CptnAwesome
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For those of you that reload in carpeted rooms, what do you do to keep runaway powder granules from getting on the floor?
I don't worry about it
Ahhh the discussion begins...Isn't vacuuming the powder a danger. With spark in the unit?
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Myth Busters tried every trick in the book to set off vacuumed up powder while vacuuming up powder. Never could get it to go.Isn't vacuuming the powder a danger. With spark in the unit?
For certain there is a threshold at which vacuuming powder would be hazardous. We know it’s not at three grains or four, but where is it? Five? Fifty? We also know smokeless powder isn’t a “dust” like combustible grain dust in an elevator.View attachment 964066 kids be sure to read the label
Yes and like most of their terrific experiments, they caught a boatload of crap for perhaps encouraging unsafe practices.Myth Busters tried every trick in the book to set off vacuumed up powder while vacuuming up powder. Never could get it to go.
Even so ones talking a few grains in an enormous, relativitely speaking, container.
I’d be more concerned about live primers and I’ve never been able to stomp fire one of those either.
Which? Hand load in a caerpeted area or vacuum up spilled powder. Spilled powder is a certainty in what ever quantity.For certain there is a threshold at which vacuuming powder would be hazardous. We know it’s not at three grains or four, but where is it? Five? Fifty? We also know smokeless powder isn’t a “dust” like combustible grain dust in an elevator.
We can speculate that the warning is to prevent the accumulation of a largish amount powder in a shop vac or that someone has seen a spark in a vacuum. But In latter case seems we’d also have electrocutions when vacuuming liquid spills. But do we?
Where is that threshold for any of this? If a threshold is known, no lawyer worth their salt is going to let it be revealed by the powder manufacturer.
So the only responsible guidance is don’t do it.
That's why I asked, I've heard that also. But I guess not.Isn't vacuuming the powder a danger. With spark in the unit?
Gotcha I was under the impression it was fairly easy to do.Myth Busters tried every trick in the book to set off vacuumed up powder while vacuuming up powder. Never could get it to go.
Even so ones talking a few grains in an enormous, relativitely speaking, container.
I’d be more concerned about live primers and I’ve never been able to stomp fire one of those either.