Tailed Pressed Stars

[pyroguy1960]

So I've been making most of my stars with a star plate and shop press now and was wondering how I would go about creating tailed stars with this method.

 

So say for instance I had pressed a purple star and wanted it to leave a goldish spark trail. Could I add something to my meal prime that would make this happen? I was thinking maybe some AL?

[BJV]

So I've been making most of my stars with a star plate and shop press now and was wondering how I would go about creating tailed stars with this method.

 

So say for instance I had pressed a purple star and wanted it to leave a goldish spark trail. Could I add something to my meal prime that would make this happen? I was thinking maybe some AL?

 

You could add a small % of ferrotitanium to the purple star comp., this would give you the tail your looking for.

BJV

 

Edited September 9, 2010 by BJV

[pyroguy1960]

I couldn't just add it to the prime? Should be added to the comp itself? And what percentage like 5% total comp weight?

[al93535]

Yes this must be added to the composition itself.

 

For gold: 8% of charcoal. The mesh size depends on the length of the tail you want. I would reccomend 60 mesh for a nice sized tail. For a more brilliant gold tail, ferrotitanium should be used. 8% as well, and about 60 mesh.

 

For silver: 8% of titanium. Sponge, flake or spherical and again about 60 mesh.

 

This is for about a 1/2" star. For smaller stars reduce the granule size accordingly. For larger ones increase it.

 

 

PS: unless you are using high quality star plates, forget adding metals. The metal particles will embed into your tooling. Only use the metals if your tooling is steel or ceramic.

[BJV]

I couldn't just add it to the prime? Should be added to the comp itself? And what percentage like 5% total comp weight?

 

If you just ad the Fe-Ti just to the prime your not going to get the tail your looking for. I would ad 6 to 8% to the comp.

BJV

[pyroguy1960]

Understood, will add it to the comp.

 

I am using a wolter star plate, I beleive it's very high quality. So sounds like you're saying I may wreck that with thick meshed titanium? I beleive the star plate is aluminum...