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Fireworks ProjectsConsumer Fireworks
Learn how to create mortar racks for class c festival balls using milk crates and HDPE mortar tubes.
Learn how to make a simple Class C firework show even better using various fusing techniques as well as electrical firing.
Learn how to use Class C firework artillery shells with Skylighter mortar tubes, also precautions when buying different sized Class C artillery shells.
Tip: An easy and reliable way to attach electric matches to consumer fireworks or visco fuse.
Learn how to make better use of your Class C festival balls, what tubes to use, how to make mortar racks and how to fuse your artillery shells together.
A nice little do it yourself project that you can finish in about an hour if you have everything ready to go. This year you can get started early and paint the sky with festival balls the night of the Mighty Fourth of July!
Igniting Fireworks: Fusing, Electrical Firing
Learn which fuses make a good cross-match for fireworks.
Learn how to make electric matches, also known as squibs or ignitors, using firework chemicals and Skylighter's electric match heads.
Learn how to easily make your own homemade quickmatch fuse.
Tip: An easy and reliable way to attach electric matches to consumer fireworks or visco fuse.
Learn how to make electric matches (also known as squibs or ignitors) using small pieces of circuit board, nichrome wire and solder.
Learn how to make fireworks fuse match pipe for making homemade quickmatch fireworks fuse.
Learn how to make a simple firework ignition system using an electric fence power unit and dark flash powder.
Mines
Learn how to make a crackling mine firework cake using crackling stars (dragon eggs) obtained from Class C crackling balls.
Learn how to make flammable liquid fireball colored flame projectors otherwise known as Ghost Mines using firework chemicals.
Learn how to make a simple fireworks mine using Skylighters flying fish fuse.
Learn how to make firework mines, an effect that shoots firework stars into the air from a tube.
Other
How to build a ball mill cabinet for soundproofing while grinding.
How to safely and effectively use a ball mill to grind pyrotechnic materials.
Learn hand ramming techniques used to ram pyrotechnic compositions into tubes for various pyrotechnic devices.
Learn one mans method for making the firework chemical copper salicylate.
Learn how to coat your fireworks paper mortar tubes with a varnish to help protect them for longer use.
How to make a drying chamber to dry pyrotechnic materials.
Learn how to mill small batches of firework chemicals using a cheap coffee grinder you can buy at Walmart.
Pyrotechnic formula for creating a fire starter composition which is great for emergency fire starting.
Learn how to make multi-shot pyrotechnic effects homemade fireworks firing boards, these are like large firework cakes.
Learn the differences between the different grades of black powder and their uses in pyrotechnics.
How to properly define metal particle size and shape
This article on making a bucket screen, by Ned Gorski, is a side article that goes with the Ball Milling 101 article printed in Skylighter Fireworks Tips Newsletter #91.
How to make good homemade charcoal for use in blackpowder and fireworks stars.
Learn a technique for rolling round firework stars in a large bowl.
PGI grandmaster Ned Gorski teaches you how make and test high-powered black powder with red gum.
Learn how to make a better rocket nozzle mix using clay, grog and wax.
Learn how to understand mesh sizes and microns and what size screens different mesh sizes will fit through.
Learn the different metal powder particle shapes used in pyrotechnics.
How to choose the appropriate media for safe ball milling.
Learn how to make your cardboard paper end plugs fit better into your firework tubes.
This article explains how to coat aluminum powder with boric acid to stop corrosion of the aluminum powder in firework star compositions.
Learn how to rewrite pyrotechnic formulas from parts per weight to percentages.
Learn how to build a drying box for drying out firework stars and other hygroscopic materials.
Learn how to make homemade fireworks sparklers with strontium nitrate.
Learn to understand kraft paper grain and how to use the grain to your advantage while building fireworks
Learn how to make the Vesuvian Volcano classic High School chemistry demonstration with Ammonium Dichromate.
Other Fireworks
Learn how to make blue gerbs, also known as firework fountains.
Learn formulas and basic techniques for making strobe pot fireworks.
Learn how to make firework crack balls using a simple pyrotechnic formula.
Learn how to make homemade sparklers with Skylighter fall leaf and flying fish fuses.
Learn how to make colored smoke bombs with organic powdered dyes.
This is an excerpt from the Westech Manual, it explains how to make different types of firework spark wheels for use in set pieces.
Learn how to make firework methods as well as pyrotechnic formulas for making firework spark wheels known as saxons.
Learn how to make tourbillion spinning fireworks, also known a whirlwinds, geyers and table rockets.
