UK Pyrotechnics Society Forums: Arthur Brown - Viewing Profile - UK Pyrotechnics Society Forums

With the advent of the EU pyro directive to ensure free trade in commodities they could be available! HOWEVER as they would be CAD documented as 1.1 fireworks and have a HUGE NEQ most of these fireworks will never see the UK simply because too few people have the 1.1 storage and too few firing companies have the skill experience or equipment needed to fire beraqs the way the Maltese do. Most significantly Beraqs are always fired from steel mortars in Malta, but these are almost uninsurable in the UK. The traditional style of lift for a beraq may not suit a British conventional mortar tube.

Also I think the Maltese factories wouldn't want to over expose their speciality fireworks, turning them into a trade/retail item may well reduce their specialness.

Karl F simply does NOT reveal the secrets of the Maltese factory that he knows.

There is a constant need for training BUT in reality there are only enough people to make the course viable once a year for forum members.

To my knowledge gerb and rocket tools are similar but different. Rocket tools usually have a long spindle so that they burn on a larger flame front. People spend years optimising the design of their rocket spindle for the comp they wish to use, then they settle on a comp and spindle.

Yes the tool is similar but in a gerb the spindle is about the same length as the diameter as the tube bore, in a rocket the spindle is about 6 - 8 times the tube bore.

I'm keen, and have two friends who might be.

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