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To: DBrow

Don’t you have to question how gently the baggage handler handled the baggage to cause a primer to detonate. Were the primers packaged or loosly thrown in a can or box?


12 posted on 12/28/2010 9:11:01 PM PST by satan (Plumbing new depths of worthlessness on a daily basis.)
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To: satan

I wondered too. You usually must work to get a primer to go off.

Even ramp rats, I thought previously, could not get that kind of force.

Aside- I knew a guy who made bullet clocks for competition awards. Typically a circle of .38 shells with undimpled primers and a clock movement from Micheal’s or the like on a nice stained wooden plaque. He took .38 shells, cleaned them up, and pressed in “inerted” primers. I asked him about his “inerting” process, and he said he put the primers in a 6” Griswold frying pan, put a “spatter screen” over it, and heated them on a gas stove until they popped! I never felt comfortable eating burgers over there unless they came off the grille...


17 posted on 12/28/2010 9:19:08 PM PST by DBrow
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To: satan

I can’t think of a method of accidentally igniting a primer in a bag... If UPS is able to handle 5000 in a box,hundreds in a bag should not be an issue. The accidental ignition story stinks like a search for drugs that came up with primers.


19 posted on 12/28/2010 9:20:08 PM PST by kingu (Favorite Sticker: Lost hope, and Obama took my change.)
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To: satan
Don’t you have to question how gently the baggage handler handled the baggage to cause a primer to detonate. Were the primers packaged or loosly thrown in a can or box?

Exactly what I was thinking. Primers in their original packaging are very stable. What caused them to go off? You could throw a box of primers on the floor and they wouldn't go off.

61 posted on 12/29/2010 6:13:11 AM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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