Skylighter Fireworks Tips
December 26, 2002 -- Issue #45

If you get your next order of $200.00 or more in to us between now and Saturday, December 28, 2002 at 5:00 PM, you can pick any one of the following absoposilutely free. And that’s in addition to taking advantage of the free offers listed below. If you decide to jump on this, just order from our web site pronto. Use the comments section of your order to tell us which one you want. Limit of one per order. Since some of these are one-of-a kind items, it’d be a good idea to give us a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice. And, fer pity’s sake, don’t waste your time writing us to find out if we still have the thing in stock. In the time it takes you to write us and fer us to get around to replying, I can purt near guarantee you it WILL have been scarfed up by somebody else who *could* read these here directions.

Very limited numbers of the following, most one of a kind:

• Fog machine and fluid. Used as a demo machine several times and retailing for about $100. We’ll tell you where to get more non-toxic fog fluid.
  
  
• 3-inch mortars. Five heavy-walled (3/8 inch - 1/2 inch) tubes, various lengths from 13-24 inches. Value is $15.00.
  
  
• TU1020, 200 of them. Check the Parallel Tubes page of our web site for details. Value is $28.60.
  
  
• Assorted disks. Zillions of them. Many sizes, with and without holes, most about 1/16 inch thick. Useable as-is, or can be trimmed to other sizes you may need. 5-10 pounds of disks in each box. Somma my display shooting buddies use ‘em stapled onto racks to keep wires and quickmatch outa the way. Value is $80-$90.
  
  
• End caps for 3-3/8 to 3-1/2 inch (OD) tubes with 7/32-inch hole. Perhaps 1,000 or more in a 10-15 pound box. Value is approximately $75-$100.
  
  
• 12 long parallel tubes, our choice. These are an assortment various sized, long tubes, the uncut ones we sell. They all have some defect or damage, but there is still lots of useable tube in each one. Value is around $20.
  
  
• Maltese Irdieden video by Toni Busuttil. A $29.95 value. For more information on Maltese Irdieden fireworks, see "The Maniac from Malta" article in a previous Skylighter Bulletin 16 (June 16, 2001).

WHISTLE ROCKET FUEL IN UNDER 8 HOURS

If you want to make whistle rockets or whistle and strobe rocket combinations, the most tedious part of the whole process is making the whistle mix. Dan McMurray has provided an excellent article on how you can cut the time it takes to make up a batch of whistle, and improve the quality of the fuel as well. Thank you, Dan. This is kind of article we would like to see more of. Read on and see why.

Whistle Rocket Fuel in Under 8 Hours
To improve fuel quality and decrease preparation time, this recipe uses Naphtha (i.e., VM&P Naphtha, Camping Fuel, or Mineral Spirits) as the Vaseline solvent instead of Acetone or Toluene. The Naphtha solvent minimizes moisture accumulation while drying and eliminates the need to crush and/or screen the dried fuel (see Solvent Comments below). Using VM&P (Varnish Makers and Painters) Naphtha and drying over hot water, about 4 kilograms (around 10 pounds) of fuel can be prepared and ready for use in 3 to 4 hours.

Equipment List

• Safety Glasses
• Chemical gloves (e.g., Playtex, vinyl, PVC, or other types) suitable for handling Naphtha solvent. Thin latex gloves are not suitable - they will dissolve. Heavy-duty chemical gloves are too big and bulky to fit in the bowl. The best gloves I have found are the disposable vinyl gloves sold by Home Depot.
  
  
• Breathing respirator suitable for working with organic paint solvents
  
  
• Scale suitable for weighing chemicals
  
  
• Two sieves (one 20-mesh and one 40-mesh). Skylighter has these for around $16 each.
  
  
• Three mixing bowls, each of which is large enough to hold the completed mixture, with half the bowl space remaining. One of the mixing bowls should be made of stainless steel to withstand Naphtha solvent and heat. The other mixing bowls must be made of plastic.
  
  An 8-quart stainless steel mixing bowl ideal for this purpose is made by Metro (Item No. 0065) and available at Wal-Mart for about $5.00. This bowl is large enough to make a 4 kg (about 10 pound) batch of fuel. A 4-bowl set of covered plastic mixing bowls is made by Sterilite (No. 0747) and available at Wal-Mart for about $3.00. Only the 2 largest bowls are needed.
  
  
• A 500 to 1500 milliliter glass, plastic, or metal container (e.g., a Pyrex beaker, 1-quart Mason jar) for melting the Vaseline and mixing the Vaseline with Naphtha solvent.
  
