Smelly Caps

[Johnny Tremain]

After bring home two cans of #10 CCI (VerD)

I found one can smells like acetone. Should I let them cure and use them, or take a 2 hour trip back up there.

 

[deermanok]

Never heard of that before.
I don't think you can return them.
I'd let them air out a day or two, then pop one off to see how they are.

 

[Eutycus]

After bring home two cans of #10 CCI (VerD)

I found one can smells like acetone. Should I let them cure and use them, or take a 2 hour trip back up there.

Excuse my ignorance but what does the ( VerD) mean?

 

[hawkeye2]

A few years back when I was opening a new tin of RWS musket caps I decided to take a whiff and, yes, I do remember how we were taught to do it in chemistry. Well I didn't do that, just stuck my nose down there and inhaled. I don't recommend that to anyone, no buzz but decidedly unpleasant. BTW the caps worked fine.

 

[Jim in Wisconsin]

The smell seems like it would mean fairly new production of those caps, which is a good thing. I hope they are making lots of them!

 

[hanshi]

I should've seen this coming long before now. Now huffing has moved on from glue and paint to muzzleloading primers.

 

[Shotgunblast]

And huffing burnt holy black(love the taste of brimstone in the morning).

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Excuse my ignorance but what does the ( VerD) mean?

Ver B is the tightest fitting #10, then C, then D. When you get a can flip it over and see what Ver it is. I took one out of the D can and tired it on the Pietta cone, I saw no difference, I have Bs here also.

I set them out over night the smell is gone. So next time out, these will be the first to go.
BTW when you make caps, you take a drop of acetone and drop it into the cap, then the powder mixture. When the smelly stuff dries, they go bang.
These might a been a tad green for sale.

 

[user 53891]

I should've seen this coming long before now. Now huffing has moved on from glue and paint to muzzleloading primers.

 

[user 48702]

Excuse my ignorance but what does the ( VerD) mean?

First thing that popped in my mind was "Mesa VerD"

 

[user 48702]

Ver B is the tightest fitting #10, then C, then D. When you get a can flip it over and see what Ver it is. I took one out of the D can and tired it on the Pietta cone, I saw no difference, I have Bs here also.

I set them out over night the smell is gone. So next time out, these will be the first to go.
BTW when you make caps, you take a drop of acetone and drop it into the cap, then the powder mixture. When the smelly stuff dries, they go bang.
These might a been a tad green for sale.

Never heard of different size variations for #10 and #11 caps. When you buy Remington or RWS, you either buy #10 or #11, that's it, no hyphenated alphabet extensions. I've got some older cans of Remington #10 and #11, and there is no size difference between the two, both are the same. Even used a micrometer and i.d. and o.d. measurements are the same. This CCI #10, C, D, is more than likely worn or loose tolerances in their forming dies. They're probably running 3 punch presses, the oldest worn dies is VerD, the second most worn of the three is VerC, and the new dies are #10. I would suspect the #11 press is running the VerE forming punch. I have much past experience with punch presses and using forming dies and I can see this happening very easily.

 

[Whitworth]

Ver B is the tightest fitting #10, then C, then D. When you get a can flip it over and see what Ver it is. I took one out of the D can and tired it on the Pietta cone, I saw no difference, I have Bs here also.

I set them out over night the smell is gone. So next time out, these will be the first to go.
BTW when you make caps, you take a drop of acetone and drop it into the cap, then the powder mixture. When the smelly stuff dries, they go bang.
These might a been a tad green for sale.

I guess like tomatoes and bananas they ripen up I get a whiff of that solvent smell on occasion when opening GI ammo cans storing military surplus ammo. Acetone is used in smokeless powder manufacture and some gradually off gases and escapes from even from water proofed necks and primers. Eons ago I broke down some old Soviet stuff (before being common as weeds) for the bullets and was surprised at a bit of gas escaping from the case necks when wobbling the bullets to loosen them in the paper thin Russian brass for pulling. YMMV

 

[kaotikross]

These might a been a tad green for sale.

They'll go off fine. Hearing they're making them and getting them out there so fast that they don't have time to lose that factory fresh smell is encouraging.

 

[leadhoarder]

I guess like tomatoes and bananas they ripen up I get a whiff of that solvent smell on occasion when opening GI ammo cans storing military surplus ammo. Acetone is used in smokeless powder manufacture and some gradually off gases and escapes from even from water proofed necks and primers. Eons ago I broke down some old Soviet stuff (before being common as weeds) for the bullets and was surprised at a bit of gas escaping from the case necks when wobbling the bullets to loosen them in the paper thin Russian brass for pulling. YMMV

That is the smell of freedom.

 

[mushka]

Aaaaah lordy, the new car smell of caps now.

 

[user 48679]

The smell of Hoppe's No.9 solvent is even better, if not addictive......