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[alany]

Your tails aren't too bad.

Here is my C6 for comparison:

http://www.vk2zay.ne...ment.php?id=550

And here is a 3' mine full of 3/4" C6 stars (and some reports):

http://www.vk2zay.ne...ment.php?id=499

C6 is much faster, so it has more dense, but shorter trails.

[Stuart]

And here is a 3' mine full of 3/4" C6 stars (and some reports):

3 foot mine, pretty big that

Edited by Stuart, 31 August 2004 - 02:45 PM.

[paul]

Looks nice, sasman! My first stars looked the same as yours.

Then I tried http://www.ukrocketr...findpost&p=5727 this to make them like Phoenix says. And got much a larger and denser tail.

Try it

Edited by paul, 01 September 2004 - 01:51 PM.

[paul]

Here are about ten 5mm cut stars shot with a little bp from a 25 ID mm tube.

These are made of willow charcoal. I made them the "wet method" first and let them dry in the sun. Then i milled these granules for about 3 hours with SGRS and made cut stars of it...

Heres the video

It was only a Ixus cam, sry fpr that. The effect was sooo sweet....

[Jerronimo]

Very nice stars Paul, I will try that method soon.

I allways hear everybody talking about crysatium 6 but what about crysatium 8?
I personaly guess it sits between crys 6 and tigertail,has anyone ever tried this formula?

[paul]

It works as good as Crys #6 with willow charcoal... #6 burns faster than #8 does.

But for now on I?ll use TigerTail mix only... Its the best coice for an nice welllballanced effect...

[Matt]

I tried it once upon a time, didnt like it. thats why i havnt mentioned it much.

-Matt

[Jerronimo]

oops

Edited by Jerronimo, 05 September 2007 - 06:21 PM.

[Jerronimo]

Oke bumping a very old topic,

I have been ballmilling some tigertail comp, and tested a loose pile on the ground.
Well... it didn't burn very good, barely actually.
Does anyone know if this normal with tigertail composition?

[sasman]

I made a batch of tigertail ballmilled for 24 hr..and when burnt on the ground in a small line say 1 cm wide by 15 cm long it burnt very slowly... with lots of unburnt charcoal on the floor .. but in a shell it worked very well..

[pudi.dk]

That's the thing with high-content charcoal stars.
They burn better once fired from a stargun rather than on the ground - guess why? (O2 in air of course!)

[Jerronimo]

Hey Sasman!, nice to talk to you again.

I milled it for about 4 hours, for the charcoal I used 60/40 hardwood/pine.
It's hard to get it going when lit in a small pile, but when lit it burns as you say very slow, leaving a pile of black unburned? ash.
So I asume this is normal behaviour for loose tigertail compostition.
When I finish my new formica star sizing boards, I will try rolling a batch around some Mg green star cores and see how they perform.
Did you prime them with a layer of bp or used them straight without prime?

[Mumbles]

Wetting often plays a roll in charcoal tailed stars. I happen to be quite fond of a spider star composition(15 KNO3, 9 C, 2 S, 2 Dex), and it gets ball milled to bring up the speed. When burning it on the ground after milling it is suprisingly slow, something slower than green meal. After wet and pumped/cut/rolled, it burns much faster, a 5/8" star burning in around a second. Even stars sitting on the ground burn with an incredibly huge spray, around 2-3 feet in all directions.