fredhappy Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 5 inch blonde streamer, 12 mm stars, 5 gram kclo4 indian blackhead flashbooster.avi A five inch shell I've shot recently. here's some data on my shell: stars : 354 grams of 12 mm blesser blonde streamer stars, made with a starplate. prime : blackpowder with 5% silicon added and a few % Fe-Tibreak : 137 grams of MCRH 4:1booster : 6 grams of KCLO4/Indian black 000 hotflashpasting : 5 layers kraft of 3 strip method, consolidated with weath pastelift : 70 grams of 10 mesh pulverone made with hemp charcoalcomet : 20 mm blesser blonde streamer , pumped with comet pump.charcoal for the stars was ordinary BBQ. total weight: 650 gram. I had made a slight miss calculation with regard to my chinese timefuse, hence the (too) long delay. The shell turned out fine anyway, I really am proud of this one. Simple composition, yet elegant and quite bright. I hope you enjoy my shell. pyro greetings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erid Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 Wow! I love those stars, they are beautiful. Nice break by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookieman Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 5 inch blonde streamer, 12 mm stars, 5 gram kclo4 indian blackhead flashbooster.avi A five inch shell I've shot recently. here's some data on my shell: stars : 354 grams of 12 mm blesser blonde streamer stars, made with a starplate. prime : blackpowder with 5% silicon added and a few % Fe-Tibreak : 137 grams of MCRH 4:1booster : 6 grams of KCLO4/Indian black 000 hotflashpasting : 5 layers kraft of 3 strip method, consolidated with weath pastelift : 70 grams of 10 mesh pulverone made with hemp charcoalcomet : 20 mm blesser blonde streamer , pumped with comet pump.charcoal for the stars was ordinary BBQ. total weight: 650 gram. I had made a slight miss calculation with regard to my chinese timefuse, hence the (too) long delay. The shell turned out fine anyway, I really am proud of this one. Simple composition, yet elegant and quite bright. I hope you enjoy my shell. pyro greetings! Very nice shell!! good break to, I guess it made fred happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algenco Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 Very nice!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightHawkInLight Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 You can't ask for much better. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredhappy Posted September 1, 2010 Author Share Posted September 1, 2010 Thanks for the comments guys, I'm glad you liked it. I really like this calibre, it is quite a lot bigger than a 4 inch, yet not as powder/star consuming as a 6 inch. The stars did burn out rather quickly, the blesserstreamer composition is a nice one however. Personally I like Fe-Ti a lot for stars, it gives a beautifull golden shower of sparks instead of the whitish/yellow sparks of sponge Ti or regular flake Ti...nice stuff.....I usedto use ricehulls only for break, but things improved drastically when I started using 70/30 flash in a flashbag. The stuff boosts my breaks just dandy ..... I've got one 5 inch ring with these stars ready to go, I'll see if I can upload a clip of that one as well when I decide to launch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peret Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 The stars did burn out rather quickly I was going to ask about that. My blond streamer stars (cut, 3/8 inch) burn much longer, at least twice as long. I used Skylighter airfloat charcoal, which doesn't make BP worth a damn but seems to work nicely for stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlos Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 Nice, but short duration of stars for 5" shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredhappy Posted September 2, 2010 Author Share Posted September 2, 2010 I think I have overmilled the compo quite a bit. My ballmill is excelent. It mills very fast BP in 4 hours milltime. I've used ordinary lump BBQ for these stars, which I first made airfoat with my mill. After this I milled the streamer comp for about 3 hours. My guess is that the rather quick burning out of my streamer stars had something to do with this. I've got al sorts of charcoal. I've got hemp, grape and BBQ.I am experimenting with using the cheap BBQ for stars, it obviously needs some finetunening, but I was quite pleased with the break on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peret Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 Indeed, nobody could criticize the break. I wonder what wood your BBQ charcoal is made from? In these parts mesquite charcoal is common, and identified as such. I was amused to see the sacks have a large "ORM-D" sign on them, considering how badly it sucks for powder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredhappy Posted September 3, 2010 Author Share Posted September 3, 2010 (edited) Indeed, nobody could criticize the break. I wonder what wood your BBQ charcoal is made from? In these parts mesquite charcoal is common, and identified as such. I was amused to see the sacks have a large "ORM-D" sign on them, considering how badly it sucks for powder. I wonder what my BBQ is made of too. I have no idea. On the bag it says it's "purified charcoal, carbon percentage minimal 82%, moisture content maximal 7%", I guess the other 11 percent is just ash or something. No wood is specified. When I weighed the charcoal I noticed how heavy it is compared to grape or hemp. I assume this is because it is made of hardwood, but I am not sure to be honest. And since hardwood is suppose to be good for C based stars, I just thought I'd try it out. I've just made another batch of 700 grams of winokur 20, and some 200 grams of veline red. Stars are pumped with a starplate and pressed with a hydraulic press. I'm very curious at how they will turn out in my shells. Last night I did a little burntest on my stove with a chunk of red star, and it was real bright and red. Everytime it is such a thrill when you make something and try it out for the first time, I really like the veline red, tha'ts for sure ... Edited September 3, 2010 by fredhappy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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