Salute goes off in mortar aftermath

[jred201]

Big fan of all your videos. Got the idea from your Castle Shannon video to use flares to light our shells this year. A cheap mans simulated electronic fire show. After seeing this video I am not so sure about the flare anymore.

[doc1180]

Hello Dav thank you again for all his videos. What is the best response when an accident occurs? as bombs explode other tub floor.

Commits react to stop the fire continue the fire?

[Tampaslice]

Classic line Dave, "It was my rack". The Pyrodirect guy is a nice guy, he's total make the customer happy. Looked like one heck of an explosion went off in that tube. Was it put in upside down? Or bad lift?

[displayfireworks1]

No it was not loaded upside down, I have seen this happen more than a few times over the years. Caked up lift powder, poor time fuse, poor time fuse placement, defective casing etc. You never really know. Usually a color shells will not do this it will flowerpot like a mine unless it is 5in and up then those will blow the pipe and racks apart even if they are color. I always try to keep these scenarios in my mind

[yellowgroove]

Dave, if you have a friend that is handy with a welder, you could make a killer rack out of steel that would not break like that wood rack did, of course it would be heavy as heck but would stand up to an occasional mishap.

[sew199513t]

you can reuse the other mortars

[PyroFreakDJ]

It can also be a death shell

[Frankiefireworks19]

Good thing for the happy ending cause that mortar rack from pyro direct really served you well in alot of your videos.

[displayfireworks1]

I just got word from pyrodirect, he is going to send me a free replacement mortar to make it back to 10.after he watched the video. Nice guy.

[ventsi]

To everyone's Q's

Those tubes are HDPE, hands down the best mortar material.

The accident was likely caused by poor manufacturing, though if everything is perfectly done there IS still the chance of this occurring

PVC will instantly become sharp small shrapnel and cant take nearly as much stress as HDPE, so its a no-no.

D, I think this is a wonderfull video, showing WHY HDPE is used and not any other plastics.

[yellowgroove]

Should use HDPP, much safer than pvc

[MijnWet]

and if you tape in the pvc pipe with ductape.

would that absorb the lift? and let the shell go up?

[xBangergoosEx]

what do you use for mortar tubes? will pvc work?

[PLOBEXRIME]

Also It can be bad shell construction - incorrectly maded fuse which goes straight into shell inside exactly after lift burns.

I hope You understand me bacause my english sucks.

[Ralphgtx280]

anyidea what caused the faliour ? incorect loading ? damp lift ?