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Once again, sorry I forgot to take prefire pictures because I got too excited to fire it.

 

This one is a 3" plastic ball shell with 3/8" Veline Blue stars with 4:1 whistle burst, no flash. It weighed in at 123 grams and I used 25 grams of Goex FFG for lift.

 

3" Veline Blue

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Nice longer lasting blue stars. But it seems you are using way too much lift. I'm pretty sure the ratio is 1 ounce to a pound when using commercial lift so you could probablty cut down the costs though. But that is one nice shell! You've inspired me to make some more 3 inchers, I haven't done any for a while.
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I have tried a few formulas of Blue stars and they tend to burn really slowly not giving off much light. I don't really know what I am doing wrong with them. Can you put the formula and method of your blue stars here? I had a look on the forum and couldnt find it.

They are impressive.

 

 

Just found the formula - maybe I will try these ones out this week.

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BTW, I pumped those blue stars with a 3/8" pump and they had two coats of Veline Super Prime on them. By two coats I mean I put them in the star roller, squirted them with alcohol/water, sprinkled some prime on them until they picked it all up, then repeated. That's all that was needed.

 

Oh yeah, the formula calls for 200 mesh Magnalium but I didn't have any, so I used 325 mesh Magnalium instead. I'm not sure that makes much difference but thought I'd mention it anyway.

 

They look a little pastel on the ground, but they're nicer in the air. Not the Bluest Blue I've ever seen, but not too bad. Good luck.

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