anybody make there own fireworks here? i finally made my first viscofuse machine and i'm trying to figure out a way to get a nice laquier or some kind of water deterent coating.

I'll be watching the local news over the next few days to see how it goes.

lol i like to keep all my digits where they are. safty is number one... blowing **** up is number two. ooo and if anybody has a good blue star recipe i need to make some for my mortar.... yes i said mortar

try using hemp...

Carp might work too!

Kereosene

when I was in high school I made some home made M80s (actually prob. significantly more powerful than an M80). Black powder, cardboard tubing, cannon fuse, hot glue gun ============> boom

jojo if you used blackpowder then your m80 was about 1/6 the stregth of a normal one. m80's are only illegal because they contain flashpowder it is a much quicker and stronger powder mixture of potassium nitrate(kno3), sulfur, and fine aluminum powder(eckart 5413-hs). you used to see it all the time in old western, cameras that use a small plate of flash powder for the lighting source, it's very illegal though to own even the uncombined components so i wouldn't suggest going out and getting some. but then again so are cubans 😛

^ Yes, but you can doctor up black powder to get a faster burn and come close.

RE #7

I think they have another name for that, rymes with "pipe bomb".

Well that just got Homeland Security's attention.

See all of you when you get out.

I guessed at more powerful because they tended to be a bit larger than an M80. As I recall the largest ones were close to 4 inches long with a 3/4 inch inside diameter.

And, yes, TG - if I were to make those today, I could get into some very serious trouble. Even just having the ingredients all in one place could get someone in real hot water. Truth is, most of us that have a yard have all the ingredients needed to make a rather powerful bomb sitting around.

well lets all go and look in our yards and see who can make national news on the 4th..sorry guys i wont be able to play cause i live in a condo but cant wait to see you on tv..

i need some 1/4 sticks!!!

Too many complications. If you are serious, join the Pyrotechnics Guild International, do safely and legally.

http://www.pgi.org/ 

i like pyro creations.com for paper tubes and they usually come with free plugs(busa happy ending) and yeah liquid bombs are super explosive but if you end up making them you might as well make the meth and sell it it's the same thing just a couple less steps... ooo and get an exhaust fan before you kill your neighbors too

and a semi cheep and easy way to get flash powder is to just undo those little plastic bottle rocketes... i think they're called whistlers.. the grey stuff in them is flashpowder...

said the little birdie

I started by taking fire crackers apart ..... went from there.

Last ones I made, the plan was to see how high we could blow a 5 gal bucket into the air ..... the thousands of parts went a fair distance. LOL

hahahaha... ok here's something that's fun and easy to do and is great for night time...

take a big bucket fill it with water

put a bottle in the water(dont get any water in the bottle)

put some of the works inside, you only need about 2inches at most, the bottle and fill up with little balls of alluminum foil and quickly...

put a big balloon over the top

you now have hydrogen gas.... stap a very long fuse to it and let it fly way up and it explodes... descently loud and a big flame...

the water keep the bottle cool so you wont burn yourself because it usually produces more gas for more than one balloon.

optional: attach hose from bottle to another container filled with water hose entering near the top and going down. the water will filter out the... i think it's chloride that's in the gas and you'll get a more pure hydrogen that is very loud

also... this is called a works bomb when you fill a two liter bottle with it and throw it... no fire but a very loud boom... works amazingly with 5gallon buckets

^ Great, and get a felony arrest for making a destructive device.