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Posted: 8/18/2013 8:46:51 PM EDT
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So the SAAMI and NFPA 495 recommend 1" thick wooden storage boxes for storing smokeless powder and primers.
So where do you buy them? Yes, i've seen dryflash3's homemade boxes. Very nice. But I don't have tools to construct them. I've done the usual craigslist, and local forums searches and nothing. cabela's has a lockable powder storage container, but it's metal and $329! 
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Lockable-Powder-Storage-Container/740225.uts |
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So the SAAMI and NFPA 495 recommend 1" thick wooden storage boxes for storing smokeless powder and primers. So where do you buy them? Yes, i've seen dryflash3's homemade boxes. Very nice. But I don't have tools to construct them. I've done the usual craigslist, and local forums searches and nothing. cabela's has a lockable powder storage container, but it's metal and $329!
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Lockable-Powder-Storage-Container/740225.uts You dont have a saw, and a hammer? |
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Quoted: So the SAAMI and NFPA 495 recommend 1" thick wooden storage boxes for storing smokeless powder and primers. So where do you buy them? Yes, i've seen dryflash3's homemade boxes. Very nice. But I don't have tools to construct them. I've done the usual craigslist, and local forums searches and nothing. cabela's has a lockable powder storage container, but it's metal and $329! http://www.cabelas.com/product/Lockable-Powder-Storage-Container/740225.uts The big box stores near me stock 1 inch thick glued up sheets/table tops. With a circular saw and some nails, you could make your own boxes. |
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Use PVC foam boards. Use two 1/2 inch layers glued together.
PVC foam is a better insulator than wood and doesn't burn is forms a ridged layer of insulating char. The smoke from PVC foam will kill you, but then again so will the fire that caused to smoke. Edit Of course you could put the primers in a location that wouldn't bother you if they caught fire... Can't tell you where that is, the moderator will get mad at me again. |
| I use the large ammo cans as well. The bigger ones with latches on each side and I leave the latches undone so there is no pressure problems if I happen to have a fire. This is just to store the bulk powder, one pound containers for each of my powders are stored on a shelf where I can get at them easy. Primers are stored in a plastic ammo box I happened to have and the only time this box gets latched is when I need to move it off the cans containing my powder. |
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I could be wrong, but . . . my understanding is that the NFPA's "wood storage box" recommendation of "1" nominal wood" is satisfied by standard pine 1"x4" boards which are 3/4" x 3 3/4" finished. It's easy to make a reasonably lightweight box to hold 50 pounds out of these 1x4s, a length of 1x1 in each corner, a pair of hinges, and a door padlock hasp.
Spaces left between the board slats (or my "precision" production methods) satisfy the venting need. |
| I use the orange plastic utility boxes from wally world. Would melt quick in a fire and not build up a lot more pressure than a wooden box. Plus they have the cheap rubber seal. About ten bucks. eta. that is for the primers, the powder stays in a small dresser set. |
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Large ammo can or other air-tight container with a dessicant packet inside. Done deal. Not for primers and/or powder. You should not use pressure containers of any kind including some gun safes. Keep primers stored in their shippable (safe) containers. Never store loose primers in a wad, in a glass jar or metal can. Powders should remain in their cans. Lockable boxes / closets = keep pets / kids / explorers / experimenters away from the goods. Better boxes can be built of gypsum wall board liners on the surround, which has fire resistant, heat resistant properties, on a wooden frame / shell. Use inch or two of gypsum for good effect. Keep the box / closet vented. Keep vents protected so experimenters cannot throw matches or other ignition sources in the vents. |
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