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Mine Rack Fusing Techniques
Fusing mines together are a lot
fusing mortar shells into groups, however there are slight differences
which prevent them from being include in the mortar rack fusing
techniques. With Mine shells there is a different way to approach fusing
them in racks. Some techniques that work well with shells like Finale
fusing don't work as well with mines as they do with mortar shells. These
two mine rack fusing techniques are the best suited.
There is one big difference between Mine rack fusing and Mortar
rack fusing techniques. The main difference is that all of the Mortar rack
fusing techniques can be done in any type of rack that you have. With Mine
rack fusing these techniques only look the best using angled or fan style
racks. If you use traditional or finale style racks you won't get a great
effect because the mines will be to close together.
| Simultaneous Firing Of One Group (3 shots in a
group) While one mine looks impressive imagine spreading the effect out with using an angled rack creating a fan effect. With this fusing you don't have to fuse all of the shell in the rack to one bunch. The best way to fuse a group of shells together, lets say three, is to line up each of there fuses so that they are evenly lined up. Now take either masking tape or packing tape and wrap around the group of fuses so that they are tight against each other. This will make sure that if you only get one of them lit that the rest of the fuses will light and burn roughly at the same time. You want to try to have at least 2 inches of the fuse of the shell touching. |
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| Multiple Group Firing (10 shots, 2 groups of 3, 1
group 4) This technique of fusing is great for lighting mine in a fan effect This technique is actually a combination of simultaneous firing and staggered firing. The idea is to setup your groups so that all of the fuses are evenly lined up tape the fuses together to secure each group of mines. Now you have to attach all of your groups (flights) to a central fuse, this can either be quick visco or visco depending on how fast or slow you want the rack to fire the groups. I would not recommend using Quick match or Sticky match, the reason is that those fuses burn to fast and would clutter up the mine effects, by lighting to many at once. Cut all of the ends of each group off to expose the fresh powder core. When attaching the group to the central fuse make sure that the end is attached so that it is face the direction from which the central fuse will be ignited. |