Making and Testing the US Military's M-83 Starter Mix (at Home)

The M-83 is a Terephthalic Acid (TPA)-based, low toxicity, smoke 'nade the US military uses for training and for screening troop movements. After about a year of experimenting with the goal of building better versions of these, and similar, devices, I finally recreate and test this starter formula. A Starter Mixture accepts the ignition from the fuze and safely amplifies it to ignite the smoke mixture.

Step by step instructions for how to re-arm these 'nade fuzes with a time delay of your choosing can be purchased for $3 on my website. I'm sorry I have to charge, but I need to create revenue outside of YouTube as my channel's growth is moderated.

The XM-18 in this video can be purchased at www.reloadableshells.com

Support my channel and content like this by purchasing a Pull-String Igniter Kit from my website www.inventionincarnate.com The mixtures in this kit provide a huge variety of ignition possibilities. You can see some examples in the Pull-string Igniter instructions PDF on my website. There are a lot of very useful documents that you'll definitely want to print out and put under your pillow.

See this Peer-reviewed Research on PubMed's Database to learn more about the specifics of the bias to which I refer above: @icles/PMC10433241/ (wow, the link is blocked, maybe cut and paste the article ID in PubMed)

00:00 The Starter Mix Formula
01:10 Mixing Ingredients
02:30 Technical issues
03:00 Reconstitution with MEK
04:29 Casting the Mixture
05:18 Inserting Fuses
06:52 Lampblack
08:00 Link for Rearming instructions
08:15 Testing
09:15 The XM-18
10:28 Pace Defense Website
10:42 Loading the XM-18
11:56 Pull Ring Igniter
12:21 Pull Ring Test
12:40 XM-18 Test