TAP No. 72 - Homemade Fireworks Pt. 1

we HOMEMADE FIREWORKS Pt. 1 By The Ragician... Of all of sankings inventions throughout the ages, Pirevorks must rate as cne of the sost spectacular and enjoyable. Unfcrtunately, due to a ll percentage of fecple vho sis-use firevorks (sach as by throving ‘then at fecrle, and using thea for destruction) we all must svffer- In 1967 the federal government a1] but outlawed and class ¢ fireccackers over 50 grains of foxder. Thus no more 4-80s, cherry bosbs or bleck besters. On top of this, many states have autlaved the sale or pocession of firevorks entirely ! For those that ill have a love for firevorks, there are so i The first is to buy thea ‘illegally. ! e still readily available on the blacksarket. Ancther vay is to have phriends going cn vacaticns etc. buy them for you in states vere they are still legal and bring thea back. {You will not be able tc get s-80s etc. this vay}. A third pescsibility ie to beild your own, and have phun doing itt . In a divergence frce our ncraal electronic @iscussions, I vill tell you in this, and a Subsequent article exactly hcw to build sone of your own howemade firevcrks devices. Pirst lets discuss VERY ispertant safety procedure: IP YOU DO NOT HEED ALL CP THESE SAFETY PROCEDURES, YOU HAVE A VERY GOOD CHASCE OF BLOWING YOUR HEAD OPF 1! If you follev thea, risk is miniaal, and relatively safe. Neither nor the Author ‘can take any responsibility for any injaries or damage resulting frcm the folloving information. BOLE: 1. Wear eye goggles to frevent eye injuries. 2. Keep chemicals in a cool, dry SAFE Flace. 3. Never suoke or have any flases arcund your vork area. &. have a fire extiguisher and water close by. 5. When aixing chemicals, de so very gently. Do not grind together 6. “ix only very suall quantities cf chemicals at any one time. . 7. Use only paper casings. NEVER fut mixtures in any metal or glass containers (such as c02 cylinders) 8. If you have a dud, leave it urtil the next day and then bury it. do nct try to reuse it. 9. Several books on firevcrks nov available froa publishers recommend eixing chlorates (Such as Potassiua Chlorate) with sulfur for explosive compound. This can be SUICIDE ! The chlorates can react spontaneously vith sulfur and blew up for no on. At best the sizture is extremely will blew up with crly a slight jar or change in temperature ! Sc, NEVER mix sulfur and chlorates. 10. Last but not least, USE COMSON SENSE ! Wow down to the good stuff. We will first discuss aaking 4-805. You vill need four basic mponents. A paper case, end flugs, safety fuse, and powder. The case can he purchased (recommended) from one cf the distributors listed later, or can be sade by taking a grocery bag, cutting about a 1.5 inch width strip about 12 inches long, coating it with elmers glue, then wrapping it Up around a vood dovel and alloved to harden. The end plugs are easily sade by cutting an approx. 1/9 inch length of apfrorriate width vood dovel (same size used to role case) The safety fuse is best bought froma distributor 3/32 inch being the standard. The povder is made as follove: In a non-metal bowl, grind either potassiua chlorate or potassius perchlorate until it is very fine vith no luaps, then veigh the pewder. Take some black aluminum dust and veight it getting a Proportion (by eight) of apferex. 7 parts potassium chlorates ferchlorate to 3 parts aluminua dust. After weighing, very carefully thoroughly aix the two chemicals ‘together in a non being careful not to grind or crush th Drill 11 hole in the tcf cf your c: (not anywhere near the chesicals) and insert approx. 3 inches or mere fuse so that the fuse hits the bottom of the casing. Put a little olmers glue around the hole te seal the fuse. Coat one of Your endplugs vith elmers and insert 4t into one end of your casing so that it is flush with the end. Pour powder into the casirg until it is about 1/2 full. Pilling it only 1/2 gives the povder room to burn and vill explode such louder than it would if totally fillea. ——, ap wT” Room 603 147 W. 42 St. New York 10036 FEBRUARY 1982 No. 72 Lastly, coat the cther erdrleg with elsers and insert it, making it flush with the ends. Allow completed n-80s tc dry thercughly. after drying completely, they are ready to gc. Never light and throw them, because there is a slight possibility the fuse will "flash thrcugh" or born to rapidly and cause the 4-80 tc blev up in your hand. Alvays lay on the qround, light and run t Block busters are sade the same as #-80s, only vith larger tubes. You may vant to experiment with sizing in sawdust vith the explosive powder as this can increase the loudness of the