
Red Flash
#21
Posted 21 October 2006 - 09:42 AM
The sky is my canvas, and I have 2,113 pounds of powdered paint in the workshop.
#22
Posted 21 October 2006 - 11:48 PM
#23
Posted 22 October 2006 - 06:27 AM
Everybody here agrees on using:
1 Sr(NO3)2
1 Mg
0,1 Parlon
You keep adding perchlorate, leave it out!
And Perchlorate is for me more expensive then all those 3 other chems combined so..
#24
Posted 22 October 2006 - 01:08 PM
Why are you so stuborn?
Everybody here agrees on using:
1 Sr(NO3)2
1 Mg
0,1 Parlon
In malta colured flash is used in colured beraq, many different compostions are used in every different factory around malta even with sulfer and chlorate so its very dangerouse ....last year my two friends made the red beraq (red flash) but its too dangerouse, but a few months ago some one told me this red flash comp :
Strontium nitrate 1
Magnesium 1
PVC 0.1
Mardec that was my first suggestion but ....idont know if it is good ...any one tryed it ????
#25
Posted 22 October 2006 - 01:14 PM
The sky is my canvas, and I have 2,113 pounds of powdered paint in the workshop.
#26
Posted 22 October 2006 - 05:57 PM
I DID try it. It was the third comp I tried. It was pinkish but did not do red. I thought I posted about it already towards the beginning of the thread.Why are you so stuborn?
Everybody here agrees on using:
1 Sr(NO3)2
1 Mg
0,1 Parlon
You keep adding perchlorate, leave it out!
And Perchlorate is for me more expensive then all those 3 other chems combined so..
I have not tried it without the Parlon though mumbles, I will give that a shot tomorrow night when I make the batch with Pot. Chlorate.
#27
Posted 23 October 2006 - 11:22 AM

Hm then the only fact is that you where to close.. That stuff will normally burn RED.
Watch out with KClO3 + Mg.. Not that I have to tell you that but

#28
Posted 23 October 2006 - 04:06 PM
#29
Posted 23 October 2006 - 10:49 PM
10 Stront. Nit
10 Mag
1 Parlon
10 Stront. Nit
10 Mag
1 PVC
10 Stront. Nit
10 Mag
10 Pot. Chlorate
This was a very good test, showed a lot. The Parlon mix was a nice red, pretty weak.but a nice red. Finally. The PVC banged pretty good, but was pretty much just flash. The Potassium Chlorate was not red at all but banged like a mother. Easily twice as loud as the PVC. I uploaded the video, should be approved in a couple of hours. The first is the Parlon, the second is the PVC and the last is the Chlorate. I used 3/8"X2" whistle insert tube, plugged with paper, no glue. So it was a loose fit which you will notice on the Parlon hit, it also shows how strong the Chlorate was. Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! I think I found the mix, the key is to really grind up the Strontium Nitrate. The 10,10,1 Parlon mix was the clear winner, just have to load it in some real strong tubes to get a decent bang out of it, but the red is pretty darn good.
Red Flash III, all three back to back
#30
Posted 24 October 2006 - 06:52 AM


#31
Posted 25 October 2006 - 02:07 PM
I've just tried this comp:
KClO4 33
Sr(NO3)2 28
Al (dark pyro) 31
PVC 8
It was more orange than red.
#32
Posted 25 October 2006 - 09:04 PM
#33
Posted 26 October 2006 - 09:21 AM
comp with KClO3, not the most redish, but good in my ears...
dont you think it is usefull to ad any PVC?
#34
Posted 26 October 2006 - 10:51 PM
All three of those tests were done in 3/8" X2" tubes with paper plugs pushed in dry. I tested a 3/4"X2.5" tube with the plugs glued in the way I normally make them. The color went to yellow. I asked a friend of mine who has years and years of experience making pyro what his thoughts were on this problem(the problem being that in smaller quantities lightly confined it burned a nice red, when confined in medium quantity it burned yellow). He guessed that it may be burning to hot when confined. In the end we agreed that I would try to cool the mix down with baking soda and see if it retains it's color in the larger more confined salute. I will post the results when available.
#35
Posted 27 October 2006 - 12:09 AM
Baking Soda is going to give you a strong sodium line and a yellow or golden color flash.The idea of cooling it down is interesting tho. I wonder if a small amount of strontium carbonate would cool it while not taking away from the red ?The PVC turned my red flash yellow. In hindsight that is not surprising. In my three test video a couple of posts up, the PVC was the second salute.
All three of those tests were done in 3/8" X2" tubes with paper plugs pushed in dry. I tested a 3/4"X2.5" tube with the plugs glued in the way I normally make them. The color went to yellow. I asked a friend of mine who has years and years of experience making pyro what his thoughts were on this problem(the problem being that in smaller quantities lightly confined it burned a nice red, when confined in medium quantity it burned yellow). He guessed that it may be burning to hot when confined. In the end we agreed that I would try to cool the mix down with baking soda and see if it retains it's color in the larger more confined salute. I will post the results when available.
#36
Posted 27 October 2006 - 08:06 PM
Here is the video of the medium quantity well confined that blew yellow. In a smaller container lightly confined it burned a nice red. It is the same mix as the first salute in the video with three salutes.
red flash gone yellow
#37
Posted 06 November 2006 - 11:05 AM
tube conversion takes much of the real colours away. At least the stars in the salute catched fire and showed a nice effect.
Here is the video:
#38
Posted 06 November 2006 - 04:37 PM

#39
Posted 07 November 2006 - 08:28 AM
yea, nice (Aerial)Salute.
how much gramms of FP was in the salute???
BTW: I love your videos!!!
polumna
#40
Posted 07 November 2006 - 03:07 PM
will work with this comp furthermore just to improve the colour, KClO isnt exactly my favorite. Btw, live with flash and you will die by
flash. But it truely was an interesting theme and I had a lot of fun with it.
As by-products I found a usable delay comp and stars unsensitive to pressure.
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