How to make firecrackers

How to make firecrackers is as follows:

Tools for making firecrackers: paper, cutter, small iron bar, rope, pots, drying room, etc.

Raw materials for making firecrackers: loess, saltpeter, sulfur and so on.

The traditional process of making firecrackers is divided into three parts: making the body of the gun, making gunpowder and making the fuse.

Cutting paper: in the workshop, the body of the firecracker is called "tube", cutting paper is based on the need for certain specifications of the size of the large firecrackers on the size of the large, small firecrackers on the size of the small, cut the firecracker paper used to make the tube.

Rolling paper tube: this process is a roll of paper is slightly unfolded, coated with rice flour, select a piece, around a small iron bar, push the hand to the front, it will be a piece of paper into a tube.

Pasted tube: in the empty tube on the outside of a layer of colored paper, initially for the waterproof firecrackers, and later more out of the firecrackers decorative role.

Finishing the mouth of the tube: after the tube is finished, the paper tube is tied with twine to form a hexagonal pie, and the number of tubes in each pie is the same.

Waist tube mouth scraping bottom: after organizing the cake, tied paper tube is very long, need to cut short, therefore, it will be a cake of the tube up and down with two ropes tied with a knife in the cake on the waist position to cut down, a cake of the tube will be divided into two, and then is to brush down the bottom of the rice flour and then paste the paper.

Superior tube: In the cut paper tube filled with soil, put nitrate.

Drilling: Each tube is built up tightly with a brazier, and then a hole is drilled into each tube to put in the fuse.

Cutting the fuse: Cutting the fuse into each fuse hole.

Tie the neck: after the lead is cut into the lead hole, tie the tube at one end of the cuttings tightly to prevent the lead from coming loose.

Knot whip: individual firecrackers are made, they should be knotted with cotton thread, because it is shaped like a whip, the name of the firecracker is also from this.

Sealed, boxed: the knot of firecrackers carefully encapsulated.