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Step 2Using the Fireball Shooter
This is the part I haven't mastered yet. The amount of flash cotton and paper, as well as how to crumple it and insert it, seems to be an art. Too little cotton and it won't ignite. Too much and it seems to blow out the paper without igniting it. Press everything in too hard and it won't ignite. Sometimes I get a big flash just over my hand. Sometimes it shoots a fireball across the room.
I load a pinch of flash cotton and a bit of flash paper into the tube so the cotton goes in first and push it down with a pencil or screwdriver (very lightly). I strap on the velcro, then point my arm down (so the mercury switch is open). I then turn on the slide switch. When I raise my arm, the mercury switch closes around the time my arm is horizontal. It takes a fraction of a second more for the cotton to ignite, so I can get my arm all the way to vertical before it fires, it I want to.
Loading the fireball shooter:
Using the fireball shooter:
I load a pinch of flash cotton and a bit of flash paper into the tube so the cotton goes in first and push it down with a pencil or screwdriver (very lightly). I strap on the velcro, then point my arm down (so the mercury switch is open). I then turn on the slide switch. When I raise my arm, the mercury switch closes around the time my arm is horizontal. It takes a fraction of a second more for the cotton to ignite, so I can get my arm all the way to vertical before it fires, it I want to.
Loading the fireball shooter:
Using the fireball shooter:
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