Three questions.
Those small bags the come in food, vitamins and other stuff.
1) Can they be rejuvenated???
2) if so, how?????
3) Can it be put into a powder bottle to help keep it dry???
Three questions.
Those small bags the come in food, vitamins and other stuff.
1) Can they be rejuvenated???
2) if so, how?????
3) Can it be put into a powder bottle to help keep it dry???
I've heard you can warm them in a oven and the water will evaporate back out.
You might also be able to just put rice in a plastic bag, punch holes in it with a needle and put it in a powder bottle.
It should work like when people put rice in a salt shaker to keep it from clumping in high humidity.
Also, if moisture affecting powder was a big problem,
I think we'd hear more about it or powder would come with desiccant bags in it.
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
I've put them in the microwave for 30 seconds. Turning them over halfway through
Got to be carefully tho, some of the packages have melted.
I don't think damp powder is a problem n many places. I live in the south and most days in summer 75% humidity is a low day and I have never had an issue.
NRA Benefactor Member NRA Golden Eagle
They are for the elimination of moisture, or perhaps its "control", though I have never seen one moist and question whether they are of any value. Our packaging has gone through a warehouse or two or three, been trucked into and out of cold and warm weather, some at high altitude, some at sea level, in the air, and across the sea. You name it and not once have I seen one moist. That begins to beg the question of its usefulness...
I've got hundreds of them, big, small, rectangular, circular, fiber bag, plastic, etc. Been saving them for years! Pick them up in clothing, shipping boxes, Appliance Centers, Department stores, etc. Don't use them, though I'm certain they can be rejuvenated. Try low heat in the toaster oven used for PC'ing boolits with care not to melt the packaging, or just put it all in a ceramic bowl.
I would NOT put them in with the smokeless powder. Concentrating moisture at the desiccant bag would tend to put the powder in that vicinity at risk of greater moisture and create a "moisture gradient" throughout the powder container, such that the powder consistency might become suspect.
If it was easy, anybody could do it.
Keep the lids on your powder containers tightly sealed.
Nothing else needed.
Most of the cautions I see concerning smokeless powder storage concern temperature and not humidity.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
Had 2-3 large ones, maybe a cup of beads each, that I nuked on low occasionally and kept in the safe. Probably not worth the effort. Golden rod is much easier.
Guys, ball powders at least are made in, and kept stable in - water!
Wayne the Shrink
There is no 'right' that requires me to work for you or you to work for me!
Like dale2242 said, keep the powder can lids tightly closed, that is not a good application for this stuff. A convection oven, set at around 150 degrees F for an hour or two, will do pretty well to get the moisture out of the packets.
Not for powder, but they do absorb moisture. I have several that I put in my safe. Been there a year or so, I've a new dryer for my 3dprinter filament and I dropped them into it to see what humidity reading I can get and see if they could be dried. Yep. It took a few hours at 180f ,but humidity went from in the 60s to the 20s. Back in the safe....oven will work too.low temperature
Sent from my SM-S908U using Tapatalk
I wouldn't know about reusing them; I just eat them. That warning on the package is stupid.
Wayne
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger - or else it gives you a bad rash.
Venison is free-range, organic, non-GMO and gluten-free
You can buy 100 count bags (same size) with color crystals to rejuvenate on Amazon for about 10.00= .10 cents ea
I buy a couple bags annual for ammo and primer protection.
“You should tell someone what you know. There should be a history, so that men can learn from it.
He smiled. “Men do not learn from history. Each generation believes itself brighter than the last, each believes it can survive the mistakes of the older ones. Each discovers each old thing and they throw up their hands and say ‘See! Look what I have found! Look upon what I know!’ And each believes it is something new.
Louis L’Amour
The Californios
Like Wayne said, Hercules powder had an add in the magazines showing a original batch of Bullseye powder that was kept in a bottle of water the add said. It was taken out occasionally dried and tested. They claimed it tested as good as new powder and the original sample was about 100 years old when the add came out.
I have 275 gram and 50 gram silica gel dry packs. I put them with my primers and primed cases in ammo cans. Powder just keep the lid on tight.
I always heard you could put them in the oven to rejuvenate them, but why bother. They are really cheap by the hundreds on EBay.
After rejuvenating a bunch, an empty powder bottle would be good for storing the ones you do not want to use right away.
Spell check doesn't work in Chrome, so if something is spelled wrong, it's just a typo that I missed.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |