The items listed in RED on this page are hazardous and ARE subject to a hazardous fee by UPS.

The following items may be shipped by the US Mail (domestic ground service only) with no hazardous material fee. It is your choice to use USPS service and you must ask that your fuse be sent by USPS, otherwise it will be sent by UPS, subject to hazardous fees.
Visco Safety fuse, both American and Chinese manufactured & Chinese time fuse.
Be advised that shipments sent by USPS take longer than UPS and they cannot be tracked for delivery information.

Note: 1/4" Time Fuse and Oxral Electric matches are regulated by the ATF and therefore require an ATFE Permit to purchase them. We require a current Signed In Ink copy of your ATFE with your order. These items also require proper storage in your magazine.

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Color Coding:
Green - means that particular item is not hazardous whatsoever.
Orange - means that item is normally hazardous, but we can ship it without a hazmat fee (you must pay the 1 lb price for it though)
Red - means that the item must be shipped hazardously, regardless of qty ordered.

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WATERPROOF VISCO SAFETY FUSE: (1.4S EXPLOSIVE HAZMAT CLASS)
AMERICAN AND CHINESE

AMERICAN MANUFACTURED - Waterproof NC lacquer (visco) coated safety fuse with a burn rate of approx. 30 seconds/foot. Diameters are approximate, representing average OD's. Powder cores increase as diameters increase. Want to see what it looks like? Check here. Qty's of fuse are in 50 ft. Important: If you would like a qty not listed (100 ft for example) just choose appropriate "Order" button and change the qty accordingly (you would pick the 50 ft price and change the qty to 2 in the above example).

Note: Due to the Injunction (See Home page for more information) you are limited to 25 ft of fuse per year unless you have an ATFE license.

CHINESE MANUFACTURED - Moisture resistant, flexible, varnish coated safety fuse with a burn rate of approx. 30-35 seconds/foot. Diameters are according to manufacturer, representing average OD's. Powder cores increase as diameters increase. **The Chinese manufactured fuses cannot be shipped by UPS or US Mail. It must be picked up at our warehouse or at one of the pyrotechnic conventions that Firefox attends, or shipped by Motor Freight.**
 

CHINESE TIME FUSE: A Federal ATFE permit is required to purchase this product. **The Chinese manufactured fuses cannot be shipped by UPS or US Mail. It must be picked up at our warehouse or at one of the pyrotechnic conventions that Firefox attends, or shipped by Motor Freight.**

CHINESE QUICKMATCH - IGNITERCORD (1.4G)

Imported paper coated match in 100 ft rolls. Fierce burn, used for firing sequential aerial shells and other display pieces. Shipping class 1.4G - cannot be shipped by UPS or US Mail. Must be picked up at our warehouse or at the PGII / WPA conventions we attend.

STICKY MATCH ®  IGNITION TAPES:

Used like quickmatch for igniting lancework, display sets, aerial shells, etc., Sticky match is a moisture resistant tape that eliminates piercing! Simply stick one tape to another - simple! Saves 60% in labor costs. Three products to choose from:
Fast - burns 80-100 ft per second
Slo - burns 1-2 ft per second
Finale - used for making finale chains.
Simply stick them together with the tape. No buckets, piercing quickmatch or stringing required. Sticky match is classed as a 1.4S which can be shipped by UPS! No ATFE is required to purchase Sticky match.

ELECTRIC MATCHES, COMMERCIAL - OXRAL W/2 METER LEADS (6.5 FT) - UPS Shippable - A Federal ATFE permit is required to purchase this product.

Oxral matches have a removable protective plastic sleeve that protects the head and concentrates/directs the flame forward toward the ignition surface or device to be ignited. Rated firing current is 0.5 amperes. Series firing current is 0.8 amperes per series. Resistance is 2 ohms and no fire current is 200 milliamps (0.2 amps).

