Fireworks basics : MAKING FIREWORKS FOUNTAINS
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Hello everyone, today I will show you how I made fireworks fountains. This simple device produce long flames and shoot a bunch of beautiful sparks into the sky.
I made two different compositions for two different effects. Those compositions are black powder based. The first one contains some 325 mesh magnalium to produce bright white sparks and a little bit of coarse pine charcoal. This effect does work with aluminium or titanium as well. Using coarser metallic fuel can produce even brighter and long lasting sparks.
The second composition contains about 30% coarse charcoal mixed with black powder. It creates long lasting golden sparks that fly into the air. It’s a very beautiful yet very simple composition that doesn’t require a ton of chemicals. You can add more charcoal to slow down the combustion and have an effect that looks like a fire camp or add less to have a more powerful effect.
The third and last composition is just made of the first one, aka silver composition in which I added about 15% microstars. Those were 3mm yellow microstars. Unfortunately we didn’t really see them. Either because they were too small or because I used water and dextrin as a binder and made them too fragile.
To make the fountains, I had to build some specials tools. I made the base and the rams out of a 16mm round wood dowel. The spindle was made using 7mm diameter nail in which I drilled a hole to put fuse and and prime the fountain.
The three tubes contained about 30g of propellant each and lasted for 15 to 20 seconds.
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NB : My channel is not dedicated to pyrotechnics !! Of course I made a lot of video about it (although 3 is not that much) and I will continue on making them but there is a ton of interesting subject and craft to learn and show on video. For example, the next video will be about homemade photography accessories (not sliders that have been done more than enough on CZcams). I might also try to build a star tracking mount for astrophoto but that’s not sure… (Tell me in the comments if you’re interested 😉 ) I will also make other electronics and DIY projects.
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Simply OMG! This is the most thorough instructional video I've ever watched on CZcams PERIOD! I absolutely loved the added theatrics😂👍👍👍👍👍
love the bowls
Very nice work, I feel that your charcoal is a little to fast ( Hot ) for what your trying to do. Normally willow, or grapevine is the best for fast charcoal, but for a ground fountain I would use a hard wood for my charcoal instead for a slower burn rate to keep your fountain burning longer. I make my own charcoal with a empty new one gallon paint can, that I drill a small hole in the top of the can, and place into camp fire on the hot embers, and add a little wood when needed to keep the fire burning at the right temp. I wait until there is no steam ( Smoke ) coming out the hole, I pick it up with a stick, and if it feels light I know its done, and let it cool. Always clean the bark off, and cut the knots out, this way your charcoal has a consisted burn rate. Charcoal can make or break your black powder, and it is very important to have different kinds of charcoal for different projects. I also re- crystalize my potassium nitrate until I get it pure. I re- crystalize everything with distilled water, filter, and air dry. My chemicals being so pure gives me professional results that money cant buy. I learned a lot from watching my pyro friends on CZcams, I actually learned a lot from ( Ned Gorski Fireworking 101 ) CZcams channel, I really am impressed with your work with making those fountains, something I really want to get into. I know You know your stuff.
That quality is outstanding! Nothing else like this on YT!
Keep it up
Then you haven't seen Ned Gorski's videos :)
But the French Maker did a perfect job as well. Manufactured it safely and the way it should be. Good job!
I didn't really say the yellow microstars though? Maybe they need a minimal layer of delay comp?
@@PyroCreationZ I have, he's a real master of pyro art. He deserves it too;)
I'm not even close to ned gorski... This guy is a master in fireworks making... He give the best advise in the domain!
I'm just here sharing what I do in a more cinematic way and I love it :)
@@_thefrenchmaker Your work is absolutely amazing man!
Your not looking in the right places then if this is all you can find on yt.
Magnifique 👍
Don’t use glass marbles to mill flammable compositions! Use lead or bronze. Nice videography. Good work!
Glass doesn't spark, why can't you use it?
@@DeliciousPyro it actually can under certain conditions.
@@charadremur333 thanks
@@DeliciousPyro Glass absolutely will spark and so will ceramic although some ceramics may be less prone to it it’s not worth the risk when you can use other media and eliminate risk nearly completely. Also it’s a good idea to screen all your materials prior to ball milling to make sure there’s no metal or foreign objects.
@@noyebalmer8112 compreendo! Por causa da energia estática entre o vidro e o plástico. Seria isso mesmo??
Shows every single step in one video, nice informative tutorial!
I have done it and it was really cool!
j'adore toujours autant regarder tes vidéos mdr
Great video man. You can really tell you put a lot of work into it
Nice tuto BRO
I really enjoyed the video. I just recently revived an old hobby of making fireworks, something I LOVE doing. Next Independence day I'm putting on a show for my neighbors because we didn't get a public display last year because of that Covid crap. We won't have one this year, either. Hello from Washington state, U.S.A.
