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[Pyromaster2003]

Just fired a 1 inch can shell with a few of my own stars in, orange and white and kind of glitter. Anyway was the best shell of that size iv made, on cam it looks nothing like it did in real life, was shot too high and broke too hard (used a bit of flash with the granulated bp) but i will try again with a gentler burst and lower burst height.

[Wyvern]

Here's some 3/4 inch shells i fired last night



the glitter was Green mix with magnallium

[Caramanos2000]

Lets add small rockets to this threas aswell. Seems they are even more challeging. Heres my smalled so far made with the smallest tubes from pyrocreations milled cat litter and Bp meal, no effect yet: http://s104.photobuc...nt=96175a26.pbr

[Caramanos2000]

Same rocket with Flash header:
http://s104.photobuc...hFlashBurst.flv

[Wyvern]

Here's a realy nice 3/4" gold thick star shell i set off today just a few stars at each end of the tube with some flash in the middle with a magnalium glitter pressed into the plug cavity and blackmatch passfire under the glitter mix

[Caramanos2000]

Very nice, was that one of those 3/4" cup sets?

[Wyvern]

Very nice, was that one of those 3/4" cup sets?

Basicly its a standard 2-1/8" x 3/4" Paper tube which is plugged at each end. I firstly make a hole in one of the end plugs and thread through a piece of blackmatch so only about 2mm is showing in the cavity end of the paper plug this is then glued inside the paper tube, once dry i fill the cavity which contains the tip of the blackmatch with a comp of sorts (works with colour and glitter not sure about strobe) then leave to dry.

then add sone nice stars into the tube then some flash or BP (depending on compatibility of the chemical used ans how loud you want them) and add equal amount of stars again to the other end before gluing the second plug in.

[Caramanos2000]

Oh, I though that burst looked peculiar, are your endcaps blowing out? I recieved me HDPE, some 2" and 1" mortars, set them on a thick wooden board. Made me some 2" canister shells which are about 4" long, they are huge compared to my other ones. Wonder how much lift I should use, probably 2 or 3 teaspoons.

[Wyvern]

Oh, I though that burst looked peculiar, are your endcaps blowing out? I recieved me HDPE, some 2" and 1" mortars, set them on a thick wooden board. Made me some 2" canister shells which are about 4" long, they are huge compared to my other ones. Wonder how much lift I should use, probably 2 or 3 teaspoons.

Yeah the endcaps are blowing out but that is the desired "butterfly like" effect, iif i want the tubes to blow i use a superior glue

[Caramanos2000]

Yeah, it looks cool.