viziers Posted September 28, 2012 Posted September 28, 2012 Does anyone have a picture for visual reference that I can look at??? thanks,vizi
dagabu Posted September 28, 2012 Posted September 28, 2012 Thats a tough question to answer Vizi. I have never seen a comet on a canister fired from a mortar since they get a loose paper wrap after they are paster wrapped. I attach comets to canisters that are on my rockets and i do that the same way I attach them to my ball shells. -dag
burningRNX Posted September 28, 2012 Posted September 28, 2012 (edited) You can simply add a comet upside down under the shell if topfused. right in the middle of the bottom, and with a few turns of kraftpaper around the comet like you would do with a normal spherical shell.After that you can add a wrap around the shell and fill with lift around the comet. Edited September 28, 2012 by burningRNX
dagabu Posted September 28, 2012 Posted September 28, 2012 I tried that with a 4" canister last spring but they all blew off on lift. The ones on the ball shells (exactly the same comets) stayed on. Go figure... -dag
burningRNX Posted September 28, 2012 Posted September 28, 2012 (edited) How did you attach them?A thick blob of hotglue and hotglue wrapped kraft does the trick for me.Edit:Maybey its the size, I've done it multiple times with 2" canshells with succes.once I made a 4" and it blew off, and with another 4" I had it attached to a drag rope also with some windings of hemp twine around both, and that worked well Edited September 28, 2012 by burningRNX
viziers Posted September 28, 2012 Author Posted September 28, 2012 Well, I put a few wraps of kraft paper and used elmers glue and attached it to the top of the can where my TF is.... I'll take a pic shortly to show what I did.... vizi
Mumbles Posted September 28, 2012 Posted September 28, 2012 I like to thing that canister shells are already amazing enough. They don't require auxilary effects to be impressive like those wussy ball shells.
viziers Posted September 28, 2012 Author Posted September 28, 2012 That they are mumbles, that they are.... I will be happy if they don't break like a soda can again (it shouldn't as I glued all end disks)..... lol vizi
dagabu Posted September 28, 2012 Posted September 28, 2012 I like to thing that canister shells are already amazing enough. They don't require auxilary effects to be impressive like those wussy ball shells. I agree as well but the spolettes I made didn't have a lot of light and I wanted to film the break in the center of the camera frame and of corse I was looking hundreds of feet away when they broke... Sigh. -dag P.S. What happened to spell check on Chrome? All my systems are without.
NightHawkInLight Posted September 29, 2012 Posted September 29, 2012 (edited) Ram the spolette with glitter or streamer comp rather than BP. You could probably even get away with using a big 3/4" rocket tube as the spolette for the first break if the shell is large enough. That would be able to give off plenty of effect. You could ram it on end burner rocket tooling, nozzle and all, which would face toward the center of the shell and provide restriction so the break doesn't blow back out through the tube. Edited September 29, 2012 by NightHawkInLight
viziers Posted September 29, 2012 Author Posted September 29, 2012 I agree as well but the spolettes I made didn't have a lot of light and I wanted to film the break in the center of the camera frame and of corse I was looking hundreds of feet away when they broke... Sigh. -dag P.S. What happened to spell check on Chrome? All my systems are without. Which is what I hope to be able to do this time around... Instead of seeing the lift and hearing the break...lol vizi Ram the spolette with glitter or streamer comp rather than BP. You could probably even get away with using a big 3/4" rocket tube as the spolette for the first break if the shell is large enough. That would be able to give off plenty of effect. You could ram it on end burner rocket tooling, nozzle and all, which would face toward the center of the shell and provide restriction so the break doesn't blow back out through the tube. Unfortunately I still use time fuse for my cans.... vizi
viziers Posted September 29, 2012 Author Posted September 29, 2012 Here is a video of what it looks like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5DbW5r0zUs vizi
viziers Posted September 29, 2012 Author Posted September 29, 2012 (edited) Mumbles, here is a vid of the first can I launched where the top blew off. The other top disk was in same condition as the one in the video. I should have elmer's glued the inside disk to the can as i did with the bottom one in the vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1P8xQ-YnjQ vizi Edited September 29, 2012 by viziers
viziers Posted September 30, 2012 Author Posted September 30, 2012 (edited) So I was able to launch both shells (forgot to point the camera for the first one which was the better of the two) and the video will speak for itself... This is a D1 4" canister with a 1" comet attached to the top.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnkuR41GhWQ vizi Edited September 30, 2012 by viziers
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