Why buy fireworks when you can...

[Sparky Bills]

Watch your neigbours ones :done:
Im looking out the window and can see 5 different houses letting fireworks off.
I would have headed into town but simply cant be assed with finding a park etc.

So whats the big one called this year?
Theres always a big one that everyone wants, but not everyone can handle such power :innocent:

[Donor]

The fambily and I went and spent lots of money for fuck all fireworks today, I have NEVER missed a year!

But the 7 year old and I have just come back in from watching the neighbourhood try and blow themselves up (and I wish the bastards well...) when kiddo quips "So WHY exactly do we need our own dad?"

I had no answer for him, so just clipped him round the lugs (lovingly like) and sent the sod back to bed.

Though it seems the imported stuff is much better quality this year!

[Skyryder]

Watch your neigbours ones :done:
Im looking out the window and can see 5 different houses letting fireworks off.
I would have headed into town but simply cant be assed with finding a park etc.

So whats the big one called this year?
Theres always a big one that everyone wants, but not everyone can handle such power :innocent:

Yea but there is nothing like letting off your own. Espeacially if you have kids.

I can still see their eyes 'light' up the first time my two girls saw fireworks in their own back yard. And some sods want to ban them............wowsers.

Skyryder

[MadDuck]

And some sods want to ban them............wowsers.

Skyryder

Tell that to the thousands of Volunteer fire fighters around the country at home trying to have a night home with their family.

MadDuck

[portokiwi]

lol we are doing the same, The son is out with his mates in Wellington,
So we are watching out the window.
Saving our ones for the wedding. Or New Years eve.:Punk:

[Trudes]

Went up the hill to watch with about 100 other locals, all of who have no idea about how to fucking drive as we've been sitting in the same spot in a traffic jam. Bastards.

[Sidewinder]

Watch your neigbours ones :done:
Im looking out the window and can see 5 different houses letting fireworks off.
I would have headed into town but simply cant be assed with finding a park etc.

So whats the big one called this year?
Theres always a big one that everyone wants, but not everyone can handle such power :innocent:

there was one in slut vally last sat,
my washings still out, no koont better burn it!

[Meanie]

I havnt brought fireworks for about five years, total waste of money IMO
Kids didnt care and were quite happy to watch out the window for the next couple of years, now they dont even bother

[MadDuck]

Saving our ones for the wedding. Or New Years eve.:Punk:

OMG and I bet they will "BANG" bigger than anyone in Wellington has ever seen before!

[Trudes]

What really cracked me up was a bunch of teenagers standing in front of us..... Busily texting away instead of watching the thousands of dollars worth of fireworks going off :laugh:

[Sidewinder]

OMG and I bet they will "BANG" bigger than anyone in Wellington has ever seen before!

say there will be a bit of banging that night:wari::wari::wari::wari:

[BASS-TREBLE]

Could just steal $11k worth from the wharehouse...

[CookMySock]

Make your own with KNO3 and sugar.. its easy..

Steve

[Sidewinder]

make your own with kno3 and sugar.. Its easy..

Steve

kno3???????????

[Laxi]

kno3???????????


Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula KNO3. A naturally occurring mineral source of nitrogen, KNO3 constitutes a critical oxidizing component of black powder/gunpowder. In the past it was also used for several kinds of burning fuses, including slow matches. Potassium nitrate readily precipitates from mixtures of salts, and decomposing urine was the main commercial source of the nitrate ion, through various means, from the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern era through the 19th century.

Its common names include saltpetre (saltpeter in American English), from Medieval Latin sal petræ: "stone salt" or possibly "Salt of Petra", nitrate of potash, and nitre (American niter). For specific information about the naturally occurring mineral, see niter. The name Peru saltpetre or Chile saltpetre (American "Peru saltpeter" or "Chile saltpeter") is applied to sodium nitrate, a similar nitrogen compound that is also used in explosives and fertilizers. The major problem of using the cheaper sodium nitrate in gunpowder is its tendency to go damp.
not the easiest thing to get your hands on, unless your a yank of course

[BASS-TREBLE]

Steve what does potassium nitrate do with sugar?
I wanna know!!

edit- Thanks Laxi

[Sidewinder]

Steve what does potassium nitrate do with sugar?
I wanna know!!
it makes coffee if you add milk

[Laxi]

Steve what does potassium nitrate do with sugar?
I wanna know!!

edit- Thanks Laxi

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always glad to help :lol:
farrking "stump remover" :rofl:

[pete376403]

So whats the big one called this year?
Theres always a big one that everyone wants, but not everyone can handle such power :innocent:
That'll be AMFO. You can make your own, too.:innocent:

[Sidewinder]

omg laxi you onto it mother fucka

[Laxi]

omg laxi you onto it mother fucka

we must research these things, now to collect 60 or 70 bags of fertilizer by the 17th:blip:

[CookMySock]

Steve what does potassium nitrate do with sugar?
I wanna know!!Three parts KNO3 to one part icing sugar and a little corn syrup to help it emulsify, and a tiny bit of water to make a thick paste and then CAREFULLY cook it up until it turns to soft toffee, then roll it inside a paper tube and tightly seal the ends off (bentonite clay from the welldrillers) with a wick in one end. Light fuse and watch.. It will either CATO with a loud bang, or it will bugger off like a rocket.

Google "recrystalized rocketry".

BE CAREFUL with this shit. If it gets the tiniest spark in it while cooking it will flash off in the blink of an eye... or rather, where there USED to be an eye.

Steve

[Sidewinder]

we must research these things, now to collect 60 or 70 bags of fertilizer by the 17th:blip:

ill bring my van down

[SMOKEU]

Could always use black powder.

[Laxi]

Could always use black powder.

pack sidewinders van with black powder???? now we're talking:Punk::Punk::Punk: brilliant plan

EDIT: come on man, you want stunts, here ya go :lol:

[Swoop]

Which fucking moron decided to ban double happy's and tom thumbs???

Huh?
Bastards!

[Sidewinder]

pack sidewinders van with black powder???? now we're talking:Punk::Punk::Punk: brilliant plan

EDIT: come on man, you want stunts, here ya go :lol:

the van is in upper slut. load it up boy'o

[Skyryder]

Tell that to the thousands of Volunteer fire fighters around the country at home trying to have a night home with their family.

MadDuck


They can always quit. Or pot ya mates for being drunk on the job and get ya self sacked.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

Which fucking moron decided to ban double happy's and tom thumbs???

Huh?
Bastards!


Yep. Bastard cunts. Nothing like a string of Tom Thumbs going off.

Lovely smell of cordite.


Skyryder

[wbks]

not the easiest thing to get your hands on, unless your a yank of courseOr unless you have access to trademe... It's not exactly a big secret

[BiK3RChiK]

So much for the public displays! Whakatane's was a disaster last night, with the fireworks going off in major non-controlled fashion and setting fire to all the scrubland. I'm amazed to hear on the radio this morning that no one was seriously injured or killed. I bet that's the last time the fireworks will be on over the river from the town... What a fizzer.........:crybaby: