Too bloody cold!
Jan 18, 2009 General, Personal, Pyrotechnics
All this snow and wold weather just makes it hard to be outside testing. Knowing that I can’t test stuff, makes it hard to make new stuff… It’s a vicious circle! Last batch of BP is dried and tested and I’m well chuffed again. This’ll work great as break. I have to make a mill to get good liftpowder but I can use what I’ve got, just have to use a bit more than the optimal percentage.
I’ve got a few canisters ready for filling, but I have to make some stars and test those. Lacking dextrin as a binder, but hopefully I can make that during the coming week. My starmix has not been tested yet so I don’t know if it’s even usable, but hopefully with some good priming it’ll do the trick. My testing-mortar is ready, and this time I’ll make sure to test it while filming. Great to have some video documentation to see the progress from start to finish.
Snow is the worst part of winter. It can make for some very good photos, but again…too cold to take the camera out (for me). My camera can handle the cold, but I can’t 
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Finally!!!!!!!!!
Jan 16, 2009 General, Learning, Pyrotechnics, Science
Today I got my first successful launch 
On a downside, I didn’t bother to film it as I didn’t think it would work.
I built a very small shell, maybe a 1″ canister. I didn’t weigh it to measure the liftcharge, so it didn’t go quite as high as I wanted. The spolette I made was waaay to long and the shell actually fell back down before lighting… Booboo. Still was fun though, but I need some real timefuse!!!!!
I’ve never been more chuffed than when the mortar went of, and I saw it lift. The trail from the spolette was just cool. This was something I made myself. Learning… Here I come!
Not working until evening/night tomorrow, so I’ve got a couple hours left of today . Off to make some “pipes” for some slightly bigger canisters.
Not today
Jan 15, 2009 General, Pyrotechnics
Didn’t have a chance to do anything yesterday, as I was a bit tired from a 12 hour shift. All I did manage to do, was update my WordPress to the latest version. This was long overdue.
This morning was a bit on the dozey side, so no work done. Only 7 hours of work today though . I really don’t mind, I love my job 
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I have to make some more BP though, it takes time to dry so best to have it ready
WOW!
Jan 13, 2009 General, Learning, Pyrotechnics, Science
Success!! Read the rest of this entry »
NC lacquer alone didn’t do the trick, but mixing in some good starmix meal with the NC was successful. Homemade fuse, dipped in the NC/Starmix solution and let dry a few minutes = USABLE!
Oh Yeah!!
Jan 12, 2009 Personal, Pyrotechnics, Science
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