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  • jwest
    Veteran Member
    • Dec 2008
    • 3958

    Static Electricity And Reloading

    Calgunners,

    What precautions do you take during reloading against accidental static discharge?

    TIA,
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    merritt
    Member
    • Apr 2008
    • 170

    None.

    What makes you worry about ESD? the kind of electric shock that will set off a primer is the kind of electric shock that will burn you.
    (Lead Azide electric shock sensitivity is through a joule-heating mechanism, with that nice huge metal cup sitting around the priming material a large amount of energy will need to be expended to generate enough heat)

    now static charges that mess with your powder throw accuracy -- that is something you might actually run into
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    • #3
      CSACANNONEER
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      • Dec 2006
      • 44093

      I try not to reload if I'm about to get hit by lightning but, that's the only precaution I take.
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      • #4
        4literranger485
        Member
        • Nov 2008
        • 492

        i reload on a fully welded metal table, with spare car batteries all around so if i drop something it doesnt roll very far

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        • #5
          r08ert209cali
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2008
          • 1534

          haha

          Originally posted by CSACANNONEER
          I try not to reload if I'm about to get hit by lightning but, that's the only precaution I take.
          ^^^^^^^^now that sounds like a signature line if I ever herd one

          I dunno, I've never been much for guns. I mean, sure, we have the usual gun by the door, another near the TV, one in the kitchen, and another in the bedroom...and several others laying around. For the most part though, we keep our home free of guns. We are peace loving folks.

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          • #6
            pdq_wizzard
            Veteran Member
            • May 2008
            • 3813

            Black powder is about the only thing I would worry about, but I don't use it
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            • #7
              Blademan21
              Senior Member
              • Jun 2007
              • 1941

              Originally posted by Sideline Shooter
              I have used a gounding cable on my MEC progressive loader for shotgun shell loading. Mainly the static electricity affects your powder drops in the tube. The powder sticks inside the powder drop tube. But it can also play a little havoc on your scale pan if you wipe it with something that will cause static on the pan. The powder flakes will stick to it and you will have a light drop when you pour it into your casing.
              When I was taught reloading, my "Master" did occasionally wipe down the presses with a antistatic cling dryer sheets. I never asked why back then.
              It could be a concern if you reload (like me) in a apartment with carpet. I never vaccum until I am done reloading.
              I haven't heard of someone causing a spark to ignite the powder, but I don't want to be the first either!

              Sideline Shooter


              Sideline Shooter-- Sounds like your Master was GTO with the dryer sheet advise.
              Hornady says to wipe a antistatic dryer sheet around the powder measure in their Lock-N-Load press.Hmmm.

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              • #8
                Beelzy
                Calguns Addict
                • Apr 2008
                • 9224

                Just don't reload on a carpet......like in the living room.
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                • #9
                  bohoki
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                  • Jan 2006
                  • 20823

                  oh man



                  this would be overboard but i'm not planning on shuffling my feet across the carpet and putting my finger in the open top of a powder measure

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                  • #10
                    Beelzy
                    Calguns Addict
                    • Apr 2008
                    • 9224

                    Originally posted by bohoki
                    oh man



                    this would be overboard but i'm not planning on shuffling my feet across the carpet and putting my finger in the open top of a powder measure

                    Good to go!
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                    • #11
                      CSACANNONEER
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                      • Dec 2006
                      • 44093

                      Originally posted by pdq_wizzard
                      Black powder is about the only thing I would worry about, but I don't use it
                      Somewhere there is a video of 60,000? volts being used to try to ignite BP. It didn't work! For special effects, (we needed a smoke cloud for a photo shoot) I have tried lighting a pan with a hundred grains of BP in it by dropping a lit cigarette in it and dropping smoldering paper it in. Both times the embers just smoldered right on top of the BP. The powder would not lite until direct flame was introduced to it. The sparks from a flintlock work because, they are small pieces of burning steel!
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                      • #12
                        Trakker
                        CGN/CGSSA Contributor
                        • Oct 2008
                        • 967

                        sparks in you vacuum cleaner may be a concern when cleaning up powder spills.
                        But only if it is a large quantity ~ one case full lumped together.

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                        • #13
                          merritt
                          Member
                          • Apr 2008
                          • 170

                          just remember: in the event of a lightning strike you don't want to be wearing that ESD cable...

                          I'll take dozens of detonated primers over kilojoules coursing through my body
                          According to this CDC document the firearms related death rate has been surpassed by the poisoning death rate.

                          Time for an assault drain-cleaner ban?

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                          • #14
                            Hans Gruber
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                            • Jun 2005
                            • 1901

                            Vacuuming smokeless powder sounds PERFECT for Mythbusters
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                            • #15
                              Desert_Rat
                              Senior Member
                              • May 2007
                              • 2289

                              I keep a dryer sheet in the powder measure while not in use.I noticed that some pieces of powder would stick to the sides when it is empty.Rub it w/a dryer sheet and no problemo.

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