Re: Somebody got busted in Orange County - Florida

 Ah hell Rob. I am getting waaaay to short tempered these days. Gonna have
to watch that kinda thing I guess.

-- 


Don Thompson

Ex ROMAD


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> On 2003-12-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>    >I make spherical Ti function in 5/8" OD 1/2" ID 3/4" long end fused
>    >salutes without any trouble at all. No multi-mix, no "flashbag",
>
> Then it was someone else here who prescribed that, either in the group or
> e-mail to me as a result of my query here.  I don't keep the identities of
> people straight easily, so I'm usually just guessing about who wrote what.
>
>    >Robert~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is my
>    >View this article only Newsgroups: rec.pyrotechnicsDate: 2001-06-25
>    >16:27:19 PST  Formula I have seen call for 5-10 % added Ti. so your
>    >125 mg. would be 25% added.
>
> I later tried 1:8 (1 in a total of 9, i.e. 11% by weight).  Weighing these
> micro amounts without a very fine balance isn't easy.  I used a 2-pan
> balance and divided 500 mg into halves 3 times.
>
>    >Perhaps too much?Also instructions for 70-30 salutes call for
>    >~1/2 filled tubes.I have seen salutes made by adding rice hulls to
>    >the flash mix so that the tube is 3/4-7/8 full then plug and shake
>    >the salute to mix the ingredients.Perhaps your shavings/sawdust
>    >caused slight compression of the payload? If your endplug is thick
>    >enough and the gluejoint is secure you *shouldn't*  have a
>    >flowerpot.
>
> I was using paper end plugs which were not too thick, and I did pack them
> pretty tight.  However, later salutes (without Ti, however) had sawdust
> allowed (though not encouraged) to mix with the 2:1 flash powder, rather
> than formed into top & bottom plugs with glue.  I mean, I didn't pre-mix
the
> sawdust & flash powder before loading, but laid them in to take up space
on
> loading.
>
>    >snip<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Here is
>    >Lloyd's
>    >reply:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Message 6 in
>    >thread salute failure    View this article only Newsgroups: rec.
>    >pyrotechnicsDate: 2001-06-26 12:36:15 PST  I've had good success
>    >thus: Fill a shell approximately 1/3 full of good flash (of course,
>    >more is 'more',
>    >but less than 2/3 full).
>    >Add bulking up to quite nearly full, say 9/10 full.  I like plain
>    >rice hulls.
>    >Work fine - cheap.
>    >Pour 10% of the flash weight in 40 mesh spherical Ti on top of the
>    >hulls. It
>    >trickles through, adding no appreciable volume.
>    >Close the shell.  Then mix by gentle tumbling end-over-end by hand.
>    >They make very pretty 'snowball' style salutes.
>    >LLoyd
>
> I anticipate rice hulls would be hard to load into a 1/2" ID shell.  If I
had
> many testing opportunities I might try it with spheric again some day with
> sawdust as the bulking agent.  However, it's now been since last New
Year's
> that I had a testing opportunity for something loud, and my hosts have
> requested less noise, more color.  I'm slipping 2 flash-&-sponge Ti
salutes
> among 10 tubes this New Year.
>
>    >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  And here you
>    >go off on a tangent with micro manipulation, flashbags, and other
>    >exotic methods. None of which worked. So. You see what I am getting
>    >at? Take advice as given, not distorted to conform to your
>    >preconceived notions, which were wrong to start out with. You are
>    >prone to rejecting the WRONG bits of advice. My momma had a term
>    >for folks that acted like that, she called the actor "Bull-Headed".
>    >--
> I'm not bull-headed, just confused as to who suggested the above.  It's
not
> as if I concocted it myself.  Plus, some other posters had stated that
> spheric Ti just wouldn't work in a salute.
>
> Robert