Making primers
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Dusty Stevens
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Its coming. No primers needed if it ever comes about.Their Electric/chemical primers were 20 years ago technology. I was dreaming all electric. Tasers, lasers and LEDs these days you’d think they’d come up with something
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In my youth I have gone BOOM bang and fizzle.... At my own amazement I still have everything attached.
Knowing what little I know about primer mixture scares the bageezus out of me enough to NEVER try to rolling my own. I did see the video and read about how to reuse spent primers with caps, I figure it is someone else's turn to do . But if you do I would buy some.....
Knowing what little I know about primer mixture scares the bageezus out of me enough to NEVER try to rolling my own. I did see the video and read about how to reuse spent primers with caps, I figure it is someone else's turn to do . But if you do I would buy some.....
If you meet the requirements you can apply for a job to get paid and learn the ropes on how it's currently done.
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There's also demand for working on new formulations etc but there's a different set of requirements including 5 years experience with energetic materials, and since it specifies manufacturing of such, range time & reloading bench time doesn't count.
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There's also demand for working on new formulations etc but there's a different set of requirements including 5 years experience with energetic materials, and since it specifies manufacturing of such, range time & reloading bench time doesn't count.
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As I understand the incident a few years ago, the worker was killed when he was working with tetrazene which is a component of some primers, but not usually small arms primers. That said, ATK was apparently trying to cut costs because they were losing money while operating Lake City. And regardless, styphnate primers aren’t any less hazardous.
One of the mechanisms current primers use to ignite powder is they raise the pressure inside the case substantially. Up to 6000 psi. At that pressure and temperature the powder doesn’t need a spark to ignite over all of its surface,
You can make your own primers using a compound called H48. Buying the components to do so, however, will probably get you on a watch list; especially if you opt for the paint grade aluminum powder option at the same time. This is a “relatively safe” compound to handle though; more so than lead styphnate or lead azide anyway.
There was a primer manufacturing facility about ten miles West of here some 40 years ago - mining applications, not munitions. This was a high explosives plant making pentolite, a mixture of PETN and TNT, that had an accident one night and the whole thing went up. There were five people at the plant and a 2-1/2 ton truck parked inside at the time. The only thing identifiable afterwards was the severely mangled rear axle from that truck. Everyone and everything else was literally vaporized. As an explosives engineer I can tell you you don’t want large quantities of any of this stuff, I’m talking a few grams hers, around without proper containment and handling procedures.
There was a primer manufacturing facility about ten miles West of here some 40 years ago - mining applications, not munitions. This was a high explosives plant making pentolite, a mixture of PETN and TNT, that had an accident one night and the whole thing went up. There were five people at the plant and a 2-1/2 ton truck parked inside at the time. The only thing identifiable afterwards was the severely mangled rear axle from that truck. Everyone and everything else was literally vaporized. As an explosives engineer I can tell you you don’t want large quantities of any of this stuff, I’m talking a few grams hers, around without proper containment and handling procedures.
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Primer-less ignition.......more or less anyway........A little while back there were these things called flint locks I believe....... 
...........I know, don't be a smart a........well, you know.
...........I know, don't be a smart a........well, you know.
Dusty Stevens
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Even better than that was the good old matchlockPrimer-less ignition.......more or less anyway........A little while back there were these things called flint locks I believe.......
I knew a guy who couldn't shave because he was constantly dragging glass shards out of his face. He was an explosives technician who years before had a blender of some compound blow up and pepper his face with broken glass. The safety glasses saved his eyes. The stuff is not to be played with.
One thing I have not seen mentioned is how difficult it would be to finance a new primer plant due to the uncertainty about competition from imports. If Russian, Chinese or Indian plants can make and import primers cheaper that you can make them here in the USA, who's going to risk the capital investment with a 20-year pay-back? I was watching a YouTube video today and learned that no US company is in the business of porcelain coating iron products any more*. It's labor intensive and can be done cheaper overseas. I've also heard that OSHA regulations make it almost impossible to manufacture extruded powder here. I understand that most of the extruded powder I've bought recently is imported.
*Some companies still porcelain coat iron for their own production.
One thing I have not seen mentioned is how difficult it would be to finance a new primer plant due to the uncertainty about competition from imports. If Russian, Chinese or Indian plants can make and import primers cheaper that you can make them here in the USA, who's going to risk the capital investment with a 20-year pay-back? I was watching a YouTube video today and learned that no US company is in the business of porcelain coating iron products any more*. It's labor intensive and can be done cheaper overseas. I've also heard that OSHA regulations make it almost impossible to manufacture extruded powder here. I understand that most of the extruded powder I've bought recently is imported.
*Some companies still porcelain coat iron for their own production.
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