How To Make Cake Boards For Firerworks

Jon Pro Firer/Coiffure

what size practise people go for?
Are you talking unmarried cake or sticking lots on a lath?
For a unmarried block just use something slightly bigger and so the cake.
For a board with multiple cakes on actually depends on the cakes.
Jon Pro Firer/Crew

I am on about singles, I rack multiple cakes in compartmented boxes.
Just make some upwardly slightly bigger than the production and you'll be fine
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Mine are mainly made from OSB or bog standard chip board, what ever I could 're purpose ' from my Dads m
Jon Pro Firer/Crew

I don't want to make them also modest else that limits the cakes y'all can re-use them for....
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Truthful, I find that mostly, cakes from different manufacturers nonetheless take a like footprint, mine have been around for years
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Most of mine are about A3 in size, which accommodates about small/medium cakes. And then I have some bigger pieces for anything larger.
I've got loads of all different sizes, covers everything from small conic fountains right up to the biggest sibs.
Whilst you can e'er push a square sided cake into the corner of a larger cake board and nonetheless exist able to stake down 2 sides, with slope sided fan cakes I personally find it a lot easier to have a block board that is the same size equally the cake base of operations as I similar to stake two stakes forepart and one back.
Stupid question (from a semi noob - only 3 years experience!!) but are boards actually necessary?
By that I hateful, if I pale all my cakes into the footing + are waterproofed (a la cling pic), is it notwithstanding necessary to identify them on a lath?!
Jon Pro Firer/Crew

The problem with fixing them on soft ground is the power of the lifting accuse will push the tube that is firing into the soft footing. Nearly cakes are fused from tube to tube, so by the action of the tube sinking down it can pull the fuse out of the next tube...thus you get a part fired block and lots of tears before bedtime.....the lath keeps the tubes together so none endeavor and sink.
...ahh, cheers for that - I practice really take some old apartment chip board in the garage that I could cutting up, to apply for my cakes, then good to know.
I guess Pyromould gets around the recoil of individual tubes - although I'd always use boards regardless, for a stable base as much every bit anything
I will but be buying a canvass of chip board and some L shape shelf brackets, And so i volition only duct record my cakes to them, i probably won't cutting the board to size or anything as i was a bit of space between each cake. £10 for a decent sized sheet out of B&Q
I bought a cheapo pack of laminate flooring from B&Q last twelvemonth, easy to transport and cut to size, especially if you get the stuff that clicks together to give a wider base. It's overnice and piece of cake to store afterwards and extremely stiff and difficult wearing, we found a bit this summer that had sat outside since final Nov and it hadn't been affected at all.
The pack I bought was reduced as information technology was damaged which I wasn't that worried well-nigh given what a planned to practice with it!
For mainly practical reasons I similar to get mine all on one board. That way I can keep it locked up out of the way and and so movement it in position before firing. Terminal yr I used an old door that i of my neighbours chucked out.
This is not a dig just thinking out loud but if you accept everything on 1 board, aren't you limiting yourself somewhat to layout in terms of width and angles etc. ?
No don't use chip board and 50 brackets.
Firstly the scrap board will not accept the weather and beingness chucked about. Use OSB board it'due south worth the investment.
It's all nosotros employ with multiple shows going out weekly.
Also stakes or pocket-sized route pins if available depending on surface you are firing from.with a few turns of gaffa tape wrapped around. If on solid basis sandbags volition practise around cakes/sibs with cake board underneath.
Most of the big reatail diy stores will rip the sheets for you lot. Some charge for multiple cuts cheque before cut. It is so much easier even if you lot get them to practise the long cuts and you can cutting to size at home.
Information technology doesn't take long to end upwardly with a lot of boards that will give you many years of firing.
All you have to do now is source xxx bits of pyro to stick on them.

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Aye, although to be fair I do tend to augment my set up with a few singles where distance is needed, and I always position whatever fountains and flares a expert mode away from anything else so my initial post wasn't entirely accurate. 90% of my pyro is on one board though.
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We use a very similar method to @Fawke Handles simply employ big pallets (think they were from slabs) with another board on top. May sound like added hassle but nosotros find it easier to fuse things upwards this way and we tin can too fix it and keep it inside if its raining, then its just a example of carrying the pallets down to where y'all're firing from. I've never waterproofed anything and never had any bug using this method.