Why plastic containers?

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Some plastic is bad, some is good. Really depends on what is in it. Also depends on what type of powder it is as well. I would point you to ctmuzzleloaders.com but they are down currently. They did testing and shows that with graphite added black powder can take some serious electrical charges before going off.
 
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Schuetzen has been shipped in plastic jugs for a long time.

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The jury is really out and Black Powder and Electro Static Discharge. Informal tests do seem to show that the graphite coating on the grains tends to conduct static charges over the surface of the grains without causing enough resistance to cause enough heat to ignite the powder. There are photos on the web demonstrating this, however I am not aware of any serious testing in a laboratory situation.
 
Yep...the Only way to ignite Black Powder is Heat A little static shock is no where near enough of a heat generator.

Compression or shock won't ignite it either...that is why it works so well. You can compress it into a 45-70 case until it bulges the case and when it is fired it still won't explode from the shock....it simply ignites from heat and burns consistantly and evenly, no matter if it is confined or in open air.
 
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OK my old DuPont cans have gotten a little rusty over the years.
I have a cap with a casing soldered on for a spout, the question is do I transfer the powder or try to figure how to solder plastic, 'cause you know that new spout will cost more than $10 with postage and handling.
 
Compression or shock won't ignite it either...that is why it works so well. You can compress it into a 45-70 case until it bulges the case and when it is fired it still won't explode from the shock....it simply ignites from heat and burns consistantly and evenly, no matter if it is confined or in open air. (at around 3,000 fps I believe)
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Sorry, Black Powder does not burn that fast. Black Powder only burns at a rate of hundreds of feet per second, depending on the exact composition of the powder. 3,000 fps is the detonation speed of high explosives. Black powder does not detonate, it deflagrates. That is a fancy way of saying it burns, relying on heat transferred throughout the mass to ignite the whole. High explosives do not burn the same way, they detonate, relying on a supersonic shock wave to propagate the explosion through out the material. 3,000 fps is getting into the territory of high explosives.
 
You may be able to use a hot glue gun to adhere the valve to the plastic bottle.
A plastic welder will only fuse plastics of the same type, or compositions that use one of the same type.
 
Thanks for mentioning that about the BP speed.....So do you know the actually burn speed of our sporting BP? I find info ranging all over the place but no concrete numbers

You mentioned that High explosive was 3K but that is not so...."High" Explosive is 30,000 fps
 
Violette did some testing back in the day. Long story short he said a direct relationship between ignition temp and the temperatures at which the
charcoal is carbonized. i.e. burn rate is related to its ignition temp.

Sassel said 25% of volatile content in charcoal is optimal for use. Also see Kirshenbaum, Hintze, Gray, March, Robertson and Rose.

As for actual speed, the chart shows

BlackPowderManufacturing_TestingandOptimizing_Page_090.jpg
 
so according to that chart BP burns at less than 1 fps??? The chart lists cm/s and there are about 30cm per/ft.

That seems quite slow??
 
Going back to the OPs question, a similar change happened in the UK a few years ago at the instigation of some government department - Health and Safety comes to mind, but don't quote me :)
The reason given was that if a plastic container of BP is involved in a fire it will go Phutt! rather than the Boom! of a steel can. We are also now required to keep our plastic bottles in a compartmented plywood box, not a safe. Same reason.
 
Thanks for mentioning that about the BP speed.....So do you know the actually burn speed of our sporting BP? I find info ranging all over the place but no concrete numbers
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I have a couple of books on explosives and I thought I had seen a reference to the speed that a flame propagates through BP in them but I could not find it. So I went on the web and the best answer I could find was 'hundreds' of fps. You are correct, high explosives often approach 30,000 fps.

Some high explosives don't really 'burn' the way we think of it with Black Powder and Smokeless sporting powders. Instead, once ignited a shock wave travels through the material at supersonic speeds and that is where the high explosives come in. But with Black Powder this does not happen, the material ignites progressively as the heat travels through the material at subsonic speeds.

I should have said that 3,0000 fps would put BP at the threshold of high explosives.
 
Since you purchased Goex and they packaged it, why not call them and ask.

Then you would know, instead of www. speculation..
 
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Old wives tale. Static electricity is only dangerous around high concentrations of dust in the air. BP plants explode from dust accumulation in the same way that grain elevators do.
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Sawdust does the same thing. Years ago when I worked in a door factory we had a sawdust explosion in the dust collector pipes that were over 18" in diameter. I was about 100 feet away. When it went off it was a 25 foot wall of fire in the building and debris flying all over. It was like in the movies, only real. All I could do is hit the deck. Fortunately no one was injured as it happened on swing shift and the area where it happened was shut down. I was closer to the blast than anyone and wouldn't want to go through something like it ever again. I was not so lucky the next time something happened and almost lost my right leg below the knee. After 6 months of not too pleasant time off I was back at work.
 
fdf,

The smokeless powder shortage has caused me to become seriously interested in shooting BP firearms. I have limited experience with BP and freely admit my ignorance.

I figure the best source for information for the care and feeding of my smoke poles is the collective decades (hundreds?) of years of experience of shooters on this forum.

I have already learned about how to make my wads and lube from this forum.


If you have practical knowledge or experience on the topic I would like to hear about it.
 
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Thanks fdf!
 
Gato, you know, they can't post anything on the internet that's not true.:rolleyes:

I don't know why they switched to plastic containers.
Don't expect me to carry mine in anything other than a horn or flask.
I'd be embarassed to be seen with a plastic jug of Goex.
 
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