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That's a silly price but someone will pay it! There is a mod to a shrike to access the power connections on the PCB then they work from 12 - 18volts, ( a small 12v SLA is slow but two high grade NiMH PP3s work well )

Mods to the battery can be from the connector side or the outside, both ways use a "dremel" or the like and need 12 NiCD or NiMH cells. Keep the connector position very carefully.

Getting the charger is the harder bit especially the proper desk top charger, now they are usefull and rare as Rocking horse p... Unless you know better.

It was the lack of availability of the proper cycling charger that encouraged me to use the "wre to the pcb" mod and it works well and the two NiMH PP3s go in a plugtop charger and take a couple of hours.

Trucking and storage probably cause more damage than firing shells in typical small businesses. In fixed show installs (Disney etc) obviously it's different.

Actually I want to use a reail powder, possibly a dried milk or the like, so please I'm looking for opinion relating to things like CoffeeMate etc

I think that direct contact with SkyHigh and LeMaitre for details of their European distributor network would be the easiest route.

Post is a no no -postal rules prohibit flammables (but permit paper!) Most post has an air leg on its rote and pyros can't go by air. Then the multimodal road water train road route to the continent would be a MASSIVE expense for a few flashes.

Some German bands use a lot of pyro so there maybe a road transport route there but I don't even have names. In Germany stage pyro technicians have to hold a state licence so getting pyro bought by a Swiss national could be problematic.

Rule number one is- do NOT upset the neighbours!