Best of AFN II

Choked Gerb-Making Technique

What is a Pyro? 9 A Pyro Wedding 49
Basic Equipment & Safety 9 Gerb Tip 49
Review of the Basics 10 Helpful Hint #3 49
Roll Your Own Tubes 11
Blaster Pastor's Black Match Machine 12 ROCKETS & ACCESSORIES
Black Match Machine 13 Basic Skyrocket Construction 50
Zippy Stars 14 Tourbillion Sticks 56
Building a Ball Mill 15 Fast Rockets in a Hurry 57
Charcoal 16 More on Fast Rockets 57
Charcoal Follow-up 18 A Strobing Rocket 58
Flashlight Holder Aids Displays 19 Rocket Tips 58
Extra Strong Tubes 19 Rocket Flight Box 59
CIA Black Powder Revisited 20 Rocket Pellets 59
Cheap Meal & Rocket Powder 21 Rocket Nose Construction 60
Making Black Powder Lift 22 Stinger Missiles 62
Helpful Hint #1 22 Multiple-Firing Rocket Rack 64
Helpful Hint #2 22
STARS
Real B.P. Please Stand Up 23
Star Formulas 65
Black Powder on a Budget 24
Making Stars 66
Grinding Out Green Powder 25
Special Effect Star 66
Fusee Cones 27
Making Cut Stars 67
Titanium Starcrackers 28
1/8" Cut Stars 68
Class C Missiles 30
Stacked Stars 69
Iodine Based Smokes 31
Comets As Rising Tails 69
Big Birds 32
Blender Comets 70
Class C Repeaters 32
Comet Problems 71
Buzz Bombs 33
Comet Composition 71
Flatulent Fireworks 35
The Kamuro Star 72
Save Your Old Cakes 36
A Fierce Yellow Streamer Star 73
Godzilla Powder 36
Making Round Stars 74
Happy Bees Candle 37
Sizzling Colored Comets 76
Fire Balloons 37
Comments on Sizzling Colored Comets 77
Double Voice Crackers 38
Round Flitter Stars 78
Working With Lampblack 40
Lowdown on Gold Flitter 79
The Burning Mummy 40
Round Lampblack Stars 82
Visco Time Fuse Expedient 41
Falling Leaf Stars 83
Easy Set Piece Building 43
Crackle Stars 84
Tips on Small Set Pieces 44
Red Strobe Stars 85
Multi-Effect Fountains 45
Micro Stars & Linseed Oil 86
Safe Ramming Procedures 46
More on Micro Stars 87
Save Those Shells 47
Sizing Up Your Round Stars 88
El Cheapo Fuse Cutting Device 48
Those Ugly Bumps on Round Stars 90
48
Pasta Cores for Round Stars 91 9
A New Blue 92 12
Pasting Round Shells 1
BASICS, BLACK POWDER, SMALL 12
DEVICES Burst Charges for Round Shells 2
More Blues 93 12
New Electric Purple 94 Using Bright Aluminum 4
Electric Purple Decomposition 95 12
Storage Containers for Stars 4
Glitter Crossettes 96
12
Round Stars at Home 97
What Are Flash Bags? 5
The Dark Side of Pyrotechnics 98
12
Star Testing Device 99 Flash Bag Shell Construction 6
10 12
The Cantankerous Crossette 0 Igniter Flash Bags 9
10 13
Homemade Crossette Pump 1 Old Lloyd's Igniter Flash 2
10 13
Simple Crossettes 2 Breaking Paper 3
10 13
Tip of the Month 2 Spiking Improves Shells 4
10 13
More on Crossettes 3 Shell String 5
10 13
Star Ignition Failure 4 Bowling Ball Shell 5
10 13
Chart of Fireworks Black Powders 7 Developing Aerial Shell Cases 6
13
AERIAL SHELLS Dr. Zuffy's Easy Two-Break Shell 7
10 13
Unconventional Shell Construction 8 Lift Charge Amounts 8
10 14
Cheap Daylight Shells 9 Lifting Charges 1
10 14
2" Displays Shells in a Hurry 9 The Crossette Shell 2
11 14
The Ascent of Plastic 0 Tips on Improving Aerial Shells 5
11 14
RAP* Shell Assembly Techniques 2 Making Palm Tree Shells 6
11 14
Whistle Mix Burst 5 Palm Tree Shell Construction 7
11 15
An Easy 4" Chrysanthemum Shell 6 Chrysanthemum 6 & 8 0
11 15
Japanese Shell Dissection 7 Peppy Shells 1
11 15
The Charcoal Ball Shell 8 Easy 5" Double Petaled Round Shell 2
Multiple Break Shells 11 6" Double Petaled Round Shells 15
 4 9
15 19
An Easy Ring Shell 6 Notes on Potassium Chlorate 0
15 19
Ring & Character Shell Construction 7 Hazards of Blue Star Metals 1
16 19
Intersector Shell Update 0 Armstrong's Mixture 5
16
Using Strawboard Casings 1
16
Reducing Shell Ignition Failure 2
16
Throw Away That Time Fuse 3
16 Best of AFN III
Tamping Stick for Mortars 4
16 BASICS, SMALL DEVICES
Push Stick Aids Low Breaks 4 Getting a Pyro Education 7
16 Fireworks and Me 8
The Dreaded Dud 5 Lightning & Thunder Fountain 9
Construction Techniques of Roman
CHEMICALS & SENSITIVITY Candle Using Round Stars 10
17
Bigger & Better Breaks with Small Ball
What About Flash? 0
Shells 11
17
Designing Portfires 12
Things that go "Boom" in the Night 2
Fun with Jumping Jacks 14
17
Chemical Sensitivity 4 Tischfeuerwerk 15
17 Bike Wheel Pyro 16
Deathmix 5 Ground Bloom Flower Wheel 16
17 Easy Sun 18
Fumed Silica Hazard 6 Class C Repeaters 19
17 Exploding Insight" 19
Potential Deathmixes 7 Those Captivating Cones 20
17 Tip of the Month 25
Aluminum-Nitrate Reactions 8 Pyrotechnic Serpents 26
17 Glittering Report Tourbillions 29
Spontaneous Combustion 9 Tourbillion Candle Construction 30
18
Glittering Sparklers 31
More on Spontaneous Ignition 2
Smoke of a Different Color 32
18
Fire Balloons 33
Saving Methylene Chloride 3
18 Micro Mines 34
Auto Ignition Temperature 4 Enhancing Successive Happy News
18 Effect 34
Lead Chemicals 6 Problems with Gold Sparkler
18 Manufacturing, etc. 35
Impact Sensitivity 8 Timing Tips 37
Dragon Eggs Warning 18
ROCKETS & ACCESSORIES Primer for Making Cut Stars 88
Informal 8 oz. Rockets 38 Yellow Powder 91
Those Damp Rockets 39 Pass the Grog 92
Rocket Tip 39 Modeling Clay & The Pyro 93
Blender Rockets 40 Don't Throw Away Fax Tubes 93
Priming Stars On Only One Side 41 Sculpy Revisited 94
Another Look at Rockets 42 Table for Cutting Stars 94
Shell Burst Rockets 45 Drying Stars & Grinding Chemicals 95
More on Shell Burst Rockets 49 Pyro Hint 95
Screaming Banshee Rockets 50 Brilliant Orange/Titanium Stars 96
Cheap & Easy Rocket Gimmick 51 Dragon Egg Warning 96
Quick Whistle Rockets 52 Using Kerosene? 97
Using Kerosene in Fireworks 97
Production of Benzoate Color Agents 98
Charcoal 100
Line Rockets - How To Make Them 54 Making Charcoal in Small Quantities 101
Sticks for the Picking 60 More About Charcoal 102
Cross-Section of Chinese Rocket 61 In Praise of Cupric Octoate 103
Building a Spiking Horse 104
DISPLAY GOODS & OPERATIONS
Easily Made Round Shell Casings 106
The Basic Technician, #1, 2, 3 62
Rice Hulls - Is There an Alternative 109
Unexplained Explosion & Probability
Tedium Reliever 109
Theory 66
The Beautiful 4" Spider Web Shell 110
Pyro Emitting Device 67
Making Homemade Wheat Paste 113
Fireworks on a Budget 68
Gold-Ferro Aluminum Flitter 114
Vis-A-Vis Fountains 70
Round Shell Construction Using Inner &
Neon Blue & Recumbent Lances 71
Outer Shell Casings 114
Molecular Sieves as Cores 72
Bright Star Compositions with High
Lance Development 73
Magnalium Content 115
Illumination Breaks & Shimmering
Mag/55 Enhances Aerial Salutes 116
Curtains 73
Microstar Bursts Without Microstars 118
Pyro Surprises 74
Microjet Stars 119
Push Sticks Aid Low Breaks 75
Crackle Stars 120
Eight Experiments in Non-Commercial
Crackling Micro Stars 121
Black Powder 76
Aqueous Binding of Sodium Nitrate
Quote of the Month 76
Stars 122
Method of Conducting Pyrotechnic
Cut Stars - Without Cutting 124
Experiments 78
Long Lasting Paper Mortars 125
Round Star Tips 80
Visco Time Fuse Expedient 126
The Quest for Fast Powder 81
Shrink That Visco For Time 128
Match Warning 83
Visco Time Fuse 130
Ball Mill Tip 83
Are Your Ready Boxes Ready? 131
Super Polverone 84
Cheap Tool Aids Lance Assembly 132
Chlorine Donors 86
Alternative Cores For Burst Charge 134
Make Your Own Dextrin 87
Mr. Cheapo & His Used Vermiculite 136
Another Core for Round Stars 136
Making Quickmatch 137
Splicing Piped Match 138
Match Pipe Making Simplified 140
Make Your Own Black Match 142
Variations on Standard Quickmatch
Manufacture 144
The Gabe Mort 145
Neapolitan Ground Bombs 146
Water Fireworks 148
Tidy Little Electrical Firing Box 150
Comments on Electrical Firing Box 151
Comments on Electrical Firing Circuits 152
Best of AFN IV
Delay Circuit 153
More on Timer Circuits 153
Starting Out 7
Simple Electric Matches 154
Ordering 9
Electric Matches & Squibs 155
To Ground or Not To Ground 158 STARS & SMALL DEVICES
Understanding and Using Capacitive- Cut Stars 11
Discharge Electrical Firing Equipment 159 Method of Production of Micro Stars 12
Electric Ignition of Shock Tube Firing Bargains in Odd Places 12
Systems 161 An Interesting Cut Star Method 13
Electric Percussive Art Shooting of Cap Crap 13
Shock Tube 164 Pill Box Stars 13
Whistle - Jetex Questions Answered 165 Making Comets 15
Further to My Quest for Good Comets 15
CHEMICALS & SENSITIVITY
Cushioning Comets 15
Why Protect Magnesium? 166
Latex Gloves Reduce Static Hazard 15
Protecting Magnesium II 167
Blue & Orange Go Getters Without
Hates Potassium Permanganate 167
Magnesium 16
Safety Considerations 168
Testing Stars 19
Simple Techniques for Testing Kitchen Pyro at Vulcan's Forge 19
Unfamiliar Compositions 170
Brilliant Illuminating Silver Electric Non-
Red Phosphorus - Bride of Frankenstein 172
Sizzling Red Comet Shower Stars 20
Phosphorus Fireworks 174
Sift Those Chemicals 21
Lessons Learned in Flash Production 177
Priming Comet Shells 22
Measurement of Aerial Shell Velocity 178
Water Bottle Salute 23
Stars Blown Blind 183
New Formulas for Colored Sparklers 24
Asks About Nickel Toxicity 184
Colored Sparkler Update 25
The Many Use of Pyro Wax 185
Super Silver Fountains 25
Quote of the Month 190
Lightning Bolts 26
More on Using Coarse Aluminum
Paper Plugs 26
Turnings 190
Safety Issues Cloud Kitchen Utensil Use 27
Using Coarse Aluminum Turnings 191
Politically Correct Pyro Tool 27
Flash & That Gut Feeling 192
Cones Revisited 28 Priming Give Positive Ignition 78
Black Powder Burn Rates 29 Sure Method of Parachute Ejection for
Black Powder Doesn't Need Machinery 30 Rockets 79
Tissue Paper Tip 31 Chain Fusing Visco 79
Perfect Paper Tape Tubes 32 Sticky, Sticky 79
Silk Screened Fireworks 32 Experiments with Miniature Rockets 80
Simpson's Spark Spinner 33 Visco Ignition Transfer 81
Mini Fountains/Sparklers 34 Hobby Electric Launcher 82
Smoking Cap Stix 35 Two-Stage Whistle Rockets 84
Easy Firecracker Mortar 36 Parachute Rockets 86
Katydids - Repeating Firecrackers 37 Hints & Tips 88
Triangle Pyro Cases 38 The Spoolette Rocket 89
Sky Rocket Performance Characteristics 90
Rocket Nozzles 92
Ground Testing Rocket Motors 93
LARGER DEVICES & NOVELTY ITEMS Bottle Rocket Launcher 94

