
Genius!!! I am off to do one!! Just genius!!
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wingersoll 5 months ago
real good
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Eric_the_Viking 4 months ago
will someone please answer the question as to whether the dye has to be organic? are there any suitable substitutes?
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Eric_the_Viking 4 months ago
so i gave up on the dye factor. but i did experiment with the sugar. i found that powdered sugar (same weight as regular) melted into a peanut butter consistency more easily. it also gave off more smoke then using regular granulated sugar.
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Williambmx 4 months ago
I got all the ingredients, did the first step (cook the sugar and pottasium nitrate together on low heat) and no matter how low the heat was the pottasium nitrate always goes up in flames. Help?
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retso_one 3 months ago
will koolaid work as a dye ?
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blackmagic1937 3 months ago
its dangerous to breath in,
no need for dye, but if wanted (as far as my knowledge) as long as its powdered it should work,
I want to know if koolaid works as well
also props to eric for the powdered sugar find, bet it will make making fuses better also
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blackmagic1937 3 months ago
oo also I'm underage and got everything I needed, saltpeter is sold as stump remover
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freshboy_cute19 3 months ago
nice to join us terorist
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imapyromaniac 3 months ago
makes a great airsoft flare
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PotatoAssassin 2 months ago
coolness.
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airphoto 2 months ago
This will be so awesome for paintball and airsoft games! Cheap fourth of july fun also. Just need to check out the laws on making fireworks in my state first. Looks great! Thanks for the awesome video
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jaco1996 2 months ago
I need optassium nitrate is it salt like it is on the video or some thing different
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Silentsniper247 2 months ago
is there water in the potasium nitrate sugar mixture
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pac1414 2 months ago
hey can i use baking powder instead or something else cause i cant find it!!??????
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jimmyhopkins1 2 months ago
hey, if i make them small can i use them for halloween to raise some hell!
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manutea 2 months ago
Terrific !! -thank you very much !
Potassuim nitrate & dye are very expensive in my country-will seek for substitutes
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keff last month
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keff last month
Hey guys! Me and my friend tried this it looked alright when we made it but it didn't ignite at all. We used a pull ring which worked well but still no ignition. Me and my friend were wondering if it could be cos of the Kno3 were cone formed (small small balls). Anyway i was just wondering if anyone of you know some way to make the bomb ignite easier. Thanks alot
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birdram last month
little holes through out smoke bomb should do the trick. mine it made it double smoke and halved time
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italianstallionof85 last month
hey was that baking soda he used? i tried it and it puffed up like a marshmellow.... took a lot of stirring to try to counteract it but still never looked like what he has
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italianstallionof85 last month
also when it burned it did very quickly and spit a good sized flame out of the top. i had it wrapped pretty tight but i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong. it was 60/40 mixture, and mine wouldn't even begin to melt unless on medium heat (electric stove, not gas). i tried on low for an hour and it wouldn't even begin to combine together that's why i turned it up slowly.
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italianstallionof85 last month
i keep watching the video and i don't understand why his mixture doesn't turn into a foam-like substance as soon as he mixes the baking soda like mine does.....
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knutfreddy last month
now THAT'S a #$%@ load of smoke!
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bruno0826 yesterday
Mine just keeps flaming up really bad, how come its catching fire so bad when all the video's examples don't ?
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jaguar7076 yesterday
OK, so we just tried this out, and we must have overcooked it or something, because the second we took it off the stove it started hardening, and when we tried to take the pen out an hour later after it cooled, it was completely stuck, we ended up breaking the pen and taking out the insides to add the fuse. Also, when we added Baking Soda it puffed up too, and the smoke was black, even though we had yellow dye powder in it. And finally, as the smoke was going out, the whole thing suddenly burst into flames.

Long story short, this worked, but not as it was supposed to. We are going to make a few more, see if we can perfect it, but I would love some of the original poster's tips.
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jaguar7076 yesterday
Oh, forgot to mention, the KNO3 mixture was as hard as a rock after the hour, but in the video it looks to still have some movement to it. Again, any tips would be much appreciated!
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urielmascorro 7 hours ago
DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!! WHILE I WAS WATCHING THIS VIDEO I WAS MAKING IT AT THE SAME TIME AND ALMOST BURNED DOWN MY HOUSE!!!! I AM SO SCARED GOOD THING I HAD A FIRE EXTINGUISHER NEXT TO MY SOVE, I GOT LUCKY TO BE TELLING YOU THIS, I ALMOS BURNED MY FACE.PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!!!!
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