50AE Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Here's my new tutorial of how I make my 2" ball shells.Kind of disappointed of the cam coder, it's damn flickering and kind of moving its image. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kduh-K5-pQw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightHawkInLight Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I wish I had 17 minutes right now to keep watching but I gotta get going pretty quick. I like what I see so far, and for once a good music choice! I'll give you some more feedback after I watch the whole thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layedbackkustomz Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Great Video 50AE its very simple and easy to follow. it shows everything a Beginner would need and also a different approach to fusing the qm/bm down the side a very nice shell but i wish you would of dryed it and fired the finished product at the end of the video.I guess it might just be me but after i watched the whole video i was worked up to see it fly. i hope i will get skills like you sir it was a nicely made Canister. oh yeah at the top of your thread it says ball shell but your video has it right. thanks for the video it will help so many new people like myself out. LBK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFeve81 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Thanks for the video tutorial. I'm a beginner and most of the tutorials I've been able to find on shell making are all spherical shells. This helps me understand the construction of a cylinder shell better. I noticed you didn't spike the shell and understand your reasoning why but have you tried spiking any to see if it helps with performance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mumbles Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 That is definitely not a tongue fold BTW. That is the traditional(ish) pleating down of paper. I too would like to see the final product. There is no use in providing a tutorial without seeing how it preforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50AE Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 I will shoot the shell and post a video soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50AE Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 I fired the shell from the tutorial, here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xRXz77MSgc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest no6 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Cool. Thanks for the video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiss Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 completly unrelated...but could you tell me the name of the song?BTW.....nice vid. thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50AE Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 The songs are from Rob Dougan instrumentals - I'm not driving anymore ; Born Yesterday ; Nothing at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave321 Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 not too sure about the use of a HOT, hot melt glue tip, so close to the blackmatch,in the quickematch leader dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50AE Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 Holt melt glue temperature is not enough to ignite BPIt could be however, for chlorate comps with low melting temp fuels, as chlorate with lactose or sulfur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodgerDodger Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 50AE, Thanks man. That 2" shell was awesome. I relly dig the blue stars!!! The tracer up till explosion is sweet as well. Well done. R.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWJ Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Very nice 50AE, do you make a 3" the same way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombiesDONTwipe Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 This was a very nice tutorial. I am proud to say that I learned something from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMTDAN Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 In the video by pasting over the black match running down the side from the time fuse to the lift charge, does that make it perform like quick match? I take it there is no need for its own tube around the black match? And the side of the shell won't be burnt thru prior to detonating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloyd Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 That's standard construction for Italian-style shells. A line of piped match won't burn through a well-pasted shell. If it would, what effect do you think the lift charge would have on the integrity of the shell? Oh... unless something has gone very, very wrong, shells don't "detonate", they burst or explode. Detonation is a very narrowly-defined condition of explosion where the combustion front progresses faster than the speed of sound in the material that is exploding. Although some have argued that large salutes detonate, shells ordinarily do not. LLoyd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMTDAN Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Thanks for the answer and setting my terminology straight. Lord knows I could use some pyrolinguistics 101 lessons. If it did burn through wouldn't it screw up the burst by giving it a hole to explode out? In order to burst don't the stars and burst charge need to be well contained? I don't think the lift charge would do anything but it looked to me like if that match burned slow enough it could burn a line down the side of the shell. If it burned slow enough, hence my question...Does it burn like quick match by pasting over it like he does in the video.Just a question...feel free to correct all the things I said wrong alongside an answer/reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloyd Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 It's just not _going to burn through_. Yeah... it would be a problem if it did, but 1) black match burns SO fast, and 2) pasted paper is SO fireproof, that it's just not going to happen. Lift powder would be more likely to compromise the hull, and it never does (except when poorly pasted-in). The match DOES "quickmatch" any time it's encased in a wrapping like that. So, it shoots down that length in mere hundredths of a second. But even if it burnt only at 'open burn speed' it wouldn't compromize a well-pasted shell casing. Really. I'm not 'correcting' you (except on the 'detonation' issue, earlier). This is stuff pyros have to learn and get comfortable with. LLoyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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