Storing Firecrackers???

canislatrans54

canislatrans54

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I'm looking for advice on safely storing firecrackers.
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I do have a wooden storage shed, but it gets plenty hot in there.
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And I really am not confortable keeping them in the house. :eek:

My dilema [sp]......

It has been years since I bought & shot off fireworks.
Mainly due to the city & county having a ban on them since the mid-'70s.
Well, that ban was lifted last year.
And, feeling that I wanted to "re-live" my childhood, I bought several packs of "Black Cat" firecrackers.
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Because of the heat yesterday, & no shade in my yard, I waited until almost dusk before firing any off.
Darkness arrived & I still have a couple hundred 'crackers left.

So, I'm thinking of saving them for next year.
If I can do it safely.

When I was a kid, I remember my dad had some of the original "M-80"s he had kept from back in the 50s-60s.
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Every July 4th, he'd get just 1 out, & fire it off...usually under an empty metal gallon Folger's coffee can...just to see it fly in the air.
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And he kept them in a drawer in the bottom of his wooden gun case...in the basement.
Problem is...I don't have a basement or cellar.

Anyone have any good advice???
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Side note......
Maybe it's me, but I seem to remember Black Cats used to have a LOT longer fuses than they do now.
 
Originally Posted By: canislatrans54
Side note......
Maybe it's me, but I seem to remember Black Cats used to have a LOT longer fuses than they do now.

Yeah Will, they used to have a lot more BANG to em also. The old Black Cats would make your fingers numb for a full 3 hours if ya lit one that happened to have a *flash fuse*.
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Crying shame.
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I'd store them in something totally air tight and in the coolest darkest place you have available. Myself, I wouldn't be scared storing them in the house.

 
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I was a thunder Bomb guy myself...we would even trim the fuses before blowing things up. I do think though that there is a correlation between the older you get and the burn time of those fuses. I still have cat-like reflexes....now excuse me while I go put cold water on my burnt fingers from last night...

Will, we've always stored them in old cookie tins, cooffee cans etc and never really had any problems...except for the fuses getting faster like I mentioned before...


Trashcan
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I wouldn't worry about it too much. I live in AZ and store mine in a old coffee can in the garage... It gets 115 in the summer and my garage is squelching hot. Never had an issue and they have been in there for prob 9 years. A few get banged off every year, like on wednesday
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There is some M-80 type ones, bottle rockets, black cats, etc... Hope this helps.

Weev-
 
Ziplock baggie and toss em in the corner of the garage.


So the eye doc knows me pretty well and told me I need some special eye glasses with "little magnifying glasses" toward the bottom of the lens to help with closer reading. Little do I know I'm getting setup for bifocals. So last year on the 4th I'm just getting used to my new "special magnifying glasses" and I light a black cat. Now I can see some activity going on, but what is it??? I look down toward the firecracker, blurry. I look up toward the firecracker, blurry. Finally I jerk off my glasses to see what's sizzling and KABOOM!!!! My nose was numb for half the night from trying to focus on the fuse.
 
My son kept them in the bottom drawer of his dresser for years.
I told him since 10 was to young to start smoking, he should be OK.

He's 26 now, and I never knew of anything blowing up in his bedroom before he left home. And if anything happened after he left, he would have told me, either becaused it scared him or he thought is was funny.

Shayne
 
Thanks guys. Everything you advised I guess I already knew.
But, it never hurts to be cautious [sp].
You'd think that at my age, I wouldn't feel the need to ask silly questions like this.

I normally would have asked 'ol Dad, but he's on a West Texas vacation.
Lucky son-o'-gun even plans on hooking up with a local coyote hunter this coming week, & chasin' a few coyotes for a couple days.
 
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