Homemade Flying Fish Fuse Firework Canister Shell

[3981784]

so does anyone prime their flying fish fuse? i have made shells with them bu i remember one year when most of them failed due to the fuse not ignighting

[skylighterVideos]

@3981784 Yes, priming will definitely help the fuse ignite. A great prime is to mix fine black powder (meal-D) in nitrocellulose lacquer.

[777Lockhead]

How loud are these?

[skylighterVideos]

@777Lockhead

They are very quiet. Flying fish do not require a 'burst' like most firework stars, which is what creates the loud bang of most fireworks. These merely need to be dumped out into the sky where they can 'swim' around.

[777Lockhead]

@skylighterVideos thx 4 replying but i 4got to ask where was this if i may ask.

[skylighterVideos]

@777Lockhead The video was taken in a backyard in the midwest.

[nonamervuurwerk]

cool!

[CrazyDood69]

Man, those are SWEET. I wish more they'd have more commercial fish shells. You just don't see them for some reason. You see 'em in cakes, but never shells.

[CrazyDood69]

By commercial, I guess I meant consumer shells you can by versus homemade ones. :)

[flyboy911911]

soo beautiful i love these!

[iknowad]

I want to make these but flying fish fuse can't be shipped to canada...

[poobertop]

AWSOME 5/5

[funbags808]

very nice man

[plasm7]

I bought some 2.5 inch mortars but i was getting no lift so i tried using professional black powder but i was still getting small lift. What was the weight of your shells?

[krobis2]

use strong lift cup... it's accumulate energy ;) and then relise it realy fast...

[qcages]

i think he is using a 2'' mortar to fire those shells, you can fit them in that size mortar but you need to bottom fuse the shell. dump in the lift, insert fuse through the side of the mortar low enough to touch the lift, then drop the shell time fuse down into the mortar, so that it touches the lift.

[plasm7]

i bought the kit and I got a #5 mortar and these are my first shells how do i fit the fuse and the shell in the mortar its extremely tight fit?

[nedgorski]

Plasm, I noted in the article in Skylighter Fireworks Tips #112 that I used a 2.5" ID mortar for these shells. Your #5 mortar is 2" ID and will be a snug fit for the shell without fuse-leader. If you want to try to use your mortar, you'll have to bottom fuse the mortar with a piece of Visco, dump in your lift powder, and then insert your shell. If you get a #100 mortar, which is 2.5" ID, you can lift and leader the shells as described in the article.

ned

[qcages]

bottom fuse the shell. put lift directly into mortar, have a whole drilled in the side of the mortar to put the fuse in, then drop the shell time fuse down in to the mortar

[skylighterVideos]

The lift is FFg or FFFg sporting grade black powder. You can get more details from the Skylighter Newsletter, it's issue #111.

[TwistableTurn]

thanks

[jeffb8074]

i have used ffg pyrodex and it doesnt work well but i added kclo4/sodium benzoate 70/30 ratio and it helped alittle but i didnt use much benzo i was scared i would blow my tube to bits :)

[TwistableTurn]

what do you use for your lift?

[AirrowRocket]

Awsome as usual. Hope this one is in the next Newsletter!