Or just move to Flint Michigan and pour the sludge straight down the drain.
Maybe he's already in Galena, Md.
Or just move to Flint Michigan and pour the sludge straight down the drain.
More likely the cleaning media would contain mostly the combustion byproducts of the styphnate and azide, i.e. various other lead salts and lead oxide. If there actually were significant amounts of the two original compounds as dust in a tumbler, that tumbler would probably violently disassemble itself. Both are friction-sensitive energetics, which is why they're used in primers.With guns and ammo the greatest danger is the primer residue and the two lead salts used in primers; lead styphnate and lead azide. Both of those salts are skin absorbable and inhalant dangers with primer smoke (the biggest lead danger of indoor ranges).
You can always package up the used media in a plastic jar or similar sealed,nonbreakable container, and wait for your county to have a household hazardous waste collection day. I believe HOCO offers this every Saturday at one of their waste facilities.
I'm curious if anyone has done this successfully if they were honest about what it was because most of these hazardous waste days have rules about what they will take.
More likely the cleaning media would contain mostly the combustion byproducts of the styphnate and azide, i.e. various other lead salts and lead oxide. If there actually were significant amounts of the two original compounds as dust in a tumbler, that tumbler would probably violently disassemble itself. Both are friction-sensitive energetics, which is why they're used in primers.
And yes, many of those combustion products are also water soluble and skin-absorbable.
More likely the cleaning media would contain mostly the combustion byproducts of the styphnate and azide, i.e. various other lead salts and lead oxide. If there actually were significant amounts of the two original compounds as dust in a tumbler, that tumbler would probably violently disassemble itself. Both are friction-sensitive energetics, which is why they're used in primers.
And yes, many of those combustion products are also water soluble and skin-absorbable.
Lead azide decomposes to lead and nitrogen. Not a lead salt or oxide.
https://chemiday.com/en/reaction/3-1-0-734
Lead styphnate does produce lead oxides upon decomposition.
I'd be curious to know if anyone knows whether or not scrap primers have any value. If so, I'll take the bucket with the next lot of scrap brass to the recycler.
I took a gallon-sized zip-loc bag of spent primers to the local recycler, and they didn't bat an eye. They just ran a magnet through the primers to make sure there was nothing magnetic in the bag. I think I got about $18 for it.
I stand corrected on the lead azide decomposition products.
I took a gallon-sized zip-loc bag of spent primers to the local recycler, and they didn't bat an eye. They just ran a magnet through the primers to make sure there was nothing magnetic in the bag. I think I got about $18 for it.
I took a gallon-sized zip-loc bag of spent primers to the local recycler, and they didn't bat an eye. They just ran a magnet through the primers to make sure there was nothing magnetic in the bag. I think I got about $18 for it.