After our tests we can confirm that the only inconsistency lies within the time-fuse built into the shell itself. That is out of our control. What IS in our control is the pace at which the shells leave the mortar rack tubes. We started with the 10 second a ft fuse then the 3 second a ft fuse. Then, we tested the 0.03-1.25 second a ft quick fuse and finally the 0.01-0.03 second super quick hobby fuse. I think our favorite pace was definitely the 1.25 second quick fuse since the shells exited the tube at the same pace as a 1/1 cake would fire. Hope this helps and hope you all enjoyed!
It would be smart if a manufacturer would make a 500 mine cake with 1.75' tubes fib/HD tubes. So it just shot a mine but you can drop you favorite Canerster shells inside. They could also make single shot 1.75' mines. You pop the top of drop in a canister shell put in rack and fuse the them all together. Every shell then has a mine effective.
This seems like a good idea for pre-staging a show. I don't like setting up my racks too soon and having them sit in the garage but with this technique you could get all your timings down and run the fuse days in advance and then dump the shells in day of in 30 minutes. Worst case your fuse goes off which is a lot safer than having a rack go off. It also looks like it would be cleaner for taping against fuse jump.
I didn't do this exact fusing method but I did use the quick fuse to fuse together the last 10 shots of my finale rack a few years ago with quad break shells. It was intense.
I had done this a couple of years back with a repurposed Excal tube rack and my last pack of quick fuse. The sound of the lift charge alone was enough to sober up the drunk people. Just got a box of fuses, including the four that you used plus three other speeds, so it's on again this NYE.🤙🏽
Dude Cody man I love your channel bud. I been watching for years but FINALLY made it to a firework store in Pahrump for my fireworks for the 4th of July 2022! I’m in Northern Ca so we only are allowed to buy the Safe & Sanes but I live in a community that doesn’t pay attention to them rules haha literally the police will drive by and comment on how nice the fireworks are and actually cheer on their PA’s hahahaha I got a case of Brothers Unmatched 5” cans a case of Cobra box assortment that I won’t get again and a case of Mob Madness 500g cakes. Such an epic time we had! Keep up the good work brother IM HOOKED!
I just did my whole show last night the way you showed how to cake fuse mortars. 265 mortars and 63 cakes. I tested a few identical mortars side by side the week before. I did notice about 10-15 ft less in lift. It wasn't too noticeable so I decided to fuse them all cake style. It was worth being able to fire them EXACTLY when you want to with a firing system, but I will pry not be doing it again. HUGE problem is that not all cannisters are the same. I had about 20% of the mortars break EXTREMELY low, like dangerously low shooting crackle pretty close to the spectators. You could masking tape the cannisters to the point of being a tight fit in the tube, but that's way too much time for every mortar. Maybe just a finale rack? It is a neat concept and I did use half fiberglass tubes with no issues.
I was thinking that the whole time watching this video. Lift charges, like any explosive, are dependent upon the pressure exerted against the reaction and will now be a less controlled variable. I agree I wouldn’t do it often
The last silver fuse was what I usually picked up at my usual spot, as well as some cannon fuse. I would have to say that once you make/use quickmatch sticky match, and/or E-Fire you'll find it hard to resist wanting to use it everytime.
This opens up opportunities for variations in the display. Multiple racks with variations in the timing within groups in a rack. For the pyro-technician, electrical fusing gives the best control. However, for the occasional technician/pyro-artist, using timing through fusing would provide a great show.
Wow that’s crazy these neon skies are the shells I’m limited to in Hawaii this year for my budget, and I was like i hope Cody makes another video about them😂 Great video 🔥
The more compact your gun powder is the bigger the booom! I make homemade firecrackers with gun powder and the key for it to sound like a salute is making sure it is nicely compacted and tapped up with electrical or duct tape.
