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[Dan]

I am just wondering. i only spend maybe $350 a year

Edited by Dan, 04 August 2004 - 03:02 PM.

[Richard H]

I estimate that I spend between ?500-?1000 per year on supplies and tools. If you count the displays I organise for the rocketry weekends, then I estimate ?3000 per year, or around $6000 to you yanks.

[Dan]

I estimate that I spend between ?500-?1000 per year on supplies and tools. If you count the displays I organise for the rocketry weekends, then I estimate ?3000 per year, or around $6000 to you yanks.

dang i wish i had that kind of money. i love fireworks and they are just so expensive. the chemicals i ordered a few weeks ago cost me $125 and 50 of that was shipping

[BigG]

I won't even start talking about how much I spent on my most expensive year

The way I look at it, it's saving - otherwise you will have too much time on your hand and you'll spend it buying consumer fireworks...

[Rhodri]

Some things in life are priceless - I include pyro. in this category!

?500 - ? 1000 a year.

[CWB007]

One G'Gillian Dollars....

[alany]

Pyro is pretty cheap as a hobby goes.

The tooling gets expensive, so does the literature, but the chemistry is cheap enough. Once you are tooled up and have it all dialed in you can churn out stuff for a few cents a piece. For amateurs though, you don't want to be churning out thousands of identical units, so there is lots of wastage, stuff that doesn't work, etc.

The real killer is the time. The pyro addiction can cost you your job, your partner, even your life if you let it.

[Phoenix]

I find that the literature is by far the most expensive part of the hobby. I used to spend quite a bit on KNO3 when I got it from photographic suppliers, but I got a couple of years supply from GD for peanuts, and since I make virtually all of my own tooling, my costs are very little now, certainly a whole lot less than when I used to buy consumer fireworks. Setting up is expensive (building a suitable workshop) and would be a lot more so if you bought a press, ball mill, star roller etc, rather than made them yourself, but actual "running costs," are, IMHO, not too high.

[Stuart]

I'm a poor man so I don't spend much on pyro each year. Having said that, this year has been a bit of a chem stock up, just spent ?75 this week on KNO3, C, SrCO3, BaCO3, CuO, Fe2O3. Essex tubes can also expect some business from me too. Other than that, all tooling is home made, I haven't spent a penny on any of it.

Alright, who's the pyromaniac who spends over $5000 each year on pyro?

Stuart

[Chaoticentity]

that would be me, that is tooling costs, chemical costs, paper by the rolls ect. I base that figure on what I spent over the last 2 years with pyro, which was about 2 dollars under 10g. I reside in the USA so chemicals come fairly easy, and I keep pretty good stockpiles, enough that I could stop and have enough chems for the next 3-4 years, that probably is a bit inflated as I'm not in need of many chems anymore so my costs this year will probably be under $1000 which is mostly expendibles and a few new nifty tools that I'll have the machine shop make for me.

[PyroKid]

I dont do much in the way of manufacturing.

The bulk of my experience lies within the display sector.

A typical display used to cost me in the range of ?50 - ?100 back in the days when i was mostly involved with firing the odd display here and there for friends and family.

Now that i have branched out into the realms of professionaly fired displays, i am looking at ?200 + per show, and this is for fireworks alone, not to mention materials and crewing costs.

[fishy1]

i spent ?80 a year, 1/2 on chems and equipment, and the rest on consumer stuff.

[sizzle]

I spend about ?300/?400 a year (well, this year, I only got into pyro six months ago.), the majority being on chemicals and tubes.

Edited by sizzle, 24 October 2005 - 05:50 PM.

[Mumbles]

I notice it is rather expensive starting up, then it really cheapens up. Well, for me it kind of went in a bell curve. It started expensive, then got cheap, and now it is expenive again now that I am buying my chems in bulk. It's not really expensive on a per unit cost, just a total cost at once. In the past 12 months, I'd say I spent going on $4000 - $4300. I do resell chemicals so it is more of an investment than a straight purchase. Lets just say my chemical stash is now measured in the tonnage. The year I make my pyro workshop, I know what category I'll be in. I'd sa on average I spend between $500 and $1000 for myself though.

Edited by Mumbles, 24 October 2005 - 07:22 PM.

[fishy1]

I notice it is rather expensive starting up, then it really cheapens up. Well, for me it kind of went in a bell curve. It started expensive, then got cheap, and now it is expenive again now that I am buying my chems in bulk. It's not really expensive on a per unit cost, just a total cost at once. In the past 12 months, I'd say I spent going on $4000 - $4300. I do resell chemicals so it is more of an investment than a straight purchase. Lets just say my chemical stash is now measured in the tonnage. The year I make my pyro workshop, I know what category I'll be in. I'd sa on average I spend between $500 and $1000 for myself though.

who do you sell to?

have a web site?

also, what chems do you have in the tons?EDIT: if you say perc, i will cry

Edited by fishy1, 24 October 2005 - 09:12 PM.