Yours, Mine & Ours 39 AERIALS

The Construction, Care & Feeding of Poly-Lube Coating 95
the Cajun Pyrotechnical Sawed-Off Product Warning-Nitrocellulose
Shotgun Mine 42 Products 95
Gold Lampblack Star Mines 46 Easy Made Shell Time Fuse 96
Don't Mix It 46 Crossmatching Shells the Easy Way 96
A Heretic's Guide to Roman Candles 47 Make Your Own Mortars 97
Keep the Kids Happy With This One 50 Small Aerial Inserts 98
My First Girandola 51 The How-Do-You-Do-That Multi-Break
Glittering Sunset 52 Shell 100
Glittering Thunder Aerolites 54 Another Method of Making Round
Making Plugs the Hard Way 57 Shell Paper Casings 101
Aerial Flashlight Salute Candles 58 Easily Made 3" Paper Ball Shell Molds 102
Niagara Falls - A 4th of July Favorite 62 More on Making Round Paper Shell
The Poor Man's Waterfall 66 Casings 103
Frogs 68 Hint of the Month 103
Paper Freebies 70 Uncle Tom's Fluffy Rice Hulls 103
Tennis Ball Gas Cannon 71 A Couple of Formulas for Meal Coated
Dress Up Those Spinning Wheels 72 Rice Hulls 104
Wild About Wheels 73 Pyrotechnics by Microscope 105
Steel Wool Redux 73 Rolling Bowls 105
Driver Basics 74 Converted Cement Mixers 106
The Tourbillion Revisited 76 Hints & Tips 107
Pyros Beware the Month of June 77
CHEMICALS & OTHER INGREDIENTS
ROCKETS Chemical Risks 108
Easy to Make Fuse for Better Rocket Pyro Roulette - Safety Issues 110
Ignition 77
Caution About Using Non-Proven 112
Oxidizers NoMatch Delays 148
Make Your Own Potassium Nitrate 113 Fun With NoMatch 149
More on Potassium Nitrate/Fertilizer 115
Potassium Nitrate/Fertilizer Update 116 Constructing Set Pieces & Other
Making Better Charcoal 117 Devices From Consumer Fireworks 151
Effects of Water on Compositions 117 CD Firing Box From Salvaged Parts 154
Purifying Chemicals by Recrystallization 118 Ball Milling 164
Mining the Pyro Tailings Heap 120 Burn Rate of Fireworks Compositions 170
Coax Cable for Lancework 120 Peak Shell Accelerations 174
Spherical Titanium Offers Reduced Lift Charge Loss 175
Sensitivity 121 Dud Shell Hazard Assessment: NFPA 176
Inexpensive Mills 121 Dud Shell Hazard Assessment: Mortars 180

BLACK MATCH & MISC. MACHINERY Using Salutes in Blasting Operations 184
Steel vs Cardboard vs HDPE Mortars 185
Simple Ram Modification Ensures HDPE Mortars for Multi-Break Shells 187
Improved Comet Ignition 122 More on Mortars 188
A Pressing Concern 123 Non-Sparking Magazine Interiors 190
Inexpensive Press for Pyro Use 124 Using HDPE Mortars for Repeat Firing
Installing a Pressure Gauge 125 of Displays 191
Discussion of Pressing Forces 126 Simple Measurements of Aerial Shell
Clip-Match 127 Performance 192
Cheap & Easy Quickmatch 128 Mortar Separations in Troughs 195
Easily Made High Performance Black Color Coding Mortars 198
Match 129 Shooter's Personal Checklist 199
E-Z Formable Black Match 129 The Wedding Shoot 200
Another Match Making Machine 130 Setting Up & Shooting a Pyromusical
Match Making Machine 132 Barge Show 202
Caution: Very Fast "Black Match" 133 Hobby Magazine Locks 204

DISPLAYS, DEVICES & EQUIPMENT

Display Tip of the Month 135
My First Board 136
Safety & Reliability in Shooting Boxes 137
Quick & Easy E-Match Fusing of Visco-
Fused Items 138
Fireworks & Electronic Components 138
Thoughts on Electric Match 139
Testing Electric Matches 140
Novel Uses for Sticky Match® 142
NoMatch® Front Technique 144
Launching Rocket Flights With
NoMatch 146
Sticky Match Aids Set Piece
Construction 147
 Best of AFN V
MISCELLANEOUS
The Magic of Professional Pyro Preface to the 5th Edition 5
Adhesive 204 Our Love Affair on the 4th 5
Better Hydrogen Balloons Through
Chemistry 205 ADVICE & SMALL DEVICES
Colored Fire Products Brighten Winter Practical Use for Highly Energetic
Flames 206 Materials Around the Home 6
Nitro Millennium Cartoon 208 Quote of the Month 6
Disassembly of a Small Festival Ball 7
M80s, Silver Salutes & Cherry Bombs 8
Consider the Risk 10
Hot Chemistry Tonight 11
Fireworks are Environmentally Healthy 12
How Things Look to a Pyrotech 12
Mini Pyro Research 12
Pyroconics for the Amateur 15
Bang Buckets 16
Bucket Preservation Project 17
Ascending Flowers Effect 18
Crackling Microstars 19
Aerolites 20
Quick & Dirty Smoke Bombs 20
Sun on a String 21
More on Cap Crap 21

STARS & STUFF

Spin Stabilized Stars 22
The Strobe Star 23
Strobing Stingers 26
Pour Your Own White Strobe Flares 27
Colored Flash Reports 28
Using Fine Mesh Magnesium in Stars 28
Fine Firefly Aluminum 29 Coating Paper Mortars for Longer Life 61
Fast Way to Test New Star Compositions 29 Flowerpots and Muzzle Breaks 62
All About Copper 30 Aerial Shell Augmentation Effects 65
New Flake Titanium is Brighter, Faster 31 Tapes for Pyros 68
Titanium Sparks Easily 31 Effect of Reflected Blast Waves in HDPE
Flour Paste for Shell Building 31 Mortars 69
Picric Acid Remembered 32 No More Walking the Finale 71
Moisture-Proofing Steel Filings 32 Factors Affecting the Precision of
Red Phosphorous 33 Choreographed displays 72
Priming Chlorate Stars 33 Handling Misfires & Duds 73
Cutting Small Paper Plugs 34 Uplifting Thoughts 74
Backyard Radios 35 Using a Cargo Trailer for Display Work 76
More on Cargo Trailers 77

