Tube Sparklers
These videos show you how to screen and mix chemicals for making tube sparklers. As well as rolling tubes, filling small and large tubes with sparkler composition, installing a fuse and how the finished sparklers will look when lit.
If you would like to learn to make fireworks in as little as one weekend check out the Turbo Pyro Kit and accompanying eBook.
Finished Sparklers
Finished tube sparklers, one made without metal and one made with ferro-titanium added.
Screening Nitrate
Screening potassium nitrate through a 40-mesh screen to make sure it is fine enough to use in the sparkler composition.
Mixing Composition
Screen mixing the potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal together to make the sparkler composition.
Fill Small Sparkler
Using a funnel and dowel to help fill small paper tubes with sparkler composition.
Fill Large Sparkler
How to roll a larger sparkler tube out of a sheet of printer paper and then fill that tube with sparkler composition.
Installing Fuse
How to install a length of visco fuse on your tube sparkler for safe lighting.
Titanium Sparkler
Demonstration of a tube sparkler with titanium added to the sparkler composition creating long hang time sparks.
If you would like to learn to make fireworks in as little as one weekend check out the Turbo Pyro Kit and accompanying eBook.