Prime Powder

Sharps4590,.... Hey!!.. I never thot 'bout the "age thing",.... maybe it warn't tha "BP" sprinkeled on my popcorn after all,... thet slowed my "production" down!!!! :haha: :applause: :: /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Joel Lehman]

You can make priming powder while you drive. Just take a 35 mm plastic film container, fill it 1/3 full of any black powder, add a round ball, close the cap, place it in the trunk of your car or pickup bed for a day or so. Every time you turn the canister moves and the ball grinds the powder. The ball will make dust out of the powder if you forget to check every day.

Joel Lehman, Austin, TX

 

Wick - that could be that it isn't coated - I just figured it was probably graphited or coated with something so it would flow as it seems to. It's so dusty, but I guess that's just the "fines" in the powder. I have ground up 1F before, and it caked badly. Put it in a film container, "rapp" it on the table, and it would cake in the container, not wanting to flow out - then dump out almost in a lump. Now that I think about it, that was in the Spring, in Smithers, B.C.- could have been high humidity causing the caking.
Daryl