Public Service Announcement-Primer explosions at the bench can be preventable, or they will be ugly🙈

[Snoopz]

Man, glad your okay, with the powder could of been worse. Primer tubes did their job.Time to regroup. .
Partly one of the reasons I have separate benches, metallic cartridges, shotgun, case prep, and gunsmith / cleaning, the later on casters, move em around.

-Snoopz

 

[Tarowah]

Dude…. That’s definitely an eye opener, thanks for sharing the aftermath and I’m glad it’s not any worse than it is, that could have been bad, bad.


I’ll be wearing safety glasses and gloves when I’m priming cases from now on, that’s for darn sure!

 

[Red Marley]

Now I'm worried about stored primers, dumped together in a tin. Anybody ever heard of primers spontaneously igniting?

 

[Snoopz]

Now I'm worried about stored primers, dumped together in a tin. Anybody ever heard of primers spontaneously igniting?

Don't hold me to it, but there was something about that a few years ago, guy had them on the bench, dont remember the details, some said static electricity, it was a specific brand. Have to search on it.

And I use the old Lee Autoprimes

Found some stuff

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-Snoopz

 

[Catfish]

Now I'm worried about stored primers, dumped together in a tin. Anybody ever heard of primers spontaneously igniting?

Nope. Spark, heat, or impact yes but not free will.

 

[rufrdr]

I wonder if it was caused by vibration from the grinding transmitted to the primer tubes?

 

[Toprudder]

I wonder if it was caused by vibration from the grinding transmitted to the primer tubes?

My guess is that a spark dropped into the top of the primer tube.

 

[Amanda4461]

I wonder if it was caused by vibration from the grinding transmitted to the primer tubes?

Based upon my home security video, in living color, the sparks from cutting the stubs off of the front sight flowed away from the primer tubes.
The Dremel grinding sparks dumped into the top of the primer tubes.
Kabloom🤯🚑

 

[catpop]

So glad you survived the incident!

My old saying is God looks after dumb animals and dumb old divers!

Glad he looked after you to reload another day! Stay safe!

 

[11B CIB]

Based upon my home security video, in living color, the sparks from cutting the stubs off of the front sight flowed away from the primer tubes.
The Dremel grinding sparks dumped into the top of the primer tubes.
Kabloom🤯🚑

Can we see the video? Cropped if need be, don’t need to see the injury, just the primer det

 

[BloodRunsThicker]

Wow. That is wild. Glad you and family are all safe and you and wife had a reaction plan and it went well bravo on that. Swift and speedy recovery for you.
Reminds me of things I need to teach my family and have laying around my house.

 

[Thumbsout]

Thanks for posting this PSA. Always best to learn from other people's pyrotechnics

 

[Amps 13]

Just checking in and seeing how you are healing?

 

[Chdamn]

Just checking in and seeing how you are healing?

I came in here just now to do the same.