Primers in carpet

I've vacuumed my share, but my small canister vac has no beater and stuff goes straight into the paper bag. Pretty safe that way I hope, because there's plenty of powder in the carpet too.
 
I got a wet/dry vac with a HEPA filter, a drywall dust bag, and a dust deputy cyclone separator, and 300 feet of hose.
Sometimes I don't want to be the guy that has to pee on the electric fence to learn something new.
I can hear primers hit and rattle for a second when they hit the steel cyclone.
I hope they are just spent ones.......
Now I worry about the static setting them off.
I'll be back in a minute, I gotta empty the cyclone......
 
Definitely popped a CCI SP a few days ago with a kirby. The sound, followed by the smell were proof. Kirby's are merciless.
 
Primer in rug

Hahahaha...no but that might get the cleaning lady moving. Wsy back in high school my buddys mom sucked up a live 22 round while vacuming and it blew a hole in the vacume. Mamma wasent happy
 
What I Did - Once.

Many, many years ago while reloading in the living room (with carpet on the floor) I did drop one primer. I did NOT want to waste it or get it in the vacuum (just in case it would "go off"). I stopped reloading and got down on the floor, hands and knees and a flashlight, and painstakingly looked and looked and I DID find it.:)

Since then I have moved my reloading bench and everything to a room that has a concrete floor. IF, and I do mean, IF, I drop anything, I stop doing what I am doing and begin my search.

Over all I will NEVER vacuum up a live primer, just in case!:D
 
I was always under the impression it was the spark from static electricity during vacuuming that is the risk for setting off live primers, not an impact.
 
Ok, I think we are good here, don't use a vacuum with rorating parts nad good.

I had a guy (would not call him a mechanic) obsessing one day over the company shop vac not working. He had it apart.

I hear spritzing's and I turn around to tell him not to start it, PHOOOOM

Yep WD40, brushes, sparks, kind of a vapor bomb, not too much damage. Twit.

Of course he was the guy who used the pneumatic drain cleaner wrong to (you don't remove it unless the noise is right, you just build a pressure pulse that is trapped in the drain). He pulls it out,

Yep, phoom, covered with goo, pretty cool outline in the locker room where he was standing.

I won't mention the time I was cleaning a coffee machine tray drain that had two drains in it. rather than go down the main drain back up the other drain.

Pretty cool coffee covered ceiling I got to spend a lot of time cleaning.
 
If you just can't help but but loose primers , time for a new floor finish.
Just pull up the carpet and go with something not carpet or low pile indoor/outdoor commercial type.
You don't want a blown up vacuum cleaner....that's makes for a unhappy mate !
 
It IS impact, not static, which is why Kirby and similar are the biggest culprits with their rotary impact brushes in the tool head.
 
Different carpets may react differently but on my carpet if you get on hands and knees and rub-feel the carpet you can feel a primer. Plus by dragging your fingers across or near the primer it will flip it up where you can see it.
 
Dust in itself could be explosive. I have a wet and dry vacuum cleaner - so I usually clean out the vacuum cleaner first and then I put little water at the bottom of the vacuum cleaner. Never had any problems.
 
Dust in itself could be explosive.
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Wow, that's great. Along with the static sparks created by vacuuming and the risk of a primer on the floor, it seems vacuuming at anytime is just too big of a danger. I won't tell my wife, but I might increase her life insurance policy.

Has anyone ever really heard of a vacuum blowing up and hurting/killing the operator or is this all just speculation?
 
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