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  1. J

    Priming powder

    Robin, you are right about the Siler throwing a good shower of sparks. Slow motion photography of a Siler igniting the priming shows the sparks penetrating powder. In slow motion it takes a couple of frames for the spark to bring the powder up the the flash point then the whole priming...
  2. J

    Priming powder

    Yes, I am the Jim Chambers of the lock company and dad of Black Powdere Barbie (my best accomplishment so far). Ha! We did test ffffg as well as some ground up ffffg and found no significant difference. The timing was only from the time the sear was tripped until the priming powder ignited. A...
  3. J

    Priming powder

    There has been several discussions recently about priming powder. Several years ago when we did the lock timing study on various locks we were trying to eliminate as many variables as possible. We were using a computer to time the various locks down to the milisecond from the time the hammer...
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