Where do primers go when you drop them?

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I have a theory - when I drop primers on the floor they enter a quantum time warp and jump several weeks into the future. This happens even before they reach the floor, which is why I never hear them hit. When I look down and search the area, of course there's nothing there because they have time jumped several weeks into the future.

This wouldn't be too bad since there's no loose primer on the floor now, except that the magnetic properties of the time warp have an anchoring effect on the primer. Instead of now moving forward on a day by day basis, the primer slowly looses it's quantum anchoring force which allows it to slip back in time while I move forward on a day by day basis. The end result is that at some point in the future, maybe a couple of days, maybe a week, maybe even a month, but when I'm least expecting it, I'll manage to find it either by stepping on it or vacuuming it up, which will result in a very high propability of setting it off, thereby destroying the vacuum bag and making me several ounces lighter!

Now - what other questions are out there - like what causes flyers??:D
 
I think they are in a pile with those mates of the "single" socks I have. :D

I was at work last month. I'd hear a slight click when I took a step. Took a look...stuck in the tread was that primes I dropped. Funny I didn't hear it while in my basement. :rolleyes:

Now...about those fliers...

Mark
 
Socks get caught in a mini wormhole in the space time continuum caused by the whirling electomagnetic flux created inside an electric dryer. The wormholes terminate in a huge pile of socks on the far side of the moon.

Those wormholes persist after the dryer has been turned off and sweep through the house until they lose energy. I am missing a slotted end for my cleaning rod, and it's probably on the far side of the moon with my missing socks.
 
Same place cockroaches go when you turn on the light :)

They are a lot harder to set off than you imagine. I'm sure I've sucked up a few live ones with the dead ones that escape my primer catcher (the main weak spot of the Dillion) when cleaning up with the shop vac.

--wally.
 
Hazards with sucking up a primer with a vacuum cleaner? Never gave it a thought. You are right about primers. I handle them very carefully because they have a bad habit of getting away.
 
Fliers are caused by buried high-density meteorites under the firing range that cause gravitational anomalies affecting the flight of the bullets depending on which planet is in transit in the constellation Libra.
 
I find that a lot of small parts seem to be concrete soluble. Apparently they just dissolve on contact with the floor.
 
My two Dillon 650s eject primers into the nothingness world below like a machine gun spitting brass! You'd think someone (dillon) could do a little redesigning. Even using masking tape doesn't work for me. I know there are some after market products out there, designed for this problem. Question is, do they work?

Good luck netting those lost primers!
RB
 
vacuuming it up, which will result in a very high propability of setting it off, thereby destroying the vacuum bag and making me several ounces lighter!
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Anyone ever actually experience that one? I've vacuumed up countless numbers of the darned things without problems but I've heard this for years.
 
Take a look at Brian Enos' site under the subtopic "Dillon 650." A lot of guys have approached mods designed to reduce or eliminate thrown primers. I haven't gone for modifying my press, or drilling holes, etc. I just put a small binder clip clamping the RH side of the primer catch pan. For some reason that is obscure to me, this DOES cut down on the number of primers thrown, like 80-90%.
 
The weirdness of limbo

This sort of thing can get weird. The laundry machines may well have something to do with it. While walking past the washer one day I lost one lens from my glasses. I searched that area of the basement high an low to no avail. All this in my house in Iowa.

Now fast forward a couple of years. I've taken an apartment in Alabama. I put one of my gun books on the bookshelf and hear an odd rattle. Lo and behold! It's my eyeglass lens falling out of the book! Back in Iowa this book lived on an end table in my office. Go figure.
 
TexasRifleman said:
Anyone ever actually experience that one? I've vacuumed up countless numbers of the darned things without problems but I've heard this for years.
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I would guess that if it makes it into the bag, the danger is past. What could be a problem is getting pinched or struck between the beater bar/brush and a solid part, or struck by a fan blade. Even then it would take a most unlikely chain of events to actually detonate it.
 
The wormholes terminate in a huge pile of socks on the far side of the moon.
You mean the Dark Side of the Moon?
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???????

There is no such thing as THE "dark side" of the moon, all parts of the moon have a day/night cycle just like here on earth, its just a bit longer as in 28 earth days. The moon is rotating the same way earth does but it rotation is gravity locked with earth so it rotational period is the exact same length as it's revolutionary (going around the earth) period . Which is why we on earth always see the same face. So there is a day side and a night side but that is always moving. Thus "far side" in respect to earth is correct.
Now... where's my coffee?
 
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When we see a new moon, the far side of the moon is at high noon. When we see a full moon, the far side of the moon is at midnight and only then is it truly dark. Arthur C. Clarke was a better astronomer than Pink Floyd. :)
 
Has to be gremlins and they lie in wait for anything I drop that weighs less than five pounds. They especially love live primers though. They always disappear immediately as the little rascals grab them instantly and scurry under something, never to return. They ignore spent primes though. Those I have to pick up myself. :cuss:
 
W L Johnson said:
???????

There is no such thing as THE "dark side" of the moon, all parts of the moon have a day/night cycle just like here on earth, its just a bit longer as in 28 earth days. The moon is rotating the same way earth does but it rotation is gravity locked with earth so it rotational period is the exact same length as it's revolutionary (going around the earth) period . Which is why we on earth always see the same face. So there is a day side and a night side but that is always moving. Thus "far side" in respect to earth is correct.
Now... where's my coffee?
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I think you have had enough coffee for today...
 
Well, don't do what I did once and use your Oreck XL vacuum cleaner to pick 'em up off the floor. It's got a rotating beater brush, and when it encountered the batch of primers that had dropped on the floor, sounded like a pack of firecrackers where someone had lit the fuse on the whole bunch!

Good thing I had put in a fresh bag and there wasn't any dust in there or it could have been much worse -- :D
 
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