Hey Cody, I really hope you see this, I wanted to ask you a question about the fusing in this video. We are looking to do something similar, but had an idea on how to do it without all of the small length fuses, and wanted your opinion on it. Would it be possible to drill your holes in your tubes, (as you did here), but instead of drilling them at angles, drill them straight across the tube, and then just run one long fuse through each one tube? Then there's no gluing to keep each individual fuse in place, and it's one fuse going all the way through your rack. I'm curious if you think this will work! Please respond, thanks.
I understand the whole concept, and it is quite impressive. If you fused the shells "like normal" and use the Quick Fuse on top of the rack, you would get the same effect, but you would have to wait about 3 more seconds after the quick fuse is lit. That eliminates the drilling, fusing, and glueing at the bottom of the tubes. Is it worth all that work, or would waiting 3 more seconds give you the same exact effect?
If you're trying to time the effect, it is typically much easier to do with shorter and faster fuse because you are removing potential inconsistency. If you just want a rapid fire finale or fan effect without specific timing, you can just fuse the top of the rack as you would normally. This is most important when timing between shots is a concern, such as in fan sweep or slice effects.
@@mattm3901 I like your thought process Matt. Makes perfect sense. I've been doing manual lighting of fuses for many years, and I have gotten the timing down pretty accurately by using measured length, spacing,and fuse styles. I guess I'm proud of myself because I know the difficulty of the process, and to be able to watch my own builds launch without having to touch any of my boards during a show gives me that adrenaline rush. When I have spectators ask me which type of control system I use, I tell them the old school manual fuse lighting system. They give me that stare of confusion. Ha. I'm still learning new tricks everyday, and I should have been a pyrotechnician, instead of a musician. 🤣 I value someone's opinion/explanation of processes they've adapted Very Much! So thanks for the explanation in detail. 💯💪
I can confirm that no mater how the lift powder is contained in the bottom of the tube, be it taped into the shell or just dumped in the tube it will have absolutely no deference in lifting the shell whatsoever! The key here is the width of the shell in the tube, be there not to large of a gap between the tube wall and the shell, no matter how the lift powder is attached or unattached to the shell if the shell is the right size for the tube “meaning it has no more then a 5mm to 7mm gap to the tube wall when loaded, and if the lift powder was correctly weighed for the shell, it will fire.” ✌🏼
Ok so I just learned a lot and I’m grateful man that’s awesome to make the shells like a cake when using the quickest fuse is just amazing thanks Cody Man U never disappoint
Man I love your videos and this one is definitely one of the most useful informative videos out there. Keep these kind coming definitely going to try this fusing technique next year.
thank u very much cody b for this video i love how u do new videos all the time this one was awesome and those shells were very nice thank u for the video
I like this! However, I think impractical for me due to the design of my racks. Also, with no main lead line, one failure equals a dead rack. Have you experienced that? I do really like this method. Once the holes were drilled it seems like you’d save time assembling racks. I hate using zip ties, but no other good alternative. This solves that.
Well, this is technically the same thing as a 500g cake even fused the same way. A 500g cake has no main line either, so we just take our chances with that like we would a regular firework cake.
I know this was kinda an old video, but I was wondering when loading the fuses do you have to make sure they are touching in the bottom of the tube? Like at 7:29?
Could that threading technique have the same effect if you didn’t cut the fuses one by one? And how big of a hole did he put in the tube and what did he use to make the holes?
Super cool fusing method!!! Great for Finale racks. I loved your videos on the SFX brand. I did my whole 4th of july show last year with Superior Fireworks products. I think I sent you the link.
Greetings from Germany the effects are really nice, i wish we had stuff like this in germany the only thing that wasn't so nice were the last two rows, which were too fast to enjoy the effects. looked like one big effect. (with leftovers swept together) should look better if you load all the mortars with the same effect and then maybe angle them from side to side but whatever, keep going
You may be able to skip the hot glue if you use a strip of hvac aluminum tape over the top of the fuse. You may even get an increase in speed if your fast fuse is the paper type.
The hot glue is to keep the lift charge from shooting the fuse out of the tube before it gets to the next tube in the rack. Hard to explain but that’s why we do it lol
@@CodyBPyrotechnics I understand why you are glueing. The suggestion is that taping would do the same thing and be easier. Lots of 500 gram cakes use tape to hold the fuse.
