Powder/Primer Storage Container

blacksmithden said:
WHAT !!!!! :eek: No dove tails or finger joints ???!!!!! You cheaped out on him !!!! LOL !!!
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Not in MDF :D The reason is that because there is no "grain" in MDF, there is no lateral strength....so cutting dovetails or box joints will acutally produce a weak joint, as the strength of the joint depends on the base of the fingers (or tails with DT's).....the beauty of the drawer-lock joint is that it runs the full length of the box side, and provides a huge glueing area, essentially making both halves of the corner one continuous piece :D

I have a whack of Black Walnut shorts here to use up....hmmmm....."furniture grade" powder storage anyone? :D
 
I use Rubbermaid action packers. Same plastic that powder bottles are made from. I'll see anybody in court.

f**k NRCan.

***Edit**** Not sayin' you guys don't do nice woodwork......:);)
 
Wow, I realize I was playing it straight but come on... Of course I was kidding. The fact that some people thought those things might be true is scary in and of itself.

I was neither inspected, fined, nor forced to store my primers at the police station. I was just injecting a little satire into the thread. My point was that, if we keep blindly following every useless regulation the government decides to impose on us, if we never question anything, in 10 years time we might be saying these kinds of things seriously.

I'm amazed so many people ask "Is this legal?" instead of "Is this safe?", "Is this recommended?", "Is this good practice?", etc. What that tells me is we're getting so used to the government making decisions for us we're forgetting how to think for ourselves.

Just ask the old time reloaders, the guys who were doing this decades before some of us were even born, decades before the government started micromanaging every aspect of our lives, if they ever heard of primers spontaneously exploding on the shelf, setting fire to cans of powder and laying waste to entire neighbourhoods...

anyway... none of this should detract from the fact that that's a kick-ass powder-box Wrong Way made for Busta Capp.

But I'm warning you, if you haven't written "EXPLOSIVE!!" on the side of that container by Monday I'm callin' the cops. You won't be safe until you do.
 
Cerdan said:
Wow, I realize I was playing it straight but come on... Of course I was kidding. The fact that some people thought those things might be true is scary in and of itself.

My point was that, if we keep blindly following every useless regulation the government decides to impose on us, if we never question anything, in 10 years time we might be saying these kinds of things seriously.

I'm amazed so many people ask "Is this legal?" instead of "Is this safe?", "Is this recommended?", "Is this good practice?", etc. What that tells me is we're getting so used to the government making decisions for us we're forgetting how to think for ourselves.
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X2...Not completely in agreement about those "...old time reloaders...", sometimes they were just plain wrong ;) and we do have a more complicated world now with generally less space to protect our neighbours. Still, your post takes care of all that...

Those boxes are just great. I'm going to have to make a couple. Going to look up drawer lock joints too. Learn something every day.:cool:
 
The nice thing about a lock joint, is you can make them with just a table saw. It's easier with a router table and a dedicated bit, but a table saw will suffice.
 
Cerdan,
it was clear from your first post that you were joking. I believe everyone was double bluffing so that you would explain yourself. :D
 
This non-ferrous hardware is nonsense. How many times has anyone seen hinges or handles on a all steel tool box, let alone a wood box make a spark, and even if they did the spark would be on the outside of the box when closed with palstic containers on the inside. It would be only God himself who could ignite the powder inside. Retarded, nonsensical, B.S.!
 
Busta Capp - the photos of your powder box are no longer available. Can you re-post or PM them to me ? I am working up a design of my own, and wouldn't mind having another look at yours

(I saw it here months ago and it intrigued me then; now that I want to build one .... :bangHead: )

Cheers
 
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