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Best of AFN V - Picks up where Best of AFN IV leaves off. All the articles that appeared in American Fireworks News newsletter for the 5 years ending April, 2005. Over 200 pages jam-packed with up-to-date how-it-is-done fireworks info! Lots of articles on shell construction, rockets, and so much more!

CONTENTS

• Preface to the 5th Edition
• Our Love Affair on the 4th
• ADVICE & SMALL DEVICES
  • Practical Use for Highly Energetic Materials Around the Home
  • Quote of the Month
  • Disassembly of a Small Festival Ball
  • M80s, Silver Salutes & Cherry Bombs
  • Consider the Risk
  • Hot Chemistry Tonight
  • Fireworks are Environmentally Healthy
  • How Things Look to a Pyrotech
  • Mini Pyro Research
  • Pyroconics for the Amateur
  • Bang Buckets
  • Bucket Preservation Project
  • Ascending Flowers Effect
  • Crackling Microstars
  • Aerolites
  • Quick & Dirty Smoke Bombs
  • Sun on a String
  • More on Cap Crap
• STARS & STUFF
  • Spin Stabilized Stars
  • The Strobe Star
  • Strobing Stingers
  • Pour Your Own White Strobe Flares
  • Colored Flash Reports
  • Using Fine Mesh Magnesium in Stars
  • Fine Firefly Aluminum
  • Fast Way to Test New Star Compositions
  • All About Copper
  • New Flake Titanium is Brighter, Faster
  • Titanium Sparks Easily
  • Flour Paste for Shell Building
  • Picric Acid Remembered
  • Moisture-Proofing Steel Filings
  • Red Phosphorous
  • Priming Chlorate Stars
  • Cutting Small Paper Plugs
  • Backyard Radios
  • Radios or Rats
  • Fire Balloons - Again
  • When American Helicopters Ruled
  • Bamboo Tips
  • Chrysanthemum Stars
  • Bentonite Tip
  • Cattails & Eco Cops
  • Cleanup Tip
  • The Willow Wood Caper
  • More on Dextrin Making
  • Paulownia Coal - What Is It
  • Sensitivity Findings
  • Saltpeter & Long Distance Commerce
  • Making Polystyrene-Xylene Glue
  • Gluing Plastic Ball Shells
  • Avoiding Serious Accidents
  • Flying-Fish Visco Shell
  • Hot Melt Glue
  • Substitute for Hexachlorobenzene
• AERIAL SHELLS & RELATED
  • 2" Round Crimson Meteors with Golden Streamer Tails
  • Mystery Behind Awesome Shell Breaks
  • Determining Positions for Angle Firing
  • Closing Oddly-Filled Shells
  • Popcorn Tip
  • Aerial Shell Burst Height as a Function of Mortar Length
  • What Do All Those Shell Names Mean
  • Mortar Exit Times for Aerial Shells
  • Coating Paper Mortars for Longer Life
  • Flowerpots and Muzzle Breaks
  • Aerial Shell Augmentation Effects
  • Tapes for Pyros
  • Effect of Reflected Blast Waves in HDPE Mortars
  • No More Walking the Finale
  • Factors Affecting the Precision of Choreographed Displays
  • Handling Misfires & Duds
  • Uplifting Thoughts
  • Using a Cargo Trailer for Display Work
  • More on Cargo Trailers
• ROCKETS
  • 3-Lb. Sugar Rocket
  • Traditional Black Powder Rockets
  • Whistle Rockets Using Strobe Rocket Tooling
  • Proper Use of Clay
  • Are Zinc/Sulfur Rockets Hot? You Bet!
  • Quickly Igniting a Flight of Small Rockets
  • Anti-bamboo Tip
  • White Strobe Rocket Notes & Comments
  • Whet Your Appetite for Wet Whistle
  • Parachute Rockets
  • Noiseless Flash Tip
  • Burping Rockets
  • Fusing Crossette Comets
  • Unmixed Flash Powder
  • Improved Rocket Tubes
  • Drill Bit Tip
  • Preparation of Clay for Rocket Nozzles
  • Gel Cap Rockets Revisited
  • 4 oz. Rocket Tip
  • Parlor Rockets
  • Instant Reading of Ram Force During Rocket Engine Construction
  • Tap-A-Jack for a Rocket Press
  • Wooden Rocket Press Construction
• STARS & MISC. MANIPULATIONS
  • Non-Sparking Magazine Interiors
  • Straight, Light Rocket Sticks
  • Building a Star Rolling Machine
  • Star Testing Device
  • Field-Expedient Paper Plugs
  • Drying Stars with a Food Dehydrator
  • Care & Feeding of a Mortar & Pestle
  • Toilet Paper Tip
  • Grinding
  • Lead Balls for Milling
  • Cannon Ball Molds Offer Milling Media
  • Casting Lead
  • Informal Notes on Hearing Protection
  • Grounding My Workshop
  • Black Powder Origin
  • "Y" Comp Mixers
  • Importance of Finales
  • Varying the Speed of a DC Motor
  • "Fireworks Are Immortal" Poem
• FUSE, IGNITION & BLACK POWDER
  • Black Powder & Horse Dung
  • Pulverone-Polverone
  • Choking Quick Match
  • Reliable Joints for Quickmatch/Visco
  • "Y" Visco
  • Visco Ignition Transfer
  • Chain Fusing Visco
  • Thermalite Substitute Formula
  • Ignition Measurements
  • Fish Fuse in Can Shells
  • Cut, Prime & Passivate Fish Fuse
  • Cheap & Easy Quickmatch
  • The Vital Link - Paper Fuse
  • No more Banana Boards
  • Safety Tips of Cross Matching
  • Time Fuse Length
  • Electric Matches
  • Chlorate Compositions in Quick Match
  • Electric Matches: Ramp Firing Current
• INDOOR & SFX
  • Fireball Effects with Inexpensive Materials
  • What is Pyrogolf?
  • Nitric Acid Loves Sulfuric Acid
  • Ghost Mines & Colored Alcohol Flames
  • Indoor Pyrotechnic Electrostatic Discharge Hazard
  • Flame Projectors
  • Improved E-Match Techniques
  • Nitrocellulose Flame Projectors
  • Nitrocellulose Flame Projectors II
  • Making Guncotton
  • Method of Producing Flash Materials
  • Follow-up to above
• GOOD STUFF TO KNOW AND DO
  • Christmas Crackers
  • The Log Splitter
  • Electric Firing of Cake Fronts
  • Your Own Consumer Fireworks Display
  • Preparation of Silver Nitrate
  • More on Silver Nitrate
  • Candle Batteries
  • Clark's Giant Steel Fountain
  • Clark's Giant Steel Fountain II
  • Magnesium + Cab-O-Sil Fiasco
  • Effect of Varying Reactant Compositions on the Senko Hanabi Reaction
  • Low Power FM & Fireworks
  • Explosion of a Ball Milling Jar
• SPECIAL QUICK MATCH SECTION
  • Its Construction & Manner of Functioning
  • Methods of Slowing Its Burning
  • Effect of Powder Loss on Its Performance
  • Effect of Humidity on Its Performance
  • Effect of Combined Factors on Its Performance
  • Hangfires & Misfires
  • Moisture Absorption by Its Components
  • Survival Time for Strings in Black Match
• WE ARE THE PYROS
  • Of Pyrogeeks & Creation
  • Nitro cartoons

Code No. 015563, $45.00

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