[/align]Well, okay....at the cost of sounding like a total idiot....
[/align]I had half a tube of primers spill when I was filling them ahead of time for my progressive press. It makes things a lot quicker.

Anyway, I forgot to stick one of those hairpins in to keep the primers from falling out and the stick fell over and spilled half of them all over the carpet. Anyway, I thought I got them all.

About two days later, I was pulling the spent primer catcher off of one of my other presses and I had a few loose one's fall onto the carpet. Figuring they were all spent primers, and not knowing that I had missed some live ones, I fired up my old Eureka and started going to town on the carpet.

Well, you know that sound when you pick up hard pea gravel or stones that are on your carpet with your vacuum. That "loud" whack you hear, yeah, well I heard that several times....then all of a sudden "BANG".....sh*t.....what was that ?

After a few minutes it dawned on me that a couple live one's got by me. I was chatting with my local supplier, and I told him about it....he started laughing and said "yep, static electricity".

"That's nothing", he said....."you should'a been around when I was young and stupid and tried to vacuum up black powder I had spilled in my dad's reloading room. He said that he wasn't allowed in there, and snuck in to get some BP for his dad's cannon to fire it off while his dad was at work.

Well Mike's a little on the clumsy side, and the can slipped and fell on the floor. He dumpedabout a third ofthe can on a deep shag carpet and couldn't recover it manually, so he tried to vacuum it up. Well we all know now what happens to black powder when static is around. Afterabout halfway through sucking it up......yep......., Mike said "it ignited" and"POOOOF", caught the carpet on fire and blew thedirt bag (before bagless)right out of the vacuum cover. It smoked outhis dad's reloading room, and the vacuum was toast I think. The carpet had a nice round basketball sized burn mark, and Mike's a$$ was in hot water forquite sometime.
Just damn funny thinking about it.....like stupid pet tricks....

You had to be there to listen to Mike tell it.....FUNNY....I laughed like hell for ten minutes.
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[/align]Take care,

[/align]Bob

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