andy
08-05-2004, 03:02 AM
SEE if any of the others also detonate. :-) they wont. Rig the electrode of an arc welder to the primer, ground the other end when you want to fire, have the ammo on a grounded steel plate, of course.
When a round goes off in a fire, the bullet's often STAY in the case neck, and rarely move more than a foot or so from the case.The case bursts open on its SIDE. There might be a small amount of risk of brass frags, but there's exactly none from the bullet.
If you have LOTS of ammo, enclosed in a sealed, metal container, and fire-heat made MANY of the rd detonate at the same time, u might be at risk, if you were near enough,but youd be at WORSE risk from the fumes, smoke, falling timbers, etc.
thousands of rds, in a small basement, MIGHT mean that the BASEMENT was a "container' for the powder gases, if "somehow' all the rounds detonated at once.
Fires are so commonplace that ALL lenders on housing INSIST that you have fire insurance, and you CAN'T get thousands of rds of ammo up out of a basement very fast, and there's usually MORE valuable stuff to get out of the house. So the ammo gets left behiind, wasting all that money.
When a round goes off in a fire, the bullet's often STAY in the case neck, and rarely move more than a foot or so from the case.The case bursts open on its SIDE. There might be a small amount of risk of brass frags, but there's exactly none from the bullet.
If you have LOTS of ammo, enclosed in a sealed, metal container, and fire-heat made MANY of the rd detonate at the same time, u might be at risk, if you were near enough,but youd be at WORSE risk from the fumes, smoke, falling timbers, etc.
thousands of rds, in a small basement, MIGHT mean that the BASEMENT was a "container' for the powder gases, if "somehow' all the rounds detonated at once.
Fires are so commonplace that ALL lenders on housing INSIST that you have fire insurance, and you CAN'T get thousands of rds of ammo up out of a basement very fast, and there's usually MORE valuable stuff to get out of the house. So the ammo gets left behiind, wasting all that money.