How to Make Fireworks

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Hot Glue Gun Safety

Introduction Many fireworking tasks are made easier, simpler, and quicker by the use of hot-glue. From sealing time-fuse into cardboard discs or plastic shell casings, to attaching a heading on the end of a rocket motor, the gluing can be...

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How To Make Fireworks: Blue Steel Gerbs

This little gerb project is from The Best of AFN III (BK0011). It is part of a larger article entitled "Micro star Bursts-Without Micro stars." Thanks to Jack Drewes at AFN for letting us reprint it here. An anonymous booklet...

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How To Make a Firework Crack Ball

Up at Kellner's Demo nights one spring, I ran into the fireworks nut to be known to you only as Dan X. Dan had these nifty crack balls that go bang when you drop them or knock them together. Now...

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Palm Tree Charcoal Black Powder Formula

Ed. D. supplied this one. Thanks, Ed. I've made some tests with charcoals for black powder. I’d noticed that palm fronds burn very fast in a campfire. So, in one of my tests I used palm tree wood (taken from...

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Why Make 2-Ounce Black Powder Rockets?

While these rockets are similar in scale to a consumer-fireworks black powder rocket, the motor is larger, and the aerial display is more impressive. Yet, they are still small and quiet enough to be launched anywhere a standard black powder...

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Speed Rockets

By Ned Gorski If you are old enough to remember the old Oldsmobile advertising campaign, "These are not your grandfather's black powder rockets." This newer version of the charcoal-tailed rocket motor is commonly called the "nozzleless motor," but I call...

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How to Make Cut Fireworks Stars - Firefly Effect

Whether they are fired from a mine, an aerial shell, or a rocket heading, firefly stars produce a cloud of orange charcoal-sparks, with many silver flickering sparks flashing off and on, resembling fireflies on a hot summer night. The effect...

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How To Make Flying Fish Fuse Sparklers

We got this great little homemade sparkler project from Kevin Shelley. Thanks, Kevin. Here's how he makes this fast, neat sparkler using Skylighter flying fish fuse and falling leaves fuse. "I'm writing to you to tell you how fantastic the...

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