January 9, 2014, 07:20 PM | #1 |
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Smokeless powders
A friend has two pounds of smokeless powder and does not know what it is. Is there a way to test it or use it safely?
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January 9, 2014, 07:22 PM | #2 |
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Safest thing is to use it as garden or lawn fertilizer if you don't know what it is.
Otherwise, very bad things can happen like kabooms where guns blow up and either you or your friend lose a body part or worse. |
January 9, 2014, 09:54 PM | #3 |
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No there isn't. If it is not labeled your friend is out of luck.
I hear roses really like the nitrates in it. It's a total loss |
January 9, 2014, 10:08 PM | #4 |
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2lb of powder has a value of $50. Ask them how much their safety is worth.
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January 9, 2014, 10:14 PM | #5 |
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It is only good to advanced reloaders and should not be given to beginners or slow learners.
I gave a guy who had never reloaded, a mystery powder. But he and I together helped an electronics company that was being sued for not supporting the schedule for the starter generator for the jet engine on the customers jet program. He and I got the starter electronics designed, working, and the prototype jet could taxi on the runway. He came up with a way of estimating the effective series resistance of the winding [based on history] so the back emf could be used to estimate the speed and phase. So I knew he was smart enough to use an unknown powder, and he did.
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January 9, 2014, 10:23 PM | #6 |
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Thanks for the replies to the unknown powder issue. I have been reloading for twenty years and have always labeled all my residuals. I told him I would check but it was probably hopeless. The roses are a good idea!
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March 3, 2014, 09:42 PM | #9 |
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I like to pour it out in a trail and scare the neighbors cat when it comes by.
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