Nitrocellulose laquer and cigaratte paper cartridges.

[Ginormous]

Thanks madcratebuilder. Blockade Runner has some great tin and copper ware. Nice prices to boot. The site has a lot of good reading content as well.

http://www.blockaderunner.com/ for anyone else interested.

 

[Smokin_Gun]

Nice tin ... I have a char tin a bit larger diameter with a gas vent hole in the middle of the lid and char cloth, and flint ... was thrown in a like type fire pit ... carry in possibles bag with steel striker.
I like the idea I'm a gonna borrow it from ya, thank you very much.

 

[AdmiralB]

Tell me you're kidding, AdmiralB! Those are the coolest tins ever.

'Fraid not...at least, the two tins I got from Dixie last month are in red plastic.

They're a lot easier to open than the Remington/CCI tins, but I wouldn't want to bet on them surviving a toss in a fire!

 

[Ginormous]

Well crap. All I have seen in the gun shops so far around here are the RWS steel tins, so I guess I'll grab them all up before the inventory turns over to the plastic container. It's not like I won't use the contents.

Here's a comparison of CCI (left) vs. RWS (right) tins when heated up in a fireplace, bumped to the side and covered with hot ash and glowing embers. The RWS tin has a lot more color vs. the CCI tin. I could probably control the colors better with a propane torch or some such, but then I'd loose another reason to have a roaring fire in late March in Georgia. Today's a rainy, drizzly, and miserable day, so I didn't need any more reason.

If it matters, wood used was oak and hickory, ashes were generic fireplace ashes, and coals were the red hot kind that'll hurt you when picked up bare fingered.

 

[Ginormous]

I was digging around for the reason the steel tins were capable of such a broad range of colors when heated. We'll this chart explains why. Quite simply it's the temperature the steel tins reach at various points. Simple (but pretty new info to me).

Here's a link to a neat chart that shows the equivalent temperatures plain carbon steel must reach to reflect a certain color:

http://www.anvilfire.com/index.php?...per Colors and Steel Hardness : anvilfire.com