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Nice work Dean. Between the photos and diagrams, even a schmuck like me could grasp the overall concept and procedures.

 

I'm not feeling quite this ambitious yet, but I have the document saved to my laptop in the Future Pyro Projects directory. :)

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Can you post this tut elsewhere? Somewhere with a url extension other than .doc? My parental control software prevents the extension.
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Parental Control prevents the .DOC extension?!?!

 

What, are they afraid you're going to READ porn? :D

 

That's the first time I've ever heard of that...

 

If someone doesn't get this zipped up for you in a day or so, I'll put it somewhere you can retrieve it. Bump the thread if necessary.

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Thanks SW.
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Parental controls on Microsoft word?

My god. I have never heard of that.

But on the main note. Great Tutorial. Very informative and detailed!

Good work!

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Dean: The .zip file worked, thanks for re-posting that for me.

 

I know, the parental control is a little stiff, but I guess it's for my own good.

 

I'm eagerly awaiting the download's completion B)

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Parental control?

 

Does this means your parents know more about computers then you do? A truly scary thought ...

 

Download a knoppix linux, burn it to a cd and insert when you are at the computer. Byebye whatever control ...

 

Brilliant tutorial btw, nice work!

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The tutorial to my cake is finally finished  :)

 

http://www.pyrobin.com/files/100%20shot%20...%20tutorial.doc

 

All comments welcome

 

Dean

Well, I don't have a parent issue...but I DO have a pict issue... can I get a .pdf?

 

Thanks...

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I would of happily uploaded the file in .pdf, but my computer somehow dosen't want to convert the file. Any way, here is a link where you can convert Evry thing into Evry thing, and the best part is that you don't have to download a prog on to you computer, just Upload, Wait, Download.

 

http://media-convert.com/convert/

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Can you post this tut elsewhere? Somewhere with a url extension other than .doc? My parental control software prevents the extension.

 

Software that controls your parents?!

 

 

 

On another note..

I know, the parental control is a little stiff, but I guess it's for my own good.

 

I've never heard of censorship being good for anyone.

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I would of happily uploaded the file in .pdf, but my computer somehow dosen't want to convert the file. Any way, here is a link where you can convert Evry thing into Evry thing, and the best part is that you don't have to download a prog on to you computer, just Upload, Wait, Download.

 

http://media-convert.com/convert/

 

Oskarchem (and anyone else),

 

Get OpenOffice and dump Microsoft's BloatedOffice. ;)

 

It's completely free, and Open Source. Lots of plugins available, and more on the way.

 

PDF conversion is a button on the main toolbar.

 

One click and voila! A PDF from any format it can read.

 

I was a Microsoft Office lemming for years, but have made the switch and never looked back.

 

http://www.openoffice.org

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Openoffice converted it to pdf no problem.

 

http://www.pyrobin.com/files/100%20shot%20...%20tutorial.pdf

 

BTW; however excellent this tutorial may be ... 37,9 MB ?!?

The pdf file is just as clear and is 1,23 MB!

Thank ya kindly!

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Oskarchem (and anyone else),

 

Get OpenOffice and dump Microsoft's BloatedOffice. ;)

 

It's completely free, and Open Source. Lots of plugins available, and more on the way.

 

PDF conversion is a button on the main toolbar.

 

One click and voila! A PDF from any format it can read.

 

I was a Microsoft Office lemming for years, but have made the switch and never looked back.

 

http://www.openoffice.org

Mac guy...

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BTW; however excellent this tutorial may be ... 37,9 MB ?!?

The pdf file is just as clear and is 1,23 MB!

Well I made the tutorial in word, and didn't re-sample the pics/diagrams first, Word just made them fit.

 

Thanks for taking the time out and sorting a pdf file out anyway, didn't think of doing it myself :rolleyes:

 

This thread should have been called- 'Parental control, and oh....theres a cake tutorial aswel' :P

 

Dean

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Mac guy...

Richtee:

 

It's available for PC, 4 flavors of Linux, Mac OSX Intel and Mac OSX PPC

 

You really ought to check it out if your Mac is one of the above.

 

I'll hazard a guess and say you're Mac OSX Intel, so here's the direct download link:

 

http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?prod...S&version=2.4.0

 

Enjoy!

Bang on Sidewinder... woah 158 meg? Gotta love Moscosoft...yeeeesh! ;{)

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I am just wondering, short of using Visco, is there any SURE way to ensure that the fire will not skip if using BM? I'm looking for a slower effect, and the though of visco not taking fire comes to mind. 1-2sec delay between shots.

 

I have some excellent BM that I bought and would like to use for this, but if it quickmatches through the cake it would be pointless..

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Well it really all depends on how its contained. I don't know what atmosphere quickmatch reaches inside the pipe but I'm sure even a few more atmospheres than 1 would drastically accelerate the burning. If there are multiple tubes together in a box form you're going to have a lot of containment for the fuses. If it's just a long rack you should be fine.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of buckets. The only way to do like you suggest is to use spolette buckets in between each shot. You did use the work "ensure".

 

There is however an alternative, using quickmatch of all things. Make up some quickmatch, and tie a very tight knot around it with some string. This should delay the stuff around half a second. A couple of knots should do as you describe. This however is not fool proof, and will inevitably skip or fail some time.

 

If you cut visco on an angle and dip it in NC then some granular BP, you should be fine as far as it taking fire.

 

I've often wondered if you could dip or paint blackmatch with that rubberized tool grip compound. Then again at this point, it would be easier to just use visco.

 

I thought I had this problem all figured out back in my younger days. I had a master plan. I fused up a 25 shot fan cake with blackmatch, and put the fan racks in a box, and filled the whole thing in with clay. You'd think that with that much fire blocking around that the fire couldn't jump. If you think that, you would be wrong. It was the most impressive 25 comet fan mine I've ever seen.

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I was actually thinking of fire proofing the outside of some BM as you describe, some rubbery compound that would stop it from skipping.

 

The spollete bucket/ tying quickmatch method you described. isn't that similar to a pyro clock type device? I think I might just go with some Visco Fuse after all, it should be too much work I hope.

 

I'll just dip it in some water/wheat paste/BP slurry or just some water based BP slurry.

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If you wet the fuse end with some NCL and then dip in meal it will catch fire instantly. I don't think wheat paste would be good to use for a prime binder but I've never tried it so I might be wrong.

 

 

PVC glue, (clear), works well to, I've actually used these both for priming stars and works well.

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I use a liquid electrical tape(or the spray kind) it works well with 2-three coats
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