
D1 Glitter
#61
Posted 01 July 2008 - 01:07 AM
#62
Posted 01 July 2008 - 02:17 PM
Any other "deals" there on aluminum?
There's no way I would fork out that much.
#64
Posted 04 July 2008 - 04:26 AM
#65
Posted 06 January 2010 - 09:40 AM
Do I ball mill each chemical and then screen or shake everything together?
Or do I bal mill everything to a fine powder and further shake/screen in the Al?
#66
Posted 06 January 2010 - 09:53 AM
The sky is my canvas, and I have 2,113 pounds of powdered paint in the workshop.
#67
Posted 06 January 2010 - 10:21 AM
Up to you. Ballmilling everything (sans Aluminum), will make the star burn faster and shorten the tail and glitter delay. I personally just screen all of my glitter compositions together. All of my chemicals except KNO3 are already fine powders, so I really should be ball milling that stuff.
I blade mill my KNO3 and pass it through a 60 mesh screen and pass everything else (including Al) through a 8 mesh screen (window screen or larger) three times to mix. As Mumbles says, it will really take the beautiful effect away from D1 if you mill it.
That being said, I have made D1 cores that I milled to airfloat and added Al at the end, I wanted them to blink on and they did.
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Edited by dagabu, 06 January 2010 - 10:22 AM.
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#68
Posted 06 January 2010 - 01:55 PM
My sulfur is about as fine as it gets.
My kno3 is fairly fine, you can see the particles though.
My charcoal I've blade milled, although it's not airfloat.
My dextrin is fine.
And my AL (When i get it, i was finally shiped todat after skylighter had a big overload on orders) is 325 mesh.
Should I just mix? Or prosses anything further?
Thanks for the last bit Dave, three times with a window screen, got it

#69
Posted 06 January 2010 - 02:22 PM
So everything dosn't have to be airfloat?
My sulfur is about as fine as it gets.
My kno3 is fairly fine, you can see the particles though.
My charcoal I've blade milled, although it's not airfloat.
My dextrin is fine.
And my AL (When i get it, i was finally shiped todat after skylighter had a big overload on orders) is 325 mesh.
Should I just mix? Or prosses anything further?
Thanks for the last bit Dave, three times with a window screen, got it.
As dagabu said, blade mill and screen the KNO3 through a 60 mesh (or 100mesh if you want) before using
I would also ball mill or further blade mill the charcoal before using. I screen charcoal through 100 mesh and call that my airfloat.
Be sure to use different blade mills for fuels and oxidizers.
#70
Posted 06 January 2010 - 02:32 PM
The sky is my canvas, and I have 2,113 pounds of powdered paint in the workshop.
#71
Posted 06 January 2010 - 02:42 PM
As dagabu said, blade mill and screen the KNO3 through a 60 mesh (or 100mesh if you want) before using
I would also ball mill or further blade mill the charcoal before using. I screen charcoal through 100 mesh and call that my airfloat.
Be sure to use different blade mills for fuels and oxidizers.
Sorry, I didnt mean that the way it sounded. When I make airfloat, it all has to pass 100 mesh, when I buy it, I use as is. I also screen my homemade stuff through 60, 40, 20 and 10 mesh screens. This only applies to pine for me, I use hard wood for BP, pine is for stars and tails.
NOTE: As Mumbles can attest, Ned just posted pix somewhere else (rhymes with assfire) of a "Biochar" method of making charcoal that may have brought back my faith in the craft.
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Edited by dagabu, 06 January 2010 - 02:46 PM.
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#72
Posted 06 January 2010 - 06:24 PM
#73
Posted 06 January 2010 - 07:25 PM
http://pyrobin.com/files/glitter.wmv
-325 mesh Al from UG. Great stuff.
Bit off topic, but how is one -325 mesh Al anydiffrent form the next? Does the alloy its made from really effect anything?
#74
Posted 06 January 2010 - 08:11 PM
The sky is my canvas, and I have 2,113 pounds of powdered paint in the workshop.
#75
Posted 06 January 2010 - 08:12 PM
Bit off topic, but how is one -325 mesh Al anydiffrent form the next? Does the alloy its made from really effect anything?
Yes, I have around a dozen different Aluminum's, I dont know of any but MgAl that is an alloy, I think all of the flakes and sphericals I have are pure (with a trace of other stuff) Al.
Each one will do different things such and Andjis Al. It will not blink on and off like that, some leave tails, others flash.
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#76
Posted 07 January 2010 - 06:06 PM
Yes, I have around a dozen different Aluminum's, I dont know of any but MgAl that is an alloy,
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I think I recall seeing some (old maybe?) formulae that called for Ferro-Al...might be wrong though.
#77
Posted 07 January 2010 - 06:47 PM
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#78
Posted 08 January 2010 - 07:49 AM
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#79
Posted 08 January 2010 - 10:58 AM
Indeed there is. And there is ferro-titanium which is yellowish white. The latter has been claimed to be unstable with water however, by means of spontaneous ignition, but I don't know wether that were specific circumstances or not.
I have some Fe-Ti and it is grey, not yellow or white.
#80
Posted 08 January 2010 - 11:35 AM
All of the Ferro-XXX alloys are scraps from the steel industry. They use the premixed alloys to add trace metals to steel for easier alloying. The Ti-Al (if I am remembering right) is probably from the aircraft Titanium or alumimum industry analogously.
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