The Ultimate Smoke Bomb File By Sir Francis Drake INTRODUCTION ------------ There are many philes on smoke bombs, most of them are OK and some of them are wrong. Hopefully this file will correctly cover everything... USES OF SMOKE BOMBS ------------------- Smoke Bombs have an infinite amount of uses, some include: 1. "Pranks" such as lighting them in classrooms. 2. For cover, a pound or so of a smoke bomb in an ally couldn't be see through by anyone chasin 3. Siginalling 4. Creating "confusion and chaos" 3. For thousands of other ideas, read The Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison for many more but impractical ideas. THE ORIGINAL SMOKE BOMB RECIPIE ------------------------------- OK, this isn't "THE" original but it was the first that got excesivily popularized... FROM "STEAL THIS BOOK" BY ABBIE HOFFMAN "Sometimes it becomes strategically correct to confuse the opposition and provide a smoke screen to aid an escape. A real home-made smoke bomb can be made by combining 4 parts sugar to 6 parts saltpeter [Potassium Nitrate -Editor's note] (available at all chemical supply stores). This mixture must then be heated over a very low flame. It will blend into a plastic substance. When this starts to gel, remove from heat and allow the plastic to cool. Embed a few wooden match heads into the mass while it's still pliable and attach a fuse." PERSONAL EXPERIENCE W THIS RECIPIE ----------------------------------- Do the cooking with a kitchen oven, candles DO NOT work at all, and camping stoves are better but hazardous (as Spartacus and The Data Controller will testify). Filmcans work, but arn't the best because of the plastic and the small size. The best container seems to be small glass jars. Fuses are probably the hardest part, if you can use bought fuses. If not the best is to pour sterno over the top and light it, this will have an unpredictable time delay. COLORED SMOKE BOMBS ------------------- Allthough it has been claimed that adding food coloring to the above would change its color here are the ingredients for "real" colored smoke bombs... BLACK SMOKE RECEPIES -------------------- Ingredient Percentage Magnesium powder 19 Hexachloroethane 60 Napthalene 21 Magnesium powder 20 Hexachloroethane 60 Napthalene 20 Hexachloroethane 55.8 Alpha Naphol 14 Athracene 4.6 Aluminum powder 9.3 Smokeless powder 14 Naphthalene 2.3 Black powder FFF 50 Potassium nitrate 10 Coal tar 20 Powdered charcoal 15 Paraffin 5 WHITE SMOKE RECIPIES -------------------- Potassium chlorate 44 Sulfur flour 15 Zinc dust 40 Sodium bicarbonate 1 Zinc dust 66.37 Hexachloroethane 33.33 Zinc dust 28 Zinc oxide 22 Hexachloroethane 50 YELLOW SMOKE RECIPIES --------------------- Potassium chlorate 25 Paranitraniline 50 Lactrose 25 Potassium chlorate 30 Naphthalene azodimethyl anline50 Powdered sugar 20 Potassium chlorate 21.4 Naphthalene azodimethyl anline2.7 Auramine 38 Sodium biocarbonate 28.5 Sulfur flour 9.4 GREEN SMOKE RECIPIE ------------------- Potassium nitrate 20 Red arsenic 20 Sulfur flour 20 Antimony sulfide 20 Black powder FFF 20 RED SMOKE RECIPIE ----------------- Potassium chlorate 20 Lactose 20 Paranitraniline red 60 Potassium chlorate 26 Diethylaminorosindone 48 Powdered sugar 26 Potassium chlorate 27.4 Methylaminoanthraquinone 42.5 Sodium bicarbonate 19.5 Sulfur flour 10.6 Potassium pechlorate 25 Antimony sulfide 20 Rhodamine red 50 Dextrin 5 WHERE TO GET CHEMICALS ---------------------- While some of these chemicals are common and can be found in a kitchen many are fairly rare (when was the last time you heard of ....... "methylaminoanthraquinone"?). Theplace to get them is obviously a Chemical Suppy place. They can be found in your phone book fairly easily. When ordering, the best way is in the mail C.O.D. However, some chemicals can't be mailed though U.S. mail and therefore will be mailed through U.P.S or wehatever which will cost more and may not permit C.O.D. Good Luck!