  
• Small pan suitable for heating about 2 quarts of water to melt the Vaseline
  
  
• Optional: Ball mill with two containers and two sets of media: one for fuel/catalyst and one for oxidizer.
  
  
• Optional: A large pan suitable for heating enough water to "float" the stainless mixing bowl, but small enough to keep the bowl from turning over.
  
  A good combination of stainless mixing bowl and large pan can be purchased from Wal-Mart. The stainless mixing bowl is an 8-quart bowl made by Metro (Item No. 0065). The pan is a 16-quart covered Teflon coated aluminum sauce pot made by Mirro (Mfg. No. 34018). The total cost of the bowl and pot is around $30.00. If you look a bit, less expensive 16-quart sauce pots are available.

Ingredients for 76/23/1+3 Sodium Salicylate Whistle Fuel

INGREDIENT	SMALL BATCH 1/4 pound	LARGE BATCH 10 pounds
Potassium Perchlorate powder (oxidizer)	76 grams	3040 grams
Sodium Salicylate powder (fuel)	23 grams	920 grams
Iron Oxide (catalyst)	1 grams	40 grams
Vaseline (stabilizer)	3 grams	120 grams
Naphtha (Vaseline solvent)	25 milliliters	1000 milliliters

Solvent Comments

Unlike Acetone or Toluene, Naphtha (i.e., VM&P Naphtha, Camping Fuel, or Mineral Spirits) is an excellent Vaseline solvent and a poor Sodium Salicylate solvent. Naphtha evaporates without attracting moisture and hard fuel clumps do not form when the solvent evaporates.

Chemically, Acetone and Toluene are classified as "polar solvents." Both are very flammable, evaporate rapidly, and are hard on the respiratory system. Acetone mixes well with water. Toluene mixes with water, but not well.

Sodium Salicylate is classified as a "polar reactant." Acetone and Toluene are Sodium Salicylate solvents; thus, hard clumps of Sodium Salicylate form when the solvent evaporates.

Potassium Perchlorate and Iron Oxide are not soluble in Acetone, Toluene, VM&P Naphtha, Camping Fuel, or Mineral Spirits.

Vaseline (i.e., petroleum jelly) is classified as a "non-polar reactant." Acetone and Toluene are poor Vaseline solvents.

VM&P Naphtha, Camping Fuel, and Mineral Spirits are all classified as "non-polar solvents." All are excellent Vaseline solvents and poor Sodium Salicylate solvents. All are easy on the respiratory system. None of these solvents mix with water. All work well in this recipe.

Camping Fuel is inexpensive, readily available and very flammable. Mineral Spirits and VM&P Naphtha are readily available and less flammable than Camping Fuel, Acetone, or Toluene. Mineral Spirits and VM&P Naphtha are more expensive than Camping Fuel, but less expensive than Acetone or Toluene. VM&P Naphtha and Mineral Spirits can be found in the PAINT section at Home Depot and most hardware stores. Camping Fuel for portable stoves and lanterns can be found in the Sporting Goods section of most discount stores like Wal-Mart or K-Mart.

VM&P Naphtha evaporates faster than Camping Fuel. Mineral Spirits evaporates slower than Camping Fuel. When stirred every 15 to 20 minutes over a pan of hot water, VM&P Naphtha evaporates in 2 to 3 hours. Camping Fuel takes a full 8 hours to evaporate and Mineral Spirits take even longer.

Recipe

1. Using the scale, weigh out the Sodium Salicylate and Iron Oxide into the stainless mixing bowl. Using the scale, weigh out the Potassium Perchlorate into a separate plastic mixing bowl.
   
   Using the scale, weigh out the required amount of Vaseline into the melting container.
   
   WARNING: While dry, Potassium Perchlorate must not be mixed with, screened with, or ball milled with Sodium Salicylate. The dry mixture of Potassium Perchlorate and Sodium Salicylate is very static, shock, and friction sensitive. THE DRY MIXTURE IS EXPLOSIVE!!
   
   Optional: To increase burning speed -- Both the Sodium Salicylate & Iron Oxide mixture and the Potassium Perchlorate may be ball milled, but not together. In both cases, 8 hours of ball milling should be long enough. While being ball milled, the Sodium Salicylate & Iron Oxide mixture may have to be broken-up periodically because it has a tendency to stick to the sides of the ball mill.
   
