VCI emitters and ammo - The Firearms Forum

jay3534 · 12-06-2009, 07:25 AM

What are the advantages or disadvantages of storing ammo with VCI emitters in the containers?

myg30 · 12-06-2009, 09:31 AM

We have them at work but I have never used them,yet.Im not sure if they can or will affect the ammo components. I do use the desiccant paks in my ammo cans.
Im sure there is a Chemical eng that will respond to this question. I'll try to ask at work in the mean time.

Mike

carver · 12-06-2009, 10:58 AM

Personally, I have never given it any thought. I have ammo on hand that is several years old, and it still works fine. If I were storing it in an outside building, or anywhere that was not climite controled, I would surely use something. I think that in the home there would be no need unless you are looking at really long term storage, say decades.

jay3534 · 12-09-2009, 06:37 AM

Sorry I have not gotten back
Thanks for the replies
The situation is a friend of mine has decided to store all his gear in a small cabinet ammo and all. Ammo in paper boxes it came in.
My argument is VCI is a vapor much like humidity and could harm primers

12-06-2009, 07:25 AM	#1
jay3534 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: N.C. Posts: 127	VCI emitters and ammo What are the advantages or disadvantages of storing ammo with VCI emitters in the containers? -->

12-06-2009, 09:31 AM	#2
myg30 Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Nash,TN. Posts: 25	Re: VCI emitters and ammo We have them at work but I have never used them,yet.Im not sure if they can or will affect the ammo components. I do use the desiccant paks in my ammo cans. Im sure there is a Chemical eng that will respond to this question. I'll try to ask at work in the mean time. Mike

12-06-2009, 10:58 AM	#3
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,538	Re: VCI emitters and ammo Personally, I have never given it any thought. I have ammo on hand that is several years old, and it still works fine. If I were storing it in an outside building, or anywhere that was not climite controled, I would surely use something. I think that in the home there would be no need unless you are looking at really long term storage, say decades. __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

12-09-2009, 06:37 AM	#4
jay3534 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: N.C. Posts: 127	Re: VCI emitters and ammo Sorry I have not gotten back Thanks for the replies The situation is a friend of mine has decided to store all his gear in a small cabinet ammo and all. Ammo in paper boxes it came in. My argument is VCI is a vapor much like humidity and could harm primers