My homemade Golden powder!

[2TM101]

I checked on the Golden, Crimson, and the Gray w/Magnesium and all are still plenty loose & dry. They are stored in my basement reloading/hobby room where it is climate controlled, but there are plenty of days where the humidity has exceeded 60% or more. Sealed containers seem to be plenty good enough for me.

Its possible in my case it was not dry enough to begin with. Sealed containers keep the moisture IN as well....

I left the most recent batch of starch powder in the dehydrator a whole extra day and it made nice hard granules that still pour like sand. I don't know how I messed up the manganese powder but it at least does still pour correctly. I do have silica gel packs inbound, I'll see what I can do with those.

[Sandro_ventania]

As soon as I do a test, I leave some of the powder on a plate on the table and observe. So I can observe the hygroscopic potential of each one and I discard the worst ones.

[dtknowles]

I found a place that makes re-usable silica gel packs. News to me that this even existed, apparently you pop them in a microwave on defrost for about 10 minutes and it steams all the collected moisture out of them.

Almost all silica gel pack descants can be rejuvenated in a dehydrator, or oven. I did not know about using a microwave. We used to used them at work and we had a dehydrator that used heat lamps to rejuvenate them.

Tim

[barrabruce]

Can I use golden powder as a combustible filler?
I tried some duplexing of 310 brass with 3.2 gn shotgun powder and 1cc golden powder to the case mouth then finder seated a pp’ed bullet.
This is for fireforming as well as effect I hope.

Mine is hydroscopic.
Last month I added some bits of another batch to my glass jam jar and it was sticking to the sides to day.
A whack on the heal of my hand and it fell off the side of the jar and a big ball was left loose.
A bit of a shake and it all fluffed up again.
I sparked off 1cc and it went woof so I loaded some cases up with it.
Next month I may get to test them.

[Nobade]

I don't see why you couldn't use it for combustible filler. Of course it will add some energy to the shot but not a tremendous amount and it will certainly take up space. Just remember to clean your brass cases really well afterward since the fouling will attack brass.