   WARNING: The Sodium Salicylate & Iron Oxide mixture (i.e., fuel & catalyst) must be ball milled in a different container with different media from the container and media used to ball mill the Potassium Perchlorate (i.e., oxidizer).
   
   Fill the small pan with enough water to almost "float" the Vaseline melting container. Place the container of Vaseline into the water. Heat the pan, water, and Vaseline melting container until the Vaseline is completely melted.
   
   If the optional large pan of hot water will be used to dry the final mixture, the large pan of water should be put on to heat at this time.
   
   
FOR THE REMAINING STEPS, WEAR SAFETY GLASSES, CHEMICAL GLOVES, AND A BREATHING RESPIRATOR SUITABLE FOR WORKING WITH ORGANIC PAINT SOLVENTS.

REMOVE ALL HAND JEWELRY, WATCHES, AND BELT BUCKLES. OTHER THAN THE STAINLESS STEEL MIXING BOWL AND WATER POT, MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO METAL OBJECTS IN THE WORK AREA.

WARNING: GO OUT OF DOORS!!! DO NOT PERFORM THE FOLLOWING STEPS INSIDE!!! STAY AWAY FROM OPEN FLAMES, SPARKS, OR OTHER POSSIBLE IGNITION SOURCES!!! NAPHTHA IS FLAMMABLE.
WARNING: DO NOT PERFORM THE FOLLOWING STEPS IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT!!! THE STAINLESS STEEL MIXING BOWL CAN FOCUS THE SUNLIGHT AND IGNITE THE MIXTURE.


2. Using a clean plastic mixing bowl, screen the Sodium Salicylate & Iron Oxide mixture through the 20-mesh sieve. Place the screened result back into the stainless mixing bowl. Using a clean plastic mixing bowl, screen the Potassium Perchlorate through the 40-mesh sieve. Place the screened result into a plastic mixing bowl.
   
   
3. If the Vaseline melting container is made of glass, make sure the Vaseline melting container is cool enough to keep from breaking when cold Naphtha is added.
   
   Measure and pour about half of the required amount of Naphtha into the container with the melted Vaseline. Shake and/or stir until the Naphtha and Vaseline are thoroughly mixed. Pour the Naphtha & Vaseline mixture into the stainless mixing bowl with the Sodium Salicylate & Iron Oxide. Pour the rest of the required amount of Naphtha into the Vaseline melting container, swirl it around to rinse off the Vaseline residue, and add the rinse to the mix.
   
   
4. Using one gloved hand only, distribute the Naphtha & Vaseline mixture throughout the Sodium Salicylate & Iron Oxide. Scoop up the mixture, a hand full at a time, and squeeze it through your fingers until no dry powder is present in the bowl. Continue until the mixture looks like smooth tomato soup - no lumps.
   
   
5. Using your clean gloved hand, pour all of the Potassium Perchlorate into the stainless mixing bowl.
   
   NOTE: Adding Naphtha & Vaseline to the Sodium Salicylate & Iron Oxide before adding the Potassium Perchlorate "wets" and stabilizes the mixture, making it much safer to handle.
   
   
6. Using both gloved hands, combine the ingredients. Scoop up hands full of the mixture and squeeze it through your fingers until the ingredients are completely mixed. This step typically takes 5 minutes - and I do mean a full 5 minutes. The resulting wet mixture should be smooth and a uniform dark red color.
   
   
7. Using both gloved hands, clean as much of the mixture as possible off of your gloves into the bowl. Your gloves may be removed at this time and placed to the side to dry. When dry, any fuel remaining on your gloves may be easily removed.
   
   Using a soft plastic spatula, scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl, stir the mixture, and re-spread the mixture on the sides of the bowl. Repeat every 15 to 20 minutes until the mixture is dry and powdered.
   
   Optional: To reduce drying time (especially during cold weather) -- Fill the large pan with enough water to "float" the stainless mixing bowl, bring the water to a boil, remove the pan of boiling water from the heat, and take it outside. Float the bowl of wet mixture in the pan of hot water. Using a soft plastic spatula, scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl, stir the mixture, and re-spread the mixture on the sides of the bowl. Repeat periodically for the next 2 to 3 hours. The more often the wet mixture is scraped, stirred, and re-spread on the heated sides of the bowl, the faster it dries. During cold weather, insulate the outside of the pan to keep the water from cooling before the Naphtha evaporates. As a rule, when the water is cold, the mixture is dry and powdered.
   
