wfboom.com Nukem Artillery Shells.

[displayfireworks1]

Not sure if everyone is aware but if you use the Nukem artillery shells sold at wfboom you are going to need to use the supplied mortar only. In the pictures below I show the Nukem artillery shell with the supplied mortar and I show it in a Excalibur mortar. Keep that in mind if you purchase these shells. My guess is every fireworks manufacture recommends using only the supplied mortar.
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[PYRODAN]

Are those the same shells? The one on the right appears to be a smaller diameter.

[jamisonlm3]

Those mortars look to very close to being the same size. Is that a normal sized shell in the Nukem mortar?

[PyroManiacs]

You can definitely see the thickness of the excal tubes walls are thicker than the supplied tube. So you may think it was an optical illusion.

But also, the shell in the excal tube definitely does not look the same diameter at all compared to the shell on the left.

So after taking my measuring tape to the screen and measuring across the top of both shells.... the one on the left was just over 2 inches. The one on the right was just over an inch and a half. I know these are not the actual measurements... its just to show that the two shells cannot be the same diameter/shell. If they were the same diameter, they both would have showed just over 2 inches on my screen with tape.

[displayfireworks1]

Both of those shells are the Nukem artillery shell. It looks like an optical illusion. I know the Nukem shells are smaller in diameter than the canister shells we usually see. I will make a more detailed video and another picture and we can look at it again. I just did not want people to purchase these and think they will fit in DR 11 1.91 pipe.
The more i look at the picture I just have to do this again.

[PGH_Pyro]

Duke Nuke'em .
John Wayne.
Pilgrim.

[PyroManiacs]

Both of those shells are the Nukem artillery shell. It looks like an optical illusion. I know the Nukem shells are smaller in diameter than the canister shells we usually see. I will make a more detailed video and another picture and we can look at it again. I just did not want people to purchase these and think they will fit in DR 11 1.91 pipe.
The more i look at the picture I just have to do this again.

A video would definitley be good. There something about the pic though that just crazily makes them two look totally different.

[jamisonlm3]

How tall is the Nukem mortar compared with the Excalibur mortar? It being 2-3 inches taller might me what we're seeing.

[displayfireworks1]

Here are pics and video of the wfboom Nukem artillery shells.
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[chriskrc]

The video did make the comparison better. It's just one of those items you are going to have to use the supplied tubes for. To me I would shoot those shells off randomly during a show seeing that they are to small in diameter for Dr 11 tubes.

[PYRODAN]

My guess would be a dr9 tube would work if those are 1.5' shells. If some one in N.E. ohio has some of these, I have dr9 tubes I could loan you for testing purposes. Just shoot me a pm.

[rexpress2001]

I test fired several of these nukem shells I got from wfboom in my DR11 tubes I use for my consumer shells and they work its just they don't go very high up because of the compression they lose being so loose in the tube. Wfboom recommends the tubes they come with ofcourse which are DR9's from what I can tell. But they will work just don't get the height they would in the DR9 tubes is all.

[chriskrc]

I test fired several of these nukem shells I got from wfboom in my DR11 tubes I use for my consumer shells and they work its just they don't go very high up because of the compression they lose being so loose in the tube. Wfboom recommends the tubes they come with ofcourse which are DR9's from what I can tell. But they will work just don't get the height they would in the DR9 tubes is all.

Well that's not always a bad thing having a little lower height of effects, as long as the crowd is a safe distance away. But for a good can shell I would rather have them go higher.

[jamisonlm3]

I've been curious about these 1.5" canister shells and others out there. Does the mortar that ships with them fit in a normal sized mortar like the ones with Excalibur? I'm wondering if I can build a rack using normal mortars in them, but if they fit, drop the mortars for the smaller 1.5" shells into them. I'd knock the base off of course, but it'd allow me to use fuse the smaller shells with the larger shells and not build a rack specifically for them.

[djsmurf]

I've been curious about these 1.5" canister shells and others out there. Does the mortar that ships with them fit in a normal sized mortar like the ones with Excalibur? I'm wondering if I can build a rack using normal mortars in them, but if they fit, drop the mortars for the smaller 1.5" shells into them. I'd knock the base off of course, but it'd allow me to use fuse the smaller shells with the larger shells and not build a rack specifically for them.

Interesting question, I know dr9 will not fit into dr11, however I'm heading to wfboom tomorrow and can take an excal tube with me and see if Ray will allow the test fit.

[pimpdaddee28]

I test fired several of these nukem shells I got from wfboom in my DR11 tubes I use for my consumer shells and they work its just they don't go very high up because of the compression they lose being so loose in the tube. Wfboom recommends the tubes they come with ofcourse which are DR9's from what I can tell. But they will work just don't get the height they would in the DR9 tubes is all.

I tried one in a fiberglass tube from a regular 60 gram (1.75") canister shell kit. I didn't want to risk damaging one of my DR11 tubes, but the Nukem shell also didn't go too high in my case. Since these are 1.5" canisters, they'll only work with DR9 tubes, but I just ended up making a poor man's rack out of the Nukem fiberglass tubes and used them to light off the case that I had purchased.