My firework display help required
Discussion
So I got all excited this year and boffed up on where to get the stuff and ended up at lidl and tesco. Lidl for the main stuff and tesco for the bits that I couldn't get at tesco.
I have a tough audience with my 2 young boys and some of their mates and their parents tomorrow.
Now that I've bought the pyro question is what is the best sequence?
I've got a selection box for padding out but the bulk of it revolves around some cakes and batteries and some rockets.
I have a tough audience with my 2 young boys and some of their mates and their parents tomorrow.
Now that I've bought the pyro question is what is the best sequence?
I've got a selection box for padding out but the bulk of it revolves around some cakes and batteries and some rockets.
Start off with the piddly little sparklers to warm up with. Then move on to them holding mini-rockets in their hands and lighting them. Then as a finale move on to using their buttcheeks to hold the medium sized rockets. When the crying from the third degree burns has subsided then move on to the main display....
Careful now! Christ it gets like a mothers meeting in here at times! 
Depends how much stuff you have.
Start slow and build to a big finish.
Big rocket opener, candles, batteries/cakes and a load of rockets all at once to finish.
My new year set up from last year. (Top H&S tips, get loads of explosives, join them together with fuse in spare room)
I set this lot going in an order similar to above. They were all joined with visco fuse so it was one continuous display.
Depends how much stuff you have.
Start slow and build to a big finish.
Big rocket opener, candles, batteries/cakes and a load of rockets all at once to finish.
My new year set up from last year. (Top H&S tips, get loads of explosives, join them together with fuse in spare room)
I set this lot going in an order similar to above. They were all joined with visco fuse so it was one continuous display.
If your <10 kids aren't scared, you're not doing it properly...
Buy a few of the CostCo kits and some sparklers, they're massive, last a few minutes each from one fuse and if you have a standard London garden like me, on the bare edge of safe.
We've got 10 families doing the same this year - luckily at someone else's - and it's going to be superb, again.
Buy a few of the CostCo kits and some sparklers, they're massive, last a few minutes each from one fuse and if you have a standard London garden like me, on the bare edge of safe.
We've got 10 families doing the same this year - luckily at someone else's - and it's going to be superb, again.
marksx said:
My new year set up from last year. (Top H&S tips, get loads of explosives, join them together with fuse in spare room)
I set this lot going in an order similar to above. They were all joined with visco fuse so it was one continuous display.
Oh wow. That looks frickin awesomely dangerous! I set this lot going in an order similar to above. They were all joined with visco fuse so it was one continuous display.
that fuse thing to link the individual items would be good ive counted over 70 individual units in my haul and only 3 guys that can light them at the same time...
ok so i think ill start small and end up with the action at the end
one of the neighbours is senile and deaf so not really bothered about her and the other side may pop around to join in...
will have some sausages on the grill and a firepit as the makeshift bonfire... far cry from real thing but will do
ok so i think ill start small and end up with the action at the end
one of the neighbours is senile and deaf so not really bothered about her and the other side may pop around to join in...
will have some sausages on the grill and a firepit as the makeshift bonfire... far cry from real thing but will do
For a small garden, I'd suggest something like this, a finale that we launched a few years ago;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PA_PY-rEvg
(yes yes, fully BPA membershipped up with insurance and storage before anybody has a fit.)
ETA: You won;t get the fuse to modify the stuff you've bought legally. However, you can use these;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/BrightSpark-Firework-Remot...
which is basically a remote control for your fireworks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PA_PY-rEvg
(yes yes, fully BPA membershipped up with insurance and storage before anybody has a fit.)
ETA: You won;t get the fuse to modify the stuff you've bought legally. However, you can use these;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/BrightSpark-Firework-Remot...
which is basically a remote control for your fireworks!
Edited by Red Firecracker on Saturday 2nd November 08:33
I spent days wiring my setup together. There were nearly 100 connections and I used over 10m of visco fuse. Each joint cable tied and taped.
I had to cut each fuse to the right length to allow time for the previous firework to do its thing. There was a main fuse with branches everywhere!
Next time I do it I will use quick match visco fuse fuse and something like the remote above.
I had to cut each fuse to the right length to allow time for the previous firework to do its thing. There was a main fuse with branches everywhere!
Next time I do it I will use quick match visco fuse fuse and something like the remote above.
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