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Reloading
Where are all the supplies going?
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<blockquote data-quote="nickjandrews" data-source="post: 2168971" data-attributes="member: 117318"><p>That makes a lot more sense than saying the govt won't let them unload. If I was one of these companies and needed chemicals on a ship and they were in containers at the top, I'd get a heavy lift chopper to grab them from the ship, no port needed...</p><p></p><p>But here in my reality of being a normal-ish guy working on health care projects, when I went looking for the stuff to reload primers based on well-known documents, some chemicals were just not out there. Hell, even cap gun caps were hard to find! Finally got 12,000 for around I think $50. That could theoretically make up to 6k primers. But corrosive. Strike-anywhere matches are less than $3 per 900 at local stores. Also corrosive. No big deal for bolt actions or pistols, easy to clean. No, you don't need to immerse in boiling water either... But for commercial quality primers, several of the chemicals can only be obtained from lab suppliers and in small qty which will only ship to a commercial address. Take CaSi2, for example. There's none on ebay but $130/kg from Sigma, but with shipping and tax cost $236. When you search Indiamart there are tons of sellers begging for business but it's like Alie Express, much more difficult to deal with than say Amazon. I suppose ammo mfrs could be gobbling up larger than normal quantities of these things, but that's a pretty common chemical in metallurgical industries. I did open up and clean a few hundred SP primers from 38spl cases and it's a lot of effort on small scale to do. So even if I could get all the chems and that cost was down to around say 0.6 cents each primer, labor is there...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickjandrews, post: 2168971, member: 117318"] That makes a lot more sense than saying the govt won't let them unload. If I was one of these companies and needed chemicals on a ship and they were in containers at the top, I'd get a heavy lift chopper to grab them from the ship, no port needed... But here in my reality of being a normal-ish guy working on health care projects, when I went looking for the stuff to reload primers based on well-known documents, some chemicals were just not out there. Hell, even cap gun caps were hard to find! Finally got 12,000 for around I think $50. That could theoretically make up to 6k primers. But corrosive. Strike-anywhere matches are less than $3 per 900 at local stores. Also corrosive. No big deal for bolt actions or pistols, easy to clean. No, you don't need to immerse in boiling water either... But for commercial quality primers, several of the chemicals can only be obtained from lab suppliers and in small qty which will only ship to a commercial address. Take CaSi2, for example. There's none on ebay but $130/kg from Sigma, but with shipping and tax cost $236. When you search Indiamart there are tons of sellers begging for business but it's like Alie Express, much more difficult to deal with than say Amazon. I suppose ammo mfrs could be gobbling up larger than normal quantities of these things, but that's a pretty common chemical in metallurgical industries. I did open up and clean a few hundred SP primers from 38spl cases and it's a lot of effort on small scale to do. So even if I could get all the chems and that cost was down to around say 0.6 cents each primer, labor is there... [/QUOTE]
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