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storing powder
By: babbyc1000 Date: September 23, 2013, 5:34 pm
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just wondering how everyone stores their powder and primers?
seems like everyones trying to flog me wooden boxes costing the
guts of 100 pounds :o does anyone have any cheaper
alternatives??
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Re: storing powder
By: SneakyD Date: September 23, 2013, 6:51 pm
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A very large wooden ammo box for £20
HTML http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/vintage-automan/1031905571#photo-content
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Re: storing powder
By: babbyc1000 Date: September 24, 2013, 1:16 am
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Cheers!
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Re: storing powder
By: .22-250 Date: September 24, 2013, 6:13 am
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Hi mate I use a digital safe bolted to the wall. It's was got in
Argos I think and only cost £30 or £40.
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Re: storing powder
By: babbyc1000 Date: September 24, 2013, 7:03 am
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Cheers, have a safe for the rifle bolts and ammo but a couple of
shops have been telling me I need a large wooden box for it,
that just happens to cost £80+ ::)
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Re: storing powder
By: Al Dunn Date: September 24, 2013, 7:37 am
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Don't store powder in a steel safe. What you have there is
effectively a bomb - an ultra fast burning material in an
enclosed environment.
The wooden box is only a legal requirement for the storage of
black powder, not nitro powder.
Al.
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Re: storing powder
By: babbyc1000 Date: September 24, 2013, 2:20 pm
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Cheers, as long as its legal ill worry about the blowing up bit
later lol tho tbh I'd rather it was secured better than a locked
wooden box
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Re: storing powder
By: monty Date: September 24, 2013, 2:23 pm
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Can you clad the box safe in wood, say plywood?
Monty
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Re: storing powder
By: Al Dunn Date: September 24, 2013, 2:32 pm
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No Monty, it's the fact that when the nitro powder burns the gas
expands very quickly - that's what gives you the velocity. If
this burning process takes place in the confines of a pressure
vessel (which the safe has become as the powder burns inside
it), the pressure builds until the walls of the safe let go. By
this stage, it has easily enough energy to flatten a house. A
wooden box will burn slowly and allow the powder to burn off at
atmospheric pressure. Much safer!
Al.
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Re: storing powder
By: babbyc1000 Date: September 24, 2013, 3:39 pm
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True but although its a safe it's nowhere near as sturdy as a
cabinet, came out of argos years ago when I needed something to
store a bolt in, the door would blow out long before it got to
house flattening pressures. I'd just prefer the powder kept in
something that couldn't be lifted or easily cut/hacked into,
plus worst case scenario if it did go up its not surrounded by
flammable wood :-\
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