hoarp001

As I mentioned in the Tubecam topic, I took all my camera gear along to the display yesterday to do their promo video.

We had to do one short sequence of about 10 shells at the end of the 1812. Because yesterday was a nice day, it was still light at about 8 o'clock so we fired the shells in daylight. I set the shutter speed on my camera as high as i possibly could without loosing detail.

Here is one of the pictures:



Let me know what you think.

Hi,

Im a firer for a pro pyro company and i have been making their promotional video for them. I am a proper video production person with broadcast equipment, so i took it all with me on yesterdays show.

This is a rather interesting shot i thought I would share

Here it is

Let me know what you think.

Hi,

I want to make a multi shot cake, but I am not sure how the fuse should be routed to provide ignition to each tube. The tubes will all be small mines, each with three or four stars. these will be ignited from the bottom. (half inch tubes)

Im not sure how to route the fuse, a simple left to right pattern is fine, nothing fancy. Im not sure how the fuse should be routed, as the tubes will be so close together, a fuse could not get between them. I had the idea of making the corner four tubes an inch longer, to act as legs to provide sufficiant space under the cake for the fuses to run about.

Dave K and Karl also suggested that i link them one to the other, by simply drilling two holes right the way through the bottom of each tube and thread a long peice of visco through the entire row. The only problem I can see with this is that each tube will fire off in very rapid succession. The distance for the fuse to travel will only the two wall-thicknesses which would be 6mm. This would mean a tube would fire off every second or so, which is too fast for my effect...

Any diagrams or in-depth explanations as to how i should go about this would be great.

Thanks,

Pete.

Yay, my first shell was a half success. The shell broke perfectly and the effect was nice, but I didint put enough lift in. It only went about 30ft, then fell and the shell bursted at about 10ft.

Inside the shell were about 10 micro stars made from cutting up larger stars until they were about 3mm.

I mixed it with BP and i used a short peice of visco rolled up in masking tape which ducted the ignition into the middle of the shell.

It worked quite well...

video

Hi,

I bought some of the one inch plastic shells from planet pyro. They do not fit in a one inch tube, the shells are 22mm and the tube is 25. It takes a considerable ammount of masking tape to make the shells fit, and the tape effects the break. How do I wadd the shells out to fit properly in the tube without it affecting the break?

thanks,

Pete.