Anyone else deal with duds this year

[Berserker23]

I was wondering did anyone else had duds, I had 4-5 cakes that stopped at 4 shots and a couple of cakes that didn?t go off at all even after I hand light them. I never had any problems like that before I?m thinking China rushed and made crap products this year.

[Kooooou]

No duds for me, just several big cakes blew apart and more cakes than normal caught fire this year even with a lot of moisture in the air. I think China has a quality problem right now though.

[joeld1212]

I had 7 cakes not fire [ 6 of them due to internal fusing] out of 200. That doesn't sound too bad, but I usually only have 1 or 2.

[Rick_In_Tampa]

I only had 1 cake out of 132 not fire this year. That's a record for me.

[bani]

no duds. had a cake catch fire early and toast the fuse of a neighboring cake so it only partially fired.

[N.E. Pyrotechnics]

We have only put up one show so far this year, but we did have a failure. Two of the same cake, failed after the first shot. These were molded 200 gram, 16 shot cakes, that we have used in the past with no issues. I got into the carcasses the following morning to find that when the cakes were molded, the passfire fusing was not put in between any of the shots...

[bani]

going to ask for a refund?

[barehm]

I had one 200g cake stop half way through, but otherwise all cakes worked. Attached some green visco for Sunday night to shoot the leftovers.

[FBpyro]

I didn't have any duds but I did have two salutes go off on the ground because I forgot to load them into the tubes. It was a learning experience for me, always triple-check everything before proceeding with the show. Or at least have a checklist.

[N.E. Pyrotechnics]

[QUOTE=bani;73004]going to ask for a refund?[/QUOTE

Showed the store owner the fail in the show vid. Store credit x2, and although not his fault, a sincere apology. Things like that are why we go out of our way to do business with him.