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Explosion while reloading smokeless powder

Guys, It can and will explode. Here in my home town, a knucklehead was welding in his garage. He also reloaded in his garage. Well guess what. Welding sparks can burn through a plastic powder container. Blew the roof off the Garage and damaged the house across the street with frag. Just a caution for the rest of us to limit the explosives on your bench and of course don't weld in your loading room.
 
Put me in the group of commenters who say this does not add up. I would suspect a water heater gas leak over smokeless powder "exploding."

And Oso, if yoiu scuba dive with a tank of oxygen, and if you go below 25 feet, you're a dead man. Scuba tanks are filled with air.
 
Put me in the group of commenters who say this does not add up. I would suspect a water heater gas leak over smokeless powder "exploding."

And Oso, if yoiu scuba dive with a tank of oxygen, and if you go below 25 feet, you're a dead man. Scuba tanks are filled with air.
I don't blame ya for the skepticism and I can't explain it, but trust me, it happens and did to a friend and fellow shooter/forum member on here, if you go back and read my post. I don't know what conditions make it possible or not but the sooner you accept that it is possible and has happened, the better for all. Maybe in a larger area, it doesn't happen but I wouldn't assume it to be that simple either. The guy I referred to is an excellent shooter and not a noobie. Not saying that he was taking every precaution but to the contrary, it happening should make us more cognizant of the precautions that we should be taking rather than assuming that just because it doesn't always happen that it can't.
 
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I don't blame ya for the skepticism and I can't explain it, but trust me, it happens and did to a friend and fellow shooter/forum member on here, if you go back and read my post. I don't know what conditions make it possible or not but the sooner you accept that it is possible and has happened, the better for all.
Thankfully, it’s a rare event! Admittedly a guess, but investigators finding cigarette paraphernalia in the room suggests the presence of a heat source and/or open flame. Both capable of initiating the event!

What‘s more amazing to me is the number of people I see smoking while filling their vehicles with highly flammable fluids!
 
If you reload in the garage where gasoline containers are stored for motorcycles, boats, weed eaters, chain saws, gasoline fumes settle along the floor. Then add propane tanks for the gas grill or generator.

Now add a grinder with sparks flying 20'. You can use your imagination.
 
If you reload in the garage where gasoline containers are stored for motorcycles, boats, weed eaters, chain saws, gasoline fumes settle along the floor. Then add propane tanks for the gas grill or generator.

Now add a grinder with sparks flying 20'. You can use your imagination.
Lol! I just heat with propane to keep all that stuff burned up. Lol! ;)
 
I think everyone here has probably tried the "I have little flecks of miscellaneous powder on the bench, I'll gather them and light them outside" experiment.
Without a way to build pressure in a closed container, it just fizzles.


About half a pound of 4831SC getting toastie
 

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they show a picture of six empty plastic powder bottlers from after the event.
Report said 6 empty bottles were found in the back yard (or back porch, don't remember now.) [Interesting thing to me was that they're not all bottles of the same powder type.] The ATF report presumed that he consolidated the powder from those bottles into a single container, but didn't elaborate on that much.
 
How many types of powder do you use?
Keep empties out in the garage?

HE DIDN'T THROUGH THE EMPTIES AWAY.
I have half a zillion old powder bottles.
 
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six empty bottles means he transferred it to six containers or to one container. if he had six containers to transfer it to that would be unusual, to me. if he transferred it to one, he was up to no good.
 

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