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pyrowinner
15 Nov 2012

Bright Streamer.(Very impressive effect,)

I used this stars competition formula in my shells.

Formula taken from hardts book,

Effect: - Bright Streamer

Composition in weight:

KNO3 29%
Charcoal. 34%
Ferrotitanium. 25%
Sulphur. 6%
Dextrin. 6%

Screen the ingredients together few times. (I never

ballmill above composition) screened comp make a
longer tail as well as more glittery effect & get a longer
hang time.
Pump the stars, damp composition in 75/25 W/A. Use
BP-Silicon prime.
Edited by Mumbles, 17 November 2012 - 11:56 AM.

californiapyro
15 Nov 2012

no wonder it's bright, it's 25% ferrotitanium! well

luckily I have a very loose pyro budget, I will try this one

spitfire
16 Nov 2012

Will try this one too, although the FeTi is rather high and i
like to save it for my kamuro stars Thanks for sharing
pyrowinner!

pyrowinner
17 Nov 2012

Reconsider about Fe/Ti, Ferrotitanium is a mixing of iron

and titanium with ratio 60/40, & as we know iron is a
cheap.

So the ratio of formula is......

KNO3 29%
Charcoal. 34%
Fe. 15%
Ti. 10%
Sulphur. 6%
Dextrin. 6%

I never bought Ferrotitanium but use above formula &

Screen the ingredients.
Edited by pyrowinner, 17 November 2012 - 03:24 AM.

BengalFlair
17 Nov 2012

'pyrowinner', on 17 Nov 2012 - 09:57 AM, said:

Reconsider about Fe/Ti, Ferrotitanium is a mixing of iron

and titanium with ratio 60/40, & as we know iron is a
cheap.

So the ratio of formula is......

KNO3 29%
Charcoal. 34%
Fe. 15%
Ti. 10%
Sulphur. 6%
Dextrin. 6%

I never bought Ferrotitanium but use above formula &

Screen the ingredients.

Ferrotitanium effects can never be achieved with simply

mixing Fe and Ti. You should have also mentioned to use
coated Fe and mesh size of metals (especially Fe)
otherwise the composition would be impractical.

Mumbles
17 Nov 2012

I edited the thread title to give the actual name of the

formula.

pyrowinner
17 Nov 2012

'BengalFlair', on 17 Nov 2012 - 3:47 PM, said:

Ferrotitanium effects can never be achieved with simply

mixing Fe and Ti. You should have also mentioned to use
coated Fe and mesh size of metals (especially Fe)
otherwise the composition would be impractical.

Obviously!!! My Fe & Ti are both 80 mesh size. First both

metals mixed well & then screened together with
nonmetal composition.oh yes pyro Fe is already coated.
Edited by pyrowinner, 17 November 2012 - 02:54 PM.

pyrowinner
17 Nov 2012

'Mumbles', on 17 Nov 2012 - 6:57 PM, said:

I edited the thread title to give the actual name of the

formula.

Thanks Mumbles.
Next I’ll try for Japanese Kamuro stars from
“The_Best_of_Afn_I_I” .from many days I postponed
cause of its lengthy & accurate coating procedure.

Edited by pyrowinner, 17 November 2012 - 02:35 PM.

pyrowinner
14 Jan 2013

Nice kamuro effect.

Willow stars composition+18% to 25%
Fe/Ti or only Ti= 'Nice kamuro ' with the
Bright Streamer .
Use wet process with Willow stars
composition for obtaining better result.
Edited by pyrowinner, 14 January 2013 - 10:31 AM.

Algenco
14 Jan 2013

Kamuro is the type of star/effect, Nishiki refers to the

appearance of the break.
Nishiki was a hairstyle of medium length/shaggy so the
stars should droop a bit before burning out

pyrowinner
14 Jan 2013

"Kamuro is a Japanese word meaning

"Boys Haircut" which is what this shell
looks like when fully exploded in the air. A
dense burst of glittering silver or gold
stars which leave a heavy glitter trail and
are very shiny in the night's sky."

http://en.wikipedia....ireworks#Kamuro
Edited by pyrowinner, 14 January 2013 - 10:38 AM.

AdmiralDonSnider
15 Jan 2013

I have rolled this particular Hardt composition for NYE,

but have not yet tested so far. Rolling such fuel rich
comps is possible even with the western method, but is
tedious. Thus I wondered if these stars could simply be
pumped using a plate.

Does pumping such brocade willow comps have any

significant drawbacks compared to (single color) *rolled*
stars?

Peret
16 Jan 2013

That's quite similar to Bleser Blond Streamer, but with

much less oxidizer -

Blond Streamer
KNO3 45
Charcoal 29
Sulfur 6
FeTi 15
Dextrin 5

This is a beautiful streamer star but slow burning, with

burning fallout reaching the ground more often than not.
Reducing the oxidizer can only make that worse, so shoot
this one high.

pyrowinner
16 Jan 2013

@AdmiralDonSnider
Irrespective of stars are pumped or rolled, necessary
height should be given to shells. Because the burn rate of
brocade willow comps is too slow. This might cause some
glowing particles to fall on the ground.

AdmiralDonSnider
16 Jan 2013

My concern is whether pumped stars will burn less

smoothly than round ones with these comps. I was told
so.

Algenco
16 Jan 2013

good question, wouldn't pumped stars have more surface

area and hence burn faster ?

I've only rolled this comp and loved it

psypuls
08 Nov 2015

How would this nishiki kamuro perform with replacing Ti

for let's say Magnalium or Aluminium flake, would it still
be a good effect and would it even work?

psypuls
09 Nov 2015

well I replaced the Ti with 20% Mgal 45um, hoping for the
best

Mumbles
09 Nov 2015

Let us know what happens. I would expect the effect to

be pretty drastically different. Changing both the metal
and dramatically altering the particle size could result in
something with little resemblance to the original.

With a coarse aluminum or MgAl, you will probably get

something in the same realm as the original. Going to a
fine particle size, we shall see I suppose.

psypuls
12 Nov 2015

the effect seem to be cooler than the original, I was lucky

the star still works because the star leaves a trail of small
sparkles and then explodes into a glowing fiery star due
to very high charcoal and fine al content i guess, totally
unexpected effect. I am considering priming these stars
with BP + Si, but that will make me wait another few days.
should I just fire up a shell with plain BP Hulls without
booster to try it out first?

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