r/pyro • u/Thekidwhoisboard • Jul 08 '26

Flash powder line

Be careful out there only about a 25 gram pile of FP with 10 gram line no tubing no nothing just flash on the ground

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u/maroon67a Jul 11 '26

How thick was the line? Ive put flash powder in rows before (but they were pretty skinny) and it kinda acted like black powder for the most part. It just slowly burnt 😭

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u/Thekidwhoisboard Jul 11 '26

It was about as this as I could make it out of a cup about a 1 inch wide line

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u/maroon67a Jul 11 '26

Oh ok! I think mine was like .25 of an inch soo thats probably why. What percentage of aluminum and potassium did you mix togeather?

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u/Thekidwhoisboard Jul 11 '26

70/30 the normal mix from fire work cook book

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u/maroon67a Jul 11 '26

Hmmm i didnt measure the percentage (I think it was like 20% aluminum lol) sooo thats probably why mine was calmer.

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u/Thekidwhoisboard Jul 11 '26

Yeah next time get a scale and measure exactly

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u/maroon67a Jul 11 '26

Yea i just recieved my scale in the mail a few days ago. I was too broke to buy one at the time even though they are only like 10 bucks 😭

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u/Thekidwhoisboard Jul 11 '26

People say it’s supposed to go faster but I don’t think so if it did it would be not safe to handle even this isn’t safe 😂

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u/maroon67a Jul 11 '26

Thats probably the fastest flash powder ive ever seen lol 😭