by Silverhaze on Mon Nov 05, 2001 4:36 pm
Right, I took Pd's advice and made my own. Gunpowder is surprisingly easy to make once you get started. Add a few different metals in there too and you got nice pretty colours.
I used a large cardboard cylinder that I found and packed the bottom with the powder to act as a mortar and then filled up a football with a nice mixture. The fuse was the hardest part because as I found out. A burning rag isnt suitable.
I'm typing this from my private hospital bed after having been the only person within a 50 meter radius to survive the blast. LOL
Now, we venture from the realms of the imagination into the real world and find that hamleys in london had a great selection but my mate couldnt be arsed to drive up there so we got a rather dissapointing £70 one from another place. It was quite exciting though as one of the fireworks went wrong and launched loads of explosions at our little crowd. Always more fun when there is danger involved!
[ 05 November 2001: Message edited by: Silverhaze ]