A spolette is a type of artillery fuze or fuse used with artillery munitions. It is often used as a substitute for a time fuse and is commonly used in Italian style canister shells. Spolettes are used as the main fuse and as delay elements between the breaks
I have watched every video you made. Your attention to details are the best. In March 19' , I'm going to invest in a membership to your fire working site. I look forward to learning more. Gathering materials and supplies before I join. I especially like the tooling and machanical modifications like the tourque wrench and the PVC risers on the press. That makes this old man excited about your outside the box engineering. Going to binge watch all your videos again.
Ned, amazing channel. You gotta do a Japanese nishiki kamuro shell, I think making of the composition would be a very cool vid!! Just to see how the magic is made and put together.
I've never seen a ".3 tube, this is not the 1/4" tubes, is it a 5/16 tube? Skylighter and others sell what I've mentioned here... Where do you get .3 tubes.
Ned, is it safe to use my arbor press for whistle mix. Been testing small bottle rockets and finally having success and adding a little flash to my bp rockets. Want to try a few new things but want to be safe. ✊🏾power to the pyros 🧨💥🚀
I'm trying to modify an arbor press now to accept a torque wrench. Ran into what is now an obvious problem I didn't consider before. I have to pull down on (turn counterclockwise) the torque wrench to lower the ram. Don't torque wrenches only click in a clockwise direction?
it would appear the 3/8 drive one at harbor freight clicks in the other direction just fine. Thanks. I just put a bolt in the hole where the black thing was with some red loctite. Hopefully that works fine rather than grinding down the cylinder and fitting a socket around it. I want to do small 5/8 cohete style motors so I suppose I won't be needing enough force to snap the bolt head or break the teeth on the ram or spindle in the press.@@nedgorski
I came to see the mods of your press but whatever project your doing is so foreign to me... Spollet, spider something, I've never been so new to something so fascinating
Fireworking is a very "deep" art form, Patrick, with lots of complexities the deeper we go into it. But, it's possible to have good successes keeping it simple and relatively easy.
I like to put 7500 pri pressure on the comp, which would require 2300 pounds of force, so I'd want a press that could put out that much force, at least.
In our pressing, we refer to Force, in pounds applied by the press, and Pressure, in pounds per square inch on the composition. In this example, the press is applying 700 pounds of force to the tooling. @@georgecurtis6463