Auxiliary powder container?

I use Folgers

"almost" one pound plastic coffee cans.

I have been using clear plastic peanutbutter / salsa containers with screw top for decades without issues.

Post a wanted ad on here or armslist for an empty one pound can. Im sure there are plenty of people like me that hold onto their empty cans and would be willing to help out a fellow reloader.

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I got several medicine plastic bottles from someone I know that are LARGE.
About the size of a soup can. They have tight fitting lids.

Or the vitamin bottles or something like it that has a screw on cap.
I like to try to keep any moisture out just in case any is around looking for a place to get into.

Heck, just about any plastic container for temp storage with a screw on cap should work.

I'd stay away from glass containers, like someone mentioned on the forum about putting primers in a glass jar. OuCh......

Glass goes ballistic when dropped on a concrete floor. Yep...I've dropped a few.

TxD

Ps...see if your local pharmacy has big ones you could buy. They have great seals on the caps. AND they are child proof. ( If that is a concern )
Bet they would not charge much, I'm going to check with mine next time, I gave myself a good idea.

judgedelta said:

I don't have any empty one pound plastic powder containers. I dislike pouring a little powder back and forth from an 8-pound jug every time I want to load 50 or a hundred cartridges. Any suggestions for chemical resistant containers that would hold about a pound? Thanks, JD

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Buy one pound containers for the powders that you use. When they are empty, save them. Already labeled and designed for powder.

Any suggestions for chemical resistant containers that would hold about a pound?

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Those black containers are not only chemical resistant, far more importantly they are static spark resistant too. Something to think about.

Empty Ovaltine container. The plastic one with the screw top lid

I use the empty vitamin jars from Costco. They’re about the same size as a one pounder and [appear] to be the same or similar plastic, just white instead of black.

Any HDPE marked bottle in black should be ok to use. HDPE is on the bottom of some Hodgdon smokeless bottles i have. Black is to keep the sun off the powder.

I was in the same situation. I started out buying 8lb jugs. A few weeks back I got tired of that, because it just takes up too much room on my bench. So a quick look at the bay showed empty powder bottles selling for $7.

Yeah, wasn't really looking to buy those, besides, I wanted ones to have the right labels anyway as just writing with a marker could lead to dumb mistakes.

Found the correct type of bottles on the river.

Search for High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). It definitely does not need to be black. Opaque white is fine and fairly light proof(which isn't a problem with smokeless powder anyway)When I bought mine they were less than $4, now they are up., But anyone that follows buying there knows prices are very fluid.
I print out the logo/label and tape them on. Works great.

For some reason, it's near impossible to find black HDPE, wide-mouthed bottles/jars, anywhere. You could use the bottles that hydrogen peroxide come in, but the mouth is gonna make that a pain in the rear.

PET (soda bottles) are also incredibly resistant to solvents and also highly insoluble to gases. Just keep out of sunlight.

Aways back I bought 7 1-lb cans of powder, rather than an 8 lb jug, just so I would have some extra cans. I got plenty.

You might have some extra jugs on hand that you just need to liberate. If you have 2 or 3 cans of a dense powder of the same lot, you can combine them. Or if you have any rarely used and near empty cans of powder, take what's left and pour that into a thick plastic bag or aforementioned styles of bottles and then put that into an opaque container. The vinyl sticker on these powder bottles peels right off, no problem. Put a big label on it, and there's really no issue. Grab an image off the net, resize, and use a color printer. Or heck, even draw something out with colored crayons and markers if you are worried about a mixup.

My advice?

Buy another one pounder of that powder, and use that labeled container then.

Using a generic bottle, after a period of not reloading, you may lose track of what powder is in it.

In such a case, you'll have to toss it, or become a Darwinian statistic.

I have a empty plastic container of H4895 and a couple of older metal powder containers if you are interested in them. If so PM me your particulars and I will send them to you.

I'm going to side with the other members recommending against this. Just buy a 1 lb can of the same powder. Anything else is not worth the risk. The most important aspect of handloading is being safe. Lean in the direction of caution.

Nope, I don't buy pound bottles of powder, same as I have never bought a sleeve of primers, or even a box for that matter.

The bottles I mentioned are the real deal and work perfectly. Look them up, or not.

OP, some of us recommending the use of other type of plastic jars didn't mention, but it was implied, that you label whichever empty container you go with.
I use a strip of blue painter's tape. A buddy that is more on the OCD side prints a reproduction of the original label and pastes it on. There are some good ideas above.
As to the type of plastic, the Ovaltine jars are HDPE just like most of the powder jars.
Either way, there is NO confusion as to what is in the jar.

Just keep them in the shade.

I purchased 8 pounders of military surplus powders and they came in 1 gallon bleach bottles. So, I transfer powder into 1 qt. bleach bottles for ease of handling, and they are opaque. Before I put any powder in anything, I make a label and clearly label the container. As for the smaller mouths on some bottles, there is a unique tool made/used called a funnel. I use a smooth sided aluminum funnel when returning powder from my measures to the powder container, even if it is a normal 1 lb. powder bottle. No spillage that way...

People still drink OVALTINE??

I save all my 1 lb jars. I scan the the 4 or 8 lb label on photo paper reduced in size and glue/tape to the smaller bottle. Alliant and Hodgdon bottles so they are the correct size.

I put all my powders in Hodgon/Win/IMR bottles, so they fit on the same shelf space. I can just barely fit 1 lb of Unique into a Win bottle, and probably less than a full lb of Red Dot.

Here's my can of Unique:
http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv241/gloob27x/PowwderCan001.jpg

I try to keep at least one empty bottle on hand, just in case. But I have thrown out quite a few, yet.

Rule3, Yes, I prefer Nesquick, but my son loves the Ovaltine. At least he drinks milk that way.