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The Best of American Fireworks News III
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Best of AFN III - Picks up where Best of AFN II leaves off. All the articles that appeared in the 5 years ending April '95. 200 pages jam-packed with up-to-date how-it-is-done fireworks info! From beginner to advanced worker, this book has something for everyone.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- PART I - ROUND STARS
- Selection of Cores
- Selection of Solvent System
- Pans and Shaker Cans
- Getting Started
- Spiking Problems
- Size Uniformity
- Star Breakage During Rolling
- The "Driven In" Problem
- PART II - STAR FORMULAS
- Red Resin Fuel Stars
- Green and Aqua Resin Fuel Stars
- Blue and Purple Stars
- Magnesium Stars
- Glitter Stars
- Flitter Stars
- Charcoal Streamer Stars
- Ammonium Perchlorate Colored Stars
- Flash Core Composition
- Strobe Stars
- Crackle Stars
- PART III - THE ROUND SHELL
- Strawboard and Paper Hemispheres
- Insertion of Fuse
- Loading of Stars
- The Burst Charge
- Assembly of Shell - Plastic
- Assembly of Shell - Paper
- The Lift Charge
- The Double Petalled Round Shell
- Ring and Intersector Shells
- Rising Tails
- Meteor Shells
- Saturn Shells
- Dark Composition
- DISPLAY GOODS & OPERATIONS
- The Basic Technician, #1,2,3
- Unexplained Explosion & Probability Theory
- Pyro Emitting Device
- Fireworks on a Budget
- Vis-A-Vis Fountains
- Neon Blue & Recumbent Lances
- Molecular Sieves as Cores
- Lance Development
- Illumination Breaks & Shimmering Curtains
- Pyro Surprises
- Push Sticks Aid Low Breaks
- Eight Experiments in Non-Commercial Black Powder
- Quote of the Month
- Method of Conducting Pyrotechnic Experiments
- Round Star Tips
- The Quest for Fast Powder
- Match Warning
- Ball Mill Tip
- Super Polverone
- Chlorine Donors
- Make Your Own Dextrin
- Primer for Making Cut Stars
- Yellow Powder
- Pass the Grog
- Modeling Clay & The Pyro
- Don't Throw Away Fax Tubes
- Sculpy Revisited
- Table for Cutting Stars
- Drying Stars & Grinding Chemicals
- Pyro Hint
- Brilliant Orange/Titanium Stars
- Dragon Egg Warning
- Using Kerosene?
- Using Kerosene in Fireworks
- Production of Benzoate Color Agents
- Charcoal
- Making Charcoal in Small Quantities
- More About Charcoal
- In Praise of Cupric Octoate
- Building a Spiking Horse
- Easily Made Round Shell Casings
- Rice Hulls - Is There an Alternative
- Tedium Reliever
- The Beautiful 4" Spider Web Shell
- Making Homemade Wheat Paste
- Gold-Ferro Aluminum Flitter
- Round Shell Construction Using Inner & Outer Shell Casings
- Bright Star Compositions with High Magnalium Content
- Mag/55 Enhances Aerial Salutes
- Microstar Bursts Without Microstars
- Microjet Stars
- Crackle Stars
- Crackling Micro Stars
- Aqueous Binding of Sodium Nitrate Stars
- Cut Stars - Without Cutting
- Long Lasting Paper Mortars
- Visco Time Fuse Expedient
- Shrink That Visco For Time
- Visco Time Fuse
- Are Your Ready Boxes Ready?
- Cheap Tool Aids Lance Assembly
- Alternative Cores For Burst Charge
- Mr. Cheapo & His Used Vermiculite
- Another Core for Round Stars
- Making Quickmatch
- Splicing Piped Match
- Match Pipe Making Simplified
- Make Your Own Black Match
- Variations on Standard Quickmatch Manufacture
- The Gabe Mort
- Neapolitan Ground Bombs
- Water Fireworks
- Tidy Little Electrical Firing Box
- Comments on Electrical Firing Box
- Comments on Electrical Firing Circuits
- Delay Circuit
- More on Timer Circuits
- Simple Electric Matches
- Electric Matches & Squibs
- To Ground or Not To Ground
- Understanding and Using Capacitive-Discharge Electrical Firing Equipment
- Electric Ignition of Shock Tube Firing Systems
- Electric Percussive Art Shooting of Shock Tube
- Whistle - Jetex Questions Answered
- CHEMICALS & SENSITIVITY
- Why Protect Magnesium?
- Protecting Magnesium II
- Hates Potassium Permanganate
- Safety Considerations
- Simple Techniques for Testing Unfamiliar Compositions
- Red Phosphorus - Bride of Frankenstein
- Phosphorus Fireworks
- Lessons Learned in Flash Production
- Measurement of Aerial Shell Velocity
- Stars Blown Blind
- Asks About Nickel Toxicity
- Adiabatic Heating of Bridge Wires
- The Many Use of Pyro Wax
- Quote of the Month
- More on Using Coarse Aluminum Turnings
- Using Coarse Aluminum Turnings
- Nitro cartons
Code No. 009635, $61.50
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Pyrotechnics
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