mike_au Posted April 2, 2009 Posted April 2, 2009 There are some smoke compositions that use only caramelized KNO3/sugar with sodium bicarbonate and an organic powdered dye...youtube has a few examples of this. Here's the most popular:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhTePRt-DKY I'm quite certain that video is faked.
psyco_1322 Posted April 2, 2009 Posted April 2, 2009 (edited) Just make a batch of chrysanthemum of mystery and use that as your intermediate delay. The famous Steve LaDuke uses it quite often and should fit your requirements well. Cut up short sections of your rocket tubing and press in different amounts of smoke comp, and time them until you get an amount that fits your time frame. Maybe we should read all previous posts first. This post is practically pointless. Yes, that video is fake as a $6 dollar bill. Edited April 2, 2009 by psyco_1322
firetech Posted April 2, 2009 Posted April 2, 2009 Like I said I have no experience with trying that smoke formula..So I do not deny that it could be fake (which it most likely is). Although, such a simple smoke formula would be great for all of us
psyco_1322 Posted April 2, 2009 Posted April 2, 2009 Just for kicks, I tried it once. I bought some shirt die and tried it, made some shitty gray smoke. It is possible to find some dies that will work half good but it will just cost you out the ass if you make more than about one smoker. What he used was likely real disperse die for making colored smoke, obviously it worked but what he said he used is not what went into the mix.
Mumbles Posted April 2, 2009 Posted April 2, 2009 It's fake in more than one way. There is no way that the mix used for the orange smoke video is nitrate based at all. They burn far too hot for even the modern good disperse dyes to handle. I have some of the good red dye, and it is even partially decomposed in traditional chlorate/lactose formulas. It requires some carbonate to further cool the flame. I hear if you have everything just right it makes kind of a blood red without the carbonate. If you look at skylighter's formulas, they all contain carbonates. I bet that guy just bought one of the skylighter kits.
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