Taken from another forum - Interesting!

FrancF

I was recently talking with a fellow long range shooter, via cell phones. He was reloading at the time, and weighing out charges. I accidentily pushed the phone too close to my face, and hit a button on my phone, and then I heard him reply, "my scales just took a dump, I guess my battery went dead or something". So he changed batteries, and on we continued to talk. Before long, I had another call ring in, while I was on the line with my friend, and I immediatly heard him say, " man my scales are acting weird, Every so often it starts having these wierd readings". I started clue-ing in on what was happening, so we had a little informal experiment. When he held his phone close to his digital scales, and I hit a button on my phone, it would shut his scales off. It seemed to do different things depending on where he placed the phone (i.e. how close the phone was to the scales).
Anyway, its just a friendly warning,,,, if you happen to talk on the phone while measuring gun powder,, you may not like the results.
Has anyone else had this happen????

BlueTic

I don't think talking on a cell next to a bunch of powder is a good thing - or even a portable house phone.... Never know bout them things, if they can ignite gas fumes. Just my .02[:0][:0]

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SilentKnight

quote:I don't think talking on a cell next to a bunch of powder is a good thing - or even a portable house phone.... Never know bout them things, if they can ignite gas fumes. Just my .02


BS! Cell phones cant ignite gas fumes. Its a static spark as you get in and out of your car that ignites the gas fumes.
Watch Mythbusters.

So chances are a cell phone will NEVER in a billion, billion years ignite gun powder.




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Nighthawk

Silent Knight I think they mean gas fumes inside the home such as natural gas.A cell phone is unlikely to do cause powder or TNT to explode.I would not take the chance.But your home phone can.The only time your phone line has electrical charge is when it rings,and it can and has surely set of gas fumes.I would not have my cell phone or pager in the same room if I were working with powder.Two way radio transmissions even those that are very low wattage like CB(4) watts can cause an explosion.Another thing some dont know is that an empty gas tank will be more easy to ignite and cause a bigger explosion than a full one.The liquid its self will not actually burn but the fumes are extremely flamable.On your older cars Im sure most of you can remember when they would get flooded.That was from the liquid its self from the gas getting on the plugs.But it would quickly evaporate

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zr700

If your reloading and talking on the phone your not giving 100% attention to what your doing. I don't even let anyone near me while i'm loading, to much of a chance for distraction. It only takes one slip, and it could be your last.

Jason
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FrancF

Think the whole point is (with basic reloading common sense ) That anything that emits RF energy strong enough could mess up an electronic scale (of which I just bought) one could simply over look
a raido, cell phone, computer screen. etc.

gitthatdawg2

your home phone has 52 volts dc on it all the time it has 135 volts ac when it rings regular phones could start gas fumes and if you tried realy hard gun powder may be but not a cell phone.