50AE Posted January 3, 2010 Author Posted January 3, 2010 (edited) The shell breaks worked great ! All my shells broke perfectly. The spolettes were long timed though. It seemed mostly a paper issue. I made a compilation video here : http://vbox7.com/play:5acdaee6 The shells of NYE are fired at 02:50 So remember guys! The paper plays a big role as well. A shell containing unprimed stars pasted with the thinner paper broke well. The other shell with the thick paper broke blind with the same stars. I also found the paper debris of the broken shells. The successful ones had much smaller pieces.From now on, I'm priming all my stars! In the future, I'd like to test a 3" shell broken with hot H3 and good primed stars. Edited January 3, 2010 by 50AE
Ralph Posted January 3, 2010 Posted January 3, 2010 The shell breaks worked great ! All my shells broke perfectly. The spolettes were long timed though. It seemed mostly a paper issue. I made a compilation video here : http://vbox7.com/play:5acdaee6 um i like tried watching it and it didnt work and the info up the top made it look like some kinda rusian porn site
JamesH Posted January 3, 2010 Posted January 3, 2010 Nice shells 50AE, glad to see that you got them working! keep up the good work.By the way, what formula did you use for the stars in the blue mine? That was a really nice blue! I also got my 2" round shells working, it was a priming issue afterall. I primed the D1 glitter with BP with +10% fine flake Al +10% woodmeal +5% dextrin. I tested the better primed stars from a stargun and found I could use twice the amount of lift, compared to the stars that were primed with a bp type prime, and still achieve ignition. They can really take a hefty lift. I have posted the video in the aerial shell compertition section.
50AE Posted January 5, 2010 Author Posted January 5, 2010 (edited) Thanks, JamesH The blue in the mine was Shimizu chlorate blue binded with SGRS. I've made it with dextrin later and what I understood, is that dextrin washes the blue color. I've made a second chlorate blue which is a very good lactose based formula, but I've also used dextrin there and the color was washed as well. ralph, I uploaded the video on pyrobin : http://pyrobin.com/files/foierverki.wmv Edited January 5, 2010 by 50AE
FREAKYDUTCHMEN Posted January 5, 2010 Posted January 5, 2010 What kind of glitter did you use for the comet on 3:50? Its kind of pinkish.
50AE Posted January 5, 2010 Author Posted January 5, 2010 Oh no, that was a misfix in the white balance of my camcoder.
vladou Posted January 5, 2010 Posted January 5, 2010 Very nice ! May I ask you what composition did you use for the shell at 2:57 ?
Bonny Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 The shell breaks worked great ! All my shells broke perfectly. The spolettes were long timed though. It seemed mostly a paper issue. I made a compilation video here : http://vbox7.com/play:5acdaee6 The shells of NYE are fired at 02:50 So remember guys! The paper plays a big role as well. A shell containing unprimed stars pasted with the thinner paper broke well. The other shell with the thick paper broke blind with the same stars. I also found the paper debris of the broken shells. The successful ones had much smaller pieces.From now on, I'm priming all my stars! In the future, I'd like to test a 3" shell broken with hot H3 and good primed stars. It's a good idea to prime all your stars. I think if you use hot H3 as burst a really good prime is needed, I had a lot of blind stars using H3, but I was also a noob at the time, so I was having all kinds of problems. Great video, lots of nice work there. The blue mine looked great. I'll have to try that comp. Cut stars? How big were they?
50AE Posted January 6, 2010 Author Posted January 6, 2010 IIRC, the stars were 6mm squares. Remember - dextrin washes the color. I made them for a second time, and the blue color was poor.
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