Hello from graham wa. Doing my own show this year too
@@fordracer1415 Hello from Anacortes, WA. Haven't been to Graham for around 15 years. I just moved up here from Cumberland, out by Enumclaw.
@@tonyf.8858 my son lives in Bonney lake. Anacortes is a nice little town gateway to the San Juan’s been almost 10 years since I’ve been there. Moved back to the house I grew up in on 10 acres end of the road with no one on either side of me.
@@fordracer1415 My brother lives in Bonney Lake. Wow, you're lucky to have a place like that. I actually live on Guemes Island, across the channel from Anacortes. I inherited it. 15 acres and five of those is an open field for lots of fireworks! Yeah, nice up here but so is Graham, at least the way I remember it.
@@tonyf.8858 yes I’m on a hill top with a 180 view to the west can see the black hills by Shelton to the Olympics when it’s clear enough and when the leaves are off I can make out the lights at the south end of SeaTac to the north right at the horizon. Kinda fun to see how many planes are coming and going. Cheers
Omg it's super beautiful
salut est-ce que tu peux faire une vidéo spéciale sur les poissons clowns ? merci :-)
Hey you should make a video on using a microwave transformer to make a detonator if you don't have one already.
You are the best!
Awesome video!
SUPERB QUALITY
so pretty
2 comentario good
Great editing, great content, great video! Please make more pyrotechnic videos like this one!
Beautifully made homemade tooling that has great outcomes!
If you hammer the comp with the microstars, do they get crushed? I didn’t see many stars in the test.
I don't really know what happened with those stars. Either they were crushed or they were to small. I used dextrin as a binder and perhaps it made the stars to fragile. I think it would be better to use red gum or phenolic resin as a binder but I don't have some. I've seen fountains with phenolic resin binded microstars that were fine so I don't really know what was the issue...
I like micro stars but also cut the case with the first couple charges of comp first to make sure there serviveing my ramming. I have made a few presses over the years for pressed tube drivers gerbs and the like. I like welding a 1/2 inch drive socket to the Allber press T handle portion and use a clicker torque wrench to get the performances of the tubes closer. I would think it would work for your micro stars also to dial it in. I use it for gerindolas and just ease of hâveing to pound all these tubes.
B.H.
hi awesome video .. would you do a tutorial on how to make the rocket shell. thank you
if i add titanium to the gold would that change the burn rate
Very 😎👍
Love your video. I am inspired and am in the process for making ferro ti gerbs. But how would we recreate something like red and green stars in the fountain along with the sparks?
can i substitute magnesium in magnalium?
Could copper oxide works for green sparks?
Есть хорошее средство, адаптировать ударную дрель или домкрат давления в 500г на см. вполне хватает
How to make coarse charcoal
Point faible: trop fort
Could you hold one in your hand while wearing fireproof gloves or are they too hot even for that?
No, don't do that unless you want to lose some fingers or your hand some day!
The tube might indeed become very hot (depends on tube wall thickness). I recon you'd be able to hold it with a glove but that doesn't mean you should! Why not?
This is a choked fountain which means it builds up pressure inside. And when pressure is present, it can blow apart. That's why you should never hold a device like this in your hand.
An unchoked fountain doesn't have this pressure danger and would be safer to hold in your hand but even then I don't recommend it. Sparks can still fall on your hand and hurt/burn you.
A bangal fire (in a thick enough casing) is much safer to (and designed) to hold in your hand (think of a road flare for example). But those have different (safer) compositions than fountains.
Still, as a general rule of thumb: never hold firework devices in your hand.
Where i can find or get the magnizum ?
Whats with the long ass description?
BTW nice video!
It's as always a "little" recap with complementary informations.
@@_thefrenchmaker "little" xD
Salut,
C'est sûr de stocker celle au magnalium? Car le magnésium a tendance a décomposer avec le temps et il y a la présence du kno3 et soufre ce qui fais de la poudre flash en associant du magnalium.
Et pour l'humidification, je pense tu l'a faite que sur cella au magnalium car sans magnalium n'est pas obligatoire il me semble...?
So, is it the moisture that makes it safe to hammer the black powder mixture with the solid ram like in 5:37?
What is pine charcoal?
Amazing and awesome video! Can pure aluminium powder be used instead of magnalium in silver fountain? Will it give the same effect or it'll be more white and bright?
Okay so the fuse is only getting a little bit in? I am trying so hard to make ik go off slow, but it does it all at once. Also I am putting the fuse from the top to the bottom, is that a problem?