   When completely dry, the properly combined mixture is soft, fluffy, and powdered. Any lumps are soft and crumble easily between the soft spatula and the side of the bowl. The dry, properly combined mixture should not need to be screened.
   
   
8. If required, carefully screen the mixture through the 20-mesh sieve using a soft plastic spatula.
   
   
9. Inspect the powder for white granules among the red. The presence of white granules indicates that the ingredients were not properly mixed in Step 7. The correction is to thoroughly "wet" the mixture with Naphtha and repeat Steps 7, 8, and 9.
   
   
10. When complete, properly store the resulting powder.
    
    WARNING: At this point, the mixture is still static, shock, and friction sensitive (although the Vaseline has stabilized and desensitize the mix).

HANDLE AND STORE WHISTLE ROCKET FUEL AS YOU WOULD FLASH!

This article is a vehicle for exchanging information in the pyrotechnics craft. Readers are urged to learn and obey all laws and regulations of all federal, state and local jurisdictions and their agencies and representatives. Some information herein may contain incomplete descriptions of fireworks techniques based on the experience of its author(s) in a controlled environment with circumstances and conditions different from a reader’s. Readers must form their own opinion as to the application of this information. This information is considered documentary in nature and no opinion is given as to its suitability or use. No warranties are made either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of the accuracy of the information herein.
Copyright: The content of this article is Ó Copyright 2002 All Rights Reserved by Robert D. (Dan) McMurray. This publication is edited for, is published by, and is the sole property of the copyright owner(s). This publication is not to be sold, distributed or reproduced without written permission from the copyright owner(s).


We’re now carrying a selection of so-called Novelty items here at Skylighter. You can click the Novelty Fireworks button on our web site to see them. They are considered so safe that they are shippable by mail or UPS with no restrictions nor hazmat fees. Some of these are fun to have on hand for New Years’ parties. But if you want anything for New Year’s, you should order yesterday. We may run out before then. You may think these are just toy fireworks, but nooooooo... Nosireenbob. These can be used for all kinds of serious fun. You may think that these things are only good for your usual New Year’s celebrations, birthdays, weddings and such-like. But they have waaay more uses than such pedestrian affairs. For instance:

Sparklers make excellent enhancers for exorcisms. Our neat sparkler tree can be used in primitive societies when it may become necessary to outwit the village shaman.

Plan to liven up your next funeral by including snaps, poppers, and sparklers. Using them to raise the dead is not entirely out of the question.

Punk sticks can be planted in such as way as to frame enemies who are not really dopers.

Pulling fireworks make beneficial booby traps. Got a big, ole fat wife? Just think how much fun you can have by rigging the fridge door to go bang whenever she opens it. She’ll quickly get so gun shy, she’ll lose weight even thinking about opening it.

Black Snakes can be used for ridding a house of in-laws. A couple of my friends were successfully able to convert these non-regulated simple snakes into a major piece of fireworks magic, to wit:

"One day at the PGI convention, in Fargo, Bill Kimbrough and I thought that you must be able to do something with them there black snakes when we could not shoot because of the %$#^%$#ing curfew. So forty-eight boxes of 6 pellets per box were opened, then crushed to a fine powder with a blunt object (beer can). The powder was then put in a two-inch comet press and pressed under millions of pounds of pressure by hand to make a maxi snake! This 2 x 2 inch baby started off slow with a small orange flame. It them oozed a small gray snake until the whole top of the pellet started making a ten inch x fifty foot long snake, chasing the small children who were watching, and eventually devouring them, as they emitted little shrieks and gurgles and generally enhanced the effect. Even the nuns in attendance started crossing themselves. -Bill Lawrence." If you’re acquainted with the Bills Lawrence and/or Kimbrough, you will know that neither has anything else useful in life to do, and will inevitably resort to such antics when faced with either a dearth of moderating-influence wimmen, or a surfeit of time and/or alcohol. One shudders to think of the current mental state of their former grade school marms.


Electric Firing Systems. Some of you are forever trying to avoid the tedium of actually lighting your fireworks in order to make them perform. We understand this is a malady affecting not just the lame and lazy, but also indoor, theatrical, and other proximate fireworks folks. Why some people even maintain that electrical firing of fireworks can improve their displays. Wonders never cease. In order to help such people, we have added a number of electrical firing products and accessories, priced from $110 to $350 for complete systems. Photos of these products are not yet up on the site, but descriptions are. See Ignition Supplies, Electric Ignition Supplies for info.

