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It's hard to find a site that will give objective information about  where to purchase pyrotechnics chemicals. My opinions are as objective as I can make them.

Below you will find links to places to purchase various pyrotechnics supplies and my personal reviews of several of them.

Pyroworx - Pyroworx is a website that sells pyrotechnics chemicals from the UK. The site contains information as well. Purchases may be made for small quantities but bulk orders may be specially placed as well.

Discount Pyro - The best place to purchase pyrotechnics chemicals on the net. Your order will be processed, shipped, and received in a very short amount of time. They package their chemicals in plastic bags which are double boxed. Their prices can't be beat and they have the friendliest service on the net. The shipping charges are actual shipping costs (they actually don't overcharge for shipping!).

Hal Bentley - What a pimp! He'll make you any kind of tooling you want and charge less than anyone else, or at least close to it. He's answered about ten of my emails and I am ordering some rocket tooling from him soon. I feel confident they will be great, but I'll report back when I receive them.

Clay Art Center - A few useful things in pyrotechnics, some of which are black copper oxide, strontium carbonate, red lead, potassium dichromate, and others. I have purchased from them and received quality product at extremely low prices.

Skylighter - Skylighter has just about every chemical you'll need. Some of their prices are a little expensive, and shipping is a little high. Packages aren't shipped immediately, but they are shipped at a moderate pace. Everything is packaged very well in plastic containers.

Firefox - Though their website is chaotic and hard to follow, they have decent prices and a good selection. I placed an order from them and the shipping charge was a little absurd, and despite my request to be notified of the total before the order was shipped, I wasn't. Besides all of that, they order came EXTREMELY quickly and everything was packaged wonderfully. I will order from them again if I can't find what I am looking for from Discount Pyro or Skylighter.

Graf and Sons Inc - A place to buy sporting grade powders (IE cannon and FG/FFG for lift and burst) over the Internet. Beware of the hidden hazardous fee! They will add $20 to your total without telling you in advance.!

Pyrotubes - Open for business at last! I've ordered tubes from pyrotubes on eBay before and they came the very next day and were very high quality.

Pyrocreations - A great place to purchase tubes and fuse. Products are well packaged, and shipped promptly. Very helpful, able to sell me tubes not listed on site. Many sizes of tubes not available from pyrotubes.com.

Pyrotube - A site that sells tubes. I just ordered the 1/4" ID tubes from them. I will be making little rockets with tiny shells attached to the end with them. Coming soon to the project page (-:

NE-Lab Supply - Just placed an order with them, I'll report my findings when the chems arrive. They are very easily to get ahold of, and are polite on the phone.

Pyro Al - Haven't made a purchase from them yet, but I will when I need some Al (-:

United Nuclear - Expensive city! All of the chemicals are very high grade, and you pay for it. Weird ordering process. Very friendly though. The also sell ball mills.

Gallade Chemical - Sells various chemicals, not pyro-specific.

Thunder and Lightning Tools - A bunch of tools that I wouldn't buy.

Pyrohobby Chemicals - No experience with them. Moderately priced.

Pyrosupplies - A good clean site with lots of professional stuff.

Wolter Tools - A bunch of quality made pyro tools that I wouldn't buy.

Hobby Fireworks - Fireworks tools, I have never ordered them.

Cannon Fuse Dot Com - OK... A lot of people contacted me about Tony and asked me why I slammed him here. The truth is, I had a bad experience with him in which he behaved very unprofessionally. I should mention, however, that he will not rip you off; your purchases are protected by PayPal and his products are of the usual quality you'd expect to find from similar sites.