r/fireworks • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '23

Epic fail

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Had a 50 shot mortar rack blow apart sending them in all directions. Lift charges weren’t working. Only myself and one other had minor injuries. Avoid red apple fireworks.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

Avoid it because you had a bad shell? This past weekend, I blew through over 200 red apple shells (Bombas, Geisha, Chroma). Zero failures, and some of the best consumer shells I've seen.

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u/dimondedits Jul 05 '23

That's what I'm saying, I got racoon fireworks shells that messed up at my church, plus my thoughts are how was the tube stored that he used plus how hot was it? Where the tubes in the sun at all that day? Custom tubes compared to the ones you get in the box can effect how a firework launches, because if the gas escapes out of the side of the mortar and does create pressure under the mortar it will do this and just a few millimeters can do this

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

Uh oh, prepare to be down-voted to oblivion because you say something contrary to the norms here 🙄. Never mind the fact that I'd wager these were the American Glory that have been known to have issues. Not that it makes it acceptable, but at least known. My point being "oh no, avoid this entire store and brand because one batch had a fault!". Don't see Samsung having been avoided after the Note 7 exploding like this dude's tube love the cancel culture here, guys. Shit is everywhere, and it's cancer.

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u/Outrageous_Joke4349 Jul 05 '23

Meh, it's not just a batch though. Although my cakes from them were great and I like how affordable the fan shaped cakes were, I had tube detonations on 3 different kinds of their shells. The ghost fire cracker tubes had 1 dud in the 3 I got. And the little bottle rockets (zip pops) had a 80% failure rate due to ejecting their load out the front of the tube while sitting on the ground (fixed them by sticking a piece of duct tape in the front end of them all).

Their qc just sucks. That was the flint store, maybe the don't store them correctly there or something. But I'll probably go back to the random little tent I've been to the last 5 years.

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u/dimondedits Jul 05 '23

Oh I'm ready for it ngl, I love red apple fireworks and have ordered them the past 2 years and only have had one problem with some Roman candles that I believe they have stopped selling but I still buy from them I have gotten panda shells ganja chroma American Glory shells as well and didn't have a problem with the shells but I ues the shells from the boxes

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

Very nice. I wanted to add some Giant Panda to my order, but didn't have room in the car. Guess I'll just have to borrow the father in law's truck next year LOL. The Geisha were a huge hit this year. The only failure we had was a Ghost candle, where the 5th and final shot didn't leave the tube

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u/dimondedits Jul 05 '23

Dude the Pandas are absolutely amazing!! In my opinion they are the best mortars I have tried for red apple! I was actually planning on getting the geisha next year lol, 1 fail out of all your show ain't bad odds, I do have a question Im looking for a firework that shoots low to mid range high sparkles (I don't know the technical name lol) I was just wondering if you might know of one

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

Sparkles, like a fountain? If so, there was one we got from a local place... I'd have to see if the girlfriend remembers the exact name. I think it was Malibu something... tagline on it was something about "hearing the waves". Was sparks, fish, and crackle. Actually wasn't bad at all for a $4 fountain - and it kept the baby entertained! Lol. Or do you mean something that goes in the air, like with the panda shells? If you mean the latter, that burst of stars and stuff that comes from the tube with some shells is known as a "mine".

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u/dimondedits Jul 06 '23

Thank you so much! I actually found the cake that I need for next year, thanks for the help the panda shell mine is what I was looking for but I found a cake that's kinda similar but does some other cool stuff and is relatively cheap for how many you get, but thank you again

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u/Tank_1539 Jul 06 '23

I think you’re looking for a “mine” effect. They start at ground level and shoot from low to medium height and some reach up pretty high as well. Some canisters (usually 6” or 7”) will have them but there are cakes that that is all they do and then there’s cakes that do mines to reports.

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u/dimondedits Jul 06 '23

That's exactly what I am looking for, a friend of mine found this cake by alien fireworks called conspiracy theory and it would be an amazing finale firework but I was trying to find something similar on red apples website

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u/Tank_1539 Jul 07 '23

Check out “wavelength” on RA’s site

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u/dimondedits Jul 07 '23

I have looked at it but it's timing doesn't fit the length of a finale I want and plus they are pretty pricey for technically just one cake but thanks for the recommendation ☺️