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A Professional's GuideTo Pyrotechnics: Understanding And Making Exploding Fireworks
This book offers a well-rounded selection of reliable, well-researched formulas for the most popular exploding fireworks, including M80s, cherry bombs, ash cans, chasers, globe torpedoes, Knallkorpers, aerial bombs, cracker balls, Flashcrackas and more. For academic study only.
136 pages, Paperback
First published April 30, 1997
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August 11, 2022
The writer repeatedly uses the phrase 'the wise pyrotechnician' in an attempt to continually remind the reader that the subject and creation of fireworks is a dangerous craft. Some chemicals are highly
toxic - and thus much harder to attain in the United States. We won't even go into the highly unstable ones that can ignite or explode without a fuse even nearby as well as those that interact with higher humidity.
Construction of various types from the small crackers to rockets and several types in between. In some cases, drawings from patents included.
So, if one wants to gain the skills to construct their own fireworks - please investigate local, state and federal regulations before investing - the key words are safety, carefully, cautiously and meticulously clean.
I admit that I was curious as the city nearby - and where I work - had someone try to make their own homemade in their apartment. . . . His mixture exploded - blowing out all four walls and devastating the floor he lived on as well as concussion damage in the apartments above and below his own. Along with several floors of smoke and water damage. Have to wonder what he was thinking. Oh, and he survived to be arrested in his hospital bed. And to have quite the number of unhappy neighbors I would guess.
2022-174
toxic - and thus much harder to attain in the United States. We won't even go into the highly unstable ones that can ignite or explode without a fuse even nearby as well as those that interact with higher humidity.
Construction of various types from the small crackers to rockets and several types in between. In some cases, drawings from patents included.
So, if one wants to gain the skills to construct their own fireworks - please investigate local, state and federal regulations before investing - the key words are safety, carefully, cautiously and meticulously clean.
I admit that I was curious as the city nearby - and where I work - had someone try to make their own homemade in their apartment. . . . His mixture exploded - blowing out all four walls and devastating the floor he lived on as well as concussion damage in the apartments above and below his own. Along with several floors of smoke and water damage. Have to wonder what he was thinking. Oh, and he survived to be arrested in his hospital bed. And to have quite the number of unhappy neighbors I would guess.
2022-174
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