explosion. Also, wixing in abcut 1/3° (by weight) maqnesiua fevder seems tc add to the effect. Note: Commercial blackpewder powder burns to fast and does not werk nearly as vell as the above mixture in aaking §-80s blockbusters etc. Cherry bombs are made the sare as B-80s, but instead of paper tubes, you take twc little half circle paper cones (available fros distributors), put a hole in top, insert fuse and about 1/2 £111 with powder. The halfs are glued together, the whole circle is then dipped in elrers and then rolled in savdust. The asserbly is then alloved to completely dry, forming a very hard cuter shell. the shell can then be spray fainted the traditional red, or black etc. if desired The following are the suppliers of chemicals, casings, fuse etc. to eake fireworks: Westech Corp. P.O. Box 593 Logan, UT 64321 (Cataleg $2.00) Pioneer Industries WA Hughey St. Nashua, NH 03061 (Catalcg $1.00) Pt. 2 of this article will discuss sore advanced iteas such as. vhistle reckets, fountains etc. Have phun, but please be carefol and use common sense ! 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In tnis co1umn and seperate articles I hore to famitarize you w1in various computers, and tneir functions. TAP 18 nere to neip you deive aneso invo exeanaing tvecnnoiocival fielas. Tris wor pe a Good time to Get your computer nacKing friends to subscripe. Before i expiain tne wonaers of Ma Bell's COSMOS computer system, I'a like to make a few random comments (thus, tne name of tris coiunn)., POUR ED - Please Get in touch with me via TAPS MUSHROOM & SPOOL DRIVERS; AL Runay, in 867+ explainea how to pick locks witn musnroam ana SFOOI PINS. HS articie@ was Scmewnat inaccurate. AS a Professiona: Physical & computer security consultants I can say that PICkIne jms Irooas and spools 1s aimost imrossivie. fo mick thems you must Pick all tne pints at once, To do tnise you neea a £E-% PICK Guns cr the ewavilent. These Provice the nest result: If tme lock is a MEVECO branag micn sewrivy cylinders forse it entire:y, 7 EI at A few weexs aco» I reluctantly operates on my $900 moaem, ana wrote a commuter Pronram to ata: numoers seauentiaiiy: ana leek for a computer carrier. i ran it in tne mi tie of tne mont two consecutive gays. 2500 woKen-uP supscriow later, Ma Beli anonymousiy neaan cutting off 3 Phone at nicnt for the next three cays. Finally, after 1 raisea a littie Neils end tnreatenes to call tne local Bell security office cnarcins empiyee sabatce (HA ear that Rormie Ride??)» they ieft my pnene aione. i've oeen a cit Nesitant to run tre Prowram sams tnonGhs + + Tne miliinc computer center for all of Pacific Telepnone ana Nevaaa Bell is in Here in Catiforma, was talking to an employee up there, enu icarneo several interestinc things. Number one, thee 1s 2 DIG thick book chairiea down to the console in the ‘puter room that lists virtualiy AL computer dial-ups into misc. Bell System aata processing centers. If any B&E pecpie snowa optain oner 1 wiil purcnase a cory from you... Numer tuo, one biliing run prints vilis watn FLCTITIOUS ncn numoers! If you are an important Person» vou cari vequest your Dill to o@ Pringes wath # faictitions pnone numoer. That way snvowy mailaen can't cet your Phone rumper. Lets alt call our 3.0.'S and request fictitious o1ilinc numcers...Thiraly, one of the runs tney ao 1s to Print out a HUGE street acdress cirectory for ail of northern Caiiforma...Non-Puplisnea mumvers ana = alas Wouldn’t you i1ke one of those? Lastiyr the Beil five creait cara you cet 16 only one of about other forms tnat are pPrintea at the your CC, 35 printed. ovher copies?7 COSMAS: COSMOS 15 a computer system wnicn is in use in many parts of ihe Bell System wnicn nancles main-frame" operations. It contains everyone's enone nuapers OF fice equipment numowirs caple/pair numper, class of service, etc. It is used to automate tne frame in your tocal C.0. py printing a list at the beginning of each uayr telling tnem wnat numbers to gisconnects and connect. If you can access COSMOS for a particuiar are you can connect/disconnect/chance anyone's prone numoer’ or wust access tne afore mentionea info. Cable/pair numbers are very nancy —_to wire-tarrers, or people who like to Piaay~Dack mogems to computer aial-urs. COSMOS is run on a UNIX system. Some typical accourits includ NEOZ, MIFO2, GOSMOS:, LAOZ, exc. The | more Important accounts used for service oraer entry are? BIN» ROOT, COM, COM1, COMZ, etc. Some nave no Passwords» wnile others mave 6 character ras sucn as SWMDF, BSLAC, WETEST, RINGIT» (AS you can seer tne Test Boara uses COSMOS). Well, I'm out of space. 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