You said to watch out for the round car board circles at the bottom of the tubes??? They should not be any since you have removed them at the start of the process when loading the shells. Nice video Guys, I enjoyed it!
Firework fuse is 2-3mm thick so definitely no bigger than 4 mm. Gives enough room to slide the fuse in without having to worry about hurting the fuse or creating too big of a hole to fill in with the glue
Wow. It was an expensive and impressive test. You have the nice tubes, would you recommend this technique with the fiberglass tubes? I've seen you place aluminum on top of tubes to prevent fuse skip, but would you place something on top for weather. Sorry mind is buzzing regarding this technique. Would you make different racks for pacing in your show or would you make each rack as you imagine a cake should be or both?
Too bad I didn't find this video before I loaded 250 tubes, the old fashioned way. Thank you so much. Crossfire a thing of the past. I forgot to mention, when I ordered my premade tubes (250) to go in my custom made racks a few years ago, I ordered the smaller of the two I.D.'s available. I've gotta clean my tubes before use and sometimes remove the outside labels so the shells drop in. Thanks again.🎆🎇
After our tests we can confirm that the only inconsistency lies within the time-fuse built into the shell itself. That is out of our control. What IS in our control is the pace at which the shells leave the mortar rack tubes. We started with the 10 second a ft fuse then the 3 second a ft fuse. Then, we tested the 0.03-1.25 second a ft quick fuse and finally the 0.01-0.03 second super quick hobby fuse. I think our favorite pace was definitely the 1.25 second quick fuse since the shells exited the tube at the same pace as a 1/1 cake would fire. Hope this helps and hope you all enjoyed!
DUDE THE LAST SET RAPID FIRE EPIC.............
1200g zipper cake hell yeah
It would be smart if a manufacturer would make a 500 mine cake with 1.75' tubes fib/HD tubes. So it just shot a mine but you can drop you favorite Canerster shells inside. They could also make single shot 1.75' mines. You pop the top of drop in a canister shell put in rack and fuse the them all together. Every shell then has a mine effective.
I kind of loved that last one with the super quick fuse
Do more fuse linking videos with different affects please!
This video just solved all of my consumer shell problems. Thanks Cody!
This seems like a good idea for pre-staging a show. I don't like setting up my racks too soon and having them sit in the garage but with this technique you could get all your timings down and run the fuse days in advance and then dump the shells in day of in 30 minutes. Worst case your fuse goes off which is a lot safer than having a rack go off. It also looks like it would be cleaner for taping against fuse jump.
Just imagine using that 0.1 quick fuse on a rack full of those triple break ball shells. My mind can't even fathom.
I didn't do this exact fusing method but I did use the quick fuse to fuse together the last 10 shots of my finale rack a few years ago with quad break shells. It was intense.
I feel like the last 2 quick fuses would look good on a angled rack. Nice video. ❤️
Good idea my rack will be here soon i can use this style for new year’s
The sound alone with the last fuse was so very cool:) Loved it Cody and thank you!!
I had done this a couple of years back with a repurposed Excal tube rack and my last pack of quick fuse. The sound of the lift charge alone was enough to sober up the drunk people. Just got a box of fuses, including the four that you used plus three other speeds, so it's on again this NYE.🤙🏽
Dude Cody man I love your channel bud. I been watching for years but FINALLY made it to a firework store in Pahrump for my fireworks for the 4th of July 2022! I’m in Northern Ca so we only are allowed to buy the Safe & Sanes but I live in a community that doesn’t pay attention to them rules haha literally the police will drive by and comment on how nice the fireworks are and actually cheer on their PA’s hahahaha I got a case of Brothers Unmatched 5” cans a case of Cobra box assortment that I won’t get again and a case of Mob Madness 500g cakes. Such an epic time we had! Keep up the good work brother IM HOOKED!
Imagine hooking up several 100 shells with that super quick hobby fuse. SO much work for a few seconds of awesomeness.
