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Burden and stemming, shock tube hookups, powder factor, scaled distance, PPV, misfires, ATF magazines and blast records. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 65 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the numbers and rules you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 8 parts and 61 topics.
You're at the exam table. The question: a hole didn't fire. How long do you wait, and who walks up to it? You've seen misfires on the bench. You've never had to answer one in rule language.
The rulebook gives it to you in paragraphs: wait times by initiation system, who may approach, what goes in the blast record. One citation after another and not one picture, so by morning they blur together.
In the book, the misfire is one page: the steps in order, the wait by initiation system, who goes in and what you write in the record, all on the same drawing.
The delay plan, scaled distance, misfire steps and the five ATF magazine types work the same way. Each one gets its own page.
You see where each number sits on the bench, and you answer the question without going back to the manual.
The rules and the license, explosives and initiation, blast design, timing and hookup, vibration and airblast, shot day, storage and transport, and exam review: 65 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
You're planning a shot 1,000 feet from the nearest house. You need the maximum pounds per delay, and you need the right number.
You open the scaled distance page and it's drawn: the distance, the square root of the charge and W = (D ÷ Ds)², worked out in US units, with the answer boxed at the bottom.
The bench in cross-section, the delay plan hole by hole, the misfire steps and the five ATF magazine types work the same way. Each one has its own page.
Blaster License Illustrated has 8 parts and 61 topics, all drawn. It ends with every formula and every number on one page, a shot-day checklist and a plan for your last week before the exam.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
Who regulates what, your state license and what the exam covers, how to read a rule citation, the exam's vocabulary and what the blaster-in-charge signs off on.
High explosives, low explosives and blasting agents, ANFO and smoke color, emulsions and heavy ANFO, boosters, det cord, shock tube, electric and electronic detonators, and safety fuse.
The bench in cross-section, burden, spacing, stemming, subdrilling, stiffness ratio, loading density, powder factor in US units, the front row and where flyrock starts.
Why timing matters, hole-to-hole and row-to-row delays, the delay plan drawn hole by hole, the 8-millisecond rule, downhole vs. surface delays, decking and the hookup check.
Work out the maximum pounds per delay for any distance: PPV, scaled distance, the OSMRE distance table, the Z-curve, airblast limits, flyrock control and seismograph setup, each one drawn.
Public notice and the pre-blast survey, loading, lightning, blast area security, warning signals, the post-blast exam, misfire steps and the blast record field by field.
The five ATF magazine types, what can share a magazine, the table of distances, the magazine site, inspections and theft, transport placards and stock rotation.
Every formula and every number on one page, a shot-day checklist, the most frequent mistakes in exam questions and your last week before the exam.
At the end of the book: Every formula and every number on one page, a shot-day checklist and the most frequent mistakes in exam questions.
Exam-style questions on every chapter, each with the answer explained, so you find your weak spots before exam day, not on it.
The most common loading, hookup and misfire mistakes drawn side by side with the right way, for a quick review the night before.
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You get the why behind what you already do with your hands, from burden to the delay plan, one drawing at a time.
Every formula and every number sits on one page, and the practice book shows you your weak spots before exam day.
You get a printable reference for the truck: misfire steps, PPV limits and magazine rules, all drawn and easy to find.
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Yes. It doesn't waste pages telling you what an explosive is. It draws the reasons behind the work you already do, plus the rules, tables and formulas the exam asks about.
From the official texts. Federal, valid in every state: 27 CFR 555 (ATF), 30 CFR 816/817 and 850 (OSMRE), 30 CFR 56/57 Subpart E (MSHA), 29 CFR 1926 Subpart U (OSHA) and 49 CFR 172, 173 and 177 (DOT). For state rules, the book uses Pennsylvania's 25 Pa. Code Ch. 210 and 211 as its example. Each state runs its own license and exam, so check your state's blaster handbook for what changes.
No. It's an independent study book. No state agency issues or endorses it, and neither do PA DEP, OSMRE, MSHA, OSHA, ATF or DOT.
No. It doesn't replace the training you're required to take, your state's rules or the manufacturer's and site procedures, and it doesn't give you a certificate or count toward training hours. It helps you understand and review them.
No. They're written for this book in exam style, to help you find your weak spots. They aren't official questions.
The book and the 2 bonus books come as PDFs by email.
No. You pay once.
Yes. It's a printable PDF, so you can print it and keep it in the truck.
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No more rereading the rules and having nothing stick.
You see the bench drawn, from burden to subdrill, and it clicks.
You walk into the exam knowing where everything is.
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