4 Apr
2001
4 Apr
'01
10:43 p.m.
On Apr 4, 15:39, Will Jennings wrote:
Errm, since I'm assuming you're talking guns
here, I'd imagine the vacuum
stands a good chance of not being operable afterwards, too!
Apparently it was OK. Actually, they were CCI small pistol primers which
are a little more sensitive than Winchester ones, but I used a little
poetic license because I thought more people would realise what I meant.
From what my friend Mick tells me, some of them went
off as they hit the
metal innards of the vacuum (rather than the brushes). I
believe it was a
pretty noisy operation, though!
Richard mentioned that Winchester primers come in a flat plastic block; CCI
ones come in a small subdivided tray, about half the size of the Winchester
one. They're not individually compartmentalised like the Winchester ones
and tend to fall out rather easily. Mick had already dropped most of them
on the floor once, and picked them all up by hand. When he did it a second
time he just decided that the vacuum cleaner provided an easier solution.
For those who've not seen them, a tray of primers is about 2" square, and
holds 100 small round objects, 0.17" in diameter.
Reminds me of my
mom's friend's mother, who quit vacuuming forever after she mistakenly
vacuumed up a bullet.. scratch one vacuum cleaner!
Ow! I'm surprised the round went off, though.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York