Do any of you reload in a carpeted area of your home? How do you protect it?

[Bill4282]

I worked at a range where we kept fire extinguishers to put out fires when unspent fired powder in the carpet catches on fire. Strange but true.

 

[Clark]

I have been trying different vacuum cleaners with powder and live primer, and I cannot get any reaction.

If someone has found a vac that can set off a primer, I would like to know about it.

 

[stubbicatt]

I had a Hoover for many year which would pop live primers that fell in the rug. It was an upright with that rotating brush in the front sort of like an old push type, reel, lawnmower? Anyways, I could hear them pop with some regularity.

Gotta love shag carpet...

 

[Clark]

I have a Eureka upstairs, a Eureka downstairs, and ShopVac in the shop. I have to empty the primers out of Eurekas fast, or the plastic cyclone chambers will get scratched.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner
Cyclonic cleaners do not use filtration bags. Instead, the dust is separated in a detachable cylindrical collection vessel or bin. Air and dust are sucked at high speed into the collection vessel at a direction tangential to the vessel wall, creating a fast-spinning vortex. The dust particles and other debris move to the outside of the vessel by centrifugal force, where they fall due to gravity.

Primers spend or new just keep spinning around the outside of the cyclone, scratching plastic as they spin. Nothing else I have vacuumed up has this problem, but I guess I have not vacuumed up 4-40 nuts.

 

[swampcrawler]

Just a big piece of scrap carpet under and around the edges of my bench on top of the real carpet.

 

[GaryL]

I have a scrap of carpet under my press. The only problem with a remnant is the carpet under it won't wear like the rest of the carpet.