Radios or Rats 35 ROCKETS

Fire Balloons - Again 36 3-Lb Sugar Rocket 78
When American Helicopters Ruled 37 Traditional Black Powder Rockets 80
Bamboo Tips 37 Whistle Rockets Using Strobe Rocket
Chrysanthemum Stars 38 Tooling 83
Bentonite Tip 38 Proper Use of Clay 83
Cattails & Eco Cops 38 Are Zinc/Sulfur Rockets Hot? You Bet! 84
Cleanup Tip 38 Quickly Igniting a Flight of Small Rockets 85
The Willow Wood Caper 39 Anti-bamboo Tip 85
More on Dextrin Making 39 White Strobe Rocket Notes &
Paulownia Coal - What Is It 40 Comments 86
Sensitivity Findings 41 Whet Your Appetite for Wet Whistle 91
Saltpeter & Long Distance Commerce 41 Parachute Rockets 92
Making Polystyrene-Xylene Glue 42 Noiseless Flash Tip 93
Gluing Plastic Ball Shells 42 Burping Rockets 93
Avoiding Serious Accidents 42 Fusing Crossette Comets 94
Flying-Fish Visco Shell 43 Unmixed Flash Powder 95
Hot Melt Glue 43 Improved Rocket Tubes 96
Substitute for Hexachlorobenzene 43 Drill Bit Tip 97
Preparation of Clay for Rocket Nozzles 98
AERIAL SHELLS & RELATED Gel Cap Rockets Revisited 99
2" Round Crimson Meteors with Golden 4oz Rocket Tip 100
Streamer Tails 44 Parlor Rockets 101
Mystery Behind Awesome Shell Breaks 50 Instant Reading of Ram Force During
Determining Positions for Angle Firing 52 Rocket Engine Construction 102
Closing Oddly-Filled Shells 53 Tap-A-Jack for a Rocket Press 103
Popcorn Tip 56 Wooden Rocket Press Construction 104
Aerial Shell Burst Height as a Function of
Mortar Length 57 STARS & MISC MANIPULATIONS
What Do All Those Shell Names Mean 59 Non-Sparking Magazine Interiors 107
Mortar Exit Times for Aerial Shells 60 Straight, Light Rocket Sticks 107
Building a Star Rolling Machine 108 Flame Projectors 148
Star Testing Device 112 Improved E-Match Techniques 148
Field-Expedient Paper Plugs 112 Nitrocellulose Flame Projectors 149
Drying Stars with a Food Dehydrator 113 Nitrocellulose Flame Projectors II 150
Care & Feeding of a Mortar & Pestle 114 Making Guncotton 151
Toilet Paper Tip 114 Method of Producing Flash Materials 154
Grinding 115 Follow-up to above 155
Lead Balls for Milling 116
Cannon Ball Molds Offer Milling Media 117 GOOD STUFF TO KNOW AND DO
Casting Lead 117 Christmas Crackers 156
Informal Notes on Hearing Protection 118 The Log Splitter 160
Grounding My Workshop 118 Electric Firing of Cake Fronts 162
Black Powder Origin 119 Your Own Consumer Fireworks Display 164
Y Comp Mixers 120 Preparation of Silver Nitrate 167
Importance of Finales 121 More on Silver Nitrate 167
Varying the Speed of a DC Motor 122 Candle Batteries 168
Fireworks Are Immortal Poem 123 Clark's Giant Steel Fountain 170
Clark's Giant Steel Fountain II 175
FUSE, IGNITION & BLACK POWDER Magnesium + Cab-O-Sil Fiasco 179
Black Powder & Horse Dung 124 Effect of Varying Reactant Compositions
Pulverone-Polverone 125 on the Senko Hanabi Reaction 180
Choking Quick Match 125 Low Power FM & Fireworks 183
Reliable Joints for Quickmatch/Visco 126 Explosion of a Ball Milling Jar 192
Y Visco 127
Visco Ignition Transfer 128
Chain Fusing Visco 128
Thermalite Substitute Formula 128
Ignition Measurements 129
Fish Fuse in Can Shells 130
Cut, Prime & Passivate Fish Fuse 131
Cheap & Easy Quickmatch 132
The Vital Link - Paper Fuse 133
No more Banana Boards 133
Safety Tips of Cross Matching 134
Time Fuse Length 136
Electric Matches 137
Chlorate Compositions in Quick Match 138
Electric Matches: Ramp Firing Current 140
INDOOR & SFX Fireball Effects with
Inexpensive Materials 144
What is Pyrogolf? 145
Nitric Acid Loves Sulfuric Acid 145
Ghost Mines & Colored Alcohol Flames 146
Indoor Pyrotechnic Electrostatic
Discharge Hazard 147
SPECIAL QUICK MATCH SECTION
Its Construction & Manner of Best of AFN VI
Functioning 196
Methods of Slowing Its Burning 199 Preface to the 6th Edition 5
Effect of Powder Loss on Its Hobby Fireworks Makers Have Value 5
Performance 202
Effect of Humidity on Its Performance 204 ADVICE and SMALL DEVICES
Effect of Combined Factors on Its Simple To Assemble Battle In The Clouds 7
Performance 205 Cones Are Cool 10
Hangfires & Misfires 208 Colored Fire Bricks 14
Moisture Absorption by Its Components 209 Recycling 1.4 Cake Items 15
Survival Time for Strings in Black Match 213 Recycle Instead Of Rolling Your Own 15
Cap-Bomb Firecrackers 16
WE ARE THE PYROS 215 Designing Portfires 17
Of Pyrogeeks & Creation 215 Traditional Portfires 19
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Portfires! 20
Lead-Free Dragon Eggs 20
Improved Titanium Sparkler 20
Humorous & Inexpensive Americana 21
Double-Granatine Effect 24
Save Your Old Cakes 25
Cap Bombs 25
Roman Candle Improver 26
Streamer Comets In A Nutshell 27
Making Lampblack 27
Even Cheaper Fountain Comp. 28
Lampblack & Comet Tails 28
Using Titanium In Salutes 29
Titanium No-No 29
Nitrate-Based Strobes 30
Cutting Visco And Similar Fuses 30
Burst Charge For Small Shells 31
Cleaning Ball Mill Jar 31
The Bishop's Cross 32 Extruding Star Comp. 67
More Fun With 1.4 33 More On Extruding Star Comp 68
Small Diameter Mortar Tubes 33 Star Cores From Portland Cement 69
Granulating 34 Tip(S) Of The Month 69
Tip Of The Month 34 Avoiding Sticking Comp In Rolling Stars 70
Chemistry Corner 35 Perceiving Color In Stars 70
Tip Of The Month 35
Chemistry Corner 35 AERIAL SHELLS and RELATED
Better Than Rice Hulls? 36 Flying Fish Fuse Shells 71
Warning About Contacts 36 Three Stooges Shell Inserts 72
Punk 37 Must Flash Comp Be Contained To
Hot Patch 38 Work? 73
All Bamboo Is Not The Same 39 Spoolette, Spolette, Spoolette 74
The Cost Of Building HDPE Mortars 75
Stabilizing Racks 76
The Use Of Titanium In Pyrotechnics 40 Handling Large Diameter Shells 77
Sizzling Colored Comets 44 Still More On Round Paper Shells 78
A Collection Of Star Formulations 45 Further To Handling Large Diameter
Don't Overlook Roman Candle Tubes! 47 Shells 79
Quote Of The Month 47 Japanese Shell Break Radii 80
Paper Freebies 47
Saran Resin 47 ROCKETS
CMC, Its Properties And Uses 48 Deluxe Bottle Rockets 87
Festival Ball Comets 49 Tip Of The Month 87
Exploding Terrorist Fun Project 50 Quote Of The Month 88
Sky Rocket Performance Characteristics 90
STARS and STUFF Spritzing Your Star Cores 90
Crossette Bursts - Getting It Right 53 Quote Of The Month 91
Tip Of The Month 54 Transition Pieces 91
Fine Titanium 54 Tubes To Make Bottle Rockets 92
Chemistry Corner 54 Cheap & Safe Rocket Headings 93
Red Mag Stars From Road Flares 55 Quickly Igniting A Flight Of Small Rockets 93
Easy Red Mag Star 57 Considerations In Hydraulic Pressing 94
Pyro Quotes 57
Quote Of The Week 57 STARS and MISC. MANIPULATIONS
Spinning tis Hovering Stars 58 Making One's Own Chems 95
Comets To Falling Leaves 58 Tip Of The Month 97
Square Stars In Square Shells 59 Making One's Own Chems II 98
Bushy-Tailed Spider 60 Making One's Own Chems III 101
Will The Real Independence Red Please 60 A Little Matter Oft Forgot 103
Starting And Rolling Round Stars 61 Misadventures With White Phosphorus 105
Using Fine Mesh Magnesium In Stars 62 Misadventures With Iodine Crystals 107
Blind Stars: What Are They And Why 63 You Got It, Now What Do You Do With
Calculated Amount Of Blind Stars 66 It? 108
In Aerial Shell Display Fireworks 66 Tip Of The Month 108
Misadventures With Pot. Permanganate 109 Gerbs For Close Prox Work 159
Farewell To The Trusty Old Triple Beam? 111 Cautions On Snapping Fingers Article 160
Ice Fountain - Sparkler In Disguise? 115 Using Pulling Fireworks In Magic Tricks 160
End Plug Insertion Tool 116 Lycopodium 161
End Plugs For Small-Diameter Tubes 118 Using Speaker Terminals In Slats 162
Improvised CD Box From Fly Swatter 121 Quote Of The Month 162
Building A Floppy For Brush Fires 122
Comparing Gum Arabic and Guar Gum 123 GOOD STUFF TO KNOW AND DO
Static Electricity 124 Aluminum Basics 163
Sky Lantern Safety 124 Christmas Crackers 164
Drilling Into Titanium Comp 124 Revisited 164
Bad Charcoal Choices 125 Tip Of The Season 165
Paulownia Charcoal Again 127 Other Than Christmas Crackers 166
Will The Real Retort Method Stand Up 128 Pao Chuic Chinese Crackers Explained 166
Ghost Flames As Motivators 129 Quote Of The Month 167
Lead Media For Ball Mills 130 What Helpers Need To Bring To A
Fiddlestix 131 Display? 167
The Hazard Of Staple Guns 132 Fireworks Fun Laying At Your Feet 169
Nail Board Firing 133 The Art Of Display 170
Tie One On For The 4th 134 Shooting Displays In Cold Locations 171
Quote Of The Month 135 Data Dropouts 172
Pyro Quotes 135 Drag Strip Fireworks 173
Quick, Safe, Easy Way To Shoot Display 136 MSDS as LDS 174
Preparing For The Unexpected 175
FUSE, IGNITION and BLACK POWDER Preparing Fare Unexpected 177
Rammed Fuses 137 Fireworks From The Past 184
Low Tech, Low Budget, Black Powder 138 Some Perils And Pleasures of Pyro EBay 185
No More Walking The Finale 139 Some Comet Formulas 189
Quickmatch Basics 140 Triboluminescence 190
Pyro Quotes 141 Hazard Data For Chemicals 191
Comments On Bill Hoyt's "Make Some Lessons From A Fatal Accident 194
Chinese Fuse - American Style" 142 Making Fireworks For Your Own Use 198
E-Match Alternative 143 Sequencers Add Creativity To Displays 199
Pyrotechnic Fuse Cutting 144 Safety Rating System For Pyro Chemicals 202
The Missing Color 145 Long Live Freedom! 204
Quote Of The Month 145
Another Visco Cutting Method 145
AC Match 146
Visco Punch 147
Cheap & Dirty Electric Ignitors 150
Chicken Fuse 152
Pyrotechnic Fuse Bum Rates 153
Skip Burning Of Visco Fuse 155

INDOOR & SFX

Best of AFN VII
Preface 5
Nitro cartoons 5-6
Foreword 7

Stuff To Help With Safety 9

Safety In Pyrotechnic Display Work 9
Safety Reminders For Electric Match 11
Flash And That Gut Feeling Revisited 12
Pyrotechnician's Prayer 13
Flash and That Gut Feeling Revisited 14
Hazardous Chemical Combinations 16
Hazards Of Resorcinol Resins & Phenol-
Resorcinol Resins 17
Going Green Is Good for Us 18
Truck Plastic Bed Liners Problematic for
Fireworkers 19
Lead Shooters Beware 19
We Must Guard Against Complacency 20
Pyrotechnics Redefined 20
DOT- And Un-Marked Firecracker Labels:
1971-1999 21

