Re: foguete?
- From: Leo <pyroleo@aoldotcomNOSPAMMM>
- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:11:24 -0400
Mike Swisher wrote:
In article <1122862319.316932.139700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mlskate7@xxxxxxx says...
Recently i posted about a firework i saw that had three reports first one loud second louder and the third very loud...A few people posted and said it was a foguete. I was wondering if anybody can tell me how they are made or where to find the information..I thought of a few ways to make it myself but i would rather do it the right way if someone knows..thanks
They are Brazilian. I have seen both a single tube version and (more common) racks with typically two dozen tubes in two rows. Each tube contains three small reports, loaded one on top of the other, and a lift charge. In the ones I have seen the insert reports are all of the same size.
The single-tube version is, I believe, sold as a consumer firework. The one I saw had about a 4 or 5 inch long by approx 3/4" or 1" inside diameter tube. At the base of the 4 or 5 inches of effective mortar length was another 2 inches or so of the tube that had been flattened. This was supposed to be held by the fingers while the fuse at the base was lit, and thus fired from the hand. Not for me - considering the number of exploded mortars I have seen in the course of using foguete racks.
In the racks, there are typically two rows of a dozen tubes. Each tube has a short fuse projecting from a touch-hole at its base. These face inward and cross over a long stiff central fuse that is lit on one end, and burns down between the rows of mortars at a fairly decent clip, lighting the individual mortars' fuses. The central fuse is made on the principle of a sparkler, being a reed or some other sort of thin stick that has been dipped in a slurry of composition.
Since each tube contains three reports, the racks launch 72 reports in a relatively short time. I recall one local display operator, who used to write his display bids using shell circumferences (i.e., a 3" shell would be described as "9-inch," a 4" shell as "12-inch, etc.), would put a single foguete rack down as 72 - 3" reports! Talk about "creative accounting"!
That sounds reminiscent of the Vitale method of accounting!
Leo .
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