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  1. In Topic: More Rockets

    03 May 2012 - 02:31 AM

    D'oh, I replied to a year-old thread. Never mind.

  2. In Topic: More Rockets

    03 May 2012 - 01:00 AM

    View Postcrystal palace fireworks, on 10 March 2011 - 03:17 PM, said:

    I believe this is that annual secret `Desertblast` meeting by invitation only


    No, this is the legendary Florida Pyrotechnic Arts Group (FPAG) Fabulous Fall Firework Festival (4-F) event. You could be forgiven for thinking this was Desert Blast, however, because FPAG is nearly as secretive. If you visit their web site it's basically a single page that says "leave us a message, maybe we'll get back to you". There are a lot of seriously skilled makers in FPAG.

    Desert Blast, as such with the original group, hasn't been held for over ten years now, but Western Pyrotechnic Association holds a secret desert event by invitation only, no details of which are ever shared with the public. I could say when and where it is, but then I'd have to kill you.

  3. In Topic: UKPS 2012 AGM

    03 May 2012 - 12:37 AM

    Wish I was going. Have a good time, gents.

  4. In Topic: Spark :)

    16 February 2012 - 12:24 AM

    View Postcrystal palace fireworks, on 14 February 2012 - 03:34 AM, said:

    Im also unsure of what to make of the `Fire Balloon` wording/caption under the photo of man loading a shell into a tube? what was this firework?

    I believe it's just an old term for a shell. I looked in my Cutbush (1825) and found he uses the terms "shell" for the paper case and "balloon" for the finished firework, viz. "The thickness of a shell for a balloon of 4 inches 2-5ths, must be 1/2 an inch."

    While I was looking, I think I found the ultimate unobtanium pyrotechnic ingredient - "scraped ivory". But since only one ounce was required for 49 pounds of other ingredients, it can probably be omitted without upsetting the performance too much. :lol:

  5. In Topic: Spark :)

    13 February 2012 - 11:21 PM

    I particularly enjoyed this passage from the children's book, which couldn't possibly be written today:

    "But chlorate - as the first is called for short - is such a fiery fellow, and dislikes the yellow sulphur so much, that an explosion is likely to occur if the two get much together; therefore at Messers. Brock's they are kept entirely apart. Here is a chlorate mixing shed, there is a sulphur room. You might remember that fact in your own chemical experiments and firework doings."

    Ah, the age of innocence! No internet forums to warn them, no You Tube tutorials to guide them, no interfering busybodies with surveillance cameras to stop them; just free access to chlorate, sulfur, and probably magnesium, paris green and calomel as well. We've lost so much.

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