@weirwolfarroo I'm looking into increasing fuel to oxidizer ratio and/or burn rate inhibitors to give smaller volume of smoke but over much longer time span. The trouble will be making it still relatively easy to ignite.
not to be used in the summer on tinder dry grass?? I wonder the need for it, if the wind is that light you need smoke to tell the direction. All said your mixture produced plenty of smoke.
@lookupparagliding There is always a market or use for something like this, we all live in different parts of the world. Colored smoke for snowy mountains where the wind is turning in opposite directions, it will even show you how much rotor there is down below.
@surfervince Hi Vince, I was originally going for orange smoke but I brought wrong type of food colouring powder (synthetic not organic). I can't find any organic stuff in the UK, well nothing stated as organic anyway.
I'll keep plodding on. I've rolled some thin tubes and experiment with those later.
lets face it rob your just a bloody pyramaniac!!!
m3xnx 1 year ago
A small version would have been handy today and would have saved several botched forwards in cross slope light breezes.
Alternatively, a carefully shielded long burning version could be placed down a slope and would indicate the arrival of a thermal...
weirwolfarroo 1 year ago
@weirwolfarroo I'm looking into increasing fuel to oxidizer ratio and/or burn rate inhibitors to give smaller volume of smoke but over much longer time span. The trouble will be making it still relatively easy to ignite.
lookupparagliding 1 year ago
not to be used in the summer on tinder dry grass?? I wonder the need for it, if the wind is that light you need smoke to tell the direction. All said your mixture produced plenty of smoke.
surfervince 1 year ago
@surfervince Soggy grass only. Just a bit of messing Vince really, just thought it might be useful......... perhaps not then.
Quite impressed with the smoke/burn time to quantity ratio. The PVA glue is additional fuel as well as primarily being a binder.
lookupparagliding 1 year ago
@lookupparagliding There is always a market or use for something like this, we all live in different parts of the world. Colored smoke for snowy mountains where the wind is turning in opposite directions, it will even show you how much rotor there is down below.
surfervince 1 year ago
@surfervince Hi Vince, I was originally going for orange smoke but I brought wrong type of food colouring powder (synthetic not organic). I can't find any organic stuff in the UK, well nothing stated as organic anyway.
I'll keep plodding on. I've rolled some thin tubes and experiment with those later.
Cheers,
Rob
lookupparagliding 1 year ago