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[megabusa]

Did anyone see this ?

My wife said "look, some pyrotechnics, you might be interested"

So I went to look & there was a familiar face assembling a shell for the interviewer, before going to fire some !

[helix]

Yes, I saw it - Its on the BBC iplayer for a few more days for anyone that missed it.

[pjalchemist]

How far into the show?

[Richard H]

Well done Gareth - a nice little piece to camera!

[maxman]

Nice one Gareth! Thoes stars were a bit like raspberrys though Only joking. Well done mate.

[megabusa]

Nice one Gareth! Thoes stars were a bit like raspberrys though Only joking. Well done mate.

I spotted the rasberries but wasn't going to say anything !!! They're a lot better than some of my attempts at rolling

[Vic]

How far into the show?

Here is the link The One Show Gareth is at 13.04

[Batman]

As a newbie I had better introduce myself a bit I suppose . . . . . . .

It was the 'One Show' that got me to look this forum up - mainly because I used to work at the now defunct Unwin Pyrotechnics site in Joyce Green Lane in the early 80s. Great fun, but I doubt we'd get away with much of what we did then, now . I was based mainly in the London office on sales, but used any available chance to get out and do 'stuff' on site whenever possible.


Somewhere on this site I found a link suggesting one of the old huts was going to be moved from Dartford to a museum? Really? Is there anyone else on this forum who remembers that time?


I still mess around with pyro - but only from a user point of view - occasional displays for the fun of it, and for charities, that sort of thing.

[crystal palace fireworks]

Good to see Gareth again,

Batman; Welcome to the forum, myself and Phil Dunford (UKPS vice chairman) and his wife Chris and another are heading up the project, take a look at the website below for more info,

www.wellsatamberley.org

[digger]

Thanks Chaps

Could hardly bear to watch it myself when I heard the brummy accent come from the telly.

Thanks to someone here for putting them on to me, you know who you are. Once again thanks.

Sorry for the lack of appearances here for a while. It has been a hectic last 6 months with one thing and another (even worked for Beyonce at Glastonbury this year, now that was an experience).

Yes the stars were a little raspberry, however in my defense they were colour changers rolled on go the morning before the film shoot!

Hope to have a video of our display this year (about 1 tonne of pyro, 600 ish mortars etc), when I get a copy of some video from some friends that filmed it.

It was the first outing of my new home brew firing system, which was developed and built in the two weeks before bonfire night. That was hard work. I may even share the code for it and the circuit board designs so you guys out there can make cheap pro systems (after a thorough shake down)

Edited by digger, 07 November 2011 - 09:04 PM.

[Deano 1]

Well done Gareth. I like how they made their black powder burn unappealingly slow as not to encourage fiddling little fingers of the unknown

[wayne]

Well done gareth, nice to see some manufacture on UK TV

Unforunately, the two 5" shells that Alex is hiding down her top over shadows your shells

Cheers,

Wayne.

Edited by wayne, 07 November 2011 - 10:04 PM.

[Gary_1323]

Thanks Chaps

Could hardly bear to watch it myself when I heard the brummy accent come from the telly.

Thanks to someone here for putting them on to me, you know who you are. Once again thanks.

Sorry for the lack of appearances here for a while. It has been a hectic last 6 months with one thing and another (even worked for Beyonce at Glastonbury this year, now that was an experience).

Yes the stars were a little raspberry, however in my defense they were colour changers rolled on go the morning before the film shoot!

Hope to have a video of our display this year (about 1 tonne of pyro, 600 ish mortars etc), when I get a copy of some video from some friends that filmed it.

It was the first outing of my new home brew firing system, which was developed and built in the two weeks before bonfire night. That was hard work. I may even share the code for it and the circuit board designs so you guys out there can make cheap pro systems (after a thorough shake down)

Digger (Gareth?): please correct me if I am wrong, but I take it that it was you who appeared on the One Show?

I note that you apparently manufacture CAT 4 (ball shells and the like) for use in professional displays and special effects.
Please tell me a bit more about this- being an avid pyrotechnics enthusiast, it would be great if I could earn a supplementary income by manufacturing CAT 4 articles for use by the professional display and special effects market. For the time being, my interest in pyrotechnics is solely from a hobby perspective. I am an organic chemist by profession, and although I have no intention of abandoning my lucrative and highly rewarding full-time 'day job' in the chemical industry, I would love to get involved with pyrotechnics on a part-time basis (i.e. during weekends) to earn a supplementary income. May I ask you if you are self-employed, or do you work for a pyrotechnics manufacturing company (are there ANY British pyrotechnics manufacturers still in business these days , or has everything been relocated to China, which is where most fireworks are made these days?)
I take it that there is an awful lot to consider before one can manufacture pyrotechnic articles for consumer use- insurance, licencing, finding suitable land, workshop and storage space, health and safety hurdles. Was that green wooden shed one of your manufacturing/shell assembly workshops?

Speaking of the programme, it was nice to see fireworks being portrayed in a more positive light for a change, rather than the constant negative press they usually get due to misuse of CAT 3 consumer fireworks by mentally retarded morons, overzealous Health and Safety and oppressive 'Nanny State-ism', and the relatively high expense of CAT 3 consumer fireworks in these times of economic austerity.

Edited by Gary_1323, 08 November 2011 - 05:01 PM.

[Creepin_pyro]

Good job Gareth! Awesome to see UK manufacture on such a popular show.

[Bob Twells]

Nice one Gareth, a great piece!