Umm, Most if not all car and light truck gas tanks are plastic these days. So storing it in your car is likely storing it in a plastic container.
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Where do you store your powder?
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Umm, Most if not all car and light truck gas tanks are plastic these days. So storing it in your car is likely storing it in a plastic container.
Greg Blackburn
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I don't think that's how ammo goes off.......in a fire, without the compression of the barrel and bolt, self-contained cartridges will "pop" splitting open the case and not having any meaningful velocity.
I could test this but with ammo prices so high right now, I'm just not going to do that.
Oops! Replied before seeing the excellent video above. Looks like it's been very well covered already.
*I had this same discussion with a firefighter that I met while staying in a Vermont motel. He shook his head a few times then (to his credit) admitted his station chief had told him wrong!
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After the Derecho hit my area in 2012, I decided that I needed to store 50 gallons of gasoline at a time, enough to refill both my car and truck's tank once plus 10 gallons for my mower. I hate the new plastic containers that lack a vent....so over the years I have bought up vintage metal gas cans, all vented. Only now I've decided that what I really need is a "gasoline caddy" so I've decided to make my own. I'm going to use a 35 gallon gasoline barrel with crank pump, mounting it on a hand truck dolly.
I want to build a shed to store the gasoline, spray paint, motor oil, etc. in, getting those out of the garage.
I want to build a shed to store the gasoline, spray paint, motor oil, etc. in, getting those out of the garage.
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Man, what a relief - I thought I was the only one that did that. Now I know that I am not alone.......Good one.
Like I said, "it doesn't" it's about as dangerous as cooking popcorn naked without a lid on the pan.
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When I saw this video and realized they destroyed more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition I almost cried......I could test this but with ammo prices so high right now, I'm just not going to do that.
The price of a good education. Worth every round.
Now, if Goex or Hodgdon would just make a similar video.
Ah. Beg your pardon. The key words being "made for that purpose". Meaning the petrol fumes don't diffuse through it.
No, I don't have a motor lawnmower, leaf blower or weed eater. I'll keep my opinion of those things to myself or the moderators will throw me out.
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In a safe
I have many different types of fuel.
Gasoline,
alcohol(s)
diesel
kerosene
oil
lamp oil
naphtha
propane,
butane,
wood
coal
charcoal
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Motors run via electricity, engines burn a fossil fuel.
My dad keeps all his fuel cans with the vents open......I am the opposite. I only open the vents when filling the can or pouring from it, or if I have to leave it out in the sun for some reason.
If I ever buy up more black powder, more than I have on hand now, I'll put it in a cabinet or something. Now it's just up on a shelf in original container.
For a question of where to store your black powder, this subject sure has wandered over many pages, kinda like the one a couple of weeks ago.
How did liquids flammable and combustible liquids and containers wander in? Long ways form BP.
How did liquids flammable and combustible liquids and containers wander in? Long ways form BP.
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Yes, heat won't cause it to cook off, only a spark. For that reason do not store it with primers or caps.
Depends on how hot that heat is, after all a spark is just hot metal.
You can store a day's worth of shooting in your gun barrel ?
Must be a volley gun made by Henry.
GOTCHA! right on!! that will do it.You can store a day's worth of shooting in your gun barrel ?
Must be a volley gun made by Henry.
E. Baker made Volley guns for the British Navy. Never heard of a Henry one.. Store my Powder in the boiler room .Keeps it nice and Dry..
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I buy my powder in five pound lots, if I can get it that way. It come in a plastic bag, inside a brown paper bag, sealed with a piece of packing tape. I transfer the loose powder to one pound Goex cans. These cans are put into G.I. .50 calibre ammo cans and stored in my workshop, next to my reloading bench. I make sure that I have plenty of the right grade of powder (FFg, FFFg) cans before a transfer.
You now have bombs in your workshop.
