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Best of AFN III - Picks up where Best of AFN II leaves off. All the articles that appeared in the 5 years ending April '95. 200 pages jam-packed with up-to-date how-it-is-done fireworks info! From beginner to advanced worker, this book has something for everyone.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• PART I - ROUND STARS
  • Selection of Cores
  • Selection of Solvent System
  • Pans and Shaker Cans
  • Getting Started
  • Spiking Problems
  • Size Uniformity
  • Star Breakage During Rolling
  • The "Driven In" Problem
• PART II - STAR FORMULAS
  • Red Resin Fuel Stars
  • Green and Aqua Resin Fuel Stars
  • Blue and Purple Stars
  • Magnesium Stars
  • Glitter Stars
  • Flitter Stars
  • Charcoal Streamer Stars
  • Ammonium Perchlorate Colored Stars
  • Flash Core Composition
  • Strobe Stars
  • Crackle Stars
• PART III - THE ROUND SHELL
  • Strawboard and Paper Hemispheres
  • Insertion of Fuse
  • Loading of Stars
  • The Burst Charge
  • Assembly of Shell - Plastic
  • Assembly of Shell - Paper
  • The Lift Charge
  • The Double Petalled Round Shell
  • Ring and Intersector Shells
  • Rising Tails
  • Meteor Shells
  • Saturn Shells
  • Dark Composition
• DISPLAY GOODS & OPERATIONS
  • The Basic Technician, #1,2,3
  • Unexplained Explosion & Probability Theory
  • Pyro Emitting Device
  • Fireworks on a Budget
  • Vis-A-Vis Fountains
  • Neon Blue & Recumbent Lances
  • Molecular Sieves as Cores
  • Lance Development
  • Illumination Breaks & Shimmering Curtains
  • Pyro Surprises
  • Push Sticks Aid Low Breaks
  • Eight Experiments in Non-Commercial Black Powder
  • Quote of the Month
  • Method of Conducting Pyrotechnic Experiments
  • Round Star Tips
  • The Quest for Fast Powder
  • Match Warning
  • Ball Mill Tip
  • Super Polverone
  • Chlorine Donors
  • Make Your Own Dextrin
  • Primer for Making Cut Stars
  • Yellow Powder
  • Pass the Grog
  • Modeling Clay & The Pyro
  • Don't Throw Away Fax Tubes
  • Sculpy Revisited
  • Table for Cutting Stars
  • Drying Stars & Grinding Chemicals
  • Pyro Hint
  • Brilliant Orange/Titanium Stars
  • Dragon Egg Warning
  • Using Kerosene?
  • Using Kerosene in Fireworks
  • Production of Benzoate Color Agents
  • Charcoal
  • Making Charcoal in Small Quantities
  • More About Charcoal
  • In Praise of Cupric Octoate
  • Building a Spiking Horse
  • Easily Made Round Shell Casings
  • Rice Hulls - Is There an Alternative
  • Tedium Reliever
  • The Beautiful 4" Spider Web Shell
  • Making Homemade Wheat Paste
  • Gold-Ferro Aluminum Flitter
  • Round Shell Construction Using Inner & Outer Shell Casings
  • Bright Star Compositions with High Magnalium Content
  • Mag/55 Enhances Aerial Salutes
  • Microstar Bursts Without Microstars
  • Microjet Stars
  • Crackle Stars
  • Crackling Micro Stars
  • Aqueous Binding of Sodium Nitrate Stars
  • Cut Stars - Without Cutting
  • Long Lasting Paper Mortars
  • Visco Time Fuse Expedient
  • Shrink That Visco For Time
  • Visco Time Fuse
  • Are Your Ready Boxes Ready?
  • Cheap Tool Aids Lance Assembly
  • Alternative Cores For Burst Charge
  • Mr. Cheapo & His Used Vermiculite
  • Another Core for Round Stars
  • Making Quickmatch
  • Splicing Piped Match
  • Match Pipe Making Simplified
  • Make Your Own Black Match
  • Variations on Standard Quickmatch Manufacture
  • The Gabe Mort
  • Neapolitan Ground Bombs
  • Water Fireworks
  • Tidy Little Electrical Firing Box
  • Comments on Electrical Firing Box
  • Comments on Electrical Firing Circuits
  • Delay Circuit
  • More on Timer Circuits
  • Simple Electric Matches
  • Electric Matches & Squibs
  • To Ground or Not To Ground
  • Understanding and Using Capacitive-Discharge Electrical Firing Equipment
  • Electric Ignition of Shock Tube Firing Systems
  • Electric Percussive Art Shooting of Shock Tube
  • Whistle - Jetex Questions Answered
• CHEMICALS & SENSITIVITY
  • Why Protect Magnesium?
  • Protecting Magnesium II
  • Hates Potassium Permanganate
  • Safety Considerations
  • Simple Techniques for Testing Unfamiliar Compositions
  • Red Phosphorus - Bride of Frankenstein
  • Phosphorus Fireworks
  • Lessons Learned in Flash Production
  • Measurement of Aerial Shell Velocity
  • Stars Blown Blind
  • Asks About Nickel Toxicity
  • Adiabatic Heating of Bridge Wires
  • The Many Use of Pyro Wax
  • Quote of the Month
  • More on Using Coarse Aluminum Turnings
  • Using Coarse Aluminum Turnings
  • Nitro cartons

Code No. 009635, $61.50

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