This is a common misperception.
Neither water, nor oil will deactivate a primer. Primers are pretty hard to kill short of detonating them.
I read that water will deactivate them until they dry.
This is a common misperception.
Neither water, nor oil will deactivate a primer. Primers are pretty hard to kill short of detonating them.
I read that water will deactivate them until they dry.
This is a common misperception.
Neither water, nor oil will deactivate a primer. Primers are pretty hard to kill short of detonating them.
Well....I guess i don't need to worry about storing them in a dry area then like all manufacturers recommend.....Learn something new everyday........
http://glarp.atk.com/2008/msds/Primers.pdf
Above is the MSDS on CCI cartridge primers.
It notes that scrap primers should be stored under water with a wetting agent (detergent) until ready for disposal, then disposal should be incineration.
Being the empiricist I am, several years ago when I too first heard that primers were hard to kill, I tried to kill some. I loaded up a bunch of empty cases and tortured them. An hour's worth of soaking in water and they still went bang just fine. It took about 3 days of soaking in water before they wouldn't go bang in the gun on the first hit, though some would go bang after repeated hits. When they dried out they went bang just fine. I also tried WD40 and machine oil. None deactivated them (though it did weaken them). Just for giggles, I took some non loaded primers, soaked them for a week in water, then put them on the anvil and hit them with a drilling hammer. They all popped nicely.
Well Friday after work I went to make some 9mm subsonic with my Dillon 1050 and just after refilling the primer filler kabooooooom. A primer detonated just after pulling the arm and all of the primers in the tube detonated and if it was not for the steel shroud the aluminum tube would have split into pieces. The rod for the low primer sensor is gone to outer space and i am missing a case. I have ordered the damaged and missing pieces from Dillon.
After talking to a buddy of mine he had the same experience and when he spoke to Dillon they immediately asked if he was using Federal primers. He was. I was also using Federal primers that I picked up years ago.
Anyone else have that problem?
Chuck
p.s. My dog is pretty squeamish to go to the basement with me after that. Scared him pretty bad.
jimbojr said:Nope, not with a Hornady.