New Kosanke 5 book. Ken and Bonnie Kosanke have come out with their latest Selected Pyrotechnic Publications of K. L. and B. J. Kosanke, Part 5 (covering material they wrote between years 1998 to 2000). This is a compendium of 19 articles on: development of a video spectrometer, measurements of glitter, lift charge loss for a shell to remain in the mortar, configuration and overload studies of concussion mortars, quickmatch--a review and study, pyrotechnic primes and priming, dud shell risk assessment--NFPA distances, dud shell risk assessment--mortar placement, performance test of a civil war black powder, caution--very fast black match, peak in-mortar aerial shell acceleration, firing precision for choreographed displays, sticky match and quickmatch--temperature dependent burn times, mortar separations in troughs and drums, preliminary study of the effect of ignition stimulus on aerial shell lift performance, particle morphology--metal fuels, peak mortar pressures when firing spherical aerial shells, indoor pyrotechnic electrostatic discharge hazard, pyrotechnic particle morphology--low melting point oxidizers, and more. 134 pages. #BK0145 $29.95.

New Videos from John Werner. John Werner just makes me sick. It seems like all he does is trot around the globe going to the world’s best fireworks festivals and displays. When he is not goofing off, watching the best fireworks imaginable, he actually is employed by a big fireworks company to help them design consumer fireworks. Rough, huh? Fortunately, he is one of the best fireworks video cameramen and editors around and has put together several videos of the fireworks displays he’s visited recently. The quality is excellent. They are shot and edited digitally. The sound and video quality is better than most of what we sell. Each video is devoted to fireworks in a particular country: Malta, Japan, and Mexico. Each country’s fireworks culture is quite different from what most of us normally see, and some of it, simply amazing. I asked John if we could offer these to our customers in the hope that he will drag me along on one of his trips, and that some of you would be able to use these really excellent quality tapes to improve the material you make. I find them both entertaining and educational.

Fireworks in Japan: Unarguably the most expertly made and artistic round (or ball) shells in the world today are made in Japan. Most of us never see such shells. But for anyone who aspires to making truly excellent ball shells, seeing what they really can be is an absolute necessity. Until you see how well Japanese shells perform, you will probably only be able to produce mediocre quality shells at best. This video, shot in Nagano in November 2002, presents the ultimate in ball shell fireworks, showing perfect timing, shape, color transitions, and creative potential. You will see beautiful layering of shells, mostly mostly 8 inchers, 10's and 12's. VD0321 (NTSC) $19.95

Fireworks in Malta: The Maltese make two truly amazing kinds of fireworks. Huge multi-break cylinder shells, up to 5 break, 10 inch diameter, 180 pound shells! And Irdieden, ground display pieces unique to Malta. You’ll see many pictures of the big shells before and during firing; the unique Maltese lift canisters being attached to shells, close-ups of various size salute inserts with unique Maltese side fusing; firing of multi-break daylight noise shells including the multi-toned, sequentially-timed salute rings; firing of multi-break shells at night with great color; and close-ups of Irdieden and firing. VD0312 (NTSC) $19.95

Fireworks in Mexico: In and around Tultepec, near Mexico City, a religious celebration is held, usually in March every year. Part of that event features an array of fireworks, the likes of which is seen nowhere else in North America. thousands of hand fired salute rockets--more volleys of rockets fired in 1 hour than most people will see in a lifetime; Mexican style 8" strobe shells, the best in the world; fantastic, crazy, pyrotechnic bulls run through the streets emitting zillions of stickless rockets which fly everywhere while crazed festival-goers dance and dodge among them; daylight towers (castillos) with pyro driven mechanical figures, wheels and girondolas; nighttime competition castillos, without a doubt the finest lancework, colors, and effects done anywhere in the world. Ironically, there are very few foreign fireworks enthusiasts in Tultepec every year. VD0300 (NTSC) $19.95


Order $117.17 of anything from Skylighter between now and Tuesday, December 31, 2002, and get 5 pounds of Potassium Perchlorate, #CH5400, absofreakinlutely free of charge. Deadline is 5:00 PM, December 31, 2002. See fine print below or... well, you know. New Twist: To take advantage of this deal, you must order from our web site. Use the comments section of the shopping cart to tell us that you want the Free Potassium Perchlorate deal.


Wade through it now or weep later. This fine print is different from the last fine print. It supersedes all previous fine print.

