Powder cabinet?
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Read the national fire code, formerly often bound in with Hodgdon load manuals. Insulating material with a weak panel small enough to be dragged outside easily if there's a spark or other issue. Something like a foot locker unlocked with wood for non-conductive non-sparking insulation and small enough to handle. Some people will use a decommissioned refrigerator with an unlocked door as frex a magnetic closure with insulating properties and built in shelving. My own is a magnetic closure cabinet on wheels with not too much powder in any one unlocked locker.
I'm also leery about using a garage, a garden shed is better, because a garage often has a car which by definition means gasoline as well as flammable cleaners and solvents and paints and all manner of things that don't play well with fire and gun powders. I lost one friend to a powder flare. Witnesses said it was like a piece of the sun in the next room before escaping.
Proper powder magazines can be bought or made but powder magazine on the web is a magazine for skiers.
10-3.7 Smokeless propellants intended for personal use in quantities not exceeding 20 lb (9.1 kg) may be stored in original containers in residences. Quantities exceeding 20 lb (9.1 kg), but not exceeding 50 lb (22.7 kg), may be stored in residences if kept in a wooden box or cabinet having walls or at least 1-inc. (25.4-mm) nominal thickness. NFPA495-85, Standard for the Manufacture, Transportation, Storage and Use of Explosive Materials, (c) 1985, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA 02269. This reprinted material is not the complete and official position of the NFPA on the referenced subject, which is represented by the Standard in its entirety.
I'm also leery about using a garage, a garden shed is better, because a garage often has a car which by definition means gasoline as well as flammable cleaners and solvents and paints and all manner of things that don't play well with fire and gun powders. I lost one friend to a powder flare. Witnesses said it was like a piece of the sun in the next room before escaping.
Proper powder magazines can be bought or made but powder magazine on the web is a magazine for skiers.
10-3.7 Smokeless propellants intended for personal use in quantities not exceeding 20 lb (9.1 kg) may be stored in original containers in residences. Quantities exceeding 20 lb (9.1 kg), but not exceeding 50 lb (22.7 kg), may be stored in residences if kept in a wooden box or cabinet having walls or at least 1-inc. (25.4-mm) nominal thickness. NFPA495-85, Standard for the Manufacture, Transportation, Storage and Use of Explosive Materials, (c) 1985, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA 02269. This reprinted material is not the complete and official position of the NFPA on the referenced subject, which is represented by the Standard in its entirety.
Dusty Stevens
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Flammable materials cabinet.
My loading room is in my basement that temps are pretty constant between 65* and 75*. I use an old NON RUNNING refrigerator as a powder locker and to for sure keep any moisture at bay I run a very low wattage, I think 4 or 6 watt night light on the inside. I put powder in the main part and primers in the freezer section. Works great. If there was to be a fire and heat got enough to cause powder to combust the pressure would just push the door open and not explode. I would not try to store powder and primers in a garage that was not temp controlled. Swings of temps too high and too low KILL powder and primers. In my experience temps too high with high humidity are the worst.
hoz53
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It’s supposed to be in a wood cabinet so it doesn’t build up to much pressure and turn into a bomb if it ignites. I need to update info from my ins company and state fire Marshall. What I’d really like to do is keep it in a cabinet outside my shop but I’d have to keep it temp controlled.
Shooter13
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Oops! I'm in trouble (but not in PA).
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