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[MudDuckPyro79]

Here is this comp using homemade aluminum powder ballmilled for 5 days in small lortone mill using ceramic media. It was a 1"x1" comet that I pumped in pvc pipe and drilled out using a 1/4" drill bit after fully dried and was 1/4" wide and 1/4"deep filled with 7-3 flash didn't even hold a half of a gram of flash..https://youtu.be/jXQb8PCB8pk

[lloyd]

If there had been any 'pre-form' to the hole (square, X-shape, even triangular), that would've been a good crossette.

 

OF COURSE I don't have to warn you that drilling dried comps - and especially metal-bearing ones - is NOT good for your health.  But you already knew that, so I won't.

 

Lloyd

Edited by lloyd, 15 February 2017 - 07:42 PM.

[MudDuckPyro79]

Yep I did, only hand drilling only slow as you go, I guess I should have mentioned that in the vid. And this is no way to do several of these just messing around with some home brew aluminum. The aluminum was way to fine for a glitter but was a neat effect...

[MudDuckPyro79]

Here is some 3/4"x3/4" d1 comets using aluminum foil ball milled for 10 hours it passed a 40 mesh screen used corned white ash black powder for lift. 1.5 grams of lift

[OldMarine]

Looked pretty good! I love the rapid fire!

How did you fuse those?

Edited by OldMarine, 09 March 2017 - 08:19 PM.

[MudDuckPyro79]

Green fast fuse front cannonfuse.com I'm thinking it's 3to5 sec ft. Pipe to pipe fused.

[OldMarine]

I have some of that and the almost quickmatch fast yellow that I've been trying to figure how to use in reloadable cakes in a fan pattern.

[MudDuckPyro79]

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[MudDuckPyro79]

I know pvc isn't ideal but works just fine for test guns.

[OldMarine]

PVC is fine for star guns and small mines. It would suck for shells but I don't build those! I have a 20' stick of 1" schedule 80 PVC that I snagged just to build some quick shot fan racks with but haven't figured out how to build them yet.

I'm going to get me a ¾" crossette pump for those soon.

Edited by OldMarine, 09 March 2017 - 08:49 PM.

[MudDuckPyro79]

I'm building a better 1 tonight with 10 pipes and more of a 'fan' to it. These are a bit to close together for my likings

[MudDuckPyro79]

Here is a 4" plastic shell with 1/2" pumped d1 stars layer just around the equater there was probably 15 or 16 of them and the rest was filled with coated rice hulls and 1 gram of booster just because...

[Wiley]

This is basically D1, but a little nicer, I think. 1" N1 comet made with -8 mesh black powder base.

 

[MudDuckPyro79]

Nice wiley, I alays liked the bright whites but here lately I'm liking all the glitters. I just started messing around with d1 this year

Edited by MudDuckPyro79, 18 March 2017 - 12:42 AM.