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Old 11-08-2017, 08:35 PM   #41
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Default Re: Making more ammo stuck on a low tech world.

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
I don't see why a skilled synthetic chemist couldn't make double base smokeless propellant with a TL8 lab.
I thought the PCs had a machine shop, not a lab? Y'know, with a spectrometer and all?

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin View Post
How many M16s are you planning to keep fed with benchtop production rates?

You still need to _handle_ the pure nitro after you make it. Not necessarily something they teach in chem lab.
[All the experienced chemists start to back away, slowly.]

Too damned many nitrogens on that thing...

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