19 replies to this topic

[dr thrust]

i remember buying dirty great big rolls of them from the "corner shop" close to nov the 5th,wish i had a time machine

[SwissTony]

There is one place I have found where I can get hold of strings, hex cakes etc, not sure how trust worthy it is yet though.

[paul]

The reason your getting bs responses is because you have so much work ahead of you nobody knows where to start or if you would have done a little more research people would care to give you more information. It's more complicated then blasting a firecracker out of a tube and you probably won't be willing to do all the work but if you are some good things to google would be "how to make firework shells" or "salute shells".

Hey! My very firsh "shell" if you want to call it like that was a paper tube left over from NYE "filled"
with sloooow black powder from a commercial firecracker as the lift and a cracker fitting exactly inside
with the fuse cutted to about 1mm in an angle...

That was the moment (after all it worked quite good) which brought me into nights of fancy thinking about
how to realize this in a bigger scale with colours! Shortly after that I made my first small shells from
cheap bits and pieces.

So, kind of dangerous and cheap-ass things like putting crackers into a tube and so on CAN lead into
a very interesting pyro "career"!

[Arthur Brown]

I think EVERY first attempt at DIY pyro was inadvisable, mine all were! I do still have all my fingers so I got away with it! This forum exists to add that wisdom that others can offer in the early stages of interest, in the hopes that all followers of the pyro arts will be safe.

[MDH]

This was on page two for my forum settings - so sorry if this is considered a bump!

I think this man is referring to "double sound crackers" which were banned in China ten years ago, but are still legal in India.

Essentially, the bottom charge is a powerful black powder, with a weight somewhere near the bottom-middle of the device.

This weight helps the explosion lift the second charge chamber of the tube into the air.

When a fuse reaches the second chamber, the device explodes around 20-50 feet up.

They're often used to suprise people because it gains there attention to one place, then very quickly makes a bang in another.

Following up on this, kate has one tutorial on it...

http://www.wichitabu...oublevoice.html