Making N 1 Gold Glitter Stars

[Zumber]

25 minutes ago, Norsepyro said:

I have some 19mm crossettes which I use to ignite in the cavity end. It makes an impressive little glittering gerb. I'll see if I can get a video of one soon and post here. 

Gum arabic like boric acid does have quite an effect on the burning properties and delay for aluminium glitters. For higher metal content and larger delay formulae it may be too much and make the formulae fail to glitter. 

I use gum arabic in powder form just like dextrin when pumping stars. The stars become rock hard, much harder than dextrin. Some have mentioned that gum arabic is slightly hygroscopic so it might not be ideal in humid climates. However the Maltese use this binder in some effects from what I have heard so I don't think it can be that bad. I may try to place some stars outdoors in humid weather for some days to see the effect. The bicarb may also absorb some moisture from humid air. 

Sure please post footage if you get it.

I don't make pump stars much, I love to roll stars. Let's wait for more experienced replies on gum arabic as a binder in non black powder type.

Thank you for discussion on this thread.

[Norsepyro]

Here is a video of the fish glitter with the earlier delay techniques I mentined. It is a 19mm crossette cavity comet, ignited in the cavity end so the effect is a small gerb. A nice little garden friendly display 🙂

[Zumber]

That's pretty nice 👍 

Thank you for posting here.