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June 18th, 2003, 04:02 PM
chair
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posted 05-03-2001 10:53 PM
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Has anybody ordered chemicals from here? If so, did you have any problems? I prefer to hear from customers living in the east coast of the U.S. I am planning on ordering some chemicals for flash, black powder, and rockets.
PS: I did search the forums, but didn't find many opinions.
PPS: Has anybody ordered KCLO4 from both skylighter and pyrotek? It's about $23 for five pounds at skylighter, but $12 for one pound at pyrotek. I was wondering if pyrotek sold higher quality Perc than skylighter.
PPPS: Does pyrotek restrict the amount of German Blackhead Al you purchase? Skylighter restricts to two pounds per year unless you are equipped with a BATF high explosives manufacturing permit.
PPPPS(this is the last one, I promise): Can somebody please give me the URLs to Firefox, and IowaPyro?
Thanks,
-chair
J
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posted 05-04-2001 02:33 PM
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The most likely reason Pyrotek is more expensive is that there is no age restriction. If you're under 21, forget about Skylighter.
Can't really help you since I haven't ordered from any pyro supplier.
J
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John456
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posted 05-04-2001 03:10 PM
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I am on the east coast of the US and have ordered from pyrotek before No problems but they are sort of slow. It took about 2 weeks for deliver and i only live 200 miles or so from their PA offices. Email me at johnb460@hotmail.com , id be curious to know which state your in.
chair
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posted 05-05-2001 07:50 AM
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John456: Thanks, I guess I'll order from them.
MacCleod
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posted 05-06-2001 12:17 AM
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Firefox-http://www.firefox-fx.com/
Iowa Pyro Supply-http://iowapyrosupply.com/
I live about 3 hours drive from them.I don't think thier chem's are any better;they probably don't buy in as large a qty. as the bigger suppliers,so they pay more for thier chem's/sell them for more (plus they sell with no restrictions!).
I've been thinking of doing some recon,making the trip there to see if they have a legit business,as there's some question about whether they might be working with the fed's.
Arthis
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posted 05-09-2001 02:59 PM
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Does anyone know if Pyrotek.org could sell chemicals out of USA ? I live in France, and I would be interested in buying paraformaldehyde, pentaerythritol, and hexamine. Or anyone knows a website in Europe, espacially in France ?
thanx
richl261
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posted 05-09-2001 03:05 PM
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you live in france? do you have kno3 and pyrodex freely avaliable, because im coming to france in a few weeks and wanted to get some. could you tell me where its sold please (supermarket?) and would they sell it to me?
EP
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posted 05-09-2001 07:14 PM
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Skylighter is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) supplier around, so the chems are probably not low quality! I would recommend buying Al and potassiun perchlorate from seperate places or at least in seperate orders as they surely keep sales records...
Arthis
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posted 05-10-2001 11:41 AM
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Well, KNO3 may not be the chemical very interesting to buy in France, but I don't know where you are from. But, you may not buy several kilos of KNO3 ,since it is not very useful.
In case you still wanna buy some, you need to go in a shop "droguerie", a drugstore, they used to sell things like that, but personnally I know only one which still sells chemicals, and years threw years, they have less and less chemicals. But maybe you'll find one. I'm not sure. Nowadays, nobody uses chemicals, and they're harder and harder to find.
I don't know any shop specialized in rocketry.
richl261
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posted 05-13-2001 11:10 AM
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okay, thanks, Arthis.
endotherm
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posted 06-10-2001 03:12 PM
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Sorry to bring up an old topic but i have a friend who ordered from pyrotek, seriously a friend, not just saying that, and they ordered some oxidzers fuels and fusing, my friend lives extremely close to the place they ship from, he ordered it like 1 month and a half ago and it's still not there, its too bad because i was looking foward to checking out some of the junk he ordered, this goes to anyone that has ever ordered from pyrotek.org, are these guys Legitimate, or did my friend get fucked over, has anyone ordered from them?
endotherm
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posted 06-10-2001 03:16 PM
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oh, and also, they didn't send any shipping conformation, but the guys that works their claims they ship everything out immedieatly. Is it possible that the hazard mail they use is really slow, or do you think any mail would have gotten to his house if he lives lke 300 miles away from their factory
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posted 05-03-2001 10:53 PM
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Has anybody ordered chemicals from here? If so, did you have any problems? I prefer to hear from customers living in the east coast of the U.S. I am planning on ordering some chemicals for flash, black powder, and rockets.
PS: I did search the forums, but didn't find many opinions.
