How do you store your powder/primers?

notsorichguy said:
I keep my powder, primers and projectiles in a room that is 12' x14'. I also have a bench in there as it is handy for stuff......

As a weird happenstance I keep my loaded ammo in the same room. Heck I keep my firearms in there too!

Usually there is spent primers willy nilly on the floor, and I usually have a hard time finding a trail through all the "stuff" piled up on the floor. The room perpetually smells of Hoppes #9, Shooters Choice powder solvent, Sweets and old stale farts.....

I try to keep my primers and powder off the floor, if there is a sewer back-up or a sump pit over flow I don't want that stuff to get wet. So I decided a handy spot for that stuff is on the shelf that is under the bench that I have my loading presses mounted to......

But by all means Build a box...... And don't forget to empty the powder measure before you go to bed each night!

I have been loading my own ammo for over 20yrs. I have never felt the need to build a box to put my powder and primers into. I would need 3 boxes bigger than most gun safes for all my powder nad primers! Why bother!

I only ever empty the powder thrower or chargemaster if I am changing powders, I have left the same powder in my chargemaster for 5 months THE HORROR! Granted I did use 9 or 10 lbs of that powder in the 5 month period, but I bet there were days in a row where I didn't even enter my hidey hole let alone load!

I'm all for safe loading practices etc. Clean work spaces et-al. But COME ON.
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Have you been in my basement again? :p
 
I'm a noob, but decided to get a stanley lower tool/garage cabinet for powders and just use "durable, substantial" plastic ammo can for primers locked with a padlock. Prolly be cans (plural) if I can get a few more boxes of primers.
 
Redneckwannabe1 said:
2. I reload a bit almost every night and it is a pain to empty my powder measure each time. Maybe im just being lazy, but do I need to do this every time? Is there a better way?
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I'm not worried about the safety issue but years ago I left some powder in my measure for a few weeks and when I emptied it the plastic measure cylinder had turned cloudy. Likely some reaction between the chemicals in the powder & the plastic in the cylinder.
 
Magnum_Tom said:
It would appear that there have been some revisions since a year ago when I last read the proposed act and we went through all this. Powder has gone from Class 6 (Ammunition) to Class 1. They've left primers and loaded ammo in Class 6 and seem to have removed the max limits on them. Storage amounts are different and I'm not seeing the severe limitations they were trying to apply to BP and I'm also no longer seeing the single dwelling versus attached dwelling distinctions. But I may have simply missed that in my quick skim. I must say I'm really not impressed with the 10kg proposed limit.

In my latest review of the proposed act I found the section on mixing primers and powder together in the same "suitable container". It appears they've removed the separate shelf requirement. Bundling is apparently fine now...in this revision. Keep in mind all of this is still proposed and not enacted yet.
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All explosives are class 1. Always have been class 1....from ball ammunition to rockets with propellant charges. There are different divisions within class 1 that describe it's properties.. This is a UN system.....not a Canadian system or US system......it is a UN system. It doesn't mater what you believe or what is on a paper you read. The paper is wrong if it states that explosives are class 6. Class 6 dangerous goods are: Toxic and Infectious Substances.

CLASS 1 – EXPLOSIVES

Explosives are materials or items which have the ability to rapidly conflagrate or detonate as a consequence of chemical reaction.

Sub-Divisions

Division 1.1: Substances and articles which have a mass explosion hazard

Division 1.2: Substances and articles which have a projection hazard but not a mass explosion hazard

Division 1.3: Substances and articles which have a fire hazard and either a minor blast hazard or a minor projection hazard or both

Division 1.4: Substances and articles which present no significant hazard; only a small hazard in the event of ignition or initiation during transport with any effects largely confined to the package

Division 1.5: Very insensitive substances which have a mass explosion hazard

Division 1.6: Extremely insensitive articles which do not have a mass explosion hazard
 
ehntr said:
All explosives are class 1. Always have been class 1....from ball ammunition to rockets with propellant charges. There are different divisions within class 1 that describe it's properties.. This is a UN system.....not a Canadian system or US system......it is a UN system. It doesn't mater what you believe or what is on a paper you read. The paper is wrong if it states that explosives are class 6. Class 6 dangerous goods are: Toxic and Infectious Substances.

CLASS 1 – EXPLOSIVES

Explosives are materials or items which have the ability to rapidly conflagrate or detonate as a consequence of chemical reaction.

Sub-Divisions

Division 1.1: Substances and articles which have a mass explosion hazard

Division 1.2: Substances and articles which have a projection hazard but not a mass explosion hazard

Division 1.3: Substances and articles which have a fire hazard and either a minor blast hazard or a minor projection hazard or both

Division 1.4: Substances and articles which present no significant hazard; only a small hazard in the event of ignition or initiation during transport with any effects largely confined to the package

Division 1.5: Very insensitive substances which have a mass explosion hazard

Division 1.6: Extremely insensitive articles which do not have a mass explosion hazard
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Lost cause man, apparently we have all been talking about some proposed regulation with made up classes, divisions and regulations and no one knew it.

Shawn
 
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