Steel flask safe for black powder ?

[kyron4]

I have a small tin "oiler" , the kind that come with Eastern European bolt guns. I was planning on soldering a top section of a brass rifle case on the lid to make a small powder flask for a hunting or short woods walks. I've been told that the reason blackpowder tools and flasks are brass is due to steel either sparking or static charge. Should I be concerned ? Here an expample of what I'm talking about using . -Thanks

 

[hawkenhunter50]

I would use it without any concern. Sounds like a neat project.

 

[Pukka Bundook]

A good few original powder flasks were iron, and were and still aren't any bother Ron.
They had brass chargers, but so will yours !
When you think about it, Powder always came in metal cans and folks would screw a pouring spout in them and didn't have problems.
Look forward to seeing it finished!

 

[Grenadier1758]

I have a small tin "oiler" , the kind that come with Eastern European bolt guns. I was planning on soldering a top section of a brass rifle case on the lid to make a small powder flask for a hunting or short woods walks. I've been told that the reason blackpowder tools and flasks are brass is due to steel either sparking or static charge. Should I be concerned ? Here an expample of what I'm talking about using . -Thanks

There is a significant difference between the electrical static spark and the sparks derived from tiny pieces of burning steel that a flint will scrape off the frizzen or a fire steel. There is no heat in the tiny electrical sparks, so they can't set off black powder. In the cases I have read about where sparks were identified as the cause of a fire or explosion, there was steel striking something that generated a spark of burning steel.

It is pretty unlikely that a spark of burning steel will be generated inside that steel oiling container.

https://www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/ctml_experiments/sparks/sparks.html
Now, maybe a lighting bolt can be hot enough to set off a charge of black powder, but the static electicity from walking across a carpet or stroking a cat isn't that kind of spark.

 

[French Colonial]

Well, I think putting powder in a steel can might be okay