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After long time made few shells of 3.5 and 4 inches with flash burst.

Another angle 

 

3.5 inch - crackling microstar commet

Size of commet is 22mm - pressed and cut 

Used rice husks aa bursting charge to reduce the throw of the stars 

 

 

3.5 inch - Blesser white strobe

4 inch Red & Green stars 

3.5 inch Red, Green & crackling star

4 inch - Pumped fast burning red commet with Rice husk burst 

 Flash burst - 3.5 inch C6   

3.5 inch rolled N1 to red star. Need improvement on the star timings. Flash burst, so not expecting much symmetry 

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Very nice shells..!!

congratulations.

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Deepak ji what is composition (for green only) in 4" Red and green shell. All are nice

 

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Green star is nitrate based

B.nitrate : 53

Sulphur: 5

Metal: 18 ( i have used MgAl as metal here, you can also swap 400 mesh spherical Al as 50:50 with MgAl) - This will add very little tail behind the stars

Charcoal: 5

Dextrin: 4

Pvc: 15

You can swap the PVC with Parlon to achieve the colour density but that will also affect the burn rate. 

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Very good shells indeed.

Have you used flash for lift? If yes can you share composition of flash and flash to shell weight ratio?

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Thats not the technical technical way of lifting shells with flash.

You must stick with black powder lift.

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23 minutes ago, Zumber said:

Thats not the technical technical way of lifting shells with flash.

You must stick with black powder lift.

I know composition and process of making black powder that serves my purpose with considerable ease.

Anyway, thanks for your statutory warning.😁

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They are not reliable all the times and tends to burst lots of them in mortor tubes.

Also you may not use same mortor tube as if in case of black powder lift. You may need heavy duty Iron mortor tube for it. Technically it's useless that's the reason why it would be better to follow standard BP lift method.

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Some nice stuff there! The crackling microstar comets were beautiful. The red comets were very nice too.

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17 hours ago, SKC said:

Very good shells indeed.

Have you used flash for lift? If yes can you share composition of flash and flash to shell weight ratio?

I am not using flash for list, I use traditional BP for lift. For these shells i have used about 15~20% of unmilled BP to weight of the shell.

I determine the weight of BP lift every time for each batch using dead shell lifting. Here is the testing video, 3.5 inch dead shell with 8 second of total air time

 

 

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I second, the crackling microstar comets were sweet! I enjoyed all your shells. Ty for sharing 👍

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One time in our teens me and my friend used flash in a small steel mortar, about 25mm id and 3 or 4mm thick steel seamless hydrualic tubing. 

 

We only did this once because it ripped the tube open like nothing, good thing we had places it surrounded with tree trunks...

 

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On 12/16/2024 at 5:18 PM, deepakpyro said:

Green star is nitrate based

B.nitrate : 53

Sulphur: 5

Metal: 18 ( i have used MgAl as metal here, you can also swap 400 mesh spherical Al as 50:50 with MgAl) - This will add very little tail behind the stars

Charcoal: 5

Dextrin: 4

Pvc: 15

You can swap the PVC with Parlon to achieve the colour density but that will also affect the burn rate. 

 

Deepak ji which type or which one prime u use for this stars? 

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