Black Powder & Fuse Black Powder

Revisited 26
Further Findings On BP Behavior 27
CIA Black Powder Deja. Vu Once Again 31
CIA Black Powder Revisited 31
Coacervation 32
Alcohol & Oxidizer Savings 32
Reduxing CIA Déja. Vu 33 Fabricated Electric Match 70
Tip From Long Ago 33 Cheap Electric Ignition 72
Making Quickmatch 34 Bumping For Uniformity 73
Boiling Black Powder 34
Cooking Your Own Charcoal 35 Rocket Stuff 76
Inexpensive Charcoal Source For BP Nozzleless 1 Lb. Black Powder Rockets 76
Production 36 Traditional 1 Lb. Black Powder Rockets 79
Charcoal Density and BP Burn Rates 37 Deluxe Bottle Rockets Revisited 85
Pyrochem - Charcoal Particles 40 Common Wax Prevents CATOs 86
Pyrotechnic Fuse Cutting 41 Rocket Enhancement Tip 87
Strobing Dud Shell 41 Rocket Stick Sizes 87
Is This the World's Best Fuse Cutter 42 Pressing Matters 88

Mechanical Stuff
Making Stuff APA Warns Of Static Danger 90
Blender Comets 44 Volume Comparison Chart 90
The Lowdown On Gold Flitter 45 Vibratory Tumbler Alternative 91
Pizza Box Quick Match 47 Cheap Mechanical Tachometer 93
Priming Stars 47 Making A Pressure-To-Force Gauge the
PVB-Based Star Compositions 48 Cheating Way 94
What Is PVB? 49
Is Wet Mixing Necessary? 49 More Stuff To Make 96
Heavy-Metal-Free Crackling Micro-Stars 50 Comet-Like Firecrackers 96
Crackling Micro-Stars - An Update 51 Second Round Of Special Purpose
Tip of The Month 51 Firecrackers 97
Another New Crackle Composition 52 Sticky Sparkler Solutions 98
Faster Than Strobe? 54 Shake N' Blast Cake - Tail, Star & Report 99
Crackle Effect Connection 55 Small Repeating Aerial Shell 101
Working Old Country Technical Pyro Two Shot Mortar 102
Words 56 Fogetti Rack 104
Spinning Color-Changing Go-Getters 57 Exploding Terrorist Fun Project 105
Bleser Blue Composition Revisited 58 Fireball Effects with Inexpensive
Green Flash 59 Materials 108
Production Of Benzoate Color Agents 60 Easy Special Effects 108
Studying Zinc Stars 62 Go Buy Fireworks 108
Don't Throw Away Those Roman Candle
Color Changing Crossettes 63
Empties 109
Personal Note from Anon Pyro 64
Using Speaker Terminals In Slats 109
Recommended Lift Charge For Shells 64
Roman Candle Improver 110
Color Changing Effect 65
Some Considerations In Using Plastic
Relay vs. Dark Mix 66
Casings for Aerial Shells 111
Easy Red Mag Star 67
Another Approach To Falling Leaf Stars 67 Chemical Know-How Stuff 112
Bridge Wire Electric Matches 68 Using Fine Mesh Magnesium in Stars 112
When is Water Better in Wetting Star Muzzle Breaks That Appear as
Comp? 112 Flowerpots 147
Virgin Rock & Roll Sulfur 113 Effect of Intentionally-Caused Fire Leaks
Sulfur Is Sulfur - What's The Fuss? 114 Into 2 1/4" Plastic Aerial Shells 151
Powdered Copper & Pyro Dusting Sulfur 115 Handy Dandy Device 155
Asphaltum - Still Useful 116 Effect of Intentionally-Caused Fire Leaks
Sodium Chlorate Mishap 117 Into 3" Display Firework Aerial Shells 156
Cadmium Sulfide In Fireworks - An Retrieving Stuck Mortars 159
Urban Legend 118 Aerial Shell Apparent Angular Diameter 159
Effect on Mortars of Explosions Within
Really Interesting Stuff 119 Them 160
Hotter Break for Small Shells 119 Typical Mortar. Recoil Forces for
Hints & Tips 119 Spherical Aerial Shell Firings 163
Gerb Tip 119 Confirmation Of Mortar Recoil Info 167
Inches/Micron/Mesh Particle Size 120 Determining Positions for Angle Firing 168
Dry Storage of Pyro Materials 121 Aerial Shell Drift 169
Confessions of A Ghost Miner 122 Mortar Plug and Recoil Problems 170
Ghost Flames as Motivators 123 The Effect of Reflected Blast Waves in
Ghost Mines and Colored Alcohol HDPE Mortars 174
Flames 124 Improving Connections 176
Happy Fourth of July Nitro Cartoon 125 Covering Mortars After Loading 177
Instant Snake or Pharaoh's Serpent 126 Mortars and Covers - My Experience 179
Christmas Cracker 127 Stabilizing Racks 180
Tip For Lancemen 128 Display Firing from Trailers 181
Flame Effect Tip 128 Capacitive-Discharge Firing Units 184
Fountain Formulations 128 C-D Units - Trips Down Memory Lane 186
Smelling the Smoke 129 Micro Tidings 187
More Ways to Smell the Smoke 129 What Is SMPTE Time Code All About? 188
Fireworks Display Incense 130

Display Operations Stuff 132

Study of The Effect of Leg Wire
Attachment on the Burst Height of
Aerial Shells 132
Typical Aerial Shell Firing Time Sequence 135
Manual Firing Delay Times for Aerial
Shells 137
The Glorious 4th Cartoon 140
Errata For: "Manual Firing Delay Times
for Aerial Shells" 141
Aerial Shell Burst Spread 142
Aerial Shell Burst Height 143
Firing Precision for Choreographed
Displays 144
Factors Affecting the Precision of
Choreo-graphed Displays 145
Cross Reference by Article Name

