Where do you store your powder?

[Carbon 6]

That's why it's illegal to store gasoline (petrol) in a plastic container, in the UK. Quite rightly.
My petrol is stored in the petrol tank of my car.

Umm, Most if not all car and light truck gas tanks are plastic these days. So storing it in your car is likely storing it in a plastic container.

 

[Carbon 6]

That's why it's illegal to store gasoline (petrol) in a plastic container, in the UK. Quite rightly.

Hmm, What are these for then ?
https://www.jerrycans.co.uk/product-category/plastic-fuel-cans/

 

[Greg Blackburn]

Yet US Army steel ammo cans are used for "Smokeless" cartridges which are made with Nitroglycerine and when a can of this gets so hot it cooks of it explodes like a bomb throwing steel and brass around at rifle bullet speeds !

I don't think that's how ammo goes off.......in a fire, without the compression of the barrel and bolt, self-contained cartridges will "pop" splitting open the case and not having any meaningful velocity.

I could test this but with ammo prices so high right now, I'm just not going to do that.

Oops! Replied before seeing the excellent video above. Looks like it's been very well covered already.

*I had this same discussion with a firefighter that I met while staying in a Vermont motel. He shook his head a few times then (to his credit) admitted his station chief had told him wrong!

 

[Greg Blackburn]

After the Derecho hit my area in 2012, I decided that I needed to store 50 gallons of gasoline at a time, enough to refill both my car and truck's tank once plus 10 gallons for my mower. I hate the new plastic containers that lack a vent....so over the years I have bought up vintage metal gas cans, all vented. Only now I've decided that what I really need is a "gasoline caddy" so I've decided to make my own. I'm going to use a 35 gallon gasoline barrel with crank pump, mounting it on a hand truck dolly.

I want to build a shed to store the gasoline, spray paint, motor oil, etc. in, getting those out of the garage.

 

[Griz44Mag]

Good one.

Like I said, "it doesn't" it's about as dangerous as cooking popcorn naked without a lid on the pan.

Man, what a relief - I thought I was the only one that did that. Now I know that I am not alone.......

 

[Griz44Mag]

I could test this but with ammo prices so high right now, I'm just not going to do that.

When I saw this video and realized they destroyed more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition I almost cried......

 

[Carbon 6]

When I saw this video and realized they destroyed more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition I almost cried......

The price of a good education. Worth every round.

Now, if Goex or Hodgdon would just make a similar video.

 

[Evelyn BH]

Is it? That is how i did it for decades in the plastic cans they sell for that purpose, at garages!

Just suprised if this is true, it may well be as i have never heard of it is all.

Ah ha.....just checked UK law...totally legal to store in plastic cans made for that purpose.

Ah. Beg your pardon. The key words being "made for that purpose". Meaning the petrol fumes don't diffuse through it.
No, I don't have a motor lawnmower, leaf blower or weed eater. I'll keep my opinion of those things to myself or the moderators will throw me out.
Back to black powder.

 

[charlesk]

In a safe

 

[Carbon 6]

YES - Those of us that have houses, yards, property, trucks, tractors, etc..... use and store liquid fossil fuels.

I have many different types of fuel.
Gasoline,
alcohol(s)
diesel
kerosene
oil
lamp oil
naphtha
propane,
butane,
wood
coal
charcoal

 

[Greg Blackburn]

Ah. Beg your pardon. The key words being "made for that purpose". Meaning the petrol fumes don't diffuse through it.
No, I don't have a motor lawnmower, leaf blower or weed eater. I'll keep my opinion of those things to myself or the moderators will throw me out.
Back to black powder.

Motors run via electricity, engines burn a fossil fuel.

My dad keeps all his fuel cans with the vents open......I am the opposite. I only open the vents when filling the can or pouring from it, or if I have to leave it out in the sun for some reason.

If I ever buy up more black powder, more than I have on hand now, I'll put it in a cabinet or something. Now it's just up on a shelf in original container.

 

[FishDFly]

For a question of where to store your black powder, this subject sure has wandered over many pages, kinda like the one a couple of weeks ago.

How did liquids flammable and combustible liquids and containers wander in? Long ways form BP.

 

[Many Klatch]

Interesting. Lots of opinions, and information. It seems to me (correct me if I am wrong), that the primary: only? risk is a spark, or direct flame.

Yes, heat won't cause it to cook off, only a spark. For that reason do not store it with primers or caps.

 

[Carbon 6]

Yes, heat won't cause it to cook off, only a spark.

Depends on how hot that heat is, after all a spark is just hot metal.

 

[toot]

when I go to the range an plan for a day of shooting, I store it in my gun barrel till I fire it.

 

[Carbon 6]

when I go to the range an plan for a day of shooting, I store it in my gun barrel till I fire it.

You can store a day's worth of shooting in your gun barrel ?
Must be a volley gun made by Henry.

 

[toot]

You can store a day's worth of shooting in your gun barrel ?
Must be a volley gun made by Henry.

GOTCHA! right on!! that will do it.

 

[GREENSWLDE]

E. Baker made Volley guns for the British Navy. Never heard of a Henry one.. Store my Powder in the boiler room .Keeps it nice and Dry..

 

[ord sgt]

I buy my powder in five pound lots, if I can get it that way. It come in a plastic bag, inside a brown paper bag, sealed with a piece of packing tape. I transfer the loose powder to one pound Goex cans. These cans are put into G.I. .50 calibre ammo cans and stored in my workshop, next to my reloading bench. I make sure that I have plenty of the right grade of powder (FFg, FFFg) cans before a transfer.

 

[Tumbledown]

I buy my powder in five pound lots, if I can get it that way. It come in a plastic bag, inside a brown paper bag, sealed with a piece of packing tape. I transfer the loose powder to one pound Goex cans. These cans are put into G.I. .50 calibre ammo cans and stored in my workshop, next to my reloading bench. I make sure that I have plenty of the right grade of powder (FFg, FFFg) cans before a transfer.

You now have bombs in your workshop.