What is a "silver salute"?

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The ones I remember were rated at 1/3 stick TNT

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

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The ones I remember were rated at 1/3 stick TNT

That was a bunch of sales BS. No flashcracker ever sold was _actually_
as brissant and damaging as any quantity of TNT.

A silver salute was just a large "M-80" style firecracker, with up to
about 8g of flash powder (M-80 being about 3.5g). It could take off
fingers or a part of a hand, but in no way did it equate to any quantity
of TNT or Dynamite.

"Stick" refers to Dynamite, not TNT, which ordinarily comes in canisters
or blocks.

LLoyd

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About every year on the 4th of July, the local papers print a list of
fireworks that are allegedly against federal law. There are usually three
types listed: M-80's, cherry bombs, and "Silver Salutes". Now everyone knows
what an M-80 and cherry bomb is, but what in the world is a "silver salute"?

silver salutes are an inch long with a side fuse and have 1.5 grams of flash powder, an m80 have 3 grams. To identify them make sure there are 6 to 10 "Do not hold in hand" labels spiraled around the can.

[s***@gmail.com]

About every year on the 4th of July, the local papers print a list of
fireworks that are allegedly against federal law. There are usually three
types listed: M-80's, cherry bombs, and "Silver Salutes". Now everyone knows
what an M-80 and cherry bomb is, but what in the world is a "silver salute"?

silver salutes are an inch long with a side fuse and have 1.5 grams of flash powder, an m80 have 3 grams. To identify them make sure there are 6 to 10 "Do not hold in hand" labels spiraled around the can. They are completely illegal now and the silver salutes today are those with 50 milligrams of flash powder and they do not have the traditional "Do not hold in hand" labels.

[l***@gmail.com]

About every year on the 4th of July, the local papers print a list of
fireworks that are allegedly against federal law. There are usually three
types listed: M-80's, cherry bombs, and "Silver Salutes". Now everyone knows
what an M-80 and cherry bomb is, but what in the world is a "silver salute"?

I live in Buffalo,NY, we used to get these from Ohio or down South, we called them silver tubes. As mentioned they were a bit smaller than an M80 with less flash powder, thus these powerful but from a sound perspective pretty close and less expensive.

[Diogenes]

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About every year on the 4th of July, the local papers print a list of
fireworks that are allegedly against federal law. There are usually three
types listed: M-80's, cherry bombs, and "Silver Salutes". Now everyone knows
what an M-80 and cherry bomb is, but what in the world is a "silver salute"?

I live in Buffalo,NY, we used to get these from Ohio or down South, we called them silver tubes. As mentioned they were a bit smaller than an M80 with less flash powder, thus these powerful but from a sound perspective pretty close and less expensive.

I remember them well when I was a kid (early to mid 50's). A silver
salute was a silver colored tube about 1.5" long and 0.375" in
diameter. The fuse protruded from the center of the tube and the damn
things were powerful. We had an indulgent uncle who, despite the
objections of our parents, would buy us all sorts of explosive
ordnance for the 4th of July. As I recall the silver salutes were
later called M80s and were about as powerful as the cherry bombs,
which were quite destructive. This was long before the federal
killjoys put their chickenshit limits on bursting charges. Most kids
only managed to get their hands on a few cherry bombs or silver
salutes at a time. My uncle would buy boxes containing a half gross
(72) of the damn things and hand them out to us like candy.

Amazingly all of us grew to adulthood with our fingers and toes
intact. My uncle has been gone these many years, but I still have
great and fond memories of him - he was sort of a big kid himself.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, UNCLE ALLEN, WHEREVER YOU ARE

----
Diogenes

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