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Cleaning up spilled powder:
- Thread starter milktree
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I vacuumed up powder dozens of times and never had a problem until I did.
Go for it, but have an evacuation plan just in case.
Go for it, but have an evacuation plan just in case.
Not really, but I'm not sure how much was already in the vacuum along with the wood shavings.
icyclefar
NES Member
When you have smokeless powder and planer shavings on fire, and a 20A motor blowing fresh air onto it, how could it not?
dcmdon
NES Member
This is a joke, right?? There isn't any oxygen inside a loaded round either. Gunpowder provides its own oxidizer. No oxygen needed.
And it makes even less sense, there is a lot of oxygen in a vacuum cleaner. In fact there is a constant stream of it.
With that said, I've simply just vacuumed up powder for the last 20 years. I use a bagless vac and dump it immediately after vacuuming. So there isn't much in the vac.
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I have nothing constructive to add, but this talk of spilled power.... t I have to admit I have a morbid curiousity to see what happens if someone uses a vaccum cleaner to suck up live primers.... I'm not willing to conduct this experiment, however....It might be even more exciting if the vaccum bag already has some smokeless inside it....
-Mike
Way back in grade school, we were in a brand new school, with all new equipment. One of the students happened to bring some primers to that school, and apparently lost track of a some. Later that day, a custodian using a shiny new, commercial vacuum, located the primers. The kid's parents were burdened with the cost of replacing said vacuum. I didn't see the damage but that was the story.
