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Beer cans half-filled with sand out of a 3" mortar! Woo hoo!

Awesome! I've been thinking about this for a long time......do another at night!

My Dad's July 4th show was a Toledo railroad smudge pot, a 15 minute fusee, and a single box 10 inch sparklers. And we were thrilled to death.........LOL.

This has been on my mind for years, but never thought to ask. There's a noticeable difference in the sounds of commercial salutes, what my local plant owners referred to brisance. Some go bang,...

The display company that I was associated secured all tubes in racks with screws from the bottom.

The 4-incher blue wrap with white snowflakes...some had wicked-fast fuses (I think Tiger Brand comes to mind?). For some (including myself), the idea was to pinch off part of the looped fuse near...

Have you tested these yet.......they look like jumpin' jacks.....

Those cherry bombs were manufactured by New Jersey Fireworks Mfg. Co., Inc., of Elkton MD and Vineland NJ. I have two of those boxes, when purchased in 1966 at South of the Border in Dillon SC off...

If I was stranded on a desert island and given choice of one type of firework, it would be crackers......all types, all sizes, legal, illegal, vintage, current, ground, aerial, even poppers, adult...

Does anyone recall from the '60's a two-inch red salute, convolute-wound, interior crimps like a shotgun shell, green visco, called 'Joker Brand'. Sold at South of the Border in Dillon, SC.

When I made inserts with visco fuse for aerial shells, I would cross-cut the visco 1/16 of an inch, exposing the BP core. Although it would be tedious and time-consuming for your application, I...

Do you think they were black powder?

Those same crackers (D.O.T. Class C, crimped ends) were also labeled as Thunder Bomb, with slightly different colors in the label. The background was royal blue instead of black. I had purchased 2...

A friend for nearly 50 years. A Master in the "Old School" method of Italian canister shells, his 6" crossette shells, my favorite, were beyond belief. I will miss him and his dedication to his...

Same here, from the mid-'80's till the Patriot Act I simply completed a limited permittee form, have it signed off by a county deputy sheriff, and on the 4th bring it to my local display company. ...

I would not be surprised one bit if display companies are behind this.

Can you blame them?

I've seen C4, a small orange flash, lifted from a mortar, but what color is the flash from dynamite?

Street gangs control the illegal fireworks trade in California, like the Mafia once did in the Northeast. I believe this may have been a show of force of some type, their "sending a message".

I've fired 4" Chinese color shells that were 20+ years old. Same for 3" American canister salutes. Keep your powder high and dry.

"As I understand the agencies worked together to finally determine that any firework containing over 2 grains of flashpowder was too dangerous to be sold to the public."

This particular clause was...

"Even if stored under ideal conditions, I don't know that I would expect fireworks that old to still have their oomph."

They do.

There was a video on Youtube of a fellow in India mixing flash on a concrete floor, surrounded by piles of it. It gives me the heebie-jeebies just watching it.

Looks like that plastic cap comes off easily. Wouldn't take more than a pinch to add extra punch.p

Numerous close calls when hand-firing shows. Walking from the bomb box to the battery, as you drop the shell into it's mortar, remove the mopaline, covering all but just a couple of inches of the...

Back in '58 or so my Dad bought for me a brick of Jet Bomber flashcrackers that were made with newspapers. We used to roll out the duds for the powder, but for the life of me I can't remember what...