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Welcome! I'm sure you'll find builder pyros here who can help? What's your pyro background?
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My background? Just always had an appreciation for things that go boom. This last year, where I live, in Alaska, fireworks were banned because we had too many wild fires. So I could not have any fun.
I have made black powder from scratch, which is something I learned from AFN articles. The purpose was for bottle rockets but I failed to do it right and never got a single one to take off.
I have made flash powder. Tried a few recipes before settling on one that works. So I can and have made m-80’s. My neighbors don’t appreciate it and one of them called me an a-hole. He came out calling me names and turned the camera on in effort to capture a negative reaction but we just smiled and waved. He has ruined my ability to shoot off fireworks from my driveway.
I tried unsuccessfully to light off a few bottle rockets on the 4th from relatives’ backyard. It was a sugar-salt peter recipe and all that happened was it smoked a lot of white smoke.
I’ve made smoke bombs using paraffin wax, sugar, and salt peter.
I have a set of screens and a cheap firing system, a scale, and a variety of powders, e.g., potassium nitrate, potassium chlorate, sulfur, antimony trisulfide, aluminum, boron, magnesium, barium chromate, some home made dextrin, and items like this. I’ve got a large roll of visco fuse.
What really piqued my interest was building stars from scratch, when I bought a flare launcher, which I have since sold. I abandoned the stars after selling the 37mm flare launcher. I think I might revisit stars though in the future making mortars.
I had a ball mill but sold it with the flare launcher. However, I have a brass polishing machine which—in tandem with bee bee’s—is an even larger ball mill than the one I sold.
I’m interested in making screw in fuse trains for the type of used smoke bombs sold on pyrocreations. I have the barium chromate and boron but initiating the delay train by pulling a pin has vexed me considerably. I’ve tried 209 primers, small pistol primers, and they are too much power for initiating a fuse without damaging the can (or my hand). I almost think those red, plastic, toy cap gun primers would be the ideal degree of power, but I can’t quite get those to work either.
I want to make my own low powered primers... Something impact sensitive that could set off a fuse. Although I have potassium chlorate, I don’t have access to red phosphorous so a substitute for red phosphorous that serves the same purpose would be great.
I have made black powder from scratch, which is something I learned from AFN articles. The purpose was for bottle rockets but I failed to do it right and never got a single one to take off.
I have made flash powder. Tried a few recipes before settling on one that works. So I can and have made m-80’s. My neighbors don’t appreciate it and one of them called me an a-hole. He came out calling me names and turned the camera on in effort to capture a negative reaction but we just smiled and waved. He has ruined my ability to shoot off fireworks from my driveway.
I tried unsuccessfully to light off a few bottle rockets on the 4th from relatives’ backyard. It was a sugar-salt peter recipe and all that happened was it smoked a lot of white smoke.
I’ve made smoke bombs using paraffin wax, sugar, and salt peter.
I have a set of screens and a cheap firing system, a scale, and a variety of powders, e.g., potassium nitrate, potassium chlorate, sulfur, antimony trisulfide, aluminum, boron, magnesium, barium chromate, some home made dextrin, and items like this. I’ve got a large roll of visco fuse.
What really piqued my interest was building stars from scratch, when I bought a flare launcher, which I have since sold. I abandoned the stars after selling the 37mm flare launcher. I think I might revisit stars though in the future making mortars.
I had a ball mill but sold it with the flare launcher. However, I have a brass polishing machine which—in tandem with bee bee’s—is an even larger ball mill than the one I sold.
I’m interested in making screw in fuse trains for the type of used smoke bombs sold on pyrocreations. I have the barium chromate and boron but initiating the delay train by pulling a pin has vexed me considerably. I’ve tried 209 primers, small pistol primers, and they are too much power for initiating a fuse without damaging the can (or my hand). I almost think those red, plastic, toy cap gun primers would be the ideal degree of power, but I can’t quite get those to work either.
I want to make my own low powered primers... Something impact sensitive that could set off a fuse. Although I have potassium chlorate, I don’t have access to red phosphorous so a substitute for red phosphorous that serves the same purpose would be great.
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