Powder Containers
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waco
Springfield, Oregon
I paid $1 a pound per bag. So no. I won’t be letting them go for $22.
OK, not just to be Mr. Negative, but that just made me think of an actual potential safety safety hazard - I don't turn lights on in the morning when I get up and make coffee. I'd mix the cans up and load coffee grounds in my handgun rounds and brew some "Percules."
I know and accept that not everyone who doesn't laugh at my dumb jokes didn't not necessarily get it.
Ian
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Winelover
North Central Arkansas
I have used white Citrucel containers (similar to Metamucil) to store powders in the past. I needed to consolidate from 8# jugs when I moved. No issues. However, I've always stored my powders in a dark room or a nonworking freezer. Currently, my main powder magazine is underground, in a detached garage.
Anymore, I just save the empty one pound containers, I've purchased to try a new to me powder. If it pans out, I will purchase an 8# jug and keeping topping off the smaller container.
Anymore, I just save the empty one pound containers, I've purchased to try a new to me powder. If it pans out, I will purchase an 8# jug and keeping topping off the smaller container.
Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
I was reorganizing my reloading “stuff” a couple of years ago when I moved into my new room. Under the bench I found 2 - 3 pound (yes Folgers did once upon a time make real 3 pound cans of coffee) Folgers cans one with 2400 and the other with 30-31 in it. Forgot they were there. About 30 years ago I split some 8 pound jugs with a friend and I drew the short straw and got the Folgers cans. Plastic lids, stored in dry cool environment. Long story short, powders are in great shape.
I wonder about the new plastic containers though because the lids just seam maybe slightly loose. If your on the Oregon wet side you might want to get it into cartridges at the first opportunity.
Not to harp on it, but it's worked so well for me that I want others I like and respect benefit as I did - the oil bottles I linked to previously are inexpensive and you can get a really big box of them delivered to your door. The opening is perfect for pouring without making a mess and the tops screw down tight. The rectangle tales up little space and fits in many defunct fridge and freezer door shelves and they line up neatly on about any shelf. I know - buying something comes in second to resourceful repurposing, but it's more like paying a little to not have to clean "recyclables" when you buy these. Besides, you'd have to clean motor oil out of them, which I wouldn't trust for powder, and the new ones have wider mouths and all the crazy, useless decorative mouldings on them and labels you have to obliterate.
NOT saying I'm smarter or my way is the best (OK, I guess I am saying it's "best"), just want to share something which I think all can benefit from.
I get it about not throwing out perfectly good containers though. I reuse whatever I can.
Agree with @Glaciers on newer coffee can lids not fitting like they used to - probably what I have and why my chicken feed clumps if I don't keep it in a cabinet in the coop.
Also, the shorter,large, red Folgers can fits Coleman's single-burner, dual-fuel pressure stove perfectly, so don't waste money on a fancy case for that. I tend to take some amount of pride in NOT having all the cool, specialized containers and saving money for stuff to put IN them myself. Make my stuff look less appealing to someone looking to seal valuable stuff too.
I'm sure everyone's aware too that re-packaging powder will ruin the "resale value," so your widow won't benefit from it as much someday, so just a thougfht. I like to think that this assures that my brother, best friend or son in law, who all know what's in there is GOOD, will be the ones to get THAT stuff at least.
NOT saying I'm smarter or my way is the best (OK, I guess I am saying it's "best"), just want to share something which I think all can benefit from.
I get it about not throwing out perfectly good containers though. I reuse whatever I can.
Agree with @Glaciers on newer coffee can lids not fitting like they used to - probably what I have and why my chicken feed clumps if I don't keep it in a cabinet in the coop.
Also, the shorter,large, red Folgers can fits Coleman's single-burner, dual-fuel pressure stove perfectly, so don't waste money on a fancy case for that. I tend to take some amount of pride in NOT having all the cool, specialized containers and saving money for stuff to put IN them myself. Make my stuff look less appealing to someone looking to seal valuable stuff too.