That’s was friggin awesome. I love that idea. I think I’m going to have to order me some extra tubes an try this. Thanks for the idea Cody.
This idea will work just fine Awesome guys thank you. DUDE THE LAST SET RAPID FIRE EPIC.............
Thanks!
The last two fuses were insane fast and I liked them the best.
Very nice I just added a case of these shells today to my order! Happy I did!
Wow how did I not see this channel earlier before the 4th of 2024. I’m sad. But next year I’m totally doing this.
I just did my whole show last night the way you showed how to cake fuse mortars. 265 mortars and 63 cakes. I tested a few identical mortars side by side the week before. I did notice about 10-15 ft less in lift. It wasn't too noticeable so I decided to fuse them all cake style. It was worth being able to fire them EXACTLY when you want to with a firing system, but I will pry not be doing it again. HUGE problem is that not all cannisters are the same. I had about 20% of the mortars break EXTREMELY low, like dangerously low shooting crackle pretty close to the spectators. You could masking tape the cannisters to the point of being a tight fit in the tube, but that's way too much time for every mortar. Maybe just a finale rack? It is a neat concept and I did use half fiberglass tubes with no issues.
I was thinking that the whole time watching this video. Lift charges, like any explosive, are dependent upon the pressure exerted against the reaction and will now be a less controlled variable. I agree I wouldn’t do it often
@florida995 I won't ever don't again. Crowd is too close at my place to risk that low of breaks
Definetly love the last one for a finale
The last silver fuse was what I usually picked up at my usual spot, as well as some cannon fuse. I would have to say that once you make/use quickmatch sticky match, and/or E-Fire you'll find it hard to resist wanting to use it everytime.
Nice love the canisters rapid fire.✨🔆
This opens up opportunities for variations in the display. Multiple racks with variations in the timing within groups in a rack. For the pyro-technician, electrical fusing gives the best control. However, for the occasional technician/pyro-artist, using timing through fusing would provide a great show.
That’s fken sweet dude thanks for uploading this for us! As a pyro head in living in Texas I live through your videos!!
Works great! At daylight the shells are also very good to see :-)
Now you're talkin' cody🔥💣💥💙
Just wow 😮. Guess I know what I will be setting up for New Years
Wow that’s crazy these neon skies are the shells I’m limited to in Hawaii this year for my budget, and I was like i hope Cody makes another video about them😂 Great video 🔥
I know, cuz. $200 here on da B.I. for dat kit.🤙🏽
@@jackedup5452 yup exactly what my list price is 😂
Same one I get too
I liked the last 2 fuses. They were crazy fast and awesome
The more compact your gun powder is the bigger the booom! I make homemade firecrackers with gun powder and the key for it to sound like a salute is making sure it is nicely compacted and tapped up with electrical or duct tape.
Thanks for the fusing class. This coming up fourth is gonna be lit 😎
Hey Cody, I really hope you see this, I wanted to ask you a question about the fusing in this video.
We are looking to do something similar, but had an idea on how to do it without all of the small length fuses, and wanted your opinion on it.
Would it be possible to drill your holes in your tubes, (as you did here), but instead of drilling them at angles, drill them straight across the tube, and then just run one long fuse through each one tube? Then there's no gluing to keep each individual fuse in place, and it's one fuse going all the way through your rack. I'm curious if you think this will work! Please respond, thanks.
Awesome video guys! Definitely wanna try and make my own cake with the excalibur platinum shells.
I start my day watching your videos
I understand the whole concept, and it is quite impressive. If you fused the shells "like normal" and use the Quick Fuse on top of the rack, you would get the same effect, but you would have to wait about 3 more seconds after the quick fuse is lit. That eliminates the drilling, fusing, and glueing at the bottom of the tubes. Is it worth all that work, or would waiting 3 more seconds give you the same exact effect?
If you're trying to time the effect, it is typically much easier to do with shorter and faster fuse because you are removing potential inconsistency. If you just want a rapid fire finale or fan effect without specific timing, you can just fuse the top of the rack as you would normally. This is most important when timing between shots is a concern, such as in fan sweep or slice effects.
