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Date Posted: 23:19:12 06/12/02 Wed
Author: jim straight
Subject: Re: dynamite caps
In reply to: Matt 's message, "Re: dynamite caps" on 18:33:18 06/12/02 Wed

Matt--- How dangerous are old fuse type dynamite caps? By this I mean do they become unstable with age? Several of the ones I dug up last weekend were flattened at the open end with cracks running up the side. I also found a handful of .22 longs and shorts; none long-rifle. They were badly deteriorated also.

Another story about blasting caps. Back in the middle 1950's I worked for awhile at the crusher in McGill Nevada. The hummer-screen operator was legally blind by an accident that had occured just a couple of years earlier. Often tramp iron and other debris comes through the system as being lost at the mine. Commonly the blasting caps, even fuse, and occasionally a small tool such as a wrench or even the remains of a lunch bucket.

One of the crusher cleanup laborers, a newbee just hired sat at the lunch table and beat on one of the caps. The screen operator was sitting next to him and not paying attention.

The cap went off and legally blinded the operator. At the time he had a choice. A payoff or a lifetime job with Kennecott. Since the payoff not too much he chose the security of a life-time job. Today, the lawyers would have really sued the company for millions, but not at this time.

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