Remote Test Site Shoot #2 - 30mm Mines
Date: 2004-03-19
Description
These were made mainly as a test for my new batch of Benzolift. I wasn't sure how much would be needed, about 10-15 g of Pulverone was about right in the past, so I made three using 5, 10, and 15 g.
The 5 g of lift unit had 15 g of D1 Glitter stars, the 10 g had 5 g of KP blue and 7 (about 10 g worth) 5 mm ID insert whistles, and the 15 g one had 15 g of KP Blue stars alone.
They were all made the same internally, a tied-off kraft bag, benzolift in the bottom, a ball of paper-towel wadding, the stars/inserts on top, then a length of quickmatch poked into the stars and the top tied off around the match.
Comments
5 g is about right!
In fact 3-4 g should do the trick. The rest were so over the top I am suprised the mortar survived the punishment, the 15 g one sounded like a 3" mine (in fact its plastic foot was cracked by the recoil, but it still servicable).
I suspect the 10 g unit's inserts detonated inside rather than being blown blind. Its report was enormous, louder than the 15 g one. Its stars were all blown blind. The purple thing on the video is pieces of the quickmatch, I used KP Purple colour composition fuse to make the match.
The 15 g mine managed to ignite one blue star which was sent to enormous heights, as was the mine bag and pieces of match piping which continued to rain down for a significant time.
Attachments
| title | type | size |
|---|---|---|
| 5 g Test | video/x-msvideo | 1.346 Mbytes |
| 10 g Test | video/x-msvideo | 623.536 kbytes |
| 15 g Test | video/x-msvideo | 882.832 kbytes |
| 5 g Pre-Test Picture | image/jpeg | 59.783 kbytes |
| 10 g Pre-Test Picture | image/jpeg | 82.555 kbytes |
| 15 g Pre-Test Picture | image/jpeg | 69.759 kbytes |