cplmac Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 A new red flash comp I was trying out 4" Peony, mostly...
ewest Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 too bad the peony didn't work better, but it was a nice color blue.
al93535 Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 http://www.littlerockauctions101.com/alspy...5gramsflash.wmv http://www.littlerockauctions101.com/alspy...reenhummers.wmv http://www.littlerockauctions101.com/alspy...redwhistles.wmv http://www.littlerockauctions101.com/alspy...Pmulticolor.wmv http://www.littlerockauctions101.com/alspy...lmulticolor.wmv A few items I lit tonight... maybe I will post them in the competitions threads, but I am too tired right now... Oh, the red and green rockets had 250 gram headers, they obviously need a MUCH heavier header on them...
cplmac Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 Or you could use less delay and get those heads firing off a little closer to the ground. Very nice stuff al! I can't wait til I can get a ball shell to break with that kind of symmetry.
qwezxc12 Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 Were the green and red rockets the "Ruby Red" and "Emerald Green" formulas that Skylighter posted or your own composition?...good performance and they're very nice looking.
qwezxc12 Posted March 5, 2007 Posted March 5, 2007 Finally finished up some stuff from my work enforced 5 week hiatus...http://www.apcforum.net/files/IMG_0022nMediumn.JPG 2" comets, 3" cans and shells and the box on the left is my first ever attempts at 4" shells. I'll post videos (good, bad, or indifferent) as soon as I can out there and light the damn stuff.
Mardec Posted March 5, 2007 Posted March 5, 2007 http://www.littlerockauctions101.com/alspy...5gramsflash.wmv http://www.littlerockauctions101.com/alspy...reenhummers.wmv http://www.littlerockauctions101.com/alspy...redwhistles.wmv http://www.littlerockauctions101.com/alspy...Pmulticolor.wmv http://www.littlerockauctions101.com/alspy...lmulticolor.wmv A few items I lit tonight... maybe I will post them in the competitions threads, but I am too tired right now... Oh, the red and green rockets had 250 gram headers, they obviously need a MUCH heavier header on them... Dahm, what was that green rocket comp?
Wyvern Posted March 7, 2007 Posted March 7, 2007 Well, the weather finally calmed down so i could do some tests Ti rocket with 3" Blue and glitter - Failed Glitter loosely based in Win 39
deadman Posted March 8, 2007 Posted March 8, 2007 I'm not normally one to beg (publicly), but what was that blue formula? I can't see that being one not using AP. I would even believe they were robbed from a commercial. The shot went off to the side (I think) so I couldn't tell, but except for one I think most of your stars burned out close to the same time. Great job.
Wyvern Posted March 8, 2007 Posted March 8, 2007 Actually they were Veline blue 14mm pumped stars with a little added FeTi for a trail, blue stars are all about purity of the chemicals used.Here is Veline's formula Potassium Perchlorate 55 Copper(II) Oxide, black 15 Parlon 15 Red Gum 9 Magnalium, granular, -200 mesh 6 Dextrin i added +2% FeTi for trail
qwezxc12 Posted March 8, 2007 Posted March 8, 2007 As Wyvern said, the weather did clear, so here are a few vids. Aerial Shells: No8 - 3in Shimizu blue & Violet No9 - 3in Emerald Green No1 - 4in Green microstarsBP & FF#3 No2 - 4in Green microstarBP No5 - 4in MgAl BP to Orange Ti No6 - 4in MgAl BP toRuby Red No12 - 4in Ti Salutes And of course, a salute to end the night: No14 - 3in can Mg turnings salute Gotta work on getting my breaks a little harder and getting consistant rising comet ignition. Colored Comets: No20 - 2in Orange Comet No21 - 2in Yellow Comet No22 - 2in Yellow-Green Comet No24 - 2in Violet Comet No27 - 2in Red Comet Still tuning color and intensity with these...my blue and green need a lot more work.
Pretty green flame Posted March 8, 2007 Posted March 8, 2007 I love the colour on the 3" emerald green, it's very beautiful, other are also excelent but the emerald green is my favorite. Mind sharing the emeral green formula? Keep up the good work.
cplmac Posted March 9, 2007 Posted March 9, 2007 Like most salutes this one goes so fast you really need to pause it to see the red well. 2.5" Red Salute By far my most successful red flash formula yet. Not big on the report but the color was pretty good, and it did report. Q the orange strobing tail you have is phenominal! I also liked the emerald green, and the orange comet. Great stuff and nice breaks, if only I could get my stuff to break like that...
