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May 9th, 2006, 07:08 PM
If you live somewhere where visco fuse is hard to get ahold of or you don't want to waste your precious homemade fuse. I've actually found a way to get a good amount of time out of a simple, and easy fuse you can make in less then 2 minutes, if you have the materials. Now, this fuse isn't the best type of fuse to ignite your salute's because its really thick, but you can economize your visco fuse using this method. Like, for instance a 3 inch fuse for actual salute ignition, but tape this to the timed fuse.
I call it the flare fuse. Simple concept really, I created this myself with the materials I had on me at the time when I was a little lad long ago.
Materials:
Road/Marine Flare
Drinking Straw (Plastic)
Masking Tape
Yes, thats all you need.
Dismantle the flare starting from the friction-ignition-system, they use some type of blackpowder with hard resin at the tip that ignites with a simple stroke of sand paper, you can crush that up and use it for whatever you want.
(quick tip: the flares actual container is pretty dense cardboard, if I'm not mistaken, you can jig the flare into 3 or so pieces to use for quick and simple salutes)
The flare I used was, Orion Marine Flares, the powder was consistenly yellow and tended to clump when stored, (dont know exact compound), it left a white brittle after-product.
Pour that out into whatever container you want. Now get the drinking straw and tape one end shut with your normal everyday painter's or masking tape.
With the open end of the straw, stick it into the flare-powder many times, the powder should clump inside. Find like a nail or something of the same diameter as the straw and mildly press it so all of the powder is touching and is pressed nicely.
After you get all the flare powder inside (or your slow burning mixture), make sure you compress it real nice, so you get a consistent, hot flame all the way through the straw when lit. Tape it up, and put a layer or two of tape around the whole straw, because as it burns it melts the plastic before it gets to it and sometimes the flaming part falls off before igniting the other powder making you think that your salute failed, causing you to go back to the objective. I've had this happen to me on a salute, easy way to get around, put a generous amount of tape around the whole straw (2 or 3 layers maximum).
As I said it's very simple and the materials will cause absolutely no suspicious behavour whatsoever.
Pros: -When lit, this puppy burns to the other end no matter what condition, 100mph winds or rain.(except underwater, never tested), the flame is very hot, you would not put it out by blowing on it if you even tried.
-One flare makes quite alot of these fuses.
-Doesn't throw sparks, just a flame.
-Although I never stored these for long periods of time, I know flares can be stored for very long periods of time. Therefor I predict you can keep these for years.
-You can also use your mixture, as I think it would work with almost every compound, but I like to use any marine flare mixture, because once it is lit, there's no stopping it.
Cons:-Since you cannot bend this fuse very much, it makes your salute's considerable larger and harder to conceile. Although I think you can counter this by holding like 10 or 20 of these in your safety box when going to the site-of-detonation, then just simply taping them to your salute's with a small strip of tape so the flame can transfer to your visco or homemade fuse.
It throws a 1 or 2 inch flame that is extremely hot, something like those "sparkling fireworks" except without the sparks, becareful when putting on the ground, can ignite the enviroment pretty easily.
All and all I think this is a very good fuse even for the most "professonial" of users. Gives very consistent time frames so when your objective goes off you can be at a nice vantage point where you see it happen, but at a safe distance from be it, fragmentation, or the po-po's. ;)
I call it the flare fuse. Simple concept really, I created this myself with the materials I had on me at the time when I was a little lad long ago.
Materials:
Road/Marine Flare
Drinking Straw (Plastic)
Masking Tape
Yes, thats all you need.
Dismantle the flare starting from the friction-ignition-system, they use some type of blackpowder with hard resin at the tip that ignites with a simple stroke of sand paper, you can crush that up and use it for whatever you want.
(quick tip: the flares actual container is pretty dense cardboard, if I'm not mistaken, you can jig the flare into 3 or so pieces to use for quick and simple salutes)
The flare I used was, Orion Marine Flares, the powder was consistenly yellow and tended to clump when stored, (dont know exact compound), it left a white brittle after-product.
Pour that out into whatever container you want. Now get the drinking straw and tape one end shut with your normal everyday painter's or masking tape.
With the open end of the straw, stick it into the flare-powder many times, the powder should clump inside. Find like a nail or something of the same diameter as the straw and mildly press it so all of the powder is touching and is pressed nicely.
After you get all the flare powder inside (or your slow burning mixture), make sure you compress it real nice, so you get a consistent, hot flame all the way through the straw when lit. Tape it up, and put a layer or two of tape around the whole straw, because as it burns it melts the plastic before it gets to it and sometimes the flaming part falls off before igniting the other powder making you think that your salute failed, causing you to go back to the objective. I've had this happen to me on a salute, easy way to get around, put a generous amount of tape around the whole straw (2 or 3 layers maximum).
As I said it's very simple and the materials will cause absolutely no suspicious behavour whatsoever.
Pros: -When lit, this puppy burns to the other end no matter what condition, 100mph winds or rain.(except underwater, never tested), the flame is very hot, you would not put it out by blowing on it if you even tried.
-One flare makes quite alot of these fuses.
-Doesn't throw sparks, just a flame.
-Although I never stored these for long periods of time, I know flares can be stored for very long periods of time. Therefor I predict you can keep these for years.
-You can also use your mixture, as I think it would work with almost every compound, but I like to use any marine flare mixture, because once it is lit, there's no stopping it.
Cons:-Since you cannot bend this fuse very much, it makes your salute's considerable larger and harder to conceile. Although I think you can counter this by holding like 10 or 20 of these in your safety box when going to the site-of-detonation, then just simply taping them to your salute's with a small strip of tape so the flame can transfer to your visco or homemade fuse.
It throws a 1 or 2 inch flame that is extremely hot, something like those "sparkling fireworks" except without the sparks, becareful when putting on the ground, can ignite the enviroment pretty easily.
All and all I think this is a very good fuse even for the most "professonial" of users. Gives very consistent time frames so when your objective goes off you can be at a nice vantage point where you see it happen, but at a safe distance from be it, fragmentation, or the po-po's. ;)