I have have moved house and managed to store my primers where they have got quite damp. Are these going to be okay to use? Do I need to put some VP90 in the container or bin the lot??
Thanks

Water soaked primers can be dried out and used. I tried it once and the survival rate was about 80%. Put them in a warm dry place for a while and they might be okay.

I had a couple hundred primers sitting in water once.....I dried them best I could with towels and set them in the sun to completely dry up.....100% of them went shooting prairie dogs and 100% of them went bang.

A "warm dry place", "in the sun", and the "UK" is a contradiction of terms, isn't it??

Seriously, primers can be dried out and will work. Think about it. They are assembled wet. I'm not sure i would use them for anything serious but for plinking, varmints, etc they should be fine.

Ray

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Originally posted by Cheechako:
A "warm dry place", "in the sun", and the "UK" is a contradiction of terms, isn't it??

Seriously, primers can be dried out and will work. Think about it. They are assembled wet. I'm not sure i would use them for anything serious but for plinking, varmints, etc they should be fine.

Ray

The warm and sunny bit would need to be abot 6 months from now...
Thanks for the advice, I'll put them in a sealed container with a bit of desicant for a few days before I load them.
Thanks again.

The sooner you dry them out the better.

You can leave them in front of a heater duct for a few days, put them in a box with a 40 watt light bulb, or if your bathroom has a ceiling light fixture with one of the glass bowls that hangs down and is held on with a nut, just stick them up there for a week or 2. That works best if you're not married.

Whatever way you choose, use heat to dry them out and not dessicant as the primary method.

I also had some wet primers once and just let them dry out in the house at room temperature. They worked OK, I didn't have any misfires. I don't think I would have worked up dangerous game loads with them though (although I once had a Federal 215 fizz on me right out of the package!)