How to make Aerial-Shell Hemispheres

This intructable is on how to make the shell casings for your aerial shells. The method used in this instructable is pretty much the same method used in almost all Chinese fireworks factories (just adapted for people without huge, expensive tools-like me) and so is very quick and easy to do, and you can use this method to create loads of hemispheres in a short period of time.

Step 1: You will need...

For this all you need is:

Some PVA glue
Half a ping-pong (table tannis) ball
Some scissors (preferably small ones)
Some thin card with the template printed on
And a marble that fits inside the ping-pong ball.

Comments

[rab15151515]

i found that if you don't have card stock, you can gut a 8.5x11 sheet of brown paper from a large paper bag and put that in your printer and it works just fine.I use 4 layers of the brown paper though...

[duct tape]

Nice 'ible. I always like to make small scale stuff like this. They always are satisfying to me. In trying this, I learned two things: 1) You can't just use twice as many sheets of printer paper, as it is still too weak, and 2) you need to dry it by putting the cup face down. If you try to dry them with the cup face up, the shape gets deformed into an oblong shape. Now I will have a more superior pyrotechnics display than my neighbor! Btw, do you have any blue or green star formulas that don't use chlorate or perchlorate? Tiger tails are good, but colors are better...

[tudgeanator]

 Glad you liked it! I could only find 1 formula for green stars that dont use chlorates or perchlorates in my listing that i have compiled and that is this:

Barium Nitrate - 56
Red Gum - 7
Magnalium - 200 mesh
PVC - 15
Dextrin - 5
Make stars by using a 75% water 25% alcohol liquid to wet the composition.

I have never tried this as i couldn't get my hands on the magnalium, but if you can get your hands on that, you surely must be able to get some potassium perchlorate, which is relatively safe if your careful. Just don't mix it with sulfur/sulphur!

I haven't got any blue compositions that don't use a chlorate/perchlorate, i wonder if there are any?
Anyway, thanks for the good feedback.

[cowscankill]

Wow! That's easy. If only I had chemicals for the fireworks...

[tudgeanator]

All you need is some potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal. You can make the charcoal powder and sulfur (sulphur) and Kno3 are easy to buy as fertiliser and stump remover. Its easy-google it. Oh, and thx.

[lemonie]

Yes, that's the way to do it. L

[tudgeanator]

Sorry, but, what do you meen? Oh and thanks for looking at my intructable. It's appreciated.

[lemonie]

I mean, this looks like the right and proper way to make these. They look professional. Got anything to put in them? L

[tudgeanator]

Oh, what does that pro thing meen? Does it meen you work for 'ibles?

[lemonie]

You missed all this?

L

[cowscankill]

I did, LOL. Wow, I hate missing important news.

[tudgeanator]

Cheers, i now understand.

[tudgeanator]

Thanks for the positive feedback. Yeah, at the moment all i have is some black powder in varios forms (meal,pulverone) and some crysanthumum stars. There is a picture of a finished shell (minus outer-fuse) in the last step. Again,thanks.

[I_am_Canadian]

Really nicely done. I will make some today.

[tudgeanator]

Thanks man.

[I_am_Canadian]

I just made one. I didn't have a proper sized marble, and I didn't cut the Ping pong ball quite right, but it still turned out really nice. Thanks again!

[tudgeanator]

Nice to see my 'ibles actually being tried out! Thanks again. Yeah, my marble doesn't fit quite into my ball (it's just a bit too small) but it still works. If you just cut a tiny bit on the seam, you can tear the ball apart, along it.

[I_am_Canadian]

Ah, thank you! I will try that next time I make more.

[tudgeanator]

Good good.

[holdmyweed10]

i like how you made it that was so cool