kpknd Posted May 20, 2013 Posted May 20, 2013 I know, it's kid stuff, but I like to light a colored smoke or two when I feel the need. But, I have never seen a red smoke in any box of Black Cat smoke balls, I make my own anyway, but just wondering.
Ferret Posted May 21, 2013 Posted May 21, 2013 I just bought a few packs of smoke balls today, and indeed, there are no red smokes. The packs I get typically have yellow, blue, purple, white, and orange. You can buy red smoke in the cylinder type of packaging, but I haven't seen them in the ball form either.
Mumbles Posted May 21, 2013 Posted May 21, 2013 I've never noticed that before. Typically red is the most common smoke color amongst devices. Perhaps the consumer products intentionally exclude red to avoid confusion with military and police type devices.
californiapyro Posted May 22, 2013 Posted May 22, 2013 Yep that's correct, spherical red smoke is prohibited for consumer sale due to people passing them off as "cherry bombs", and conversely people saying their homemade cherry bombs were "red smoke". Weird laws we have.
Ferret Posted May 22, 2013 Posted May 22, 2013 (edited) Wow, I never knew that was the reason. But that makes sense. Edited May 22, 2013 by Ferret
Ferret Posted May 23, 2013 Posted May 23, 2013 No, not for your average consumer. Consumer (1.4g) fireworks are limited by a certain amount of flash powder, I think it's something like 50mg maximum for ground firecrackers in the U.S.
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