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[karlfoxman]

That is odd. I have never heard of commercial firework manufacturers using plastic hemis. I suppose it does reduce time, but I would imagine the fallout factor from firing some few hundred shells would be more than enough to make them stick with paper. I suppose most of the commercial balls shells I have seen are chinese. Perhaps the spanish do it differently.

I have seen quite a few plastic ones, at shugborough i know they used them because one landed near us i think it was part of a nice 6 incher!! I am not sure where they come from, i dont think the chinese use them. The middle picture is a give away that its made from 4 parts, look at the bottom right corner. Part of the outer hemi is broken off and reveals the next hemi under it. I have seen the construction of this type of shell on the freakpyromanicas web site and i have a few of the plastic shells i guess from the same plastic firework company in spain.

Find me some more Karl, interesting stuff your finding there.

Karl2

Edited by karlfoxman, 12 November 2005 - 10:50 AM.

[Karl]

fishy1:

I will light the star once I know for definete what it is. How do I find out whats in it?

Profhawking:

The fuse is in odd legnths, but the powder cores seems to be intact. Just wet.

Karlfoxman:

From what I have of the shell, the dia measures 3 1/4". And yes, it does appear to be two pieces glued together. And yes, I will find more stuff if it is there I managed to find a star in the middle of a field so Im sure I can find some more hemis

Pics of the time fuse in a minute. Does look abit black but theres no evidence of the ends being burnt.

Edited by Karl, 12 November 2005 - 10:54 AM.

[Karl]

Heres the timefuse.



Closeup.





What is this type of timefuse used for? If it is actually timefuse. They seem abit long for shells. I also found some that have evidence of being in shell, that arn't pictured. The fuse was threaded through two discs and had a blown apart paper bag around it. Looked like Kraft tbh....

Starting to think im finding too much

But if the shells are spanish, could that mean that they were made in Spain for Fantastic Fireworks? I have found lift bags, lables and portfires all with Fantastic Fireworks written on them. Ohh and the Vulcan fuses.

Edited by Karl, 12 November 2005 - 11:18 AM.

[karlfoxman]

Those are spanish delays, the paper is used to join the time fuse to the quickmatch. If you have a rack of mortars lit by one fuse you want them to fire in sequence. Spansih delays are used to time each shells lift. To me they look gone, drying a piece out inserting a piece of visco or black match inside and trying a piece. I know kimbolton use plastic shells too, the hemis might be made in spain they look very very similar to mine. Vulcan mmmmmm

P.S. That is timefuse and i use the same stuff in shells

[Karl]

Heres one of the live tubes i found. Very thick wall with a small clay nozzle and hotglue endcap.


The nozzle




Heres what I found when I unwound the tube. The BP had turned to slurry, but the what appears to be whistle
mix was fine.


Closer up of the insides. Anyone know what these are? Found two of them.


Interesting enough for ya?


Lift bag remains? But would they use time fuse to ignite the Lift bag?

[Karl]

Heres the comps from those live tubes. Cleaned up and dried.



I have just burnt abit of that star, lit it with Slow PIC. It didn't really show much effect, I taped it to a aliminium disk with duct-tape, to stop it from shooting off and to stop the fuse from moving. I've got a video that Ill post here as soon as I can upload it and you can decide for yourselves what it was.

[Karl]

Video

[iggy]

th plastic shell could well be from igual had some of them a few years back 4" blue crys had clear plastic containers on bottom to hold lift charge and white plastic outers for the main shell look very similar