Learn how to make fireworks waterfalls including pyrotechnic formulas and techniques used.
Rockets
Learn how to make blue strobe rocket composition using a simple pyrotechnic formula.
Learn how to make different colored sky rockets using several different pyrotechnic formulas and various firework chemicals.
PGI grandmaster Ned Gorski teaches you how make end-burner black powder rockets.
Pyrotechnic formula for making sky rockets using firefly aluminum powder.
Learn several formulas for making various colored sky rockets as well as the techniques for making them.
Learn how to make core burner black powder sky rockets using Skylighter 4 oz. rocket tooling.
Learn how to make fireworks stinger missile stickless black powder sky rockets using Skylighter's stinger missile rocket tooling.
Learn how to make a better rocket nozzle mix using clay, grog and wax.
Learn how to cut your own sky rocket sticks from a length of wood using a tablesaw.
Learn how to make fireworks sky rockets with a very simple sugar motor rocket propellant. Using only sorbitol and potassium nitrate you'll be flying homemade solid fuel sugar rockets in no time.
Learn how to make miniature sky rockets using Skylighter's chinese visco fuse.
Learn how to make whistle rocket fuel using a pyrotechnic formula containing sodium salicylate.
Learn how to make white strobe rockets using a simple pyrotechnic formula and common firework chemicals.
Learn how to make a small sky rockets using flying fish fuse.
Shells
Learn how to coat rice hulls with homemade black powder so they can be used as burst charge inside an aerial fireworks artillery shell.
Learn how to make firework shells using plastic film canisters.
Learn how to make Go Getters an animated star used in aerial shells or mines that swims all over the sky.
Part 1 of a 3 part series on how to make 8 inch fireworks aerial shells in 3 days.
Part 2 of a 3 part series on how to make 8 inch fireworks aerial shells in 3 days.
Part 3 of a 3 part series on how to make 8 inch fireworks aerial shells in 3 days.
Special Effects
Learn how to make a poof of smoke stage special effect for making a witch magically appear on stage.
Learn how to treat wood with the firework chemical copper chloride (also known as campfire blue) in order to make beautiful colored fires.
Learn how to make a colored fire flame projector for stage special effects, colored fire flames or backyard fun.
Learn how to make a cremora bomb special effects fireball.
Stars, Comets and Compositions
Formula for making red firework stars for firework aerial artillery shells, mines and other pyrotechnic effects.
Learn how to use black powder and flash powder to make the break charge for your crossette comets.
Learn how to make a mortar rack to shoot individual firework stars like mini comets.
Ones mans experiments using bismuth subcarbonate to make Dragon Eggs crackling firework stars.
Learn about which firework chemicals are known as chlorine donors in pyrotechnic formulas, their uses and the amount of chlorine they give off.
Two formulas for firework stars using the firework chemical copper benzoate.
Pyrotechnic formulas that use copper powder for various firework devices including firework stars and strobe pots.
Fourteen firework star formulas.
An article on how to make cut stars for fireworks in an hour or less by Ian von Maltitz.
Learn how to evenly dampen small and large batches of firework stars with water.
Formula for green firework stars using various firework chemicals particularly barium nitrate.
Pyrotechnic forumla for making firefly aluminum firework stars.
Pyrotechnic formula and notes for making green firework stars without the dangerous firework chemicals barium nitrate and chlorate.
Learn how to make pillbox stars including rolling their paper tubes and their pyrotechnic formulas.
Learn how to make beautiful gold glitter firework stars.
Learn how to make firework stars using a firefly aluminum powder pyrotechnic formula.
Learn various methods and tools used for pressing comets including comet pumps and plates.
Learn how to make your round firework stars a uniform size using a firework stars sizing screen for use in aerial artillery shells.
A few pyrotechnic formulas for making willow firework stars.
Pyrotechnic formula for making a black powder using palm tree charcoal.
Learn how to properly test your firework stars using a star gun to see how they will look in the air.
Formula and notes on blue firework stars including the winning pyrotechnic formula from the FPGA blue firework star composition firework competition.
Learn the different forms of copper used in blue pyrotechnic formulas for firework stars as well as the fuels used in these compositions. Also several pyrotechnic formulas for blue firework stars.
This article contains information collected from various tests on blue firework star compositions using various pyrotechnic formulas and fireworks chemicals.
Learn a basic color system used to make various firework stars using a number of different firework chemicals.
Learn what the firefly aluminum powder firework star effect is and how to make it using several different pyrotechnic formulas.
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