I have a dilema (BOSM related)

Always a good plan, I'll be in touch soon.

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Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

I've just checked. By 'eck, they've gone up since my last thrash.
They still do the reduction though - 15% off if ordered by end of July,
for collection in October.

http://www.fantasticfireworks.biz/content/pdfs/FF_Catalogue_2010_web.pdf

 

That's an amusing idea. Well DFV'd.

The bigger rockets and giant 'candles' are quite shocking. See the
pretty lights, hear the bang, feel the shockwave.

 

It would, and I wouldn't touch the pro gear in any case, as tempting a
prospect though it may be. You have to have a licence and insurance
for a start, as well as electrical firing gear. If it went wrong there
would be a shitstorm.

I know what I'm doing with the DIY stuff, but the pro gear goes a lot
higher and further - and I've seen the aftermath of a couple that went
wrong ... the interfering teacher that caught a rising mortar under his
armpit springs to mind. He'd failed to clear/quench the launch tube
and reloaded it way too soon, managing to get immediate ignition from
smouldering debris in the tube. Suffice to say he won't be playing the
piano again.

 

Ooo, explosives! I'm off for a lie down.

 

Midnight Maverick, Big Max, Whopper.

 

Which is all good until...

Ouch indeed.

For NYE we had some stuff that was *just* under the limits. Some of the
big rockets were truly magnificent, the mortars, oh the mortars, they
unleashed a wave of noise that hit you in the chest, reverberated
around the whole harbour and came back to hit you in the chest again.

All was well until the one multi/cakebox didn't go properly. Only one
of the contained elements went at first, unfortunately the force of
liftoff was enough to knock the box onto it's side... At which point
the remaining contents came out only slightly less quickly than the
lads were able to make their own starburst effect by scattering in just
about every conceivable direction.

Just goes to show how easily things could get messy, even with the best
intentions.

 

<wince>

Those things might have a (claimed) thousand shots im 'em, too.

You may laugh if you want, but having been involved with licensing and
then overseeing the H&S aspects of large public displays, I was a bit
Nazi-like with mine. I listened a lot to the Reverend Lancaster when I
was dealing with him - he's an old pro's pro if ever there was one -
and I shaped my efforts in his pattern.

Each rocket had its own tube, staggered down the field so we wouldn't
have to go near an already-lit pyro on the way to the next one. All
the cakes were laid out down the field in between the rockets, in order
of firing. Each cake was placed on an angled base (to aim the contents
over the fallout zone (a big empty field behind) rather than over the
crowd or houses) and then had two stakes driven in beside it, then tank
tape wrapped around the lot. They weren't going to fall over.

You really can't **** about with the big bangers.

 

<chucks claymore>

 

Sexual proclivities, or diet? Or both, I suppose.

 

Indeedly so, and even the small domestic ones can get nasty.
I recall a milk bottle (such pro attitudes to doing stuff at the time)
falling over and the rocket skittering across the waste ground until it
hit a rise, on top of which were standing some spectators. An unlucky
girl copped it on on the side of her head, but it didn't do her any
damage.
Undettered by that, I soon developed the technique of strapping bangers
to the sticks and made my own aerial bursts.

 

Thankfully this one didn't, it was a dozen reasonably large, colourful
bursts. Had it been a mille-box one could imagine the most pain being
in the wallet department.

We had ours staggered from left to right because going further forward
(away from us) wasn't an option.

We did that, but, next time, we'll be using heavier wood and planting
the cake on with a 45 degree twist to prevent another topple.

Ours was the harbour, completely iced over. Pretty it was.

Certainly shouldn't.

 

Mr Muscle FTW:

http://www.b3ta.com/questions/bodger/post1122441

 

Once, many moons ago, in an 'operational' area I modified some Schermuly
flares so they would explode a bit. When we finished our tour I gave
them to the next bunch with instructions to pass them on or destroy them
and thought no more about it.
'bout 18 months later I was invited to an 'interview' with the Shit In
Bulk with reference to "What have been described as flying
nail-bombs..." Oops.

 

To bring a slightly motorcycle related theme to the thread. When very
young and thus still actually in short trousers we used to use motorcycle
silencers, preferably mega shaped ones, as shoulder held launch tubes for
rockets. Surprisingly accurate too. Accurate enough that they stopped me
doing the aiming so the rest of them could have some fun hurting the kid
nobody liked. They weren't as good as me. A flair for it I had, and the
patience to wait that extra second or two for the perfect shot. I would
make a fucking good sniper I would.

 

http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/schermuly/
Interesting page, that.

 

Interesting site: that's a couple of hours I'll never see again.

"Content over style" makes me grind my teeth. He's got so much there,
but it is irritating to read because he can't punctuate, uses fonts
like a ten-year-old and fails to rotate his pictures correctly. Shame.

 

Perhaps you won't be surprised to hear that I find sites that go too far
the other way equally irritating. All flashy style, but little content
worth reading and very difficult to find the specific information being
sought. I agree that this one is extremely jarring on the eye though.

Site developers should try to strike a happy medium (cue old ISIRTA
gag).


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This is the problem with every Tom, Dick and Harry having access to
domains and web development tools. It's easy to "build" a website these
days, however:

Tom has shit content but makes his shit shine like the crown jewels;
Dick has great content, but no idea about user interface/experience;
and Harry has neither content nor shine.

Fred, on the other hand, has good content and finds John, a web
developer who understands content delivery, user interface/experience
design and between them, they make something marvellous.

 

I hadn't looked at the front page, but you're right. What a mish-mash.