Article Name Page Book

1/8" Cut Stars 68 AFN II
2" Displays Shells in a Hurry 109 AFN II
2" Round Crimson Meteors with
Golden Streamer Tails 44 AFN V
3-Lb Sugar Rocket 78 AFN V
4oz Rocket Tip 100 AFN V
6" Double Petaled Round Shells 154 AFN II
A Collection Of Star
Formulations 45 AFN VI
A Couple of Formulas for Meal
Coated Rice Hulls 104 AFN IV
A Fierce Yellow Streamer Star 73 AFN II
A Heretic's Guide to Roman
Candles 47 AFN IV
A Little Matter Oft Forgot 103 AFN VI
A New Blue 92 AFN II
A Pressing Concern 123 AFN IV
A Pyro Wedding 49 AFN II
A Strobing Rocket 58 AFN II
AC Match 146 AFN VI
Aerial Flashlight Salute Candles 58 AFN IV
Aerial Shell Apparent Angular
Diameter 159 AFN VII
Aerial Shell Augmentation
Effects 65 AFN V
Aerial Shell Burst Height 143 AFN VII
Aerial Shell Burst Height as a
Function of Mortar Length 57 AFN V
Aerial Shell Burst Spread 142 AFN VII Bang Buckets 16 AFN V
Aerial Shell Drift 169 AFN VII Bargains in Odd Places 12 AFN IV
Aerolites 20 AFN V Basic Equipment & Safety 9 AFN II
Alcohol & Oxidizer Savings 32 AFN VII Basic Skyrocket Construction 50 AFN II
All About Copper 30 AFN V Bentonite Tip 38 AFN V
All Bamboo Is Not The Same 39 AFN VI Better Hydrogen Balloons
Alternative Cores For Burst Through Chemistry 205 AFN IV
Charge 134 AFN III Better Than Rice Hulls? 36 AFN VI
Aluminum Basics 163 AFN VI Big Birds 32 AFN II
Aluminum-Nitrate Reactions 178 AFN II Bigger & Better Breaks with
An Easy 4" Chrysanthemum Shell 116 AFN II Small Ball Shells 11 AFN III
An Easy Ring Shell 156 AFN II Bike Wheel Pyro 16 AFN III
An Interesting Cut Star Method 13 AFN IV Black Match Machine 13 AFN II
Another Approach To Falling Black Powder & Horse Dung 124 AFN V
Leaf Stars 67 AFN VII Black Powder Burn Rates 29 AFN IV
Black Powder Doesn't Need
Machinery 30 AFN IV
Black Powder on a Budget 24 AFN II
Another Core for Round Stars 136 AFN III Black Powder Origin 119 AFN V
Another Look at Rockets 42 AFN III Blaster Pastor's Black Match
Another Match Making Machine 130 AFN IV Machine 12 AFN II
Another Method of Making Blender Comets 70 AFN II
Round Shell Paper Casings 101 AFN IV Blender Comets 44 AFN VII
Another New Crackle Blender Rockets 40 AFN III
Composition 52 AFN VII Bleser Blue Composition
Another Visco Cutting Method 145 AFN VI Revisited 58 AFN VII
Anti-bamboo Tip 85 AFN V Blind Stars: What Are They And
APA Warns Of Static Danger 90 AFN VII Why 63 AFN VI
Aqueous Binding of Sodium Blue & Orange Go Getters
Nitrate Stars 122 AFN III Without Magnesium 16 AFN IV
Are Your Ready Boxes Ready? 131 AFN III Boiling Black Powder 34 AFN VII
Are Zinc/Sulfur Rockets Hot? You Bottle Rocket Launcher 94 AFN IV
Bet! 84 AFN V Bowling Ball Shell 135 AFN II
Armstrong's Mixture 195 AFN II Breaking Paper 133 AFN II
Ascending Flowers Effect 18 AFN V Bridge Wire Electric Matches 68 AFN VII
Asks About Nickel Toxicity 184 AFN III Bright Star Compositions with
Asphaltum - Still Useful 116 AFN VII High Magnalium Content 115 AFN III
Auto Ignition Temperature 184 AFN II Brilliant Illuminating Silver
Avoiding Serious Accidents 42 AFN V Electric Non-Sizzling Red Comet
Avoiding Sticking Comp In Rolling Shower Stars 20 AFN IV
Stars 70 AFN VI Brilliant Orange/Titanium Stars 96 AFN III
Backyard Radios 35 AFN V Bucket Preservation Project 17 AFN V
Bad Charcoal Choices 125 AFN VI Building a Ball Mill 15 AFN II
Ball Mill Tip 83 AFN III Building A Floppy For Brush Fires 122 AFN VI
Ball Milling 164 AFN IV Building a Spiking Horse 104 AFN III
Bamboo Tips 37 AFN V Building a Star Rolling Machine 108 AFN V
Bumping For Uniformity 73 AFN VII Cheap Daylight Shells 109 AFN II
Burn Rate of Fireworks Cheap Electric Ignition 72 AFN VII
Compositions 170 AFN IV Cheap Meal & Rocket Powder 21 AFN II
Burping Rockets 93 AFN V Cheap Mechanical Tachometer 93 AFN VII
Burst Charge For Small Shells 31 AFN VI Cheap Tool Aids Lance Assembly 132 AFN III
Burst Charges for Round Shells 122 AFN II Chemical Risks 108 AFN IV
Bushy-Tailed Spider 60 AFN VI Chemical Sensitivity 174 AFN II
Buzz Bombs 33 AFN II Chemistry Corner 35 AFN VI
Cadmium Sulfide In Fireworks - Chemistry Corner 35 AFN VI
An Urban Legend 118 AFN VII Chemistry Corner 54 AFN VI
Calculated Amount Of Blind Chicken Fuse 152 AFN VI
Stars 66 AFN VI Chlorate Compositions in Quick
Candle Batteries 168 AFN V Match 138 AFN V
Cannon Ball Molds Offer Milling Chlorine Donors 86 AFN III
Media 117 AFN V
Choked Gerb-Making Technique 48 AFN II
Cap Bombs 25 AFN VI
Choking Quick Match 125 AFN V
Cap Crap 13 AFN IV
Christmas Cracker 127 AFN VII
Capacitive-Discharge Firing Units 184 AFN VII
Christmas Crackers 156 AFN V
Cap-Bomb Firecrackers 16 AFN VI
Christmas Crackers 164 AFN VI
Care & Feeding of a Mortar &
Chrysanthemum 6 & 8 150 AFN II
Pestle 114 AFN V
Chrysanthemum Stars 38 AFN V
Casting Lead 117 AFN V
CIA Black Powder Deja. Vu Once
Cattails & Eco Cops 38 AFN V
Again 31 AFN VII
Caution About Using Non-Proven
CIA Black Powder Revisited 20 AFN II
Oxidizers 112 AFN IV
CIA Black Powder Revisited 31 AFNVII
Caution: Very Fast "Black Match" 133 AFN IV
Clark's Giant Steel Fountain 170 AFN V
Cautions On Snapping Fingers
Article 160 AFN VI Clark's Giant Steel Fountain II 175 AFN V
CD Firing Box From Salvaged Class C Missiles 30 AFN II
Parts 154 AFN IV Class C Repeaters 32 AFN II
C-D Units - Trips Down Memory Class C Repeaters 19 AFN III
Lane 186 AFN VII Cleaning Ball Mill Jar 31 AFN VI
Chain Fusing Visco 128 AFN V Cleanup Tip 38 AFN V
Chain Fusing Visco 79 AFN IV Clip-Match 127 AFN IV
Charcoal 16 AFN II Closing Oddly-Filled Shells 53 AFN V
Charcoal 100 AFN III CMC, Its Properties And Uses 48 AFN VI
Charcoal Density and BP Burn Coacervation 32 AFN VII
Rates 37 AFN VII Coating Paper Mortars for
Charcoal Follow-up 18 AFN II Longer Life 61 AFN V
Chart of Fireworks Black Coax Cable for Lancework 120 AFN IV
Powders 107 AFN II Color Changing Crossettes 63 AFN VII
Cheap & Dirty Electric Ignitors 150 AFN VI Color Changing Effect 65 AFN VII
Cheap & Easy Quickmatch 132 AFN V Color Coding Mortars 198 AFN IV
Cheap & Easy Quickmatch 128 AFN IV Colored Fire Bricks 14 AFN VI
Cheap & Easy Rocket Gimmick 51 AFN III Colored Fire Products Brighten
Cheap & Safe Rocket Headings 93 AFN VI Winter Flames 206 AFN IV
Colored Flash Reports 28 AFN V Cut Stars - Without Cutting 124 AFN III
Colored Sparkler Update 25 AFN IV Cut, Prime & Passivate Fish Fuse 131 AFN V
Comet Composition 71 AFN II Cutting Small Paper Plugs 34 AFN V
Comet Problems 71 AFN II Cutting Visco And Similar Fuses 30 AFN VI
Comet-Like Firecrackers 96 AFN VII Data Dropouts 172 AFN VI
Comets As Rising Tails 69 AFN II Deathmix 175 AFN II
Comets To Falling Leaves 58 AFN VI Delay Circuit 153 AFNIII
Comments On Bill Hoyt's "Make Deluxe Bottle Rockets 87 AFN VI
Some Chinese Fuse - American Deluxe Bottle Rockets Revisited 85 AFN VII
Style" 142 AFN VI Designing Portfires 12 AFN III
Comments on Electrical Firing Designing Portfires 17 AFN VI
Box 151 AFN III Determining Positions for Angle
Comments on Electrical Firing Firing 52 AFN V
Circuits 152 AFN III Determining Positions for Angle
Comments on Sizzling Colored Firing 168 AFN VII
Comets 77 AFN II Developing Aerial Shell Cases 136 AFN II
Common Wax Prevents CATOs 86 AFN VII Disassembly - Small Festival Ball 7 AFN V
Comparing Gum Arabic and Guar
Discussion of Pressing Forces 126 AFN IV
Gum 123 AFN VI
Display Firing from Trailers 181 AFN VII
Cones Are Cool 10 AFN VI
Display Tip of the Month 135 AFN IV
Cones Revisited 28 AFN IV
Don't Mix It 46 AFN IV
Confessions of A Ghost Miner 122 AFN VII
Don't Overlook Roman Candle
Confirmation Of Mortar Recoil
Tubes! 47 AFN VI
Information 167 AFN VII
Don't Throw Away Fax Tubes 93 AFN III
Consider the Risk 10 AFN V
Don't Throw Away Those Roman
Considerations In Hydraulic
Candle Empties 109 AFN VII
Pressing 94 AFN VI
DOT- And Un-Marked
Construction Techniques of
Firecracker Labels: 1971-1999 21 AFN VII
Roman Candle Using Round
Double Voice Crackers 38 AFN II
Stars 10 AFN III
Double-Granatine Effect 24 AFN VI
Converted Cement Mixers 106 AFN IV
Dr. Zuffy's Easy Two-Break Shell 137 AFN II
Cooking Your Own Charcoal 35 AFN VII
Drag Strip Irtreworks 173 AFN VI
Covering Mortars After Loading 177 AFN VII
Dragon Egg Warning 96 AFN III
Crackle Effect Connection 55 AFN VII
Dragon Eggs Warning 189 AFN II
Crackle Stars 84 AFN II
Dress Up Those Spinning Wheels 72 AFN IV
Crackle Stars 120 AFN III
Drill Bit Tip 97 AFN V
Crackling Micro Stars 121 AFN III
Drilling Into Titanium Comp 124 AFN VI
Crackling Microstars 19 AFN V
Driver Basics 74 AFN IV
Crackling Micro-Stars - An
Update 51 AFN VII Dry Storage of Pyro Materials 121 AFN VII
Drying Stars & Grinding
Crossette Bursts - Getting It Right 53 AFN VI
Chemicals 95 AFN III
Crossmatching Shells the Easy
Drying Stars with a Food
Way 96 AFN IV
Dehydrator 113 AFN V
Cross-Section of Chinese Rocket 61 AFN III
Dud Shell Hazard Assessment:
