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Old 03-13-2018, 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
That "heathen fire" green cannon fuse gives a much higher success rate than commercial "initiators".
Most decent gun shops carry it.
Useless for clusters, but I don't think I have ever seen a misfire using cannon fuse for single-engine ignition. Even when not touching BP grain it spews firey sparks into the grain.
It has never let me down, either. There is a way that it could be used for cluster ignition, though, by being the initiator for reusable, black powder-filled igniter "pans" (the full-scale Soyuz rockets use these as well). There are videos of these being used on YouTube, often to ignite Saturn I scale models; they direct discrete jets of flame up into all of the rocket motors' nozzles.
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