- You have to place your order using the shopping cart on our web site. To take advantage of this deal, you cannot fax your order in, phone your order in, mail your order in, nor wish it was here.

- You have to ask for the Free Potassium Perchlorate Deal, when you place your order-not retroactively. Use the comments section of your order to ask for it.

- You have to place your order on our web site before 5:00 PM, Eastern Time (US) on the deadline date above (not Kuala Lumpur time, not Central, Rocky Mt. nor Pacific Time).

- You have to ask for this deal when you place your order-you're not allowed to forget and then remember. You can’t order yesterday and get this deal today. We will not apply it to the last order you placed, no matter how much we love you, nor how good a customer you have convinced yourself you are.

- The minimum order total cannot include anything showing as "Temporarily Unable to Ship" or "Not Shippable" on our web site unless you’re gonna pick it up or have us deliver it. The minimum order total cannot include shipping charges or sales taxes.

- Potassium Perchlorate is a hazardous chemical. We cannot ship any hazardous materials outside of the US.

- This offer applies to US addresses only. Anything you order must be shipped to a United States address (may include Alaska, Islands, US territories, etc. so long as they have a US zip code). It is okay by us if you are a Canadian, a Mexican, or any other non-United States’er, trying to beat the system, as long as you do it by having us ship your order to a US address. This offer does not apply to our former Al Quaeda customers currently residing at our Caribbean resort at Guantanamo Bay. And, no, we will not make an exception because you want to put on a neat fireworks display just to entertain your military guards. Yes, we know they’re bored.

- No, you Canucks, we will not prorate part of your shipping costs to let you participate in this deal. You must move to the US like the rest of us did. Why put it off? Sooner or later, you know yall will be merging with us anyway in order to be able to participate in more Skylighter giveaways.

- No funny money will be given or taken on your order if you take advantage of this special offer.

- If you order $117.17 worth of stuff, you can get 5 pounds of CH5400 Potassium Perchlorate free. If you order $234.34 worth of goods, you can get 10 pounds free, and so on. If you order $117.16 wortha stuff, you don't get nothin' fer free! We are tough sonsabeeches!

- You have to ask for this deal specifically. You can’t just request "Whatever Specials You Have Right Now" or words to that effect into your order. There’s a reason for this. We only offer these deals to alert, sentient beings. We do not offer them to folks who don’t read our email bulletins or who haven’t figured out that they can go to our web site and read about our freebies before placing their orders.

- You pay any shipping costs on free items.

- You have to prepay your order before the deadline by giving us your credit card number. You cain't place the order, and get us to hold it for you, until your allowance/alimony/social security check comes. Neither should you entertain any fantasies about first placing the order and then asking us to wait for your check, or ID, or permission from your old lady. Nosireebob!

- We have to receive your ID and Hold Harmless (or you must have accepted the Hold Harmless Agreement on our web site) by the deadline. You can’t send your order and send your papers later, after the deadline.

- You have to ask for this deal when you place your order-right then; at the same time; in the comments block of yer web site order. NOT when you're talking to us on the phone; NOT in the fax you send; NOT in the letter you mail; NOT in the chicken scratchings wrapped around the yer homing pigeon's leg; NOT in the same bottle your order washed up in; NOT on the same flying carpet your messenger flew in on; NOT wrapped around the same rock that crashed through our winder here; NOT stuck in the same hole in the same tree trunk; NOT in the exact same puff of smoke you signaled your order with.

- This deal cannot be combined with any other specials or discounts. You already know this though, so why do you keep trying? NOOOO, DAMMIT. N-O. No.

- No, we won't give you this deal on the order you have already sent us; nor can you call us and tell us you forgot to mention it, because remember? You didn't ask for the deal back then! You must use at least 5% of your remember-power to get this deal.

- Yes, we really did conspire to send out this deal right after we got your huge order at full price! You KNOW we did! Must have!


Buy $127.27 wortha anything from Skylighter, and we will give you, I mean just outright souvenir you Ten Free Pounds of CH5301 Potassium Nitrate, Chunky Style. Just sign up for $127.27 worth of merchandise between now and December 31, 2002. That stuff costs $25.40 if you are so unfortunate as to miss this special deal! To take advantage of this deal, just order from our web site. Use the comments section of the shopping cart to tell us you want this deal. Check the fine print in Bulletin 44 on our web site for details or weep and wail later. You can take this freebie deal AND the free Potassium Perchlorate deal, ONLY IF you place two separate orders.