Cushioning Comets 15 AFN IV
Mortars 180 AFN IV
Cut Stars 11 AFN IV
Dud Shell Hazard Assessment: 176 AFN IV
NFPA Current
Easily Made 3" Paper Ball Shell Electric Percussive Art Shooting
Molds 102 AFN IV of Shock Tube 164 AFN III
Easily Made High Performance Electric Purple Decomposition 95 AFN II
Black Match 129 AFN IV E-Match Alternative 143 AFN VI
Easily Made Round Shell Casings 106 AFN III End Plug Insertion Tool 116 AFN VI
Easy 5" Double Petaled Round End Plugs For Small-Diameter
Shell 152 AFN II Tubes 118 AFN VI
Easy Firecracker Mortar 36 AFN IV Enhancing Successive Happy
Easy Made Shell Time Fuse 96 AFN IV News Effect 34 AFN III
Easy Red Mag Star 57 AFN VI Errata For: "Manual Firing Delay
Easy Red Mag Star 67 AFN VII Times for Aerial Shells" 141 AFN VII
Easy Set Piece Building 43 AFN II Even Cheaper Fountain Comp. 28 AFN VI
Easy Special Effects 108 AFN VII Experiments with Miniature
Easy Sun 18 AFN III Rockets 80 AFN IV
Easy to Make Fuse for Better Exploding Insight" 19 AFN III
Rocket Ignition 77 AFN IV Exploding Terrorist Fun Project 50 AFN VI
Effect of Combined Factors on Its Exploding Terrorist Fun Project 105 AFN VII
Performance 205 AFN V Explosion of a Ball Milling Jar 192 AFN V
Effect of Humidity on Its Extra Strong Tubes 19 AFN II
Performance 204 AFN V Extruding Star Comp. 67 AFN VI
Effect of Intentionally-Caused E-Z Formable Black Match 129 AFN IV
Fire Leaks Into 2 1/4" Plastic Fabricated Electric Match 70 AFN VII
Aerial Shells 151 AFN VII Factors Affecting the Precision of
Effect of Intentionally-Caused Choreographed displays 72 AFN V
Fire Leaks Into 3" Display Factors Affecting the Precision of
Firework Aerial Shells 156 AFN VII Choreo-graphed Displays 145 AFN VII
Effect of Powder Loss on Its Falling Leaf Stars 83 AFN II
Performance 202 AFN V Farewell To The Trusty Old Triple
Effect of Reflected Blast Waves Beam? 111 AFN VI
in HDPE Mortars 69 AFN V
Fast Rockets in a Hurry 57 AFN II
Effect of Varying Reactant
Fast Way to Test New Star Comp 29 AFN V
Compositions on the Senko
Faster Than Strobe? 54 AFNVII
Hanabi Reaction 180 AFN V
Effect on Mortars of Explosions Festival Ball Comets 49 AFN VI
Within Them 160 AFN VII Fiddlestix 131 AFN VI
Effects of Water on Field-Expedient Paper Plugs 112 AFN V
Compositions 117 AFN IV Fine Firefly Aluminum 29 AFN V
Eight Experiments in Non- Fine Titanium 54 AFN VI
Commercial Black Powder 76 AFN III Fire Balloons 37 AFN II
El Cheapo Fuse Cutting Device 48 AFN II Fire Balloons 33 AFN II
Electric Firing of Cake Fronts 162 AFN V Fire Balloons - Again 36 AFN V
Electric Ignition of Shock Tube Fireball Effects with Inexpensive
Firing Systems 161 AFN III Materials 108 AFN II
Electric Matches 137 AFN V Fireworks & Electronic
Electric Matches & Squibs 155 AFN III Components 138 AFN V
Electric Matches: Ramp Firing 140 AFN V Fireworks and Me 8 AFN II
Fireworks are Environmentally Getting a Pyro Education 7 AFN III
Healthy 12 AFN V Ghost Flames As Motivators 129 AFN VI
Fireworks Are Immortal Poem 123 AFN V Ghost Flames as Motivators 123 AFN VII
Fireworks Display Incense 130 AFN VII Ghost Mines & Colored Alcohol
Fireworks From The Past 184 AFN VI Flames 146 AFN V
Fireworks Fun Laying At Your Ghost Mines and Colored
Feet 169 AFN VI Alcohol Flames 124 AFN VII
Fireworks on a Budget 68 AFN III Glitter Crossettes 96 AFN II
Firing Precision for Glittering Report Tourbillions 29 AFN III
Choreographed Displays 144 AFN VII Glittering Sparklers 31 AFN III
Fish Fuse in Can Shells 130 AFN V Glittering Sunset 52 AFN IV
Flame Effect Tip 128 AFN VII Glittering Thunder Aerolites 54 AFN IV
Flame Projectors 148 AFN V Gluing Plastic Ball Shells 42 AFN V
Flash & That Gut Feeling 192 AFN III Go Buy Fireworks 108 AFN VII
Flash And That Gut Feeling Godzilla Powder 36 AFN II
Revisited 12 AFN VII Going Green Is Good for Us 18 AFN VII
Gold Lampblack Star Mines 46 AFN IV
Flash and That Gut Feeling
Gold-Ferro Aluminum Flitter 114 AFN III
Revisited 14 AFN VII
Granulating 34 AFN VI
Flash Bag Shell Construction 126 AFN II
Green Flash 59 AFN VII
Flashlight Holder Aids Displays 19 AFN II
Grinding 115 AFN V
Flatulent Fireworks 35 AFN II
Grinding Out Green Powder 25 AFN II
Flour Paste for Shell Building 31 AFN V
Ground Bloom Flower Wheel 16 AFN III
Flowerpots and Muzzle Breaks 62 AFN V
Ground Testing Rocket Motors 93 AFN IV
Flying Fish Fuse Shells 71 AFN VI
Grounding My Workshop 118 AFN V
Flying-Fish Visco Shell 43 AFN V
Handling Large Diameter Shells 77 AFN VI
Fogetti Rack 104 AFN VII
Handling Misfires & Duds 73 AFN V
Follow-up to above 155 AFN V
Handy Dandy Device 155 AFN VII
Fountain Formulations 128 AFN VII
Hangfires & Misfires 208 AFN V
Frogs 68 AFN IV
Happy Bees Candle 37 AFN II
From Consumer Fireworks 151 AFN IV
Happy Fourth of July Nitro
Fumed Silica Hazard 176 AFN II Cartoon 125 AFN VII
Fun with Jumping Jacks 14 AFN III Hates Potassium Permanganate 167 AFN III
Fun With NoMatch 149 AFN IV Hazard Data For Chemicals 191 AFN VI
Further Findings On BP Behavior 27 AFN VII Hazardous Chemical
Further To Handling Large Combinations 16 AFN VII
Diameter Shells 79 AFN VI Hazards of Blue Star Metals 191 AFN II
Further to My Quest for Good Hazards Of Resorcinol Resins &
Comets 15 AFN IV Phenol-Resorcinol Resins 17 AFN VII
Fusee Cones 27 AFN II HDPE Mortars for Multi-Break
Fusing Crossette Comets 94 AFN V Shells 187 AFN IV
Gel Cap Rockets Revisited 99 AFN V Heavy-Metal-Free Crackling
Gerb Tip 49 AFN II Micro-Stars 50 AFN VII
Gerb Tip 119 AFN VII Helpful Hint #1 22 AFN II
Gerbs For Close Prox Work 159 AFN VI Helpful Hint #2 22 AFN II
Helpful Hint #3 49 AFN II During Rocket Engine
Hint of the Month 103 AFN IV Construction
Hints & Tips 119 AFN VII Instant Snake or Pharaoh's
Hints & Tips 88 AFN IV Serpent 126 AFN VII
Hints & Tips 107 AFN IV Intersector Shell Update 160 AFN II
Hobby Electric Launcher 82 AFN IV Iodine Based Smokes 31 AFN II
Hobby Magazine Locks 204 AFN IV Is This the World's Best Fuse
Cutter 42 AFN VII
Homemade Crossette Pump 101 AFN II
Is Wet Mixing Necessary? 49 AFN VII
Hot Chemistry Tonight 11 AFN V
Its Construction & Manner of
Hot Melt Glue 43 AFN V
Functioning 196 AFN V
Hot Patch 38 AFN VI
Japanese Shell Break Radii 80 AFN VI
Hotter Break for Small Shells 119 AFN VII
Japanese Shell Dissection 117 AFN II
How Things Look to a Pyrotech 12 AFN V
Katydids - Repeating Firecrackers 37 AFN IV
Humorous & Inexpensive
Keep the Kids Happy With This
Americana 21 AFN VI
One 50 AFN IV
Ice Fountain - Sparkler In
Kitchen Pyro at Vulcan's Forge 19 AFN IV
Disguise? 115 AFN VI
Lampblack & Comet Tails 28 AFN VI
Igniter Flash Bags 129 AFN II
Lance Development 73 AFN III
Ignition Measurements 129 AFN V
Latex Gloves Reduce Static
Illumination Breaks &
Hazard 15 AFN IV
Shimmering Curtains 73 AFN III
Launching Rocket Flights With
Impact Sensitivity 188 AFN II
NoMatch 146 AFN IV
Importance of Finales 121 AFN V
Lead Balls for Milling 116 AFN V
Improved E-Match Techniques 148 AFN V
Lead Chemicals 186 AFN II
Improved Rocket Tubes 96 AFN V
Lead Media For Ball Mills 130 AFN VI
Improved Titanium Sparkler 20 AFN VI
Lead Shooters Beware 19 AFN VII
Improving Connections 176 AFN VII
Lead-Free Dragon Eggs 20 AFN VI
Improvised CD Box From Fly
Lessons From A Fatal Accident 194 AFN VI
Swatter 121 AFN VI
Lessons Learned in Flash
In Aerial Shell Display Fireworks 66 AFN VI
Production 177 AFN III
In Praise of Cupric Octoate 103 AFN III
Lift Charge Amounts 138 AFN II
Inches/Micron/Mesh Particle
Lift Charge Loss 175 AFN IV
Conversion Table 120 AFN VII
INDOOR & SFX Fireball Effects Lifting Charges 141 AFN II
with Inexpensive Materials 144 AFN V Lightning & Thunder Fountain 9 AFN III
Indoor Pyrotechnic Electrostatic Lightning Bolts 26 AFN IV
Discharge Hazard 147 AFN V Line Rockets - How To Make
Inexpensive Charcoal Source For Them 54 AFN III
BP Production 36 AFN VII Long Lasting Paper Mortars 125 AFN III
Inexpensive Mills 121 AFN IV Long Live Freedom] 204 AFN VI
Inexpensive Press for Pyro Use 124 AFN IV Low Power FM & Fireworks 183 AFN V
Informal 8 oz. Rockets 38 AFN III Low Tech, Low Budget, Black
Informal Notes on Hearing Powder 138 AFN VI
Protection 118 AFN V Lowdown on Gold Flitter 79 AFN II
Installing a Pressure Gauge 125 AFN IV Lycopodium 161 AFN VI
Instant Reading of Ram Force 102 AFN V M80s, Silver Salutes & Cherry 8 AFN V
Bombs Micro Mines 34 AFN III
Mag/55 Enhances Aerial Salutes 116 AFN III Micro Stars & Linseed Oil 86 AFN II
Magnesium + Cab-O-Sil Fiasco 179 AFN V Micro Tidings 187 AFN VII
Make Your Own Black Match 142 AFN III Microjet Stars 119 AFN III
Make Your Own Dextrin 87 AFN III Microstar Bursts Without
Make Your Own Mortars 97 AFN IV Microstars 118 AFN III
Make Your Own Potassium Mini Fountains/Sparklers 34 AFN IV
Nitrate 113 AFN IV Mini Pyro Research 12 AFN V
Making A Pressure-To-Force Mining the Pyro Tailings Heap 120 AFN IV
