I had a variety of gun powder in a Cabela's DOT Approved storage box
It held a bunch of Hogdon powder in 1 lb plastic bottles along with a few Alliant 1lb canisters and 1 8lb jug of surplus 4895
The last time I opened the box was unpacking in July 2018 after we finished moving. All was well and I closed it up
I opened it again last week and to my shock, the interior of the container was coated with a brown fuzzy sort of lint. The paint on the inside was peeling in several places with the brown fuzz filling the peeled areas. There was no odor that I could detect. The weirdest part was that every lid on the Hogdon bottles was gone. The styrofoam seal inside the lids held up on many of the bottles but lids had evaporated for lack of a better word. I did find one remnant of a lid on one Hogdon bottle and it looked melted/rotted, There was brown dust/fuzz in a couple of the bottles but the powder beneath it looked good and in bottles where the styrofoam stayed in place, the powder appears fine, it burned well when I put a pile on the ground and ignited it.
The other weird part was that neither the Alliant containers nor the surplus jug were damaged or contaminated. All of the cans of powder in that container were made of plastic The lids on the Alliant and surplus were intact and tight but every damn Hogdon lid was gone, presumably converted to the brown fuzz in that was everywhere in that container.
I reached out to Hogdon and received no reply in the week since I sent it.
We did have a few days over 100 last summer and this was stored in my garage but generally the weather here is mild and seldom over the mid 80s in summer.
So what the hell happened?
I've already fertilized the lawn and garden with a couple pounds of the dusty powder I will be taking The rest of the contaminated cans to the local fire dept. for disposal
Look at the walls of the container!
And not a scratch on the Alliant canisters
Dang
It held a bunch of Hogdon powder in 1 lb plastic bottles along with a few Alliant 1lb canisters and 1 8lb jug of surplus 4895
The last time I opened the box was unpacking in July 2018 after we finished moving. All was well and I closed it up
I opened it again last week and to my shock, the interior of the container was coated with a brown fuzzy sort of lint. The paint on the inside was peeling in several places with the brown fuzz filling the peeled areas. There was no odor that I could detect. The weirdest part was that every lid on the Hogdon bottles was gone. The styrofoam seal inside the lids held up on many of the bottles but lids had evaporated for lack of a better word. I did find one remnant of a lid on one Hogdon bottle and it looked melted/rotted, There was brown dust/fuzz in a couple of the bottles but the powder beneath it looked good and in bottles where the styrofoam stayed in place, the powder appears fine, it burned well when I put a pile on the ground and ignited it.
The other weird part was that neither the Alliant containers nor the surplus jug were damaged or contaminated. All of the cans of powder in that container were made of plastic The lids on the Alliant and surplus were intact and tight but every damn Hogdon lid was gone, presumably converted to the brown fuzz in that was everywhere in that container.
I reached out to Hogdon and received no reply in the week since I sent it.
We did have a few days over 100 last summer and this was stored in my garage but generally the weather here is mild and seldom over the mid 80s in summer.
So what the hell happened?
I've already fertilized the lawn and garden with a couple pounds of the dusty powder I will be taking The rest of the contaminated cans to the local fire dept. for disposal
Look at the walls of the container!
And not a scratch on the Alliant canisters
Dang
