brad224 Posted October 8 Posted October 8 first farfalle attempt View File i saw some files where you guys posted farfalle inserts and i was intrigued. while i certainly am not at the level you folks are, i built six little inserts using my home rolled 1/4” spolette tubes, added a little ferro titanium to my standard spolette mix, and put a dragon egg in the top before ramming the top clay plug. my smallest canister shell (1 1/2” id, fit six inserts perfectly. shot it tonight and hoped a couple might work. i was thrilled that only one of the six was completely AWOL, one burned out almost immediately, but four of them sort of worked! makes me want to try another one, maybe a little bigger next time. Submitter brad224 Submitted 10/08/24 Category Aerial Shells
Zumber Posted October 9 Posted October 9 Titanium gives realky nice sparks than ferro titanium for farfalle.
Mumbles Posted October 11 Posted October 11 Looked pretty good for a first attempt. I've made a bunch of these over the last 10-15 years. I'm around if you have any questions. I've never made any as small as you have, so it's a little hard to critique the performance. How were you fusing these? The typical threaded strand of black match? I'm just curious as I'm not sure if I've ever seen one not light, and it looked like you had about one and a half not really light. Maybe a more accurate version is that I've never noticed one not lighting. I made these mostly with .5" ID x .75" OD tubes, which fit between 11 and 19 per ring in shells 4-6". In my experience the most common failure mode is the tube overpressurizing and either exploding or popping out the end plug. If you pop an end plug, you'll probably hear it, the tail becomes more of a streamer instead of bushy like normal, and the tube tends to shoot off like a little rocket. Most of my failed examples were with spiral wound tubes as well for what it's worth.
brad224 Posted October 12 Author Posted October 12 thanks for the info Mumbles. j made those in my homemade 1/4” id spolette tubes, and fused them with blackmatch inserted through a hole drilled just above the bottom clay plug before filling them. i attribute the failures to sloppy, imperfect construction. i put a dragon egg in the end of each one before the top clay plug, and i noticed when i ran the video with the sound on, the one that burned out immediately crackled as soon as the shell went off, so i did something wrong when ramming it i think. i’m in the process of building a 4” can shell now, and will try being more careful while building the inserts. after i get a chance to look at how that one works, i may take you up on your offer of some coaching. thanks again.
brad224 Posted October 14 Author Posted October 14 thanks for the info Mumbles. j made those in my homemade 1/4” id spolette tubes, and fused them with blackmatch inserted through a hole drilled just above the bottom clay plug before filling them. i attribute the failures to sloppy, imperfect construction. i put a dragon egg in the end of each one before the top clay plug, and i noticed when i ran the video with the sound on, the one that burned out immediately crackled as soon as the shell went off, so i did something wrong when ramming it i think. i’m in the process of building a 4” can shell now, and will try being more careful while building the inserts. after i get a chance to look at how that one works, i may take you up on your offer of some coaching. thanks again.
brad224 Posted October 14 Author Posted October 14 2nd farfalle shell attempt. not a complete success but it worked well enough for me to want to try another one. maybe this weekend. IMG_1121.mov
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