Gauge the Cheating Way 94 AFN VII Misadventures With Iodine
Making Better Charcoal 117 AFN IV Crystals 107 AFN VI
Making Black Powder Lift 22 AFN II Misadventures With Pot.
Making Charcoal in Small Permanganate 109 AFN VI
Quantities 101 AFN III Misadventures With White
Making Comets 15 AFN IV Phosphorus 105 AFN VI
Making Cut Stars 67 AFN II MISCELLANEOUS AFN IV
Modeling Clay & The Pyro 93 AFN III
Making Fireworks For Your Own Moisture Absorption by Its
Use 198 AFN VI Components 209 AFN V
Making Guncotton 151 AFN V Moisture-Proofing Steel Filings 32 AFN V
Making Homemade Wheat Paste 113 AFN III Molecular Sieves as Cores 72 AFN III
Making Lampblack 27 AFN VI More About Charcoal 102 AFN III
Making One's Own Chems 95 AFN VI More Blues 93 AFN II
Making One's Own Chems II 98 AFN VI More Fun With 1.4 33 AFN VI
Making One's Own Chems III 101 AFN VI More on Cap Crap 21 AFN V
Making Palm Tree Shells 146 AFN II More on Cargo Trailers 77 AFN V
Making Plugs the Hard Way 57 AFN IV More on Crossettes 103 AFN II
Making Polystyrene-Xylene Glue 42 AFN V More on Dextrin Making 39 AFN V
Making Quickmatch 137 AFN III More On Extruding Star Comp 68 AFN VI
Making Quickmatch 34 AFN VII More on Fast Rockets 57 AFN II
Making Round Stars 74 AFN II More on Making Round Paper
Making Stars 66 AFN II Shell Casings 103 AFN IV
Manual Firing Delay Times for More on Micro Stars 87 AFN II
Aerial Shells 137 AFN VII More on Mortars 188 AFN IV
Match Making Machine 132 AFN IV More on Potassium
Match Pipe Making Simplified 140 AFN III Nitrate/Fertilizer 115 AFN IV
Match Warning 83 AFN III More on Shell Burst Rockets 49 AFN III
Measurement of Aerial Shell More on Silver Nitrate 167 AFN V
Velocity 178 AFN III More on Spontaneous Ignition 182 AFN II
Method of Conducting More on Timer Circuits 153 AFN III
Pyrotechnic Experiments 78 AFN III More on Using Coarse Aluminum
Method of Producing Flash Turnings 190 AFN III
Materials 154 AFN V More Ways to Smell the Smoke 129 AFN VII
Method of Production of Micro Mortar Exit Times for Aerial
Stars 12 AFN IV Shells 60 AFN V
Methods of Slowing Its Burning 199 AFN V Mortar Plug and Recoil Problems 170 AFN VII
Mortar Separations in Troughs 195 AFN IV Ordering 9 AFN IV
Mortars and Covers - My Other Than Christmas Crackers 166 AFN VI
Experience 179 AFN VII Our Love Affair on the 4th 5 AFN V
Mr. Cheapo & His Used Palm Tree Shell Construction 147 AFN II
Vermiculite 136 AFN III Pao Chuic Chinese Crackers
MSDS as LDS° 174 AFN VI Explained 166 AFN VI
Multi-Effect Fountains 45 AFN II Paper Freebies 47 AFN VI
Multiple Break Shells 119 AFN II Paper Freebies 70 AFN IV
Multiple-Firing Rocket Rack 64 AFN II Paper Plugs 26 AFN IV
Must Flash Comp Be Contained Parachute Rockets 92 AFN V
To Work? 73 AFN VI Parachute Rockets 86 AFN IV
Muzzle Breaks That Appear as Parlor Rockets 101 AFN V
Flowerpots 147 AFN VII
Pass the Grog 92 AFN III
My First Board 136 AFN IV
Pasta Cores for Round Stars 91 AFN II
My First Girandola 51 AFN IV
Pasting Round Shells 121 AFN II
Mystery Behind Awesome Shell
Paulownia Charcoal Again 127 AFN VI
Breaks 50 AFN V
Paulownia Coal - What Is It 40 AFN V
Nail Board Firing 133 AFN VI
Peak Shell Accelerations 174 AFN IV
Neapolitan Ground Bombs 146 AFN III
Peppy Shells 151 AFN II
Neon Blue & Recumbent Lances 71 AFN III
Perceiving Color In Stars 70 AFN VI
New Electric Purple 94 AFN II
Perfect Paper Tape Tubes 32 AFN IV
New Flake Titanium is Brighter, Personal Note from Anon Pyro 64 AFN VII
Faster 31 AFN V Phosphorus Fireworks 174 AFN III
New Formulas for Colored Picric Acid Remembered 32 AFN V
Sparklers 24 AFN IV Pill Box Stars 13 AFN IV
Niagara Falls - A 4th of July Pizza Box Quick Match 47 AFN VII
Favorite 62 AFN IV Pleasures Of Pyro Play 185 AFN VI
Nitrate-Based Strobes 30 AFN VI Politically Correct Pyro Tool 27 AFN IV
Nitric Acid Loves Sulfuric Acid 145 AFN V Poly-Lube Coating 95 AFN IV
Nitrocellulose Flame Projectors 149 AFN V Popcorn Tip 56 AFN V
Nitrocellulose Flame Projectors II 150 AFN V Potassium Nitrate/Fertilizer
No more Banana Boards 133 AFN V Update 116 AFN IV
No More Walking the Finale 71 AFN V Potential Deathmixes 177 AFN II
No More Walking The Finale 139 AFN VI Pour Your Own White Strobe
Noiseless Flash Tip 93 AFN V Flares 27 AFN V
NoMatch Delays 148 AFN IV Powdered Copper & Pyro
Dusting Sulfur 115 AFN VII
NoMatch® Front Technique 144 AFN IV
Practical Use for Highly Energetic
Non-Sparking Magazine Interiors 190 AFN IV
Materials Around the Home 6 AFN V
Non-Sparking Magazine Interiors 107 AFN V
Preface to the 5th Edition 5 AFN V
Notes on Potassium Chlorate 190 AFN II
Preparation of Clay for Rocket
Novel Uses for Sticky Match® 142 AFN IV Nozzles 98 AFN V
Nozzleless 1 Lb. Black Powder
Preparation of Silver Nitrate 167 AFN V
Rockets 76 AFN VII
Preparing Fare Unexpected 177 AFN VI
Of Pyrogeeks & Creation 215 AFN V
Preparing For The Unexpected 175 AFN VI
Old Lloyd's Igniter Flash 132 AFN II
Pressing Matters 88 AFN VII Quick, Safe, Easy Way To Shoot
Primer for Making Cut Stars 88 AFN III Display 136 AFN VI
Priming Chlorate Stars 33 AFN V Quickly Igniting a Flight of Small
Priming Comet Shells 22 AFN IV Rockets 85 AFN V
Priming Give Positive Ignition 78 AFN IV Quickly Igniting A Flight Of Small
Rockets 93 AFN VI
Priming Stars 47 AFN VII
Quickmatch Basics 140 AFN VI
Priming Stars On Only One Side 41 AFN III
Problems with Gold Sparkler Quote of the Month 76 AFN III
Manufacturing, etc. 35 AFN III Quote of the Month 190 AFN III
Product Warning-Nitrocellulose Quote of the Month 6 AFN V
Products 95 AFN IV Quote Of The Month 47 AFN VI
Production of Benzoate Color Quote Of The Month 88 AFN VI
Agents 98 AFN III Quote Of The Month 91 AFN VI
Production Of Benzoate Color Quote Of The Month 135 AFN VI
Agents 60 AFN VII Quote Of The Month 145 AFN VI
Proper Use of Clay 83 AFN V Quote Of The Month 162 AFN VI
Protecting Magnesium II 167 AFN III Quote Of The Month 167 AFN VI
Pulverone-Polverone 125 AFN V Quote Of The Week 57 AFN VI
Punk 37 AFN VI Radios or Rats 35 AFN V
Purifying Chemicals by Rammed Fuses 137 AFN VI
Recrystallization 118 AFN IV RAP* Shell Assembly Techniques 112 AFN II
Push Stick Aids Low Breaks 164 AFN II Real B.P. Please Stand Up 23 AFN II
Push Sticks Aid Low Breaks 75 AFN III Recommended Lift Charge For
PVB-Based Star Compositions 48 AFN VII Shells 64 AFN VII
Pyro Emitting Device 67 AFN III Recycle Instead Of Rolling Your
Pyro Hint 95 AFN III Own 15 AFN VI
Pyro Quotes 57 AFN VI Recycling 1.4 Cake Items 15 AFN VI
Pyro Quotes 135 AFN VI Red Mag Stars From Road Flares 55 AFN VI
Pyro Quotes 141 AFN VI Red Phosphorous 33 AFN V
Pyro Roulette - Safety Issues 110 AFN IV Red Phosphorus - Bride of
Pyro Surprises 74 AFN III Frankenstein 172 AFN III
Pyrochem - Charcoal Particles 40 AFN VII Red Strobe Stars 85 AFN II
Pyroconics for the Amateur 15 AFN V Reducing Shell Ignition Failure 162 AFN II
Pyros Beware the Month of June 77 AFN IV Reduxing CIA Déja. Vu 33 AFN VII
Pyrotechnic Fuse Bum Rates 153 AFN VI Relay vs. Dark Mix 66 AFN VII
Pyrotechnic Fuse Cutting 144 AFN VI Reliable Joints for
Pyrotechnic Fuse Cutting 41 AFN VII Quickmatch/Visco 126 AFN V
Pyrotechnic Serpents 26 AFN III Retrieving Stuck Mortars 159 AFN VII
Pyrotechnician's Prayer 13 AFN VII Review of the Basics 10 AFN II
Pyrotechnics by Microscope 105 AFN IV Revisited 164 AFN VI
Pyrotechnics Redefined 20 AFN VII Rice Hulls - Is There an
Alternative 109 AFN III
Quick & Dirty Smoke Bombs 20 AFN V
Ring & Character Shell
Quick & Easy E-Match Fusing of
Construction 157 AFN II
Visco-Fused Items 138 AFN IV
Rocket Enhancement Tip 87 AFN VII
Quick Whistle Rockets 52 AFN III
Rocket Flight Box 59 AFN II
Rocket Nose Construction 60 AFN II Pyromusical Barge Show
Rocket Nozzles 92 AFN IV Shake N' Blast Cake - Tail, Star &
Rocket Pellets 59 AFN II Report 99 AFN VII
Rocket Stick Sizes 87 AFN VII Shell Burst Rockets 45 AFN III
Rocket Sticks 92 AFN VI Shell String 135 AFN II
Rocket Tip 39 AFN III Shooter's Personal Checklist 199 AFN IV
Rocket Tips 58 AFN II Shooting Displays In Cold
ROCKETS AFN V Locations 171 AFN VI
Roll Your Own Tubes 11 AFN II Shrink That Visco For Time 128 AFN III
Rolling Bowls 105 AFN IV Sift Those Chemicals 21 AFN IV
Roman Candle Improver 26 AFN VI Silk Screened Fireworks 32 AFN IV
Roman Candle Improver 110 AFN VII Simple Crossettes 102 AFN II
Round Flitter Stars 78 AFN II Simple Electric Matches 154 AFN III
Simple Measurements of Aerial
Round Lampblack Stars 82 AFN II
Shell Performance 192 AFN IV
Round Shell Construction Using
Inner & Outer Shell Casings 114 AFN III
Simple Ram Modification
Round Star Tips 80 AFN III
Ensures Improved Comet
Round Stars at Home 97 AFN II
Ignition 122 AFN IV
Safe Ramming Procedures 46 AFN II Simple Techniques for Testing
Safety & Reliability in Shooting Unfamiliar Compositions 170 AFN III
Boxes 137 AFN IV Simple To Assemble Battle In The
Safety Considerations 168 AFN III Clouds 7 AFN VI
