What is the legal situation on making or using home made pyros?
Posted by Someone who knows Any act of manufacture or modification to pyrotechnic material is illegal (Explosives Act) unless you are a HSE Licensed factory. All pyrotechnic material (content) in the UK has to be approved, classified and authorised by HSE. If you can produce a Competent Authority Document that HSE issue, you would also have to give evidense of the licensed factory you modified or manufactured the device at. I sympathise and understand your wish to use smaller devices… I suggest you contact one of the manufacturers… You will be suprised just how helpful they all can be. Posted by Gareth Hughes Don’t touch him or his home-made pyros with a very long barge pole. If he wants to blow himself up in the privacy of his own home, that’s fine. But if someone got injured as a result of one of these ‘effects’ misfiring or malfunctioning, the repercussions would be huge, and both you (if it was you who sanctioned their use) and he would be in heap big trouble. Posted by Michael
