http://blog.skylighter.com/fireworks/2008/08/ball-milling-101.html Confessions of a Fireworks Man - Harry Gilliam of Skylighter, Inc. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:59:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://blog.skylighter.com/fireworks/2008/08/ball-milling-101.html/comment-page-1#comment-5097 Bob PAtrick Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:46:50 +0000 http://bottlesparklers.com/skyblog/?p=40#comment-5097 Hi. Good web page. When I was about 18 I lived in Northeast Ohio. Hudson Fireworks blew up one night. It was one of the largest fireworks plants in the USA (This would have been somewhere around 1966, a couple of years one way or the other, a long time ago) It broke windows over 10 miles away. But because the facility was properly built no one got hurt or killed. No one was at the plant, and I think it was about 2AM when it blew up. I woke up, not hearing the explosion, standing on my feet. I was 18 miles away. Safety makes a lot of sense. A lb of black powder burning in open air with no confinement makes quite an explosion. In a ball mill it would be significantly stronger due to the confinement and the ball media, Hi. Good web page. When I was about 18 I lived in Northeast Ohio. Hudson Fireworks blew up one night. It was one of the largest fireworks plants in the USA
(This would have been somewhere around 1966, a couple of years one way or the other, a long time ago) It broke windows over 10 miles away. But because the facility was properly built no one got hurt or killed. No one was at the plant, and I think it was about 2AM when it blew up. I woke up, not hearing the explosion, standing on my feet. I was 18 miles away. Safety makes a lot of sense. A lb of black powder burning in open air with no confinement makes quite an explosion. In a ball mill it would be significantly stronger due to the confinement and the ball media,

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