Rubber Red Pyrotechnic Star Test (Or how not to test your stars)

Made an 8 oz batch of these rubber red stars. I tested this one without prime, it took about three seconds for it to ignite with constant flame from a Bic lighter.

Seeing that the flame from a Bic is roughly 450 degrees Celsius, these suckers are going to get double primed with both hot prime and black powder prime before I use them.

However, ignition time aside, I think the test was a stunning success. When it drops in the sink in the video, it does so because it's burned itself out of the pliers.

Formula:

Potassium perchlorate: 30%
Magnalium: 30%
Strontium carbonate: 20%
Parlon: 15%
Red Gum: 15%

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Pyrotechnics
• Pyrotechnic stars
• Red Rubber Stars
• Fireworks
• Firecrackers
• red pyrotechnic stars
• cool
• kitchen
• fire

[allrocketspsl]

dumb

[Zarwid]

@allrocketspsl

Is this dumb? Yes. Since this video was made, I've learned a great deal more about pyrotechnics.

However, I'm leaving this up as an example of how NOT to test your stars.

[AlienInferno]

Thumbs down for the stupidity of doing this indoors.

[Zarwid]

@AlienInferno I'm certain that you've never made a mistake in your entire life AlienInferno. Instead of just pointing out what everyone else has (that this was a bad idea), why say something a little constructive? Look. I realize that I was misinformed and I made a poor choice. Get over it.

[MondoMage]

Take this as a lesson on how *NOT* to test stars. Don't hold then, don't light them with a BIC, and don't light them inside and then drop it in your nice shiny stainless steel sink.....

[Zarwid]

Surprisingly, the sink was fine. Again, I only did so with this star, because I was told it was safe to do so by someone else who had made stars before.

[alexbald12]

Yea!! stfu... Forget about the reckless danger and just tell me about

the formula and mixing technique.

That is... if you still have fingers...

[MrAde9999]

nice every1 saying bad idea stfu it is done and done who cears. we gona look at mistakes or at his star?

[gothbro111]

bad idea... But hey i loved the star! whats the composition??

[AxelTiger]

1 up! nice vid!

[pyronaught]

@Zarwid If someone else gave you this advice, I would find a new source of advice on pyro. If you want to get serious about pyro, join passfire.com and get expert advice from the pros who frequent the forum there.

[Zarwid]

@eckick1 Unfortunately, again, it was dry grass season. As I had previously mentioned I was told by another person who had made stars that it was safe, as long as I put it in a place that wasn't prone to catching fire. Testing a star indoors considering the drought we were experiencing, coupled with this incorrect advice seemed like an alright idea at the time.