Thread: Ask Me About Pyrotechnics

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Awesome.

Okay my country is silly and has prohibited the sale of skyrockets for public use. So instead we just have lame roman candles.

How do I make a sky rocket homemade? You know. Like, the rockets that fly up high then explode real big with sparks and stuff?

create a black power rocket add flash powder in one end and add stars to that end, seal it up and, Volia!

Originally Posted by Pyrofan1

create a black power rocket add flash powder in one end and add stars to that end, seal it up and, Volia!
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How do you do that? Could you pm me/give me some links?

Errr, i dont really have any questions to ask but if your into it ill let you in on a little of my pyro background.

-Iv always loved fire, destruction, explosions.
-I started making pipe bombs/c02 bombs and stuff 9th grade
-SOmone told on me, i got my house search by police, my room torn apart...bastards.
-I just foundout my friend has a major connection, (ammonium nitrate, idoine crystals (fun) !!potasium chlorate!!! So im thinking im going to get back into this.

-A few years ago i tried to make potasium chlorate with bleach and potassium chloride...
-It didnt work.

Blue menine, thats Very simplily made with common sense, i dont feel like typing up directions right now Lol, but i can think of a few origional ways. Anyway, if u really care and want to know i can type u up a really awsome design in a PM.

-A few years ago i tried to make potasium chlorate with bleach and potassium chloride...
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you would need to oxidize the KCL to KCLO3

-I just foundout my friend has a major connection, (ammonium nitrate, idoine crystals (fun) !!potasium chlorate!!! So im thinking im going to get back into this.
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Lucky, I have to synthesize everything from scratch.

Originally Posted by Pyrofan1

Lucky, I have to synthesize everything from scratch.

Is there an easy way of making potassium nitrate (I want to start out with a smoke bomb since it would be hard to get killed with)? I live in Massachusetts where all fireworks are illegal (technically you can't even use sparklers), and the only stump remover around is Bonide StumpOut, which is sodium metasulfide or something like that, not KNO3.

http://www.pyrosummit.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=649

Originally Posted by ShYne123

We are talking about big bombs, destruction bombs not "fireworks" Lol.
You can make that easily with any common sense and a little gunpowder.

-You can easily make gunpoweder, buy it if your over 18, or get it from rocket engines. (the engines are wicked expensive :-/ )

-If you dont want fire you can use chlorine and brake fuild

-Or peroxide and the black stuff in alkaline batteries. (Dosnt work too great actaully)

You are seriously dangerous. Anyway, i'm probably more dangerous (in terms of chemical/explosive knowledge) than all u guys put together but i would never use any of this stuff (too impure and dangerous to myself) and i would certainly never post how to make crap on a forum.

Originally Posted by ShYne123

-I started making pipe bombs/c02 bombs and stuff 9th grade
-SOmone told on me, i got my house search by police, my room torn apart...bastards.
-I just foundout my friend has a major connection, (ammonium nitrate, idoine crystals (fun) !!potasium chlorate!!! So im thinking im going to get back into this.

-A few years ago i tried to make potasium chlorate with bleach and potassium chloride...
-It didnt work.

stuff+ Anyway, if u really care and want to know i can type u up a really awsome design in a PM.

You don't realize the inherant danger in even typing the word bmb on the internet, even if you were already searched and found to be clean, i mean most likely nobody's watching this forum but still... as far as the police thing, do u realize how lucky you were, if they found a pipebmb, you could have gone to prison. The truth about a lot of this pyrotechnic stuff is if you study wikipedia enough you can make just about anything out of anything. By the way, i'm not exactly sure how you tried to prepare the potassium chlorate, did you boil the bleach then just drop the potassium chloride in? Because if you did, there's an elementary problem with that setup that wikipedia left out for good reason. Also, household bleach is only a 3-6% concentration of sodium hypochlorite... Anyway, i'm just explaining why your bleach experiment didnt work. Anyway, there's legal ways you can get potassium perchlorate even () but according to law you can buy no more than 1lb annually without a federal licence.

Anyway, i've never even tried any of this pyrotechnic stuff (because i dont want to have an FBI file or a death with ), i just know a lot about it, the only advice i can give to you guys is: NEVER under any circumstances try to distill hydrogen peroxide, anything over 70% can rapidly decompose without reason... and anything over 90% can explode/detonate and you won't even know what the concentration is until it's too late.

Originally Posted by PenguinLord13

Is there an easy way of making potassium nitrate (I want to start out with a smoke bomb since it would be hard to get killed with)? I live in Massachusetts where all fireworks are illegal (technically you can't even use sparklers), and the only stump remover around is Bonide StumpOut, which is sodium metasulfide or something like that, not KNO3.

If your grocery store sells "salt peter", that is sodium nitrate, it is quite common in the sausage processing industry (that's where the phrase "hot dogs have nitrate in them" comes from). You can probably buy it at a drug store or online at a sausage making supplier website without attracting any attention from anyone because it's fairly common stuff and not very pure. You put the salt peter and sugar in a frying pan and heat them until they turn red. I believe they showed this method on mythbusters and since they said it there i'm simply repeating it here.

Well thats awsome, if you make that stuff then you have more experiance then me, i have only tried and failed.

-If my buddy dosnt come through with the materials could you please PM me with how you make amonium nitrate? Ill be sure to remember your name
-that is awsome.
-There was a time i was obsolutily obsessed with c4, i know exactily how to make it, and like all of its specs lol.
-I just kept failing with the chlorate :-/

-If my buddy dosnt come through with the materials could you please PM me with how you make amonium nitrate?
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can do

-I just kept failing with the chlorate :-/
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I can help with that too

Can you do pyrokinesis in real life?

I said pyrotechnics

but ITS teH same1! ! 1111111


How do I make fireworks

How do I make fireworks
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That's too general of a question

We are talking about big bombs, destruction bombs not "fireworks" Lol.
You can make that easily with any common sense and a little gunpowder.

-You can easily make gunpoweder, buy it if your over 18, or get it from rocket engines. (the engines are wicked expensive :-/ )

-If you dont want fire you can use chlorine and brake fuild

-Or peroxide and the black stuff in alkaline batteries. (Dosnt work too great actaully)

-Or peroxide and the black stuff in alkaline batteries. (Dosnt work too great actaully)
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The gas that that reaction creates is oxygen (lots of fun)

We are talking about big bombs, destruction bombs not "fireworks" Lol.
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I said pyrotechnics, not explosive (but explosives are a part of pyrotechnics)

Explosives are for making explosions, (Duh) pyrotechnics are for making fire.

In where you live, are fireworks without a license illegal?

I'm not trying to go Internet-Police ™ I'm just wondering.

are fireworks without a license illegal?
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some kinds

If I placed potassium into, say, sulphuric acid and threw it up in the sky, would you consider that a firework?

no

Why not?

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

Why not?
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Because to be considered a firework it need to have an oxidizer, a fuel and some sort of an effect. with what your talking about has an effect, but no fuel or no oxidizer.

It's fire, it works, and it's a work of fire. Fireworks by definition.