I'm sure everyone's aware too that re-packaging powder will ruin the "resale value," so your widow won't benefit from it as much someday, so just a thougfht. I like to think that this assures that my brother, best friend or son in law, who all know what's in there is GOOD, will be the ones to get THAT stuff at least.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Double thickness of that foil sided insulation. I took Ian's advice and made a cover with 2 x 6 (frame) and OSB (lid) I had on hand.
blackthorn
Active Member
So, this raises another question; can the black one liter oil bottles be cleaned well enough to use to store powder???
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
I'm down to my last rectangular metal can of IMR 4895 and will be glad when it is empty, because funneling unused powder back into it is a very slow (and potentially clumsy) process. Of course spherical powders flow better than stick, still the modern, wide mouth plastic bottles are much better to work with.
CWLONGSHOT
Well-Known Member
I have a good friend who has used red gas containers for decades!
He has filled 1# cans from them many times.
He has filled 1# cans from them many times.
Not at all, really. By eyeball, the opening is at least as big, and maybe a tiny bit bigger than the rectangular steel cans and the cone-top steel cans. Regular 3" plastic kitchen funnel fits fine and the bottle is no more "tippy" than other 1# plastic bottles used by the powder companies and slightly more stable than the rectangular, 1# steel Dupont used for years. Remember when Winchester (maybe others) was using those little rectangular ones? Looked like a miniature 8# jug.Seems like pouring the powder back into the small mouthed the oil containers, from your measures, might pose a issue. Even with a funnel. Not to mention the rather instability of the smallish footprint of their base, in relation to height.
Regardless, I like to break down 8-pounders once I break the seal because there is often so much empty space in them, especially the current models. Any smaller container, especially square or rectangular can be filled with up to 2# of powder and saves a lot of space.
One thing that always dorve me nuts on the rectangular steel cans, and especially the round cardboard ones was that last round or two you had to work extra hard for to get that last bit of powder out. Thes, as most other current options have thankfully corrected that annoyance.
Again, not to harp, but I should have done this to begin with.
Larger footprint than the rectangular cans, but taller - but not as tall as the cylindrical plastic 1# containers which are mostly air.
Larger opening than the steel cans, but no, not as large as the issue plastic ones powder comes in.
They hold two-plus pounds of powder, but the steel ones might hold 1.5#. The round, plastic ones may hold up to three - the tall ones.
I can get seven of these in a row in the door shelf of my storage container (14#) but only five of the round ones. You could possibly get nine of the steel cans in the same space. ANY of the 1# containers - FILLED - will be more efficient than the 8# jugs they use today, but not everyone (nor myself) breaks down EVERY 8# jug. I do it when I split a jug with someone, or after I've broken the seal - IF I have enough smaller cans to use.
I guess, for me, having SOMETHING in a space-efficient and consistent container is just nice. I have cast bullets in probably 30 different types of containers. While that makes use of a bunch of stuff that would be tossed, it's a pain to store them and almost none of them are see-through, which makes finding the bullet you want a pain in the neck.
Larger footprint than the rectangular cans, but taller - but not as tall as the cylindrical plastic 1# containers which are mostly air.
Larger opening than the steel cans, but no, not as large as the issue plastic ones powder comes in.
They hold two-plus pounds of powder, but the steel ones might hold 1.5#. The round, plastic ones may hold up to three - the tall ones.
I can get seven of these in a row in the door shelf of my storage container (14#) but only five of the round ones. You could possibly get nine of the steel cans in the same space. ANY of the 1# containers - FILLED - will be more efficient than the 8# jugs they use today, but not everyone (nor myself) breaks down EVERY 8# jug. I do it when I split a jug with someone, or after I've broken the seal - IF I have enough smaller cans to use.
I guess, for me, having SOMETHING in a space-efficient and consistent container is just nice. I have cast bullets in probably 30 different types of containers. While that makes use of a bunch of stuff that would be tossed, it's a pain to store them and almost none of them are see-through, which makes finding the bullet you want a pain in the neck.
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