Pyro-Gear

The Society needs a purpose, the forum needs 100 regular posters and say 20 posts per day.

Arthur how did you come up with that equation AFAK there is only one site fire working that could hit that amount of posts per day and even then a constant post count would be unlikely.

@JonW the real problem is there is no one at the wheel the ship is just drifting and those that have the ability to take hold of the wheel don’t want to do it, it’s a good job that Richard keeps the forum hosted for free and I would to given the amount of information that is available to the public.

I know for a fact offers have been made to resurrect the forum unfortunately those that have the ability to respond to the offers have not.

I have done my best to keep the community alive with my own forum and as you say there are still a lot of experimenters out there, in my humble opinion the only person that could breathe new life in to the forum is the owner himself by removing the dead wood.    

Your problems are very common with this sodium nitrate based stars, what you have is a driven in star and the reaction between the alloys is pushing out cuseing splits in the stars, sodium nitrate is very hydroscopic so dry it first!

However if you knock out the Dextrin and sub that for PVB and bind with IPA you won’t get the problem also your stars won’t burn to the ground regards Ken. 

 

 £30 on Amazon just search for dehydrator. I'd love to post a link but, unfortunately, I can't copy and paste into the forums.

 

Just use more post options, post from word.   

 

 

Gold spider web:

54% potassium nitrate

32% charcoal (air float)

7% sulphur

7% Dextrin

Ball mill all components together. Dampen with 75% water / 25% Alcohol mixture. Cut 5/8" to 3/4".