@@mattm3901 I like your thought process Matt. Makes perfect sense. I've been doing manual lighting of fuses for many years, and I have gotten the timing down pretty accurately by using measured length, spacing,and fuse styles. I guess I'm proud of myself because I know the difficulty of the process, and to be able to watch my own builds launch without having to touch any of my boards during a show gives me that adrenaline rush. When I have spectators ask me which type of control system I use, I tell them the old school manual fuse lighting system. They give me that stare of confusion. Ha. I'm still learning new tricks everyday, and I should have been a pyrotechnician, instead of a musician. 🤣 I value someone's opinion/explanation of processes they've adapted Very Much! So thanks for the explanation in detail. 💯💪
I know how I'm doing my next finale rack. This is a great idea!
Great fusing technique!
I can confirm that no mater how the lift powder is contained in the bottom of the tube, be it taped into the shell or just dumped in the tube it will have absolutely no deference in lifting the shell whatsoever! The key here is the width of the shell in the tube, be there not to large of a gap between the tube wall and the shell, no matter how the lift powder is attached or unattached to the shell if the shell is the right size for the tube “meaning it has no more then a 5mm to 7mm gap to the tube wall when loaded, and if the lift powder was correctly weighed for the shell, it will fire.” ✌🏼
Also you could feed electric igniters instead of fuse, I'm doing this for new year, thanks Cody
I will definitely have to try this once I get a good supply of canisters on hand.
this is a great setup
i had not seen this one before
thanks fellas
Ok so I just learned a lot and I’m grateful man that’s awesome to make the shells like a cake when using the quickest fuse is just amazing thanks Cody Man U never disappoint
Awesome, great info Cody. Thanks!
Thank you for this test and new method 🙌🏿💥
Nice work Pyros
Bro that was sick
Man I love your videos and this one is definitely one of the most useful informative videos out there. Keep these kind coming definitely going to try this fusing technique next year.
thank u very much cody b for this video i love how u do new videos all the time this one was awesome and those shells were very nice thank u for the video
Would you be able to add more gun powder to make them go higher if you wanted?
This is great, I will be using this method!!
Bro you guys about to hit 400k by the end of the week
Great video cody
The one at the end was a holy cow moment
OMG is right!! Awesome!!
👍👍👍👊😎
Neon skies are pretty nice, btw I just learned something new! I’ll have to do a rack with this technique.
The audio sounded a lot better in this vid, definitely might try this out.
That was very cool, learnt something there, thank you
I grabbed a pair of these last New Years and they had really big breaks with bright colors highly recommend 🚨
I like this! However, I think impractical for me due to the design of my racks. Also, with no main lead line, one failure equals a dead rack. Have you experienced that? I do really like this method. Once the holes were drilled it seems like you’d save time assembling racks. I hate using zip ties, but no other good alternative. This solves that.
Well, this is technically the same thing as a 500g cake even fused the same way. A 500g cake has no main line either, so we just take our chances with that like we would a regular firework cake.
@@CodyBPyrotechnics hmm, yes good point. I’m curious enough that I’ll probably try it. Nice video!
This is just so cool to watch keep it up man
I know this was kinda an old video, but I was wondering when loading the fuses do you have to make sure they are touching in the bottom of the tube? Like at 7:29?
No, the incoming fuse will ignite the lift charge, and the lift charge will ignite the outgoing fuse.
Good work Cody!!!!!
🤩🔥🧨💥🎆🎇
Badass! Good job guys
Love the idea, what would happen if you added some stars to the lift charge for a potential mine effect?
I wouldn’t chance it lol
@@CodyBPyrotechnics I'll let You know how it goes in July 😅
How many uses do you get out of the tubes after drilling?
If you drill the holes into the tubes, can you still use them the regular way, or is there a greater chance for them to explode?
Can you load and fuse artillery shells the same way?
THAT WAS BADASS!!!
