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Pyrotechincs for the hobbyists.

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Fuse Testing

As of lately I've been having quite a bit of fuse issues, lighting the fuse and it simply going out, etc..And this wasn't no homemade crap, commercial fuse from www.CannonFuse.com . The problem was this: Me going out on the field with a device, lighting the fuse and after a bit, nothing. This can be quite annoying when you're out with some friends and they are expecting to see something cool.   So I took 2x four different 3inch pieces of fuse, one pile was the control, the other was the variable

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DIY -325 Bright Aluminum powder

How do you make Aluminum powder?   You can sand it , you can file it , you can make a machine to do it for you , or you can take a can of paint and take the pigment right out of it! Now I know there are paints that are not 100% Al but I went on the website and looked at the MSDS which states there is nothing other than Flake Aluminum - exactly what we're looking for.   Not having any Aluminum to play with I've lookid into many ways of making it and this one semed easiest least labour intensive a

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Don't fear, the KClO3 is here!

Ok so i finally got arounf to buying some KCl and getting some quality electrodes for my KClO3 cell =].   This is my first "real" cell that worked.     The body was a RubberMaid container capable of holding 800ml.       I used roughly 200g of KCl nd 600 ml of H2O.   I made the container airtight using some of this goey stuff which has held up to everything I've put it through.   The electrodes were 3/4" apart with 5V 14A running through them for 3 days . At the end of the run there was anice

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