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Onagoth

Onagoth

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Well, after all that effort I went through a little while ago to build a suitable container for components, I found out today it wasn't big enough.

Why? Because federal packaging is about twice as large as winchester, the boxes I used when designing the container.

Back to the drawing board as they say. :redface:
 
The first time I bought Remington primers, I couldn't believe there were 1000 in there.

Rem: 4"x2⅞"x1¾" = 20⅛ cubic inches
Fed: 7⅛"x3½"x4⅛" = 102 and 111/128 cubic inches

Feds are more than five times the size of Rems for the same amount of primers! Maybe Federal themselves know that their primers are more dangerous than most (see other thread).

:D

charles.emond said:
i don't get it...
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Being the model citizen that he is, Onagoth built himself one of those little component boxes with 3/4" plywood, brass hinges and the word "Explosive!" written in big cartoony letters on the front, as required by NRCAN regulations. Unfortunately for him, he built it based on the dimensions of a pack of 1000 Winchester primers and now finds he can't fit his Federal primers in his little pine box. He now has to start over before an NRCAN agent comes over for an inspection.
 
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redbirddog said:
Federal has way too much packaging.

I wish there was somthing you can do with the left over trays.
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Yeah, actually I eyed up the depth of the plastic they used, it seems to be 3-4 times deeper than the pocket that the primer sits in, for some reason...
 
There are two kinds of primer compounds, normal and basic. Of the two, basic is more sensitive, easier to fire and more subject to sympathetic detonation which is one primer firing the ones beside it. Federal are basic and have the "overkill" packaging. I doubt that a manufacturer would go through absorbing the expense of excess packaging, excess storage space, and excess bulk in shipping if they didn't think it was a good idea. Either that, or everyone else is grossly negligent.
 
Dogleg said:
There are two kinds of primer compounds, normal and basic. Of the two, basic is more sensitive, easier to fire and more subject to sympathetic detonation which is one primer firing the ones beside it. Federal are basic and have the "overkill" packaging. I doubt that a manufacturer would go through absorbing the expense of excess packaging, excess storage space, and excess bulk in shipping if they didn't think it was a good idea. Either that, or everyone else is grossly negligent.
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really? I can think of 1000 different toy products which suffer from ridiculous amounts of packaging.

Maybe that argument doesn't really apply to primers since its not like they're on shelves of all retail stores with flashy packaging, but still I think some manufacturers go way overboard.

It seems the amount of federal packaging goes beyond the extra risk of basic primers.
 
I rememebr reading on a forum a few years ago about a forklift of primers crashing in the Federal warehouse and there was a bit of an explosion, and then they switched to the overkill packaging. Not sure if that is true or not
 
I heard something years ago about Federal having some packaged primers detonationg too, then the humungous boxes appeared so there could be something to the story.
 
what does the packaging looks like?
I've only ever had Winchester, CCI, and C-I-L and some boxes of older Federal primers
 
charles.emond said:
what does the packaging looks like?
I've only ever had Winchester, CCI, and C-I-L and some boxes of older Federal primers
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This should give you an idea

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