ELECTRIC IGNITER HEADS - SOLDERED BRIDGEWIRE CHIPS

These chips are duplicate designs of the famous DaveyFire® match, which you solder to your leads. No bridgewires to solder, they are already soldered in the small end of the chip. The Davey Clones contain a 51 gauge element for low firing amps and multiple low voltage firing and the Firefox Custom chips contain a 38 gauge element for low voltage to heavy duty use (higher firing amps) and/or use with higher ignition point pyrogens. Packaged 100 chips per packet. Note: strip off 1/8" of insulation from leads, dip in Ruby Fluid® flux, insert the large end of chip between copper leads, tin your pencil point soldering tip and aply to the copper lead. Repeat for the other side of chip. Solder the leads to the wide end of the chip only. 
   (Photo of Soldering Procedure, Chips to wires for the 2 below products)

ELECTRIC IGNITER CHIP CONSTRUCTION & LOW COST PORTABLE FIRING SYSTEM

For those of you who wish to make their own electric match chips such as those listed above, we have the manual for you. Written by Gary W. Purrington, this 8 1/2" X 11" professionally bound book is loaded with illustrations, black & white and full color photos and step by step instructionws showing every detail of the manufacturing process to make thousands of chips in your spare time, all at a fraction of the cost of commercial chips. Photographic details show the construction of low cost tooling such as a winding frame, chipboards and winding, soldering and tinning the boards, cutting into chips, soldering the leads and finishing the igniters by dipping in pyrotechnic match pyrogen - formulations included. Charts are also included with information on various resistance wire, firing leads, various solders and fluxes and soldering techniques. Make up to 128 chips per strip of chipboard 3/4" wide X 6" long in about twenty minutes. As a bonus, we have included information and detailed photos of an inexpensive protable firing system you can easily make that will fire any electric match at most any practical distance - including conductive slurry matches containing no bridge-wire! MUCH MORE!

TRELCHIP - MATCH CHIP CONSTRUCTION & LOW COST FIRING SYSTEMS - 50+ pages - $26.00 - 1 lb ship wt.

COPPER CLAD FIBERGLASS CHIPBOARD - 1 OZ COPPER COATING BOTH SIDES

This is the same material used for constructing printed electronics/computer circuit boards. It comes in various thickness supplied here for use in making conductive slurry "strip igniters" as well as electric match head "chips" as explained in the book "Match Chip construction & low cost firing systems" listed above. For chips we supply the material in two thickness for a variety of match firing resistance measurements. The most commonly used of the two is the 1/32". The 1/16" is used for slightly higher resistance and/or routing the edge slightly before wire wrapping to make chips similar to those incorporated in the construction of the Atlas® Match. Each 6" X 6" board will make 800 to 1024 igniter chips as per the instructions in the (optional) book listed above.

NICHROME (NICKEL CHORMIUM) NON-PYROTECHNIC FLASH POT IGNITERS - 6"

These wire igniters are made from a six inch lenght of non-insulated Nichrome resistance wire for use in AC stage effects flash pots for ignition of non-concussion type mixtures. The wire, passed through the composition, burns completely with a snap when power from 120 volt AC outlet is applied to both ends operated through a switch. We supply this wire in a 6 ft continuous length. Cut and use only what you need - less waste!

36 GAUGE TINNED COPPER IGNITION ELEMENT WIRE

Easily soldered tinned copper .005" dia element wire for making electric squibs. "Fuses" through to ignite dipped composition using 12 volt automotive battery. Simply solder to 24 ga. double lead wire and dip in squib composition or other pyrogen. Make 2-3 igniters per inch of wire.

NICHROME (NICKEL CHROMIUM) IGNITION & HEATING ELEMENT WIRE

Bare nickel chromium wire used for making electric squib/igniters, heating elements or for heat cutting wire as used in arrow fletching, cutting saran wrap & plastic film, etc. Uses AC & DC power sources. Can be easily soldered by using the Ruby fluid® liquid flux listed in the wire section of the catalog and silver based solder (not lead based). The smaller the diameter, the higher the resistance and the less power it takes to heat red hot and burn through. 30 ga or finer is used for electric igniters. 45 guage or finer is used to make electric match "chips" as explained in our book "Electric igniter chip construction & low cost portable firing systems" listed above.