Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . rest fairlyupon llie point of llie liiillet of the last carlridti!and wliicli liullel cunes directly in conlaci vvillitill primer itself of llie earlriiii;c in advane(- ofit. All ordnance otlieers and anuMiuiiliori manufac-turers reali/.e tlic ditticully experienced in prcparini,fulminate of mercury (used for primers), thai will,in jiraclical use. alwiiys liav(^ a uniform decree ofsensitiveness. It can be made so sensitive that the into the receptacle below. It is readily seen, then,that the use of «ucli a spiral spring make
Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . rest fairlyupon llie point of llie liiillet of the last carlridti!and wliicli liullel cunes directly in conlaci vvillitill primer itself of llie earlriiii;c in advane(- ofit. All ordnance otlieers and anuMiuiiliori manufac-turers reali/.e tlic ditticully experienced in prcparini,fulminate of mercury (used for primers), thai will,in jiraclical use. alwiiys liav(^ a uniform decree ofsensitiveness. It can be made so sensitive that the into the receptacle below. It is readily seen, then,that the use of «ucli a spiral spring makes prematureexplosion not onlv/«>,l>ut riru no way to prevcMit it, except by discardinf; it, asin the Lee or Cliairie-Keece guns. During the Warof the Keliellion, guns using the spiral spring liaveheen known to explode when the cuvulrv were on amarch. Of course suih arms were discarded; but thesame thing may happen to any arm of recent inven-tion which is so constructed as to require a spiralsprin in feeding the cartridge into the slightest scratch will ignite it. and many fulminatemixers have lost their lives by a moments inatten-tion or relaxation of caution while compounding it is generally [lossible to produce fulminateof nearly e(iual quality,still difF<rent batclies do vary:and whether it be from difference in this (|iiality, orfrom tile ditTerent jiosition or placement of the ful-minate in the primer as regards the cartridge-anvil,or otherwise, still it is certainly true that cartridgesare to be found in use that will explode with onehalf the concussion ordinarily required. It is a factthat cartridges have exploded by dropping a fewinches from the machine in which thev are loaded
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