Laugh at my pain and solve this problem for me.
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Laugh at my pain and solve this problem for me.
Smokeless gunpowder used in modern firearms comes in all shapes and sizes. From a few feet away it just looks like sand, but when you get closer, they actually have "shapes". There are a few primary shapes that they come in, and here we have "flake" and "stick". Not only are they different shapes, but different sizes and even colors. These are 2 very popular powders for small-caliber centerfire rifle.
A buddy showed up this afternoon while I was cleaning up after loading up some ammo and we got to bullshitting about stuff... and I broke a cardinal rule: "ONLY ONE BOTTLE OF POWDER ON THE TABLE AT A TIME". I poured all my excess from the scale into the wrong bottle, and now I've got a mess.
It's only $40 worth of powder and I could always scatter it in the yard as fertilizer, but I'm willing to do a spoonful every night (for the next year) with some tweezers just because I hate to waste it. I am all ears if you've got a solution on how I can mechanically separate these easier. Sifting, sieve, sluice box, filter... I will try anything.
A buddy showed up this afternoon while I was cleaning up after loading up some ammo and we got to bullshitting about stuff... and I broke a cardinal rule: "ONLY ONE BOTTLE OF POWDER ON THE TABLE AT A TIME". I poured all my excess from the scale into the wrong bottle, and now I've got a mess.
It's only $40 worth of powder and I could always scatter it in the yard as fertilizer, but I'm willing to do a spoonful every night (for the next year) with some tweezers just because I hate to waste it. I am all ears if you've got a solution on how I can mechanically separate these easier. Sifting, sieve, sluice box, filter... I will try anything.
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Blow something up and go buy new powder.
That way
* it isn't wasted, you get to blow something up
* you don't spend a thousand hours with tweezers
* you support the economy
* you get to blow something up
That way
* it isn't wasted, you get to blow something up
* you don't spend a thousand hours with tweezers
* you support the economy
* you get to blow something up
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^Dood, that stuff would be worth a try if I could find a small square of it locally in various sizes... good thought. I'm thinking I could get a set of tiny drill bits and make my own out of plastic and rig up something on my tumbler to vibrate it.
The "burn it" option is always there... but I'm 100% sure there's an easy and quick solution out there to accomplish this task.
The "burn it" option is always there... but I'm 100% sure there's an easy and quick solution out there to accomplish this task.