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[cooperman435]

CCH your going to have to search here and the Net better as I found plenty of information, explinations and construction guides straight away on bagmines.

can you explain why you are ramming BP into a tube for a mine?

CHIEF Tubes of this diameter are easy to find and cheaper than yours too, second hand cake tubes are not really sutable as mortar tubes as the pressure difference is vast. I personally think your cheeky for posting the link here and more because of the price your asking for them. 50p each would be a suitable guide price and then its a top price. NEW GRP tubes are available for the same price as your 3 with postage

[Karl Mitchell-Shead]

Thats fair enough, thanks for the guide i will adjust the price

Sorry for being cheeky, just an opportunist!

[Karl Mitchell-Shead]

It's probably fair moderation remove this thread.

[CCH Concepts]

CCH your going to have to search here and the Net better as I found plenty of information, explinations and construction guides straight away on bagmines.

can you explain why you are ramming BP into a tube for a mine?

CHIEF Tubes of this diameter are easy to find and cheaper than yours too, second hand cake tubes are not really sutable as mortar tubes as the pressure difference is vast. I personally think your cheeky for posting the link here and more because of the price your asking for them. 50p each would be a suitable guide price and then its a top price. NEW GRP tubes are available for the same price as your 3 with postage

i was ramming the BP as a delay comp. using 10 grams per module with gave approx 5 secound delay. this was the method i read, could you advise a better way?

[Sambo]

CCH, I think you're getting confused with roman candles. The method you are describing sounds like the one published by Skylighter.

[CCH Concepts]

CCH, I think you're getting confused with roman candles. The method you are describing sounds like the one published by Skylighter.

thats it and then 9, 12, 16 etc of theres are put together to make a mine an timed accordingly. or have i got my terminology confused?

[Atom Fireworks]

thats it and then 9, 12, 16 etc of theres are put together to make a mine an timed accordingly. or have i got my terminology confused?

Yea sounds like you have cch, from my understanding your making roman candles, u light it, 1 effect is launched, delay, then another and so on. A mine can be a fountain and then a launch with an effect or just a launch with effect bit like a shell flowerpot but no where near as violent.

Jay

[starseeker]

I thought i would mention the excellent service i have recently received from Essex Tubes Windings ltd,
i ordered,9x3",2x4",1x2.5" and 1x2" morter tubes with plugs and these cost me about £16 plus delivery,which took three days,all in all i was very pleased.

[CCH Concepts]

Im gutted i found these guys yesterday on google. There just down the road from me. Wish i had known that, i wont mention what i have paid for tubes. But hindsight is a bitch.

[starseeker]

Im gutted i found these guys yesterday on google. There just down the road from me. Wish i had known that, i wont mention what i have paid for tubes. But hindsight is a bitch.

sorry to hear that,at least you know for the future now.

[CCH Concepts]

is there any problem with the way i was making a cake out of roman candles. my thought was this would be say 27 effects from a 9 tube cake etc.

[Atom Fireworks]

is there any problem with the way i was making a cake out of roman candles. my thought was this would be say 27 effects from a 9 tube cake etc.

Ime no expert on this cch as ime not even a a proper amature pyro yet as i havn't made my first batch of BP, But as a cake usually is a bottom ignition device ( like the old air bombs) then it makes it easier to use different fuses but used in 1 chain, so you can have the cake pick up in rate of fire or even slow or say as a little finally use really quick fuse to get say 10 shots all together. A cake made from roman candles could not be easily ''timed'' with the use of different fuses as each roman candle has eg 7 shots at a rate of which ever fuse u make it of or how much u ram as delay charge.

I suppose its just what u want to acheive from it.


jay

[Atom Fireworks]

Ime no expert on this cch as ime not even a a proper amature pyro yet as i havn't made my first batch of BP, But as a cake usually is a bottom ignition device ( like the old air bombs) then it makes it easier to use different fuses but used in 1 chain, so you can have the cake pick up in rate of fire or even slow or say as a little finally use really quick fuse to get say 10 shots all together. A cake made from roman candles could not be easily ''timed'' with the use of different fuses as each roman candle has eg 7 shots at a rate of which ever fuse u make it of or how much u ram as delay charge.

I suppose its just what u want to acheive from it.


jay

Oh and aswell if you have a few roman candles strapped together if one malfunctions and say a decent made salute goes of and then all the roman candales are damages and fireing all over the area, needless to say not good best stick to the right way, maybe u could put 2 shots in each tube with a delay comp and have your fuse run under the first shot but still probably not too safe.