Disposing of powder actuated fastening tool charges

From those who are familiar with these tools, any advice on how to dispose of unused charges safely? A contractor left some behind where I live, and I'm not sure what to do with them.

Reply to
Jonathan Sachs
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1) Call the contractor and tell him to come get the stuff. 2) Call the fire department, a route often taken by people who need to dispose of ammunition, but don't know another shooter who can use it.
Reply to
JoeSpareBedroom

Put them in the trash.

Or sit on the back stoop and whack 'em with a hammer.

Reply to
HeyBub

throw them in the trash.

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Reply to
Steve Barker

unused charges safely? A contractor left some behind where0I live, and I'm not sure what to do with them.

Reply to
The Freon Cowboy

Offer them on Freecycle, they do have some value.

Call the guy back, and ask him to come get them. Offer them to another contractor.

I havn't really studied these things, but there is a chance that soaking them in water for a week will wet the powder charge; then they can put in the garbage, safely. Just a wild guess, though.

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

Primers wet with water or oil will not ignite but if dried out will recover. I would probably put them in a sealed jar with cooking oil or some other waste oil and put in trash.

Reply to
Frank

If you live anywhere near Indianapolis, I'll be happy to take them off your hands. Real email address is in the sig line below.

Reply to
Doug Miller

Buy a Remington Power Hammer and enjoy the free charges.

Reply to
Meat Plow

Cook them off, in a campfire.

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

Thank you, I'll call my local fire department and see if they do this.

Calling the contractor won't work, because I don't even have his phone number. I rent, and he did the work for the property management company. I have spoken to my contact there, but she told me to just throw the things away.

Reply to
Jonathan Sachs

And what exactly are you afraid of if you just throw them in the trash?

Reply to
marson

Good idea. Most of the other suggestions on this subject came from pathetic morons who'd be doing the world a favor if they poured gasoline over their heads and lit a match.

Reply to
JoeSpareBedroom

not true , oil soaked powder actaully decomposes

Frank wrote:

inside them inert , > then throw them away .n> ePrimers wet with water or oil will not ignite but if dried out will lrecover. I would probably put them in a sealed jar with cooking oil or some other waste oil and put in trash.

Reply to
The Freon Cowboy

Halloween is next week. Would them make a good treat for the kids?

Reply to
Edwin Pawlowski

Don't you know that that is dangerous? ;) I laugh when I see people get all panicky about loose ammo in a fire. Truth is that neither the case nor the bullet will go anywhere significant or penetrate anythign if they did. Of course that applies to the usual house type ammo, military is a different thing as it tends to run to the big stuff.

In the case of those power charges, they are fairly low powered to begin with.

Harry K

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Harry K

That could be useful information in the future, but in this case, I'm not confident that immersing the charges in oil would help. The open ends of the casings are crimped and sealed with some rubbery compound. They may well be water (and oil) proof. If I were manufacturing the things, I would certainly make them so if I could.

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Jonathan Sachs

Sympathetic detonation of primers sometime occurs if one goes off in a tray full of primers. They are packaged in segmented trays because of this. I suspect the nail drives only contain primer compound but probably at a higher level than in normal primers. Myth Busters had a show on what happens when guns or ammunition are stored in ovens. Neat stuff.

Reply to
Frank

The ones I have seen are rimfire and have powder and sealing compound in the crimp area. I have disposed of old ones for an old tool that used a weird caliber by tossing a few at a time into a burn barrel.

Reply to
George

Damn. I wish I'd seen that. I've always wondered about storing my ammo in the oven.

Sheesh.......

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JoeSpareBedroom

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