What have you made?

[Tommikka]

1 hour ago, Cooperman26 said:

 

These happily fit a EGMK5 or the shorter FBS MK5/4. Only one used per trio. Or would be perfect for the FBS maroon sappers with a firing box.

It’s mainly a one use “shell” which if created properly, by someone with more able than me, could be a great gimmick. 

 

 

 

 

I’m going to put on my health and safety hat for this - though one use pyro is pretty much cardboard & paper wrapped around a small amount of pyro/explosive, there is a lot of science in the design of that cardboard and paper on top of the Pyro/explosive mix.

 

 

One set amount of pyro/explosive will burn/detonate in a particular manner - it could be a ‘fast’ or ‘slow’ detonation, with different combinations of flash/bang and the energy can be balanced between volume/blast energy

Then put it into a different tube of cardboard and paper that blows apart and directs force out to both ends or favours one direction rather than the other 

 

Put a carefully designed flashbang tube into another tube and you change the way that it performs 

 

In our events we have used many devices and prop ‘explosives’, however our prop explosives such as for example dummy C4 have been the players device that transmits a signal to detonate the unmodified pyro nearby 

 

These would have to be looked at on a case by case basis, and should be tested / approved by sites based on their effect and also their insurance which can instantly be invalidated by not using pyro as designed 

 

https://enolagaye.com/products/mk5-thunder-flash/

[Cooperman26]

1 hour ago, Tommikka said:

I’m going to put on my health and safety hat for this - though one use pyro is pretty much cardboard & paper wrapped around a small amount of pyro/explosive, there is a lot of science in the design of that cardboard and paper on top of the Pyro/explosive mix.

 

 

One set amount of pyro/explosive will burn/detonate in a particular manner - it could be a ‘fast’ or ‘slow’ detonation, with different combinations of flash/bang and the energy can be balanced between volume/blast energy

Then put it into a different tube of cardboard and paper that blows apart and directs force out to both ends or favours one direction rather than the other 

 

Put a carefully designed flashbang tube into another tube and you change the way that it performs 

 

In our events we have used many devices and prop ‘explosives’, however our prop explosives such as for example dummy C4 have been the players device that transmits a signal to detonate the unmodified pyro nearby 

 

These would have to be looked at on a case by case basis, and should be tested / approved by sites based on their effect and also their insurance which can instantly be invalidated by not using pyro as designed 

 

https://enolagaye.com/products/mk5-thunder-flash/

Kind sir,

 

I completely appreciate that health and safety hat. I probably should have said that it was a home experiment and I wasn’t intending on taking it to a field. I understand and agree with your rationale 100%.
 

I was trying to get across I think it would be a good thing if a company was able to come up with such an idea for single use pyro, based upon my crude idea, as I think there would be great interest.
 

Cardboard shells of any variety (such as my attempt of a dynamite bundle) of which could have inserted XY already produced pyro (FBS, EG) that complies and is suited etc. But who knows!

 

 

[Tommikka]

30 minutes ago, Cooperman26 said:

Kind sir,

 

I completely appreciate that health and safety hat. I probably should have said that it was a home experiment and I wasn’t intending on taking it to a field. I understand and agree with your rationale 100%.

 

 

 

It was pretty much a matter of ‘need to mention’ on record 

 

Common sense is not very common 

[Cooperman26]

18 minutes ago, Tommikka said:

It was pretty much a matter of ‘need to mention’ on record 

 

Common sense is not very common 

Very true. 

[Tommikka]

37 minutes ago, Cooperman26 said:

 

I was trying to get across I think it would be a good thing if a company was able to come up with such an idea for single use pyro, based upon my crude idea, as I think there would be great interest.
 

Cardboard shells of any variety (such as my attempt of a dynamite bundle) of which could have inserted XY already produced pyro (FBS, EG) that complies and is suited etc. But who knows!

 

 

Commercially, there is very little scope on the profit line on individual sales let alone the up front development & testing

 

I wouldn’t think that it would be worth it for an aftermarket add on, but there could be scope for lookalike pyro.

The issue I would see is it being a nieche item for a smaller market - but there are wide ranges of pyro for different purposes 

 

 

For player enjoyment there is the scope for reusable prop pyro. A few decades ago there was a small very expensive market, nowadays there are various choices and sites / organisers have access to enthusiastic people with ideas - the dynamite you have made is perfectly valid for use as a dummy prop

 

It could be used in two ways without having to go bang itself

1) as a non functioning dummy

2) as a device that remotely controls pyro (effectively fireworks control systems)

 

My gameplay began using the former, and we decided that we wanted to run our own games (or more precisely the site owner called our bluff and gave us a date in the calendar)

We didn’t manage it straight off, but we wanted things that function, and began to ‘better’ our props — bumping into an ‘almost original’ member brought us the right man with the skills to put ideas into effect and have ‘real functioning’ props operated by players (or in a couple of cases ‘almost functioning dummy props’ that we watched them use while pressing buttons in our pockets 

(He fooled me with one device that I handed him a toy laser rocket launcher to modify - he just used it as is to be pointed at a reflector and used a remote detonator in his pocket)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tommikka]

…. Annoyingly I don’t seem to have particular props in my photo galleries 

 

 @Cooperman26
 

I would recommend that you take your dynamite to your local, they may be willing to blow them up with some checks, but I’m more inclined that they would be willing to use them as dummies  … or you could end up running your own themed game