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PYRO WATERFALL
This device makes use of a certain type of firework called Magic Whip. Magic Whips are long, paper tubes filled with tiny balls that crackle when ignited. A pyro waterfall consists of many magic whips hanging from a string and being ignited at the same time. The falling sparks resemble that of a waterfall. You should use about 30 of them.
Materials
-several boxes of Magic Whips
-strong rope or string, 9-10 feet long
-quickmatch
-visco fuse
Start by opening all of the boxes and unwinding the whips, then hanging them vertically from the rope, spacing them every three inches. If you use 30 whips, then the whole thing will be about 7½' long (you're using 10' of rope so you can tie it to something). Cut three pieces of string as long as the whips, and hang them from the rope like the whips every 2 feet. These are to hold up the quickmatch. Cut a piece of quickmatch about 8 feet long and insert a few inches of visco fuse into the end, then tape it. This is so you'll have time to light the fuse and run before the thing goes off. Hang the quick match from the strings, then use a sharp knife to make a tiny slit in the quickmatch wherever there's a whip. Slid the whip's fuse all the way into the quick match. Do this for all of the whips. It should kind of look like a red hippie bead curtain. Your pyro waterfall is know ready for use.
Take the waterfall to a place free of dry grass, oil spills, and other burnable materials. String it up at least 6 feet off the ground. Light the fuse and run. The quick match will ignite all of the whips at the same time. As the powder inside ignites and drops, it looks like a waterfall. It is EXTREMELY bright and loud.
Above is a picture of the completed wall; below is a close-up
picture of the whip/quickmatch fusing.
