97th Signalman
04-16-08, 21:05
I know that you are never supposed to use a vacuum cleaner to clean up spilled powder. However, I sometimes get small ammounts of powder that rolls into small cracks and seams in the wood on my reloading bench that can only be removed with a vacuum.
Here is what I am doing. I used a lady's kneehigh stocking as a filter to trap the powder residue in the hose. I inserted the kneehigh into the shop vac hose and folded the open end of the kneehigh back over the cuff of the shop vac hose. I then slipped the vaccum crevis nozzle onto the hose cuff which locked the stocking in place. I then vacuumed out the cracks and crevises on my bench top. Then I removed the nozzle and took out the stocking with the powder residue trapped inside. I took the stocking outdoors and turned inside out and scattered the powder residue to the winds so it can fertilize my lawn. I am quite sure that none if the powder got past the stocking so I am not accumulating a fire hazzard in by shop vac.
All of the powder granules (flakes, sperical balls, or cylindrical granules)seem much larger than the mesh of the stocking so I am fairly confident that nothing significant is getting through.
Do you guys think this is a safe procedure or am I going to make the 11 o'clock news when my shop vac blows up?
Here is what I am doing. I used a lady's kneehigh stocking as a filter to trap the powder residue in the hose. I inserted the kneehigh into the shop vac hose and folded the open end of the kneehigh back over the cuff of the shop vac hose. I then slipped the vaccum crevis nozzle onto the hose cuff which locked the stocking in place. I then vacuumed out the cracks and crevises on my bench top. Then I removed the nozzle and took out the stocking with the powder residue trapped inside. I took the stocking outdoors and turned inside out and scattered the powder residue to the winds so it can fertilize my lawn. I am quite sure that none if the powder got past the stocking so I am not accumulating a fire hazzard in by shop vac.
All of the powder granules (flakes, sperical balls, or cylindrical granules)seem much larger than the mesh of the stocking so I am fairly confident that nothing significant is getting through.
Do you guys think this is a safe procedure or am I going to make the 11 o'clock news when my shop vac blows up?