@@northeastpyro2185 So you salvage stuff like me, huh? I wind up using only a little of what I save, but you never know. I think those commercial cakes are deliberately bottom-heavy for stability, plus a thick layer of clay makes them look like you're getting more. However, I notice that in a high proportion of those tubes, the clay is fragmented immediately by the shot and/or by disassembly. So I take it you ram them down again with additional clay as needed. Soon I hope to find out how much reuse I can get from 1" ID cases rolled by the method given in AFN for blender rockets: that is, from cereal or cracker box cardboard soaked in wheat paste. My attempts at blender rockets themselves flopped, but the tubes look sturdy enough to take the lift of a BP shot; they didn't always work against the sustained pressure of rocket engine. So far so good with one comet shot. My aspiration this year is to step up from the 5/8" ID (really 0.5" inserts) cakes I've been making for years from millenary rolls Kyle Kepley gifted me with. I want to make some racks with pallet wood and drilled holes, and try both bottom (side) fused with visco as in cakes and top chained with match as in racks.
@Extremepyro1 yea it use to be pretty hard for me to find it also but I belong to a bunch of clubs like crackerjacks,NLPC, and MPag and usually find it there last time I got some was from Acepyro at a NLPC shoot in PA maybe you can lookup Acepyro and ask
nice
You got skills bro
@Benny cruz I appreciate that brother thank you!
@@northeastpyro2185 NP and just speaking the truth, stay safe pyro
The bottom plugs of those guns must be huge for you to be inserting the fuse that high.
Yes they are really thick clay plugs just some tubes I recycled from a Cake I shot and figured I’d make some mines out of the tubes for a video
@@northeastpyro2185 So you salvage stuff like me, huh? I wind up using only a little of what I save, but you never know.
I think those commercial cakes are deliberately bottom-heavy for stability, plus a thick layer of clay makes them look like you're getting more. However, I notice that in a high proportion of those tubes, the clay is fragmented immediately by the shot and/or by disassembly. So I take it you ram them down again with additional clay as needed.
Soon I hope to find out how much reuse I can get from 1" ID cases rolled by the method given in AFN for blender rockets: that is, from cereal or cracker box cardboard soaked in wheat paste. My attempts at blender rockets themselves flopped, but the tubes look sturdy enough to take the lift of a BP shot; they didn't always work against the sustained pressure of rocket engine. So far so good with one comet shot. My aspiration this year is to step up from the 5/8" ID (really 0.5" inserts) cakes I've been making for years from millenary rolls Kyle Kepley gifted me with. I want to make some racks with pallet wood and drilled holes, and try both bottom (side) fused with visco as in cakes and top chained with match as in racks.
Where do you get black powder cant find it anywhere
@Extremepyro1 yea it use to be pretty hard for me to find it also but I belong to a bunch of clubs like crackerjacks,NLPC, and MPag and usually find it there last time I got some was from Acepyro at a NLPC shoot in PA maybe you can lookup Acepyro and ask
@@northeastpyro2185 Awesome ya I believe I saw they might have some im gonna see if they will ship. Thanks