Awe man that was dope, thanks for the video
Have you done a test to see what happens if you double load a shell? I think the top would be a really low break
I was wondering can that be done with leftover fiberglass tubes from mortar shells
Could that threading technique have the same effect if you didn’t cut the fuses one by one? And how big of a hole did he put in the tube and what did he use to make the holes?
He used a drill but I’m not sure the size of the bit. I believe it’s just a bit that’s the same size as your average fuse
This episode was Awsome wow,
loved it 👏
One on my favorite videos by you. A+++
This right here screams AMERICA! Subbed! 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥🇺🇸
nice one bro...
YEAAAHHHH THAT WAS DOPE
SUPER COOL!!!!
Super cool fusing method!!! Great for Finale racks. I loved your videos on the SFX brand. I did my whole 4th of july show last year with Superior Fireworks products. I think I sent you the link.
Awesome Video!
Dat last one was mean👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
This was a very interesting video!
Greetings from Germany
the effects are really nice,
i wish we had stuff like this in germany
the only thing that wasn't so nice were the last two rows,
which were too fast to enjoy the effects.
looked like one big effect. (with leftovers swept together)
should look better if you load all the mortars with the same effect
and then maybe angle them from side to side
but whatever, keep going
How are you connecting the other side of the rack with the fuse? Going around the outside?
a stacato firering is sooooo awesome 😍
That is freaking awesome
You may be able to skip the hot glue if you use a strip of hvac aluminum tape over the top of the fuse. You may even get an increase in speed if your fast fuse is the paper type.
The hot glue is to keep the lift charge from shooting the fuse out of the tube before it gets to the next tube in the rack. Hard to explain but that’s why we do it lol
@@CodyBPyrotechnics I understand why you are glueing. The suggestion is that taping would do the same thing and be easier. Lots of 500 gram cakes use tape to hold the fuse.
@@npavento I don't know but trying to peel the backing off of hvac tape is quite time consuming in itself
And the hot glue has no chance of ignoring the fuse?
Great vid
You said to watch out for the round car board circles at the bottom of the tubes??? They should not be any since you have removed them at the start of the process when loading the shells. Nice video Guys, I enjoyed it!
How much above the plug do you recommend drilling the holes and what size bit did you use?
What size hole did you drill? Did you match the fuse to the end of the drill bit?
Firework fuse is 2-3mm thick so definitely no bigger than 4 mm. Gives enough room to slide the fuse in without having to worry about hurting the fuse or creating too big of a hole to fill in with the glue
Very interesting...and freaking awesome!!!
I'm curious what type of piping so you use and do you put a cap on the bottoms or do you leave the exposed wood?
The tubes have a plug at the bottom of them. These are HDPE tubes. You usually have to buy them online since they aren’t sold in many stores
That was epic
Hey Cody are you using DR9 tubes or DR11tubes. Thanks
Love from India🇮🇳
I remember the good old days of 2019 when you could buy all these different fuses at your local tent or store for less than $8 a roll.
Can't wait to try this! 💯💥💥
Wow. It was an expensive and impressive test. You have the nice tubes, would you recommend this technique with the fiberglass tubes? I've seen you place aluminum on top of tubes to prevent fuse skip, but would you place something on top for weather. Sorry mind is buzzing regarding this technique. Would you make different racks for pacing in your show or would you make each rack as you imagine a cake should be or both?
We would only make this racks if trying to replicate an effect cake such as all red, white and blue or willows. Hope that helps!
@@CodyBPyrotechnics how about using fiberglass tubes with this technique?
Too bad I didn't find this video before I loaded 250 tubes, the old fashioned way. Thank you so much. Crossfire a thing of the past. I forgot to mention, when I ordered my premade tubes (250) to go in my custom made racks a few years ago, I ordered the smaller of the two I.D.'s available. I've gotta clean my tubes before use and sometimes remove the outside labels so the shells drop in. Thanks again.🎆🎇
you need to do this A LOT MORE!!!
Were nice work ❤💪
Now that's badass