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Posted: 11th Aug 2003
Those seals are usually fibre glass..... and very expensive. I think it would be much more expensive to use than regular kevlar belt wick.

Not sure about the safety aspect of using this.

So much fire, so little body hair...

Posted: 12th Aug 2003
the nearest place that sells kevlar wick for me is an entire state away. so this material seems like a viable alternative.

i did notice that it sprays the fuel around a bit. this was 'before' i lit them up. so maybe the glass fibre rope can't absorb and keep the fuel in. like it leeks or something.

ideas?

hmmm

Posted: 12th Aug 2003
Yea, i used that crap before, its no good, as it actually burns and after 2-3 runs it flys apart in hundreds of piece's. Dangerous but where i am its cheap so... cant complain. U'd be better off paying up front and getting some kev, its worth it and lasts years. Just use dennim or towell till your order arrives.

Theres a dennim/ towell thread running round here somewhere.

Its all just smoke and mirrors

Posted: 12th Aug 2003
probibly somewhere other than the staff forum? maybe technical discussion?

otherwise dont use fiberglass! as tiwana says its comes apart and its fiberglass, you dont want to be breathing heavily in a cloud of that stuff! Its very very carconegenic, very bad idea!

Tom :concerned:

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Posted: 13th Aug 2003
sry yea... here it is
materials for wick

Its all just smoke and mirrors

Posted: 12th Aug 2003

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the nearest place that sells kevlar wick for me is an entire state away

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Acroham...after checking out the link above (I think denim might be a good choice), call up the place that is a "state away" and check how much they would charge for the wick you would buy if they were in your neighbouhood.

Don't forget to check width and thickness too.

Then find out how much it would cost to use one of the other alternative materials (eg denim).

Then, after that, go Here and do the same.

I think you might find that HoP is one of the cheapest places in the world to buy wick, and sometimes, even with frieght costs, it can be on a par with other solutions.

An example here is that the wick at the local juggling shop (closed now) used to be NZ$12 a foot. The same wick in the HoP shop is now NZ$3.33 !!!!!!

Humour me please and see what numbers you get, you could be very pleasantly surprised...

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Posted: 16th Aug 2003
Towelling works a bit. U get a bigger flame, and it burns out after a few spins, but it works and is cheaper. Plus material from fire blankets works.

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Posted: 17th Aug 2003
How can towelling be cheaper if it only lasts a few burns...that sounds expensive to me

And proper fireblankets, in NZ at least, aren't very absorbent, as well as being horrendously expensive.

Could you describe what the fireblanket looks like and some of it's specs please?

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Posted: 18th Aug 2003
Have used old denim from jeans many times before I got myself a stock of kevlar.

Fyrefli International is very good and they supply distributers all over the world, including oddballs etc in england and companies in america. When I met the bloke he was in the process of sending an order of about 1000 fire juggling balls to america.

Prices are very reasonmable. GBP5.25 for a meter of 100mm wick (compared to USD4.00 per foot from HoP)I visited him when I lived in Bristol, where it is based and he sold it to me at GBP£2.50 per meter.

[url=https://www.fyrefli.com/spares.htm}fyrefli wick[/wick]

Apperently he makes most of the wick used by other companies and I have seen the 65mm wick in oddballs and Bristol Kite Shop for £7-8 per meter.

If you email him he is likely to come to some sort of good arrangement for you, if it at all vialble to send it all the way across the atlantic. Or at least he will let you know of any suppliers he knows of in your area.

His email is FFli@aol.com and his name is Chris. Good luck

Posted: 18th Aug 2003
Just a suggestion, Charles my man. No need to get up tight. Ice ice baby.

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