Safety In Pyrotechnic Display Simpson's Spark Spinner 33 AFN IV
Work 9 AFN VII
Sizing Up Your Round Stars 88 AFN II
Safety Issues Cloud Kitchen
Sizzling Colored Comets 76 AFN II
Utensil Use 27 AFN IV
Sizzling Colored Comets 44 AFN VI
Safety Rating System For Pyro-
Chemicals 202 AFN VI Skip Burning Of Visco Fuse 155 AFN VI
Safety Reminders For Electric Sky Lantern Safety 124 AFN VI
Match 11 AFN VII Sky Rocket Performance
Safety Tips of Cross Matching 134 AFN V Characteristics 90 AFN VI
Saltpeter & Long Distance Sky Rocket Performance
Commerce 41 AFN V Characteristics. 90 AFN IV
Saran Resin 83 AFN VI Small Aerial Inserts 98 AFN IV
Save Those Shells 47 AFN II Small Diameter Mortar Tubes 33 AFN VI
Save Your Old Cakes 36 AFN II Small Repeating Aerial Shell 101 AFN VII
Save Your Old Cakes 25 AFN VI Smelling the Smoke 129 AFN VII
Saving Methylene Chloride 183 AFN II Smoke of a Different Color 32 AFN III
Screaming Banshee Rockets 50 AFN III Smoking Cap Stix 35 AFN IV
Sculpy Revisited 94 AFN III Sodium Chlorate Mishap 117 AFN VII
Second Round Of Special Some Comet Fmmulas 189 AFN VI
Purpose Firecrackers 97 AFN VII Some Considerations In Using
Sensitivity Findings 41 AFN V Plastic Casings for Aerial Shells 111 AFN VII
Sequencers Add Creativity To Some Perils And 185 AFN VI
Displays 199 AFN VI Special Effect Star 66 AFN II
Setting Up & Shooting a 202 AFN IV Spherical Titanium Offers 121 AFN IV
Reduced Sensitivity Sulfur Is Sulfur - What's The
Spiking Improves Shells 134 AFN II Fuss? 114 AFN VII
Spin Stabilized Stars 22 AFN V Sun on a String 21 AFN V
Spinning Color-Changing Go- Super Polverone 84 AFN III
Getters 57 AFN VII Super Silver Fountains 25 AFN IV
Spinning tis Hovering Stars 58 AFN VI Sure Method of Parachute
Splicing Piped Match 138 AFN III Ejection for Rockets 79 AFN IV
Spontaneous Combustion 179 AFN II Survival Time for Strings in Black
Spoolette, Spolette, Spoolette 74 AFN VI Match 213 AFN V
Spritzing Your Star Cores 90 AFN VI Table for Cutting Stars 94 AFN III
Square Stars In Square Shells 59 AFN VI Tamping Stick for Mortars 164 AFN II
Stabilizing Racks 76 AFN VI Tap-A-Jack for a Rocket Press 103 AFN V
Stabilizing Racks 180 AFN VII Tapes for Pyros 68 AFN V
Stacked Stars 69 AFN II Tedium Reliever 109 AFN III
Star Cores From Portland Tennis Ball Gas Cannon 71 AFN IV
Cement 69 AFN VI Testing Electric Matches 140 AFN IV
Star Formulas 65 AFN II Testing Stars 19 AFN IV
Star Ignition Failure 104 AFN II The Art Of Display 170 AFN VI
Star Testing Device 99 AFN II The Ascent of Plastic 110 AFN II
Star Testing Device 112 AFN V The Basic Technician, #1, 2, 3 62 AFN III
Stars Blown Blind 183 AFN III The Beautiful 4" Spider Web
Starting And Rolling Round Stars 61 AFN VI Shell 110 AFN III
Starting Out 7 AFN IV The Bishop's Cross 32 AFN VI
Static Electricity 124 AFN VI The Burning Mummy 40 AFN II
Steel vs Cardboard vs HDPE The Cantankerous Crossette 100 AFN II
Mortars 185 AFN IV The Charcoal Ball Shell 118 AFN II
Steel Wool Redux 73 AFN IV The Construction, Care &
Sticks for the Picking 60 AFN III Feeding of the Cajun
Sticky Match Aids Set Piece Pyrotechnical Sawed-Off
Construction 147 AFN IV Shotgun Mine 42 AFN IV
Sticky Sparkler Solutions 98 AFN VII The Cost Of Building HDPE
Sticky, Sticky 79 AFN IV Mortars 75 AFN VI
Still More On Round Paper Shells 78 AFN VI The Crossette Shell 142 AFN II
Stinger Missiles 62 AFN II The Dark Side of Pyrotechnics 98 AFN II
Storage Containers for Stars 124 AFN II The Dreaded Dud 165 AFN II
The Effect of Reflected Blast
Straight, Light Rocket Sticks 107 AFN V
Waves in HDPE Mortars 174 AFN VII
Streamer Comets In A Nutshell 27 AFN VI
The Gabe Mort 145 AFN III
Strobing Dud Shell 41 AFN VII
The Glorious 4th Cartoon 140 AFN VII
Strobing Stingers 26 AFN V
The Hazard Of Staple Guns 132 AFN VI
Study of The Effect of Leg Wire
The How-Do-You-Do-That Multi-
Attachment on the Burst Height
Break Shell 100 AFN IV
of Aerial Shells 132 AFN VII
The Kamuro Star 72 AFN II
Studying Zinc Stars 62 AFN VII
Substitute for The Log Splitter 160 AFN V
Hexachlorobenzene 43 AFN V The Lowdown On Gold Flitter 45 AFN VII
The Magic of Professional Pyro 204 AFN IV
Adhesive Titanium Sparks Easily 31 AFN V
The Many Use of Pyro Wax 185 AFN III Titanium Starcrackers 28 AFN II
The Missing Color 145 AFN VI To Ground or Not To Ground 158 AFN III
The Poor Man's Waterfall 66 AFN IV Toilet Paper Tip 114 AFN V
The Quest for Fast Powder 81 AFN III Tourbillion Candle Construction 30 AFN III
The Spoolette Rocket 89 AFN IV Tourbillion Sticks 56 AFN II
The Strobe Star 23 AFN V Traditional 1 Lb. Black Powder
The Tourbillion Revisited 76 AFN IV Rockets 79 AFN VII
The Use Of Titanium In Traditional Black Powder
Pyrotechnics 40 AFN VI Rockets 80 AFN V
The Vital Link - Paper Fuse 133 AFN V Traditional Portfires 19 AFN VI
The Wedding Shoot 200 AFN IV Transition Pieces 93 AFN VI
The Willow Wood Caper 39 AFN V Triangle Pyro Cases 38 AFN IV
Thermalite Substitute Formula 128 AFN V TrillohmiMescence 190 AFN VI
Things that go "Boom" in the Truck Plastic Bed Liners
Night 172 AFN II Problematic for Fireworkers 19 AFN VII
Those Captivating Cones 20 AFN III Tubes To Make Bottle Rockets 92 AFN VI
Those Damp Rockets 39 AFN III Two Shot Mortar 102 AFN VII
Those Ugly Bumps on Round Two-Stage Whistle Rockets 84 AFN IV
Stars 90 AFN II Typical Aerial Shell Firing Time
Thoughts on Electric Match 139 AFN IV Sequence 135 AFN VII
Three Stooges Shell Inserts 72 AFN VI Typical Mortar. Recoil Forces for
Throw Away That Time Fuse 163 AFN II Spherical Aerial Shell Firings 163 AFN VII
Tidy Little Electrical Firing Box 150 AFN III Uncle Tom's Fluffy Rice Hulls 103 AFN IV
Tie One On For The 4th 134 AFN VI Unconventional Shell
Time Fuse Length 136 AFN V Construction 108 AFN II
Understanding and Using
Timing Tips 37 AFN III
Capacitive-Discharge Electrical
Tip For Lancemen 128 AFN VII
Firing Equipment 159 AFN III
Tip From Long Ago 33 AFN VII
Unexplained Explosion &
Tip of the Month 102 AFN II Probability Theory 66 AFN III
Tip of the Month 25 AFN III Unmixed Flash Powder 95 AFN V
Tip Of The Month 34 AFN VI Uplifting Thoughts 74 AFN V
Tip Of The Month 35 AFN VI Using a Cargo Trailer for Display
Tip Of The Month 54 AFN VI Work 76 AFN V
Tip Of The Month 87 AFN VI Using Bright Aluminum 124 AFN II
Tip Of The Month 97 AFN VI Using Coarse Aluminum Turnings 191 AFN III
Tip Of The Month 108 AFN VI Using Fine Mesh Mg in Stars 28 AFN V
Tip of The Month 51 AFN VII Using Fine Mesh Mg in Stars 62 AFN VI
Tip Of The Season 165 AFN VI Using Fine Mesh Magnesium in
Tip(S) Of The Month 69 AFN VI Stars 112 AFN VII
Tips on Improving Aerial Shells 145 AFN II Using HDPE Mortars for Repeat
Tips on Small Set Pieces 44 AFN II Firing of Displays 191 AFN IV
Tischfeuerwerk 15 AFN III Using Kerosene in Fireworks 97 AFN III
Tissue Paper Tip 31 AFN IV Using Kerosene? 97 AFN III
Titanium No-No 29 AFN VI Using Pulling Fireworks In Magic 160 AFN VI
Tricks Whistle Mix Burst 115 AFN II
Using Salutes in Blasting Whistle Rockets Using Strobe
Operations 184 AFN IV Rocket Tooling 83 AFN V
Using Speaker Terminals In Slats 162 AFN VI White Strobe Rocket Notes &
Using Speaker Terminals In Slats 109 AFN VII Comments 86 AFN V
Using Strawboard Casings 161 AFN II Why Protect Magnesium? 166 AFN III
Using Titanium In Salutes 29 AFN VI Wild About Wheels 73 AFN IV
Variations on Standard Will The Real Independence Red
Quickmatch Manufacture 144 AFN III Please 60 AFN VI
Varying the Speed of a DC Motor 122 AFN V Will The Real Retort Method
Vibratory Tumbler Alternative 91 AFN VII Stand Up 128 AFN VI
Virgin Rock &•Roll Sulfur 113 AFN VII Wooden Rocket Press
Vis-A-Vis Fountains 70 AFN III Construction 104 AFN V
Working Old Country Technical
Visco Ignition Transfer 128 AFN V
Pyro Words 56 AFN VII
Visco Ignition Transfer 81 AFN IV
Working With Lampblack 40 AFN II
Visco Punch 147 AFN VI
Y Comp Mixers 120 AFN V
Visco Time Fuse 130 AFN III
Y Visco 127 AFN V
Visco Time Fuse Expedient 41 AFN II
Yellow Powder 91 AFN III
Visco Time Fuse Expedient 126 AFN III
You Got It, Now What Do You Do
Volume Comparison Chart 90 AFN VII
With It? 108 AFN VI
Warning About Contacts 36 AFN VI
Your Own Consumer Display 164 AFN V
Water Bottle Salute 23 AFN IV
Yours, Mine & Ours 39 AFN IV
Water Fireworks 148 AFN III
Zippy Stars 14 AFN II
We Don't Need No Stinkin'
Portfires! 20 AFN VI
We Must Guard Against
Complacency 20 AFN VII
What About Flash? 170 AFN II
What Are Flash Bags? 125 AFN II
What Do All Those Shell Names
Mean 59 AFN V
What Helpers Need To Bring To
A Display? 167 AFN VI
What is a Pyro? 9 AFN II
What Is PVB? 49 AFN VII
What is Pyrogolf? 145 AFN V
What Is SMPTE Time Code All
About? 188 AFN VII
When American Helicopters
Ruled 37 AFN V
When is Water Better in Wetting
Star Comp? 112 AFN VII
Whet Your Appetite for Wet
Whistle 91 AFN V
Whistle - Jetex Questions
Answered 165 AFN III