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Additional notes for this comp:Your posts are a little confusing - what exactly are you having trouble with?
Here's another formula with more complete notes - might be a little less complicated... taken from rec.pyro:
"54.8 Potassium Nitrate
11.0 Charcoal (fine hardwood works ok)
7.3 Sulfur
8.4 Antimony Trisulfide (-325m)
7.3 Spheriodal Aluminum (-200m)
5.3 Sodium Bicarbonate
0.5 Boric Acid
5.3 Dextrin
Moisten with water to a stiff dough. Granulate through an 8-mesh screen
onto paper in a thin layer. Dry by airflow or breezy sunlight (avoid
direct, still wind, overhead sun).
This will produce a nice 8'-10' gold glittering gerb when choked to about
33% of the tube i.d.
It has a very pleasing "buttered popcorn" color and puff size.
LLoyd"
Let me add -- I mean a STIFF dough... it should not have enough water to "sheen".
And don't let it sit wet for long. Granulate it quickly in thin enough layers so it can dry completely in a couple of hours. Most glitters will suffer from remaining wet too long.
I use +5% dextrin in my gold glitter comp for gerbs. It forms a free flowing, non-dusty granulate that compresses almost as hard as a wet-pressed star. LLoyd