qwezxc12 Posted March 9, 2007 Posted March 9, 2007 I love the colour on the 3" emerald green, it's very beautiful, other are also excelent but the emerald green is my favorite. Mind sharing the emeral green formula?PGF, The Green formula appears to have around the net for a while. I first saw it in Skylighter's #32 newsletter: "Red, Green, Blue, and Purple Rockets". It's also on Passfire listed as "Emerald Green MgAl" with Kyle as the source...so I do not know whom to give credit to. It is however, a nice intense green: Barium Nitrate 50 Potassium Perchlorate 8 Magnalium, -325 mesh 12 Parlon 18 Sulfur 5 Charcoal Airfloat 5 Red Gum 2 Dextrin +5 The Ruby Red just subs Strontium Nitrate for the Barium. No special prep: use fine chems or mill seperately, screen together & dampen with 75:25 H20/EtOH. I've both rolled and pumped them. The 3in shell had 3/8" pumped stars. They do need a hot prime to reliably light, but I haven't seen the need to to step prime. I give them two good coats of my quick & dirty stuff: BP Greenmix 75BP Meal 255 mic sph Al +5-325 MgAl +5CMC +2 ****************************************************** cplmac, The comets are bound with Resorcinol resin thinned with alcohol...it doesn't outgas much, washes up with water, and (best yet) the 50g 1.5" dia comets were hard as concrete and ready to shoot the next day. Maybe my new favorite comet binder. I'm currently tweaking my D1 comets - they don't glitter nearly enough with the resin binder so far.
cplmac Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 Got a handful of new ones today. My first attempt at a 2.5" crossette. Should have let it fully dry. Bronze Glitter. This is a formula I made on accident while looking for drippy glitter. Video does not do the strange color justice. My first 4lb rocket. This is BP to red strobe to white strobe to report.
cplmac Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 In person there was no red or purple, there was a combination of green orange and copper? It was strange. As for sharing the comp, no problem. I have to dig it up.
cplmac Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Tried something new this week, Girandolas. I did not put a head on them because I'm planning on making two stagers that need to be somewhat quiet. Anyhow, the first test is a single stage with just the single stage drivers. The second test is a single stage with empty second stage motors weighted as if they were loaded. The next one will be a legitimate two stager with glitter comets attached. Single stage Girandola Single stage Girandola with second stage dummy motors
Aquarius Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Looks cool, Mac.What kind of drivers are you using? I would suspect coreburners due to the fast take-off. I am not the best on girandloas but I would use endburners to make the takeoff a bit slover and to really give the "rising girandola" credit. These spinning wheels are amazing. Very nice work!!
qwezxc12 Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 4in RAP ball shell re-enforced with fiberglass strapping tape1/2" pumped FireFly #3 stars (I have a lot of these made up)Burst is 2:1 poplar BP rice crispies + ~1.5g 70:30 flash boosterTwo 3/4" x 1/2" Firefly rising cometsWeight 273gLift: 24g 12-16mesh newspaper BP Prefire:http://www.apcforum.net/files/4inshell.jpg Video:4in Firefly The rising comets didn't ignite fom the lift because I didn't prime them...dumb experiment. They did light from the burst, though...go figure. You can see them as the last two longer burning stars. I wanted to see if the break was much different than I've been getting with KBenz whistle. The 'flash' from the flash was much more noticable... The firefly really looks great in person...the -36mesh charcoal adds nice hang time that isn't caught on my crappy camera. I think it'll look nice in a really hard break; I'll try a coupette or flashbag with 3-4g of flash next time.
Polumna Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 hi dude good job, nice shell keep on working like this one, it is wonderful!!! Polumna
Mumbles Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Hmmmmmm, I thought you said no more bullshit posts?
cplmac Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 I like the break of that 4", good symmetry for a shell with two turns of fibertape for pasting! The girandolas were core burners. I think I'm gonna do some endburning tests for the same reasons you stated.
qwezxc12 Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Thanks. In the past, I tried taping my 3" shells in single and double overlapping layers, similar to traditional paper pasting patterns. I couldn't see any difference in the breaks doing it this way vs. multiple turns in 3 or 4 places. I now tape my 4" plastic shells with 3 layers in four places in this pattern. It's much faster and cuts down on the amount of tape needed:http://i14.tinypic.com/4ie29t4.gif 3" shells are similar...they get two layers in three places: two around the "poles" spaced 90 deg, and one around the "equator". My goal is to get all my 4" to break like this one (posted previously): 4in White to Ruby Red When I manage that consistantly, I'll be a happy man...
cplmac Posted April 3, 2007 Posted April 3, 2007 It's been awhile but I have a few new things. I made an experimental rocket fuel that burns quieter than any fuel I've ever used. Enjoy. 4lb strobe tooled white powder rocket to glitter xettes 4lb strobe tooled BPw/Ti to charcoal xettes 4lb strobe tooled BPw/Ti to 4" cylinder salute, CATO
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