PyroDanTheMan Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 I have found a ready supply of course brass powder at very cheap price.Was woundering if anyone has tried to make blue or any other compositions with brass? If anyone wants to know the source, it's the key cutting machine at the local hardware store! More experienced pyros may have tried this all ready. I will appreciate any wisdom you would like to share. If this posted in the wrong section please move it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldMarine Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Mike Swisher was asked about this and only found one comp that called for brass powder. It was published in the mid 1700s and Mr. Swisher stated that the brass powder (along with glass powder) was completely useless to the composition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skysparkler Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) Bronze powder works very nice. No problems with. Pikho blue KP 2 replced all CuO to bronze powder brass powder should be have the same result. First is CuO based Last Bronze powder.https://youtu.be/8WK9h_Ag2Vghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uQqsQbs5MM Edited October 1, 2018 by skysparkler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 I've used plain copper metal for blues, so brass or bronze should work. Likely there is also tin, lead and nickel in there too but who cares. Lots of old pyro recepies had some really odd ingredients. Some like mercury salts are right out of favour now, but one UK compounder used to add 5 - 20% of wood meal to most comps -purely for cheapness. Several of the "odd" ingredients once used were the scraps from other places of work not a made product ingredient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffo24 Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Very nice blues if I might say so .thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulphurstan Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 I've used plain copper metal for blues, so brass or bronze should work. Likely there is also tin, lead and nickel in there too but who cares. Lots of old pyro recepies had some really odd ingredients. Some like mercury salts are right out of favour now, but one UK compounder used to add 5 - 20% of wood meal to most comps -purely for cheapness. Several of the "odd" ingredients once used were the scraps from other places of work not a made product ingredient.Arthur, I just got a few hundreds gram of copper powder. Would you mind to share the blue compositions you used with elemental copper?I recently tried " NX system", but disappointing....Thanks in advance, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityPigeonPyro Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Which "blue" did you make in the NX system? I see that there are 2 of them. That is the next system I was going to try since I did Veline system first. Any other issues with the NX that you could shed light on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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