I noticed this one flying around Facebook this morning, I am inclined call B.S. on this one. What say any of you who have experience with 1050's. I think it's more likely there is more to the story?
IMPORTANT SAFETY WARNING!
This will sound most hypocritical coming from me, but PLEASE pay attention to powder spills and bench clutter.
I got a call from a local commercial loader, a mutual friend of ours (another one of my BULK brass buyers) lost his garage last week.
He and a friend were loading on Doug's 2 1050s and one of them "popped" a primer. It ignited some loose powder on the press (who has NOT had a powder spill or several) and instantly spread to other powder, papers and other combustibles. I don't know if there were open powder jugs on the benches, extra primers etc. around, I only spoke to Bill, not Doug himself.
Short version, they didn't lose the house, but had the Fire Department been 5 to 10 minutes later, they would have lost it all.
I almost always keep the CLOSED jug of powder that I'm working out of, on the bench as well as some extra primers. Maybe not anymore, I don't have to make every mistake myself.
Just take it for what it's worth.