Taking a trip to THIS place is my favorite part of driving through Indiana. It's stupid big, and just has pallets and pallets of fireworks stacked to the ceiling. This whole back row are mortors of some sort Yay for a brick of 4000 firecrackers Those sparklers will eventually become a few of these:
Uh-oh sparkler bomb. you know those metal handled sparklers will go critical when you have enough of them bound together like that right? just want to make sure that you are aware of the saftey hazard.
I've been making them for the past 6 years. Just gotta make sure that you're plenty far away. It doesn't blow up, just makes this gigantic loud flame, and shoots sparks up to the power lines.
^ yeah when those go critical they will burn from top to bottom in a fraction of a second. thats why the metal handled ones are dangerous. I have been thinking about making a sparkler out of a telephone pole...
Oh, anyone wanna launch a botle rocket from a moving car and see if it falls back, or shoots forward past the car??:laugh::roll: I'll donate one of those 38" long ones for testing:biggrin: (is not liable if you blow yourself up)
nto me.. but I know some guys who would drive through gas stations and launch them.... one of them launch one at me and my friends and I chased him down and smacked his head a few times... back when I was 16-17.. punks...
:laugh: don't bring up this argument again! haha, I remember people arguing about this at firestone. Anyway, figure out how fast you have to be driving so that when you shoot the bottle rocket out of the back of the car, it just drops straight to the ground. kinda like this.
WI has warehouse fireworks stores all over too. I used to load up on mortars and extra shells on my way up to the UP and fire them off over Lake Superior. We once tried securing the mortars to the sides of a boat so that we could use them like cannons but they weren't secure enough for my liking. Plus I can only imagine what hilarity would have ensued if they had flipped back and pointed into the boat instead of away from it. My brain never got in the way of such ideas when I was a kid. I'm surprised I still have all my fingers/limbs.
>>yeah...i did that a few years back. it sometimes fly back. My bro-n-law has a nickel size dent on his Tahoe's pass door to prove it.
I think I stopped by the same store, Matt. I drove out to Cedar Pointe, OH last week and my brother wanted some roman candles. The place is called Krazy Kaplans and it's just west of Chicago by 2 hours. It's a huge warehouse of just fireworks. Enough to make anyone with a fireworks fetish to go krazy too.
They launch past the car. Done it many times. Well, I should say they launch past if you do it right. You kinda have to sacrafice the tips of your fingers to the flames to get it just right tho. haha My old Olds had a nice explosion under the driver's seat once or twice tho from coming back in the rear window. haha Yeah, dangerous. Yeah, fun.
LOL Tried it in downtown LA at 3 am...they took off past the car then turned toward people walking! :laugh: :laugh:
