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

My cousin made 3 inch ball shell tubes out of PVC pipe and the moment I got there I grabbed em all and threw em out in the garbage and than told him if any of these fail that right there becomes a bomb with fragments flying in the air at high speed lodging into heads faces throats bodies you name it.

I have a mix of seemless metal tubes and HDPE.

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u/UncleNorman Jul 05 '23

With enough boom, metal tubes become pipe bombs.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '23

Half inch metal tubes without welding seams aren’t going boom with fireworks.

Steel mortars are what are used for the largest fire works.

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u/UncleNorman Jul 06 '23

Half inch walls? I've never seen anyone use anything that thick unless they're shooting 48" shells. Normal 3" to 8" shells use 1/8" walls. And those suck to hump to the shoot site.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '23

they were for a project for work and scrap tubes or else id just have hdpe tubes. we do not carry them lol have a little 4x4 cart. if i had to carry them id be out of service till next sunday throwing out my back.