UK Pyrotechnics Society Forums: BrightStar - Viewing Profile - UK Pyrotechnics Society Forums

Jump to content

User Rating: *****

BrightStar's Photo
Reputation: 0 Neutral
Group:
UKPS Staff Members
Active Posts:
867 (0.41 per day)
Most Active In:
UK Pyrotechnics (262 posts)
Joined:
07-May 06
Profile Views:
4,577
Last Active:
User is offline Nov 24 2011 07:50 AM
Currently:
Offline

My Information

Member Title:
UKPS Treasurer
Age:
Age Unknown
Birthday:
Birthday Unknown
Gender:
Male Male
Location:
Oxfordshire UK

Contact Information

E-mail:
Click here to e-mail me
Website URL:
Website URL  http://
  1. Recent Status Updates
  2. About Me
  3. Topics
  4. Posts

Posts I've Made

  1. In Topic: visiting the states

    09 November 2011 - 03:33 PM

    View PostCreepin_pyro, on 09 November 2011 - 02:23 PM, said:

    I'm not familiar in US law, but I was under the impression that the federal law was relatively lenient


    Usually yes as I understand it, but transport and storage etc. apparently cause problems. The main hitch seems to be local state laws. Passfire.com is good for Q&As on all this stuff but I'm fairly sure their advice would be to temporarily join a local club.

  2. In Topic: Multi-car pile up

    09 November 2011 - 01:26 PM

    Having often driven down this bit of the M5 it's a bit of an unpredictable road. I've encountered sudden rain squalls and localised dense fog that's scary enough on it's own.

    The risk assesments in writing should have included the motorway and the weather. Hopefully the organisers have a good paper trail in place.

    The witnesses though described 'black smoke' not white so I doubt it was the fireworks alone. Perhaps a combination of rare circumstances leading to a chain of events... Unfortunately that's the usual cause of a tragedy.

  3. In Topic: pyrogen, alternative to chlorate / antimony sulphide ?

    05 July 2011 - 08:58 PM

    I'm still intrigued by the pyrogen formula that Dave dug up for the Czech marketed / Chinese made e-matches:

    http://www.pyrosocie...rs/page__st__15

    This seems to approximate to:

    Potassium Perchlorate: 2
    Calcium silicide: 1
    Antimony sulfide 1
    Collodion: + 6%

    It does seem worth investigating further.

  4. In Topic: short delays

    16 May 2011 - 06:18 AM

    Hi Trevor, I had some fun last night testing 5 - 7mm lengths of Monetti PL10 foil taped to quickmatch at each end - it seems sufficiently well made that it doesn't fall apart in short segments. While this did produce rough half second delays, the timing wasn't all that great (but then neither was my accuracy in assembling them).

    I seem to recall a method using partly drilled out spolettes for short delays so that might be another option to explore.

  5. In Topic: 2011 AGM - Meal afterwards

    17 April 2011 - 01:39 PM

    View PostVic, on 16 April 2011 - 10:12 PM, said:

    there were a lot of hungry people at the end of the day, who were thinking there was going to be an evening meal.

    Phill C and I did run around the site trying to encourage people to have the hot food provided by the venue. The display was later this time, partly due to the constraints imposed on us but also due to the date and British Summer Time. Last year we were clear of the site by 9pm so a sit down meal was more practical.

    Needless to say, we'll look at this again before next year.