Bonny Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Yes all the energy produced by a reaction powerful enough to give a report must be dissipated somehow and much of this is usually as light it is almost impossible not to get light coming off it and I have a strong suspicion that traditional dark report would emmit strongly in either the IR or UV spectrum's a properly chlorinated magnesium report composition with sufficiently fine magnesium (so as to have no unreacted particles present when the casing ruptures) would be dark despite you frustratingly saying 3 times over that it would not Hey Ralph, even though you still need some punctuation, that was nice and readable. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrokid Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I have an additional question about this comp. I saw it mentioned that you should have somewhere along the lines of ten years of experience before working with this comp. I understand the hazards of chlorate-sulfur-antimony, but I can't help but wonder what difference it would make having 1 year or 10 years of experience, as long as proper mixing procedures were followed. What does additional experience protect you from? Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonny Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I have an additional question about this comp. I saw it mentioned that you should have somewhere along the lines of ten years of experience before working with this comp. I understand the hazards of chlorate-sulfur-antimony, but I can't help but wonder what difference it would make having 1 year or 10 years of experience, as long as proper mixing procedures were followed. What does additional experience protect you from? Andy Additional experience provides additional knowledge and understanding. It also allows a person to learn additional safety practices - which should simply direct you away from such comps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagabu Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 All I know is that I need a good dozen years behind me yet before I am going to mess with this stuff... if ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost808 Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 I was just thinking about it... Could you just use normal whistle mix for the same effect? Not saying that i would... but i figure because theres no aluminum or any chemical that gives that "flash" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mumbles Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Whistle, while not as bad as flash, still gives off a noticeable amount of light when used in stand alone salutes. Perhaps using potassium benzoate and potassium perchlorate would work better. The ones I've seen were all sodium fueled, so there was that noticeable yellow flash. The lilac of potassium is much less vibrant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSM Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 (edited) Whistle, while not as bad as flash, still gives off a noticeable amount of light when used in stand alone salutes. Perhaps using potassium benzoate and potassium perchlorate would work better. The ones I've seen were all sodium fueled, so there was that noticeable yellow flash. The lilac of potassium is much less vibrant. I agree with mumbles as to whistle mix. I've used granular whistle mix to break specialty 3" crossette comets because of a desire to avoid the garish light of flash when the crossette breaks. For dark flash I've used 50:50 potassium chlorate:antimony sulfide. If concerned about any acid problems, add 0.1% barium carbonate to the mix. This mix also makes a particularly pleasing deep boom sound when it goes off . WSM Edited February 1, 2011 by WSM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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