Homemade fireworks

Fireworks are great for holidays, celebrations, or just an afternoon thrill. But how exactly can you make your own from home? Though sky-bound explosives are not something you can DIY your way through, there's some super exciting, fiery...

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Fireworks are great for holidays, celebrations, or just an afternoon thrill. But how exactly can you make your own from home? Though sky-bound explosives are not something you can DIY your way through, there's some super exciting, fiery...

This is a formula for making homemade white fireworks strobes that does not use dichromate (a toxic chemical that a lot of strobe formulas do use). This does create more a shimmering effect than a true on/off strobe. The formulas provided are for red strobes but you can easily replace the strontium nitrate in the formula with barium ntirate to get green. You could also try substituting potassium nitrate but there's no notes on what effect that will have. Click through for the strobe…

Make Flash Powder: In this instructable I will show you a "safer" method to making A potassium nitrate base flash powder. This method is far more safer than the perchlorate base method which is very sensitive and dangerous. This is the best method if you still want fi…

Here are four projects to help fill your bucket of fireworks ideas for your July 4th, New Years, or any backyard fireworks display. These are from the fireworking mind of Ned Gorski. Each project is designed to get your creative juices flowing in new and exciting ways. Use these tips to create your own signature pieces for your show. Click through for these great ideas for your next backyard fireworks displays and more homemade fireworks projects from Skylighter.com

Introduction Homemade fountains, called gerbs by pyro-folks-in-the-know, are very versatile devices. They can be used as stand-alone fountains shooting sprays of sparks skyward, as drivers on wheels, as downward spraying tubes in a homemade waterfall, or as line rockets. I'll be demonstrating those line rockets, sometimes called rats or pigeons, in the newsletter following this one, so stay tuned. I'll also be using these fountains as drivers on a fireworks wheel. I described using…

Homemade Sparklers for the 4th of July! - (Improvised Hand-Held Fireworks): In this project, we're making hand-held sparklers for the 4th of July. When it's time to celebrate with fireworks, you could just buy them. Or you could improvise, and make your own.

Black powder is one of the common components used in making fireworks. It's the base for many projects including lots of stars, rockets, shell burst and more. This is a series of videos from Skylighter's Turbo Pyro that show you how to mill, mix, weigh and dry the potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal so you'll get a consistent black powder to use for other projects.

Have you ever wondered how to make a simple daylight effect shell without using sensitive, sometimes toxic, chlorate based smoke star compositions? Well, you're not alone! Over the years I often wondered how a fireworker could make a simple, safe, yet effective daylight shell quickly with decent results. ...and I think you'll agree I've found a simple method which yields great results without all of the hassles of other methods. As it turns out, it works fantastic for our purposes, and…