Powder in the fridge

[jtmattison]

Do any of y'all store your powder in the refridgerator?
I was wondering if it would benefit in a hot climate to do so.

HD

 

[Rebel]

I keep mine in an old metal sided ice chest.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

You have now opened a Pandora's box. :grin:

Not really, but this has been hashed and rehashed more than a few times. And opines on the subject can best be summed up as akin to a certain bodily orifice. We all have one, but not quite the same one. :v

 

[MikeC]

I keep mine in air-tight green metal military ammo boxes and they are in the bottom of my toy closet.

Refers are typically humid.

In theory if the top is on tight you should be able to store it anywhere, but i would guess room temp is best.

 

[50cal.cliff]

Pandora's Box :shake: :redface: :haha:
Once the box is opened its soooo hard to shut the lid too!
I know cause I opened this box before!!!!!! :surrender: Try looking for a tread called In case of fire. Its got more opionions than you will no what to do with.
The bottom line is, if you want to be complient, look up your state's regs. This is how you should store your powder. :yakyak: :yakyak:

 

[redwing]

I keep mine miles below a magic canyon protected by a dragon. Of course, I had his fire breather removed when he was just a lizard.

For real, I keep mine in an old Frig. with a pad lock on it. :thumbsup:

 

[Will Bison]

If your concern is simply an excess of heat, don't fret, BP can withstand temperatures that would be fatal to Humans in short order.

When heating BP, the sulphur melts at 113C and the KNO3 melts at over 300C. Water boils at 100C so given that the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 58C, I'd say you could store BP anyplace you want.

I'd be more concerned about gasoline, spray paint, propane and natural gas explosions.

In short, I'm more concerned about an errant asteroid hitting my house than I am about a BP explosion.

 

[redwing]

No I should have mentioned the old Frig. is not plugged in. I live the High Country the only heat problem I have is paying the gas bills for heating the house. Our high Temps. for the year is about 78 or 79 degrees. :thumbsup:

 

[MSW]

i don't see any advantage to it. i use the contained in which it came to me, and i've had PB in various basements around the eastern US for twenty years and the stuff still works fine. absent that, a watertight container (an ammo can) works well.

 

[T.C.Albert]

Years ago on the advice of others in the know,I did keep all of my b.p. in the famlies working refrigerator, in the crisper drawer ...never had a fire in the fridge...and never had a problem...

Now years later, I keep it in ziplocks in .50 cal ammo cans in a locker, and again no problems...seems to be pretty good shelf life and versitile stuff...
T.Albert

 

[50cal.cliff]

:youcrazy: I said I wasn't going to do this, but what the heck. We hashed this subject back and forth on another tread I started. The long and short of that was, there is probably as many different ways of powder being stored out there as there is opinions on the subject! :grin:
I have the same problem in my neck of the woods heat and high humidty. .
Like alot of you I thought an old ammo can, or a fridge seemed to address the concerns of storage. Here's where the rub comes in though! My thread was about fire also. More than one person said in a fire that metal container becomes a shrapenal type bomb! :shocked2:
After going thru more ideas and opinions, than I can remember, one stuck. The man said check your own state regs of BP storage. :hmm:
You will find that your state most likely has storage procedures for the individual as well as bussinesses! The bottom line in my state was for an individual it must be stored in a wooden box 1" thick exterior, must have divided partitions or 1/2" thicknes. Must have handles for easy lifting, and must be paddlelocked. Also has to be marked all sides and top w/Explosives - Flamable.
Now that will put you in compliance with state code.
To me that says heat and humity are not a problem! This regulations were drafted with the aid of experts in this field, to give the best of all worlds, saftey and useable storage!
Do a Google search: storage regulations black powder (State).You may have to wade thru alot of info to get to the one or two paragrphs pertaining to you, I did! Hope this helps! :wink:

 

Not a good idea. The cold temp isn't a problem and the air in the fridge is actually dryer than ambient air. The problem comes in when you take the powder can out of the refridgerator and open it. Moisture from the air immediatly begins to precipitate out onto the can including the inside surfaces. This, obviously, is not good for the powder.

 

May be a good idea to turn the refrigerator off if your puttin' yer powder in there. Have to put the beer some place else. :hmm:

 

[Halftail]

I been keepin my BP in an old carboard box hid in behind our oil furnace for years ...no problems so far. :shocked2:

 

[roundball]

I guess it depends on where you store it...everything I've ever read says that excessive heat and/or moisture are the two enemies of powder.

So I just store mine in my house where its an air conditioned, controlled enviroment year round...I'm guessing your house interior would be similar.

 

[jtmattison]

I've been keeping it in a wooden box in the garage for years. I just thought maybe keeping it in the fridge would be a good idea with all of this texas heat. I think I'll just bring it in the house and hide it in a closet.

HD

 

[roundball]

That's the way I see it...and I figure if the thick cardboard shipping carton is good enough to ship a case of Goex cans hundreds of miles across country, in all sorts of weather, on and off trucks, and left sitting in the hot afternoon NC sun on my front porch, it's good enough to store it just like that inside my house.

It's on the floor of a closet in a small bedroom that only I go in and out of...out of the way, never subjected to anything...if the house caught on fire and we couldn't get out, we'd be dead from smoke inhalation long before the fire got to melting those cans and getting the powder burning...or, if we weren't home and the house burned down, no harm done.

Seems like I've heard Firemen say they're more concerned about cans of gasoline in a garage and propane tanks for a grill than most other things.

 

[jtmattison]

I remember someone here did a test by throwing a can of BP into a fire. All that happened was a big flare up.

I looked into the Texas regulations and as far as I could see there are no storage regulations for private citizens with 25 pounds or less and businesses with 50 pounds or less.

I bet the fire fighters would sure like to know you have a case of BP in your house before they went in to fight a fire.

HD

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

Here in Joisey the fire guys do what we call a "surround and drown" at most volunteer depts. Only the paid guys tend to be heros.

I store my powder in a box in the basement, away from the furnace. Have no where near the 25 pounds you guys speak of!

Dave

 

[roundball]

I looked into the Texas regulations and as far as I could see there are no storage regulations for private citizens with 25 pounds or less and businesses with 50 pounds or less.

North Carolina has no state over-ride on the ATF regs...which is 50lbs in a single family dwelling, with nothing special required for it.