eb11 Posted March 19, 2013 Posted March 19, 2013 i got a couple of orders of magnlium from skylighter and i have had to screen the shavings out of the batch i am just wondering if there is any use for the shavings
Mumbles Posted March 19, 2013 Posted March 19, 2013 The shavings or turnings are almost always magnesium, not magnalium. Some people will add them to comets for a tail effect. I believe some others have tried to add them to salutes without a lot of success. There's unfortunately probably not a lot one can do with them.
eb11 Posted March 19, 2013 Author Posted March 19, 2013 ok they said to ship them back and they would credit me for them so i will was just making sure i could not do anything with them. next question is there a star formula the uses steel in it
Algenco Posted March 19, 2013 Posted March 19, 2013 best thing is to buy from someone that sells 1oo% usable material
eb11 Posted March 19, 2013 Author Posted March 19, 2013 the second part of my question is, is there a star that uses steel in it
californiapyro Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 Not really. Steel is used in close-up effects, the delicacy of the sparks is lost at a distance. Try fountains, or some sparklers.
JFeve81 Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 I've found you can use those "chips" to make a kind of strobe pot. I've mixed small amounts of them with some rather slow burning black powder comps or a slow burning red, magnalium fuelled comp and hand packed it into a thin walled tube. When the chips ignite they produce a rather bright flash of light. Whitish with the BP comp and red of course with the other.
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