justanotherpyro Posted March 4, 2006 Posted March 4, 2006 I finally got around to turning 2 lbs of BP into much needed shell filler, blackmatch, and lift
Guest pyrokid00000 Posted March 7, 2006 Posted March 7, 2006 Just went to kmart and found gallons of acetone on sale for 6$ hell yes im happy
h0lx Posted March 10, 2006 Posted March 10, 2006 So this girl I tried to get ir truly mine now. That's something to be happy about:)
Mephistos Minion Posted March 10, 2006 Posted March 10, 2006 I am allowed to use the schools equipment during lesson time to make pyro tools. Just as long as I buy my own stuff.
Mumbles Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 Here is my occasional happiness for the day. I randomly got $400. My college decided to give me a grant, and I must say it is awesome. I made $3100 by going to college this year.
Mumbles Posted March 21, 2006 Posted March 21, 2006 Damned if I know. They said they had extra funds or something. I'm not complaining, I got $400 cash taxfree.
Kilo_G Posted March 22, 2006 Posted March 22, 2006 Depending on where you go, how well you do in school and how poor you are a lot of colleges basically give you a small allowance now and then. I can't remember the exact name for it right now.
Mumbles Posted March 22, 2006 Posted March 22, 2006 Yeah, about that. I am not poor. I have so many schollarships it is insane. Like I said, I get $3,100 profit in addition to my full ride schollarship. Quite nice, I can only hope for more schollarships.
Rooster Posted March 22, 2006 Posted March 22, 2006 Extremely comfortable at the moment. Sitting with my feet in a footbath-machine, with heating, bubbles, and vibration. One of those things that makes life a little sweeter while writing a lab report.
aquaman Posted March 22, 2006 Posted March 22, 2006 Just got my drivers license and I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Now I can drive my dads 06 ecplise alone.
Pyrohawk Posted March 23, 2006 Posted March 23, 2006 Congratulations!! Gtting your license is a wonderful thing. Also it's incredibly useful for pyrotechnics!! It has so many uses.... By the way, you might wanna drive an Eclipse sometime also, I hear their fun to!
PyroJoe Posted March 23, 2006 Posted March 23, 2006 Well I just got back from pocatello, a city about 45 minutes from my house and I know have another $175 worth of chemicals! yay. Also, i got some awesome 5 micron magnesium powder... AND harbor freight is about 5 minutes from fire-fox, so my dad and I went and got a bunch of cheap tools and a respirator! What a good day it is...
justanotherpyro Posted March 23, 2006 Posted March 23, 2006 Haha I wonder if he will catch it....In other news I have spring break coming up, which is always nice. I hope to test out a few new star compositions, and perfect my TT and glitter ones. Days of pyro w/o interruption is very nice.
Rogue Chemist Posted March 23, 2006 Posted March 23, 2006 I got a summer research position which will involve the use of cesium and most other alkalis in their metallic state
Swany Posted March 23, 2006 Posted March 23, 2006 I would be happy to be the first to congratulate you on that! Oh oh oh... so I am assuming that this is organometallic stuff?
Rogue Chemist Posted March 23, 2006 Posted March 23, 2006 Technically the 3rd actually, I posted it on Sciencemadness recently, including some of the stuff I put into my resume to get it. It is actually pure inorganic chemistry, I will be essentially getting Hg and Au into negative oxidation states by heating with alkalis in an arc furnace. The proff seems cool, I wonder if he will let me buy stuff through him....
Pretty green flame Posted March 23, 2006 Posted March 23, 2006 I am happy right now, just got back from the toy store...err..i mean art store, i got me half a dozen of 3" shells so i guess i will be making some of those.
Swany Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 I recieved my Hg, all >100mls of it. Or, 3lbs. I love it dearly... Even if it may/will kill me.
BigBang Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 My cannonfuse order finally got here. I now have 100' of american red white and blue visco, 10' of 1/4" timefuse, and a dozen 3" plastic shell hemi's. To top it all off, the catalog came in today so soon I will be as happy as swany with some Hg, and some other goodies (essence of skunk ) Holy crap, chemgasm, oh god!
justanotherpyro Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 I'm interested in what catalog that is big bang, what site did you order it from?
PyroJoe Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 Well I just lit my first 3" cylindrical shell 10 minutes ago. I have done many 3" sphericals, but no cylinders. It worked like a charm though! It was just a salute can... 20 grams of flash with sugar for weight and more confinement. The shell weighed about 330 grams and I used 38 grams of lift.
Flashzone Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 I just bought 3lbs of KNO3 from my local Home Depot, I got it from the Grants Stump Remover. I love this stuff I got it for $5.96 a lb. I tried out some smoke comps, I made this really nice one about 2 hours ago, The only problem is I forgot to write the comp down. I remember it was somthing like 150g KNO3, 80g Powderd Sugar, 50-60g Parrafin Grains, and 30-40g Sodium Bicarb. I did the method of 60:40 KNO3:Powderd Sugar, then 3:1 60:40;Parrafin, Then I added about 2-3% Sodium Bicabonate. One spoon full of the mix burns at 20sec and pours out smoke, The smoke has a greyish tint. It works really well when there isent any wind. I will make a video of my huge smoker soon, It should be about 250g in weight.
PyroJoe Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 I used Grants for my first potassium nitrate. It works quite well. Although I never tried it in black powder, but I did make a lot of kno3 and sugar smoke bombs. I just tried a military smoke formula and it worked pretty well. 45 - hexacloerothane45 - Zinc Oxide10 - AluminumKind of hard to ignite, but if its not windy the smoke gets really thick and hangs around for a long time.
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