😎🔥sweet🔥😎n sub
How do you clean your Ballmill
I use water
DANGER : Video hướng dẫn đễu, thành phần thuốc nổ đen mà đem pall mill chung rồi đóng vào ống có thể phát nổ chết người hoặc cụt tay. Mọi người không nên bắt chước ☠💀
Do you really need to ball kill black powder? Shaking it good in a jar seems to work perfectly fine
Black powder works fine when being hand mixed but ball milling it will give you far better results. I've done some tests and it burns 3 to 4 times faster in my case when ball milled. If you don't have the proper tools you can use a blender to pulverize each chemicals before mixing them. In the case of fountains, hand mix black powder will do the job just fine but it will be less powerful...
The French Maker ok thank you!
@@zanesnyder6229 *Never* put all three compositions in a blender together though! It would blow up and possibly kill you.
It is safe to grind each chemical seperately in a blender but make sure you clean it out very thoroughly between each session.
Show me how to make fireworks
Can I replace ball mill with something else? Because it's pretty tough to make it. Btw you are going professional job! I just subbed keep it up!
Thanks you :)
A coffee grinder or a powerful blender can do the job but you will need to grind each chemical separately.
Can I use Rock Tumbler-is it same with ball mile?
I guess. As long as it's clean...
@@_thefrenchmaker Is it the same ? Also could you make a video about how to make dark aluminium (powder). Thanks
souvla souvlaki a rock tumbler with marbles is the same as a ball mil
Nice, but where is the color? Crackle? Whistle noise?
can you make a favor and help me ?
i have made a black match fuse and it's so fast
and i want to make a slower fuse but i want to use Black powder too !
so can i add 1g of sodium bicarbonate per 100g black powder ??
or that's not correct....if it's not give me any advise please :D
so i mean that i wanted to make a fuse using black powder and i want to slow it down with a stable burn :D
sorry for my bad English.
Adding sodium bicarbonate will indeed slow down the combustion rate of your composition but it won't create a particularly stable burn (it's used in some glitter compositions for this effect). The best way to slow down your black powder is to tweak the oxidizer/fuel ratio. Try to lower the potassium nitrate amount and increase the charcoal one and do some small batch test until you find your sweet spot :)
@@_thefrenchmaker
Thank you so much :)
Good job! Can i make a request and ask if you could do a DIY for a bouquet fireworks? Colors either gold silver or white? I need to make a few of them since i cant find a company that sells that to the consumer ty
Thanks you :)
What do you mean by bouquet fireworks ? Is it like the finally of a fireworks show ?
Where do you buy your ingredients? Nice video btw
Thanks :) I bought them from internet. You can find anything on ebay.
Where i can buy the pine charcoal
Is the black powder mixture okay to condense and impact like that? Is there a chance it could explode from the force
Black powder is not very sensitive to friction and shocks. Although it's better to use soft materials like aluminum or wood to press the powder because steel can produce sparks and sparks are the main hazard with black powder.
The French Maker another question, is there any chance of spontaneous combustion adding metal to black powder such as magnesium, or any metal that produces color. I heard somewhere that happens
The French Maker can you please remove this video someone is gonna hurt them selves pressing metal in black powder is very dangerous and should not be done without a press you are very lucky to still have your hand
@@KAYLEBHD so where are your Vids Hot Shot showing how your an expert?....Sorry just a SPURT🤡🤡🤡
@@therandomnessofeverythinga7045 what are you dumb there clearly a bunch of vids on my CZcams second of all it’s common knowledge that’s it’s dangerous to ram metals by hand don’t belive me try it your self see if I care lmao
Where do you learn the math for all of these?
Grand,what is the tube? Is it pvc pipe?
Paper/Cardboard tubes only! *Never* use PVC. If it blows apart, it throws razor sharp, deadly pieces of plastic around!
@@PyroCreationZ Oooh thanks
I do a video how to make colours fireworks fountain
I do a video how to make fireworks stars and rocket 🚀 fireworks
My fountain is happened the powder and he exploded super big
"how to get vistited by the atf
How to get visited by the atf because they love how beautiful of a fountain you have made
I'm copy that but ther something happened
Na ic
Instructions unclear I may have caused ww3
DWw
ra pandi i dint have that powders
dont do it, i spent 18 days in jail, $300 court fine, 15 days of work crew and parole for 2 years for doing EXACTLY this to the T.
Annoying music
Waste
Why would you black out the name of the company on the chemical packaging. ? Why can’t you share that also. That’s why we true fireworkers are out here posting videos to share our knowledge of making and where’s the most dependable companies to buy chemicals from. All the big timers like pass fire and fire working and so on share ALL of their knowledge. But thanks anyway.
He has to block out the name💡if he didn't then CZcams would make him post that this is a paid endorsement video, in which it isn't because this man makes all of his stuff from scratch himself. The powders are purchased from fireworkscookbooks.com👍 Plus the biggest guy in this whole fireworks making video thing, Ned Gorski never shares anything unless you go to his website and pay for it😕 his videos are a big waste of time to watch because he never shares the comps😡 hope this helps👍