OOPS I accidently mixed powders

[ranger3]

I had a bit of Benchmark left and wanted to move into a full bottle. I accidentally poured it into a H380 half full bottle,. I guess I'll be dumping 1 1/2 lbs of powder. Can't imagine I can salvage this.

FORUM BOSS: Dump it. NEVER EVER attempt to load or salvage a mixture of powders.

 

[stork]

Ranger3,
It makes a high nitrogen fertilizer. Kinda crappy to happen tho. If it makes you feel any better, I would be among many who cannot cast the first stone.

 

[MikeT124]

Don't take a chance on that stuff, dump it. Not even worth thinking about any possible options.

Mike

 

[jepp2]

I had a bit of Benchmark left

Can you be more definitive than "a bit".

 

[Chiquita]

I made the same mistake on a brand new 8lb jug of IMR4064.
without moving the bottle too much cut the top with a sharp razor blade and scoop out 1/4 or so of the the top layer.

If you are talking a pound of the bottle and you have 1/2 lb of other mixed in then you might as well throw it away. You be the judge.

 

[jepp2]

I accidentally poured it into a H380 half full bottle,. I guess I'll be dumping 1 1/2 lbs of powder. Can't imagine I can salvage this.

My math says H380 half full bottle was a 1 pounder, and your "a bit" must have been 1 pound of Benchmark. Good luck getting 1.5 pounds of powder into a 1 pound bottle.

 

[Pawnee Bill]

Just dump it and move on. If you have been a reloader very long we have all done that or close to it.

 

[M-61]

This is simple. Throw it out.
People struggle getting their loads to 1/10 of a grain with ONE known powder. What exactly would you do with your mix?
You made what is known as an error. BUT you caught it. In a way you can consider this quite fortunate.

 

[wbm]

Did that once also. Have to dump it.

 

[Longtrain]

Your lawn with thank you. (Most likely you won’t do that again)

 

[ranger3]

I had looked at some sort of sifting but H380 sticks to Benchmark like a magnet. Yes I will dump it. Thanks to all who chimed in.

 

[Rsadams]

Throw it out , the powder cost nothing compared to the ER visit.... Why in the world would you chance it... There's been tons of post on this site about mixing lots of the SAME powder...

 

[hogpatrol]

As previously posted, good fertilizer. Put it on your flowers

 

[eric n]

Go easy on how much you use for fertilizer.
Not only did I waste about 4lbs of powder when I mixed them together, I over fertilized With R15 and 8208 and killed my grass!

 

[mousegunner]

I did a wee bit of titegroup into bullseye, very close in burn rate so I mixed it good. I think I did but wasn't sure.

I have my powder in a different part of the house so I only take out what I'm gonna use and put it on my bench but the powder I mixed was (?) in a trickler that I may have or not cleaned out but wasn't a lot.

 

[BigBlueandGoldie]

Go easy on how much you use for fertilizer.
Not only did I waste about 4lbs of powder when I mixed them together, I over fertilized With R15 and 8208 and killed my grass!

Can you recommend a starting point of RL15 for Bermuda?

 

[rr2030]

You can't have back the moment just before all went Ka-Boom and someone is injured or a firearm destroyed. Lesson learned, you caught the mistake, capitalize on that discovery, toss the powder, move on.

 

[Webster]

Ranger3,
It makes a high nitrogen fertilizer. Kinda crappy to happen tho. If it makes you feel any better, I would be among many who cannot cast the first stone.

It isn't water soluble.

 

[jackson1]

Had a brain cramp and mixed shot and Clays together. Used a form of gold panning to separate them.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

I did that. Once... Tossed it and moved on.