AFN videos, strobe rockets ,UK pyro in Montecello
#1
Posted 21 April 2003 - 10:14 PM
Florida. Any of you guys by chance that fellow?
How about strobe rockets? Some of the FL. boys make a neat rocket that stobes as it ascends. Just like a strobe pot.It makes a real cool wap,wap,wap as it goes up.At one time I had a video of how to construct them. If say the administrator
or someone that is a VERY experienced pyro is interested I would try and dig it up and send it across the pond. Is the VHS
format the same over there as it is here?
Have other videos around here somewhere that I would LOAN. Will only send them to persons that the head honcho says is OK to receive. And of course if I can find the darned things.
We have another club member that makes an incredible rocket that as it ascends rings of stars project outward in a repeating manner maybe 3-4 rings. It is
simply spectaculer. Happened to see him consruct part of the heading. It's a segmented affair much like an Italian multibreak cylinder shell only the individual
"shells" are nearly flat. Then he stacks them together one on top of the other. The stars themselves were maybe 13mm
pumped cylinder stars.13mm max. All the flat shells shared a common spolette fuse.
He must have crossmatched the spolette by boring holes at the correct interval as it passed through the flat shells. This was a marvel of engineering to witness. But not nearly as much as watching the effect itself.Actually being an engineer he was absolutely meticulas about the construction. I witnessed him using dail calipers to measure the stars.I asked him if it wasn't a bit much and he didn't even look up from his measuring and said he only makes one or two a year and he wanted it to be perfect. It was. Imagine the full charcoal lingering tail of a large
bore rocket with various colored rings breaking around the tail. It appeared as though the tail was poking holes in the center of the rings. I must add that the stars turned off EXACTLY at the same time.The calipers still seem like a bit too much to me but they did perform perfectly.
#2
Posted 22 April 2003 - 07:47 PM
Have other videos around here somewhere that I would LOAN. Will only send them to persons that the head honcho says is OK to receive.
Hehe, that be me
In the uk we have VHS PAL tapes, in the states I think it is NTSC format
Your vid collection sounds quite cool Bernie!
[Edited on 22-4-2003 by Richard H]
#3
Posted 22 April 2003 - 09:28 PM
#4
Posted 22 April 2003 - 10:43 PM
#5
Posted 23 April 2003 - 01:28 AM
I don't really use them that much. I used to watch them in the nude.
#6
Posted 23 April 2003 - 10:42 AM
However you would never catch me swimmimg like that, it justs get too cold,What do you think I am, mad or something. My gods it cold today may be thats because I have moved this computer on to the front garden and I am her writing to you in the nude!!!!!!!!
Have you tried charcoal bashing in the nude it brings a new meaning to being hung like a black man.
#7
Posted 23 April 2003 - 10:58 AM
don't you people work?
[Edited on 23-4-2003 by bernie briden]
[Edited on 23-4-2003 by bernie briden]
#8
Posted 23 April 2003 - 03:54 PM
If anyone wanted a few US to UK conversions I could do it for them. (as long as I can keep my clothes on)
#9
Posted 23 April 2003 - 08:22 PM
#10
Posted 23 April 2003 - 11:20 PM
[Edited on 23-4-2003 by Richard H]
#11
Posted 24 April 2003 - 01:25 AM
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