Need reloading room tips for dry powder and primer storeage.

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Fellas i have bought a new house in a different town and am told it is damper where i am moving. I need some tips for powder and primer storage for my new gun room/reloading room which will be in the basement.

.................i am not sure exactly how much damper it is but the air in fort mcmurray was fairly dry where Edson is about 50 miles from the mountains and further west and when shoppinf for houses, saw some pretty damp moldy basements!! :shock:
 
saw some pretty damp moldy basements
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There is no reason for this if the house is built properly and maintained. Have a good look at the walls for signs of water entery, and fix the problem, not the symptom.

As Pete said, a dehumidifier is a great idea, and the in safe dehumidifiers are well worth the cost.

I would tend to keep powder and primers off the floor and out from bare concrete walls.
 
There is no reason for this if the house is built properly and maintained. Have a good look at the walls for signs of water entery, and fix the problem, not the symptom.
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........of course!!! Needless to say i did not buy one of these disasters. How can one even think of putting a house on the market when the basement bathroom has to be ripped out right off the bat by the new owners to make it liveable/useable?? :roll:
 
Ammo can's?

Look on Ebay for Humidity Indicater card's, they measure the humidity and let you know when to start worring.

Watch the inside of your die's, I've learned the hard way.
 
I store many thousands of primers in large pickle jars , it keeps them dry forever, with a desicant pack or 2 tossed in. Extra powder I keep inside 5 gal lastic buckets, with the lids snapped back on, the powder is still in the factory container, but NO air means no moisture. Interesting occurance las year, I opened up a bucket for some H5010 I needed, never thought about keeping the factory containers straight up, several cans of powder had eaten the lids to nothing. Hence now I store ALL powder upright :mrgreen:
 
I store many thousands of primers in large pickle jars , it keeps them dry forever, with a desicant pack or 2 tossed in.
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Do you have jars large enough to keep the primers in the origional packaging?
 
Do you have jars large enough to keep the primers in the origional packaging?
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I have to take them out of the big box they come in, but yes the pickle jars will hold the new 100 primer packs from Federal no problem, I get about 18 boxes per pickle jar, I gallon metal paint cans also work well I have many thousands of primers stored that way as well, I like the pickle jars simply because glass will NEVER rust. :mrgreen:
 
Hey Win94,
change your profile to stop calling Ft Mc ####ty Camptown Alberta. somebody might get confused and think you mean Edson.
Did you shoot anything with the little model 70 yet?
Martin
 
Buy yourself a couple of .50 ammo cans (M2A1 Cans). Ensure that they are not rusty, ensure that the rubber "O" ring is intact. Paint the exterior of the box with a good rustex paint then stencil the caliber of the contents on the exterior of the box so you don't keep opening it every 2 months to find out what is inside. Leave the ammunition in factory packages and your good for at least 30 years. Minimum! There is no need of desicant. This is based on my 20 year experience as an Ammunition Technician (ret'd).
 
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Buy yourself a couple of .50 ammo cans (M2A1 Cans). Ensure that they are not rusty, ensure that the rubber "O" ring is intact. Paint the exterior of the box with a good rustex paint then stencil the caliber of the contents on the exterior of the box so you don't keep opening it every 2 months to find out what is inside. Leave the ammunition in factory packages and your good for at least 30 years. Minimum! There is no need of desicant. This is based on my 20 year experience as an Ammunition Technician (ret'd).
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Speaking of desicants, anyone ever used the silica crystals sold for cat litter boxes? Certainly is cheap! :wink:
 
DO NOT PUT THEM NEAR AN OUTSIDE WALL. Cost me 7 plus pounds of H4831 in my gunroom no obvious moisture problem, plasic container only thing I can think of is the outside wall have stored my powder there for years . Now I moved it & threw some of the little silicone packs in for safe measur.Best just keep an eye on it.
 
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