Re: That...Sucked...Rocks or My First Dud

 Note the descriptive "high quality" before the words "NC lacquer"? See
Lloyd's post.

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Don Thompson

Ex ROMAD


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> On 2003-12-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>    >After you split, crossmatch, and tie, dab the cut area and the
>    >whole end of the fuse with some high quality NC lacquer. That will
>    >help keep the lift from blowing out the tie and crossmatch and will
>    >act as additional incentive for the time fuse to ignite.
>
> I don't see how it will do that last thing.  NC lacquer is glue which is
> flammable but ignites & burns only slowly.  It will glue the cross match
> into the fork, against the shock of lift, but it doesn't aid ignition by
> itself.  And care should be taken not to lacquer over the cross match, but
> only to put enough on to make a secure joint.
>
>    >A drizzle
>    >of meal powder on the NC never hurt either.
>
> That's the only way it can "act as additional incentive".  I've read
others
> that FFFg works better than dust in this role.  That's probably because a
> layer of NC can hold onto more BP if it's grains.
>
> Robert