PPS: Has anybody ordered KCLO4 from both skylighter and pyrotek? It's about $23 for five pounds at skylighter, but $12 for one pound at pyrotek. I was wondering if pyrotek sold higher quality Perc than skylighter.
PPPS: Does pyrotek restrict the amount of German Blackhead Al you purchase? Skylighter restricts to two pounds per year unless you are equipped with a BATF high explosives manufacturing permit.
PPPPS(this is the last one, I promise): Can somebody please give me the URLs to Firefox, and IowaPyro?
Thanks,
-chair
J
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Posts: 602
From: United Kingdom
Registered: SEP 2000
posted 05-04-2001 02:33 PM
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The most likely reason Pyrotek is more expensive is that there is no age restriction. If you're under 21, forget about Skylighter.
Can't really help you since I haven't ordered from any pyro supplier.
J
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"If the aquarium water has to be drunk don't waste the fish. In fact they'll probably be the easiest to eat even if you don't need the water. The cat is next in the pot." - John 'Lofty' Wiseman
John456
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posted 05-04-2001 03:10 PM
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I am on the east coast of the US and have ordered from pyrotek before No problems but they are sort of slow. It took about 2 weeks for deliver and i only live 200 miles or so from their PA offices. Email me at johnb460@hotmail.com , id be curious to know which state your in.
chair
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posted 05-05-2001 07:50 AM
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John456: Thanks, I guess I'll order from them.
MacCleod
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posted 05-06-2001 12:17 AM
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Firefox-http://www.firefox-fx.com/
Iowa Pyro Supply-http://iowapyrosupply.com/
I live about 3 hours drive from them.I don't think thier chem's are any better;they probably don't buy in as large a qty. as the bigger suppliers,so they pay more for thier chem's/sell them for more (plus they sell with no restrictions!).
I've been thinking of doing some recon,making the trip there to see if they have a legit business,as there's some question about whether they might be working with the fed's.
Arthis
Frequent Poster
Posts: 203
From:
Registered: OCT 2000
posted 05-09-2001 02:59 PM
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Does anyone know if Pyrotek.org could sell chemicals out of USA ? I live in France, and I would be interested in buying paraformaldehyde, pentaerythritol, and hexamine. Or anyone knows a website in Europe, espacially in France ?
thanx
richl261
Frequent Poster
Posts: 134
From: uk
Registered: MAR 2001
posted 05-09-2001 03:05 PM
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you live in france? do you have kno3 and pyrodex freely avaliable, because im coming to france in a few weeks and wanted to get some. could you tell me where its sold please (supermarket?) and would they sell it to me?
EP
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Posts: 108
From: USA
Registered: APR 2001
posted 05-09-2001 07:14 PM
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Skylighter is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) supplier around, so the chems are probably not low quality! I would recommend buying Al and potassiun perchlorate from seperate places or at least in seperate orders as they surely keep sales records...
Arthis
Frequent Poster
Posts: 203
From:
Registered: OCT 2000
posted 05-10-2001 11:41 AM
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Well, KNO3 may not be the chemical very interesting to buy in France, but I don't know where you are from. But, you may not buy several kilos of KNO3 ,since it is not very useful.
In case you still wanna buy some, you need to go in a shop "droguerie", a drugstore, they used to sell things like that, but personnally I know only one which still sells chemicals, and years threw years, they have less and less chemicals. But maybe you'll find one. I'm not sure. Nowadays, nobody uses chemicals, and they're harder and harder to find.
I don't know any shop specialized in rocketry.
richl261
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Posts: 134
From: uk
Registered: MAR 2001
posted 05-13-2001 11:10 AM
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okay, thanks, Arthis.
endotherm
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Posts: 164
From: dunno
Registered: JAN 2001
posted 06-10-2001 03:12 PM
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Sorry to bring up an old topic but i have a friend who ordered from pyrotek, seriously a friend, not just saying that, and they ordered some oxidzers fuels and fusing, my friend lives extremely close to the place they ship from, he ordered it like 1 month and a half ago and it's still not there, its too bad because i was looking foward to checking out some of the junk he ordered, this goes to anyone that has ever ordered from pyrotek.org, are these guys Legitimate, or did my friend get fucked over, has anyone ordered from them?
endotherm
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Posts: 164
From: dunno
Registered: JAN 2001
posted 06-10-2001 03:16 PM
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oh, and also, they didn't send any shipping conformation, but the guys that works their claims they ship everything out immedieatly. Is it possible that the hazard mail they use is really slow, or do you think any mail would have gotten to his house if he lives lke 300 miles away from their factory