This page contains 33 formulas in 9 tables.

• 1 - Gold fountains I
• 2 - Gold fountains II
• 3 - Silver fountains
• 4 - English "Flower pot"
• 5 - Cone fountains
• 6 - Set piece gerbs
• 7 - Glitter gerbs
• 8 - Rains
• 9 - Flying squibs

Gold fountains II
 

	Perigrin	Perigrin	Perigrin	Perigrin	Perigrin
name	Basic meal	Iron #1	Iron #2	Iron #3	Yellow
Potassium nitrate	8	24	2	2
Meal powder	2		6	4	40
Sulfur	3	4	1
Charcoal		4	1	1
Antimony trisulfide					8
Iron, 60 mesh		10	1	2
Sodium oxalate					6
consolidation	rammed	rammed	rammed	rammed	rammed
choke	clay	clay	clay	clay	clay
comments	can be unchoked	can be unchoked	can be unchoked	can be unchoked	can be unchoked

Thanks to Eli Yoram for pointing out an error in Perigrin Iron #3.
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Silver fountains
 

	Lancaster	Lancaster	Lancaster	Lancaster	Blankley
Potassium nitrate	44	7	5	22	66
Barium nitrate			45	45
Meal powder	9	72	5
Sulfur	9			11	8
Charcoal, 40-100 mesh		7
Charcoal, 150 mesh	8
Charcoal, air float					13
Iron, 20 mesh
Titanium, 20-40 mesh	30			11	13
Aluminum, dark pyro		7	15	11
Aluminum, 80-120 mesh		7	15
Aluminum, flitter, 10-30 mesh			15
consolidation	rammed	rammed	pressed	rammed, pressed	pressed
choke	clay, crimped	clay	clay	none	clay
comments	Use in tube with 18 to 75 mm I.D.		Use strong tube (very high temperature mix)	Use in tube 12 to 24 mm I.D., 5 to 15 cm long

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Flower pot
 

	Lancaster
Potassium nitrate	53
Meal powder	7
Sulfur	23
Orpiment	7
Lampblack	10
consolidation	funnel and wire
choke	clay

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Cone fountains
 

	Lancaster	Lancaster	Lancaster	Lancaster	Shimizu	Shimizu
Potassium perchlorate				63
Ammonium perchlorate						70
Potassium nitrate		54	52		55
Meal powder	60
Sulfur		9	10		9
Hemp charcoal					13
Charcoal, 40-100 mesh	24	13	13
Charcoal, 28 mesh			5
Iron, 60 mesh		24	20		23
Titanium, 20-40 mesh	16
Aluminum, bright				18
Aluminum, flitter, 30-80 mesh				10
Magnalium, -200 mesh						30
Shellac, 60 mesh				9
consolidation	hand pressed	hand pressed	hand pressed	hand pressed	hand pressed	hand pressed
choke	cone taper	cone taper	cone taper	cone taper	cone taper	cone taper

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Set piece gerbs
 

	Lancaster	Lancaster	Lancaster
Potassium nitrate			8
Meal powder	84	73	64
Sulfur			8
Charcoal, 150 mesh	16
Iron, 60 mesh		27	20
choke	pulled-in, half diameter	pulled-in, half diameter	pulled-in, half diameter
consolidation	rammed	rammed	rammed

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Glitter gerbs
 

	Lancaster
Meal powder	68
Antimony trisulfide	14
Sodium oxalate	11
Aluminum, bright	7
Boric acid	+1
consolidation	pressed
choke	none
comments	Other glitter star formulas  may work as well

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Rains
 

	Lancaster	Lancaster	Lancaster
Meal powder	75	75	80
Charcoal, 40-100 mesh	25	23	5
Aluminum, dark pyro			5
Aluminum, bright		1	5
Aluminum, 80-120 mesh		1	5
consolidation	funnel and wire	funnel and wire	funnel and wire
choke	none	none	none
comments	Use in tube with 6 to 9 mm I.D., 7.5 to 12.5 cm long	Use in tube with 6 to 9 mm I.D., 7.5 to 12.5 cm long	Use in tube with 6 to 9 mm I.D., 7.5 to 12.5 cm long

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Flying squibs
 

	Lancaster	Lancaster	Lancaster
Potassium nitrate	8		5
Barium nitrate			60
Meal powder	64	91
Sulfur	4
Charcoal, 150 mesh	24	6
Aluminum, dark pyro			25
Aluminum, bright		3
Aluminum, flitter, 30-80 mesh			10
consolidation	rammed	rammed	pressed
choke	crimped	crimped	crimped
comments	Use in tube with 8 mm I.D.	Use in tube with 8 mm I.D.	Requires priming composition; use in tube with 8 mm I.D.

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