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Cordite.
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 2:24 pm
by breacher
I know someone with a fairly large quantity surplus to requirements after a large number of Boyes .55 anti-tank rounds were rendered inert.
Would this be of any use to reloaders ? Is it worth much ?
Re: Cordite.
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 2:42 pm
by saddler
paging Dromia....
Re: Cordite.
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 2:48 pm
by DW58
I've never heard of cordite being reloaded. It's not the most stable of propellants, I wouldn't use something like that from the 1940s. Presumably it's sticks like thin spaghetti.
It makes good fuses.
Re: Cordite.
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 3:02 pm
by breacher
DW58 wrote:I've never heard of cordite being reloaded. It's not the most stable of propellants, I wouldn't use something like that from the 1940s. Presumably it's sticks like thin spaghetti.
It makes good fuses.
Yes, just like a load of thin spaghetti !!
Re: Cordite.
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 3:06 pm
by snayperskaya
Isn't Cordite chemically similar to Nitroglycerin and becomes unstable with age?.I can remember finding some 303 rounds as a kid and they had Cordite in them iirc.
Re: Cordite.
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 5:42 pm
by DW58
I'd ditch it, but how?
Cordite burns rather than detonates if ignited in a non-confined space - I'm not going to make any suggestion beyond that.
Re: Cordite.
Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 5:46 pm
by M99
breacher wrote:I know someone with a fairly large quantity surplus to requirements after a large number of Boyes .55 anti-tank rounds were rendered inert.
Would this be of any use to reloaders ? Is it worth much ?
What a waste! I know of someone who would have made good use of live .55 rounds.
Re: Cordite.
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 5:50 pm
by andy h
Cordite is normally very stable (i have brought some up when diving , must be over 70 years old and when dried burns well), and is 58% plus nitroglycerine but when warmed up beyond 125 F it can start to sweat nitro and can start to be very unstable , Make small pile's of it and burn it off to destroy it.
Re: Cordite.
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 6:10 pm
by BamBam
MiLisCer wrote:breacher wrote:I know someone with a fairly large quantity surplus to requirements after a large number of Boyes .55 anti-tank rounds were rendered inert.
Would this be of any use to reloaders ? Is it worth much ?
What a waste! I know of someone who would have made good use of live .55 rounds.
Wasn't there a Live firing Boyes on display at the shooting show, on the FCSA booth?
Re: Cordite.
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 6:14 pm
by M99
BamBam wrote:MiLisCer wrote:breacher wrote:I know someone with a fairly large quantity surplus to requirements after a large number of Boyes .55 anti-tank rounds were rendered inert.
Would this be of any use to reloaders ? Is it worth much ?
What a waste! I know of someone who would have made good use of live .55 rounds.
Wasn't there a Live firing Boyes on display at the shooting show, on the FCSA booth?
Yes, there was.