Fireworks basics : MAKING FIREWORKS FOUNTAINS

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.

You can find more infos here :

https://pyrodata.com/
https://www.skylighter.com/blogs/how-to-make-fireworks/gerbs-fountains
Microstars composition : https://pyrodata.com/compositions/Sunrise-yellow

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DON’T TRY THIS IF YOU’RE NOT SURE OF WHAT YOU’RE DOING !!!

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 Youtube). 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.

Musics :

Infraction https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkRrhwhJ2Ia_ZlkTQ4XFWJA

Solace by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/SolaceNomyn
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/JY8vREZ6XYE

Really by Enyer Gonzales https://youtu.be/xIHlOsxGopc

Chilling by Enyer Gonzales https://youtu.be/Sp-sIx_j3Gw

Bamf – Tokyo Nights https://youtu.be/Bb0LE4TmI1k

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