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I'm doing some full synths for all the chemicals that are relatively easy to make at home.
I am going to be doing some formatting to prepare for just inserting pictures, pages with synth info will be formatted. I'm going to central florida for a while so i will just leave it at the formatting today. --flaming ape
we need to get the Apc and Roguesci forums to assist in getting traffic here as well as getting more compositions and tutorials...I'm going to, in the next few weeks, gather all the information on star compositions from Apc, and add a few tutorials on flexible blackmatch fuse I've been working on.
What concerns comma writing I find this trouble to be unnecessary even in everyday science, everyone knows what the author wanted to say. Standardisation is always desirable with articles and we are already trying to do so. If we are talking about specific circumstances like maybe in the hazards page or about legislation, this should be stated of course. Feel free to expand/correct pages, wherever valid information is accessible. /Admiral
Is there any interest in making the articles more uniform? I ask because I've noticed inconsistencies between various articles. For example, Thermite and Kraft paper use a dot as a decimal separator, while Kraft Paper Weights uses a comma. In another case Cherry bomb refers specifically to U.S.A. laws, while Hazard symbols makes no reference to which country/state/governmental body's laws it is talking about (E.U. I belive...) --Jbt 09:23, 29 April 2008 (EST)
Hi Jamesy, I didn't get any response when I put this in user talk so I am putting it here:
10:33, 13 November 2007 (EST)Hi Jamesy, A few months ago we talked about getting a different set of pictures using the water mixing technique instead of the melting technique for safety reasons. excuse the long delay in getting the pictures for the smoke mix re-edit, but I did not have a digital camera and needed to wait to borrow one. I have taken some pictures of the consolidation technique using water to make a compact lump, and I want to post them in place of the ones using melting. I think I will eliminate the section using shellac because although it produces a great result when used exactly right, it is tricky to get the right consistency and does not work if the lump is too thick.
For people who are two impatient to wait a day or so for the water to evaporate, I Think the best thing to do is include a reference to the source found under external links (http://www.pyrosummit.com/lsmoke.html) which is a good reference to using paraffin melted as the Consolidant . This, as described, is much, much safer than melting the sugar as the smoke mix page originally suggests, because paraffin melts when just warm (about 143F), and sugar (at about 366F) is close to ignition temp.
The instructions for the paraffin also never call for remelting the mixed substances which is a particularly dangerous part. I see in the previous discussion that someone thought the "thermal shock" of pouring a melted substance into KNO3 might set it off, this is simply wrong, It is achieving a certain ignition temperature (even in one small part of the mixture) that causes ignition, "thermal shock" will not do this. The main thing is to avoid "carefully" heating the full mixture over a hot plate, an electric burner or any other heat source.
If this sounds Ok with you I will start replacing the photos on the current smoke mix site. I also wish to attach some warnings and advice to the wikipedia “smoke bomb” page which uses the more dangerous (melting it all together) technique. Please give some response pretty soon so I know you saw this Thanks chem teacher
Hello & greetings from ProfessorMad: Jolly good show to have a site where hopefully, non-psychotic individuals can talk about the lighter, brighter, fun side, of one of man's great extensions, to one of his greatest inventions ever (fire). As with guns, pyro's are little/no more dangerous than the human who's hand's there in. It seems the new generation are getting bored with computer tech, and moving back to the space-age 'rocket-tech'. No wonder no one wants to learn science anymore, when baking soda in the laboratory is probably a major health & safety hazard. Can anyone tell me if they still show the reaction of sodium and water in schools anymore. Let's face it, it's one of those special moments in the science curricullum.
Jamesy, the PyroGuideForum link on the main page isn't working. /dj
[edit] help with lift powder
my lift powder isnt burning fast enough and i am using the same formula and techniqe for granulating. please help
I think you should have posted this in the lift powder section but whatever. Your probably ether not using a fast enough burning charcoal; try willow, balsa, or poplar charcoal. I've only used balsa charcoal before but I've heard the other two are fast as well. The other problem could be that your not ball milling long enough. -Funnlecake
- help with electric ignition
i need help with electrically ignting my compositions maybe through camera flash please help
Try looking at this post: http://www.pyroguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49&p=298&hilit=#p298 /Pudi
my charcoal comet. potasium nitrate 75 sulphur 12 charcoal 23
Here is a post for Admiraldonsnyder... I am please to see that you are starting this new thread on the forum, and the wiki for making fireworks from a physical standpoint. I would love to contribute to this,and other posts. I have a lot of information and hardly any time at all to post it lately. I have a good digital camera now and will be posting a few tutorials shortly this year. I would love to help on this thread, as it is of great interest to me. Keep me posted and I will contribute in pics and other areas in the compositions, ect.
[edit] random articles
Almost every time i visit this website, which is obviously intended for the education of pyros, I see these random articles listed in recent changes that are something to do with insurance and cars. I believe that I have remove most of them but someone needs to do something about this. Thanks , Jack
