Like most reloaders I use some method of capturing my spent primers(coffee can). The intent is to save them along with my unusable brass to later scrap for money. Wondering what the inherent dangers are. These are stored indoors since room is limited.
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rcmodel
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No inherent dangers if you don't play with them all the time and suck your thumb.
If you do that, you "might" get lead poisoning by the time you are 85 or 95 years old.
The only other inherent danger I can think of is spilling them and stepping on them bare foot.
rc
If you do that, you "might" get lead poisoning by the time you are 85 or 95 years old.
The only other inherent danger I can think of is spilling them and stepping on them bare foot.
rc
Twmaster
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Mine go right down an extended tube from the press into a quart sized Gatorade bottle....
NeuseRvrRat
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just put the lid on the coffee can when it's full and put another coffee can under there
Dr_B
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Mine go down the tube from the press right into the trash can. That's where I store used primers.
NeuseRvrRat
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i take the shop vac and suck them right out of the primer catcher tray on my rockchucker
bluetopper
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Let us know what you buy with all that spent primer money.
ReloaderFred
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Those throwing spent primers away are wasting money. With brass prices still holding over $2.00 a pound (at least here), it doesn't take that many to make a pound. Just mix them in with the brass you're going to recycle.
Hope this helps.
Fred
Hope this helps.
Fred
FROGO207
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My last trip to the recyclers was 3 five gallon buckets of used crushed brass/primers. The grand total was $124.80. IIRC it was $2.35 a pound. I guess it was worth it.
David Wile
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Hey folks,
I have been reloading for over fifty years and never had any idea about spent primers being made of brass and good for recycling. Every year or so I did cash in on spent brass, and most of that was .22 rimfire. Between 1984 and 2005, we had a pretty big house with a shooting range in the basement. Every Thursday evening we held a bullseye competition there, and we usually shot a half dozen matches each Thursday. After a half dozen guys shoot a half dozen matches, I would probably end up with a couple of pounds of spent brass. I think I could fill a 5 gallon can in a month.
All that brass would bring some bucks for a nice cookout and beer, but it makes me shake my head to think that I never did think about adding spent primers to the brass. Well, I am still learning, so I guess I am not dead yet.
Best wishes,
Dave Wile
I have been reloading for over fifty years and never had any idea about spent primers being made of brass and good for recycling. Every year or so I did cash in on spent brass, and most of that was .22 rimfire. Between 1984 and 2005, we had a pretty big house with a shooting range in the basement. Every Thursday evening we held a bullseye competition there, and we usually shot a half dozen matches each Thursday. After a half dozen guys shoot a half dozen matches, I would probably end up with a couple of pounds of spent brass. I think I could fill a 5 gallon can in a month.
All that brass would bring some bucks for a nice cookout and beer, but it makes me shake my head to think that I never did think about adding spent primers to the brass. Well, I am still learning, so I guess I am not dead yet.
Best wishes,
Dave Wile
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if you have any buried items that a metal detector could find scatter spent primers about in a large radius. rake a little dirt or such atop if they are nickeled
this will scramble any detector. if the operator tunes them out there won't be any depth to the signal at all.
this will scramble any detector. if the operator tunes them out there won't be any depth to the signal at all.
GIJOEL
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What if the primers are silver in color? Are those still brass?
rcmodel
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Many silver primers are nickle plated brass.
Steel primers would be too hard to be reliable.
209 shotshell primers very likely have steel battery cups.
But the primer cup itself is brass or plated brass.
If in Doubt, Whip it Out!
Your little Pocket Magnet you keep on the loading bench for such quandaries that is.
rc
Steel primers would be too hard to be reliable.
209 shotshell primers very likely have steel battery cups.
But the primer cup itself is brass or plated brass.
If in Doubt, Whip it Out!
Your little Pocket Magnet you keep on the loading bench for such quandaries that is.
rc
We used to have a GREAT old gun shop here that I frequented and traded brass back and forth with the owner. One day I asked him if he wanted to take some once fired stuff on trade, and as usual he said "Sure, whatcha got?" I pulled a CCI primer box out of my pocket that I'd filled from the spent bin on the press and handed it to him. He tried very hard for a very long time not to smile or laugh. That box sat on his counter for years with a tag that said "Once fired primers - $0.25."
He never did give me anything for them...
He never did give me anything for them...
JohnM
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"But does your tin foil hat throw off the signal anyway? "
I'm an avid metal detectorist myself. I once found a rusty can hidden under a loose fence post I pulled out on impulse then swept my detector over the hole - it contained silver coins and a rusted nickel plated .32 rf revolver.
I'm an avid metal detectorist myself. I once found a rusty can hidden under a loose fence post I pulled out on impulse then swept my detector over the hole - it contained silver coins and a rusted nickel plated .32 rf revolver.
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