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It’s a very slight mod. of one of Bob Winokur’s “glitter” formulae. It makes a very handsome and “lacy” gold flitter star without commercial or ball milled meal powder. Orv Carlisle’s “Thirteen Plus” Potassium Nitrate 50 Antimony Sulfide 10 Sulfur 9 Air float charcoal 9 Sodium Oxalate 9 Atomized Alum 400mesh 9 Dextrine 4 Boric Acid- addl. 1 % Lightly damp with water. Cut, pump or roll. Makes great pumped comets. Be safe! John Reilly ———— Try that mix with 7% water and it will work nicely and make nice, hard pumped (rammed or pressed) comets. The late great Orv Carlisle told me that he liked to make pumped stars with that mix. He ball milled the Potassium Nitrate by itself and screened in the other ingredients. Bob Winokur or Bill Withrow both told me (as did Orv) that milling a flitter composition all together (matals included) can impede the performance. I have milled the charcoal and Potassium Nitrate together and then added the other ingredients and got very nice results as well. Some folks claim that too much water in a flitter mix reduces the effect as well. The atomized aluminums around 200 mesh work well for me. Boric acid isn’t necessary. I do add a little (1%) boric acid for gold flitter with sodium oxalate and aluminum or magnalium. A mix Orv used and I still do as well, was a slight modification of Winokur’s #13 which Orv called “13 plus”. Since I’ve got my notebook handy, it is: Potassium Nitrate 50% Sulfur 9 Air float charcoal 9 Antimony Sulfide 10 Sodium Oxalate 9 Atomized Al. 400 mesh 9 Dextrine 4 Add 1% addl. Boric acid and again, use only 7% water (7 gms. water to 100 gms. composition) I mill the KNO3, C and S and then screen in the other ingredients 3 or 4 times. If you cut these instead of pumping comets, 10% water works for me when compressed in a loaf box. It’s a pretty star. John
