Joe- Suspected damp powder? Load up a few shells and test them. Alliant is also very good at answering telephone questions. I would never use a heat source hotter than direct sunlight to dry powder.
Please do not ever consider drying our Red Dot(R) or any of our other powders in your oven. For that matter, please do not process them in any way other that what they were designed for, and that is reloading. We have very specialized equipment, technologies and procedures for processing and handling explosives, and home equipment wouldn't be safe.
Thank you for purchasing our product, and please be safe so you can live another day to shoot it up and buy more.
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Suspected damp - I made a rokie mistake. I have a younger brother and several nephews who i am trying to get into shooting, so I loaded several thousand once shot Estare shells they had gathered for these cheap shells thad didn't require my hulls returned. I did not realize that a percentage of them had wet, or damp base wads. What a mess, as several in every box were bloopers. Yes I have the experience with several different shell cutters.. Cut 3 five
gallon buckets apart.
I knew the oven thought sounded stupid, but thought maybe someone else had delt with this also.
Quackshot says more importantly, his tequila looks like it's damp and he wants to know if the oven would work to dry it out? I told him to try vermouth.
He's been a little under the weather. I think the meds are taking effect. haha
IMHO for whats its worth a warm ELECTRIC oven around 200F would do the trick. The lawyers are going to start screaming here but I think if a guy uses some common sense it would not be a problem.
If you use a gas oven you might need to hire a contractor to remodel the side of your house!
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