How Primers are Made - Cartridge and Ammunition Factory 

The slomo part is hilarious

This explains the ammunition “crisis”. About halfway through the primer process, production slows wayyyyyy the fuck down cuz Ron got a hold of that dry-dry 😔

That went from interesting to cursed so quickly

So, what I think you're trying to tell us is that charging the primers is going just fine but punching them out of sheet metal is in super slow motion and we can expect no primers for a while.

Great, now tell me why there have been almost ZERO available for more than two years!

The primer shortage is mostly due to the fact that there have been three severe accidents in the last five years (Lake City, GD-OTS Canada, and RUAG Ammotec) and because ammunition sales are at an all-time-high. Primers are more complicated than you may think and making primers is a lot more difficult than this video shows. Primers must be essentially 100% reliable - working every time and at every temperature (-50F to + 160F) , especially in the case of military ammunition. They must be sensitive enough and not too sensitive. They must age well even when stored improperly. When explosives age poorly, it means they become unstable and therefore become dangerous. The combustion products cannot be poisonous and cannot be corrosive. The combustion products must contain a mixture of hot gas and hot particles for consistent propellant ignition. You can't just pick any impact sensitive explosives for a primer. Primers are made on a massive scale. There are just a few companies that manufacture them and all of them make one to two billion per year. Why? Because the equipment for making tetracene and lead styphnate is expensive to buy and expensive to operate, with ultra-safe procedures. And finally, the processes result in large amounts of waste water that must be treated and monitored. For that reason, most ammunition companies do not make their own primers. Almost all of the primer manufacturing I have seen uses this same ~100 year-old method and chemistry simply because it is proven. There are some newer chemistries. DDNP (Diazodinitrophenol) primers that are lead-free have been made since the 1980's. Unfortunately, performance is temperature sensitive and they become inconsistent with age in poor storage conditions. The newest chemistry under consideration is nano-thermite primers, sometimes called MIC (meta-stable intermolecular composite), that use extremely fine thermite fuels and oxidizers to mimic the behavior of a high explosive. I don't recommend trying to make your own primers, except as an exercise. There are a lot of pitfalls, but the processes and chemistry are really interesting.

He who controls primer production, controls the world!🤔

Would be FAR MORE INTERESTING to know exactly HOW IT WAS DONE in the late 1870's

That is so funny i was at work today and I thought how are primers and bullets actually make, I was about to shut down and saw this, thank you

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What is this clip from? I’d be interested in seeing the full documentary

The big manufacturers that make all the primers have been stockpiling the primers and not Distributing them to the smaller ammunition manufacturers causing a shortage as well as a price spike in ammo and primers because other smaller manufacturers have to slow down or stop making ammo for lack of primers and the big manufacturers are pocketing all the increased profits from the primer stockpiling.

So satisfying

Very interesting.

So great

Primers are cheap but there's a real market for making these for us diy'ers using home presses and powder.

Would rather know how they're purchased.

Why is there a primer shortage? Because this factory has one dude making them.

OMG that was great 👍

The slow-mo part lmao where the narrator says "fiiive... sssTEPppssS..." @0:55 makes me think of Forrest Gump lol

As I watch this I can hear my wallet crying. Just because it knows I would throw it at the first person on that line and say here take my money. Please master may we have some more!

I didn't think I had that much to drink until halfway through the video

We need more information for the 209 primers and the sounds on this video was really bad

Can someone tell me what machinery is used to manufacture them? Any supplier or manufacturer of machinery to manufacture different types of primers?

i was lucky to stock up at the start of the pandemic. Ill likely never need to buy primers again, not in my lifetime anyway. 50,000 large rifle, 60,000 AR15 and 70,000 small pistol.

This reminds me of modern marvels I miss that show

would anyone know what the primer composition name is for the green stuff in the video?

If they keep that machine working in super freaking slow-mo, we are never going to see any primers!

wow! so are they going to ship them out ever.

That slow mo 😂

♪♪ Yes! We have no more primers, we have none so go-o away! ♪♪

Excuse me, friend. Can you tell me what ingredients are used in the primer?

Guys, I don't know how to tell you this, but primers will go the way of all its predecessors, in a corner next to antique curios & reenactment buffs & the occasional "back in MY day..." porch dweller. The way forward is the "e-tron x", where the "firing pin" was just a little contact extending to just touch the 'primer' contact. No trigger issues, no take-up time or oscillations from hammers moving, and in the end it's easy to make your own at home, just as easy as making a squib to light a solid fuel rocket 'motor'. Extremely easy to make, even easier to automate with today's electronics manufacturers. Imagine the possibilities, and imagine that whatever you could imagine is nowhere near the imaginations yet to be imagined.

In one pass of the PreEeEeEeEss

looks like matcha 😋

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What substance is used to make the compound wet? Acetone?

We need a single machine that can punch cups, punch anvils, load them into a continuous batch feed process, meter in the paste, and combine the anvil... The method shown here is not 100% automated... If one could make a fully automated machine, then loading materials would be the only intervention on a 24x7 machine. (and occasional punch press tool changes) no need to copy the method shown, which is likely an "old school" way of doing it... "Full Automation" would be the way to go, then the next step would be to automate the materials loading. Who has the formula for the green paste? Am I going to have to de-prime a cartridge and send it off to a Mass Spectrometer lab and find out for myself?

The sudden slow mo sound, i thought because of my phone low battery 😅

Just buy a roll of kids cap gun caps and stuff a cap in each primer hole! A blob of nail varnish will provide waterproofing. Maybe.

What is the green liguid?

that green stuff looks like wasabi LOL

what is the primer compound made of?

Ok but how do i make them in my garage?

This is how primers are made all overt the world.. Ive done tooling in two factories in Asia that manufacture primers.. Nothing has really changed.. Mind you, You skipped a few important steps on production, for instance annealing the primer cup.

2:35 dude just got shelled by all of the US's firepower 2:53 kid made badge 3:06 2022 typing but like man wdf 😭 4:17 coldstarting a engine: 7:29 its not even blended in lmaoooooo 7:47 REAL NFS DLC LEAK 9:27 coldstarting engines again? 11:44 WHATTHEFUCKLMAO 11:55 this would make for a great outofcontext 12:01 MP40 grease gun? 12:39 lmaooooo 14:04 its the famas omg 14:16 Phillips shaving machine 15:01 laced with fent!!!!!

I thought I was having a stroke at :50

That’s the same machine that I plant all my weed seeds on Giggity giggity giggity goo…

I like how they clickbaited about primers and showed the end strip for .22 cases. Im sure the cups and anvils are made in compound tools.

The narrator says measures the same way Fred from Scooby-Doo says treasures.

This should have been cut to just the making of the primers because the rest has some sort of processing issue slowing the video and messing up the audio.

I want some

slomo part seemed like something out of an analog horror video

if .22 is primed almost exactly the same way then why does everyone say it cant be reused?

Can u tell who is the supplier of equipments. I want to set up the peimer manufacturing facility.

Those primers look like gold. Where are they going?

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Pakistan has Plenty of Primers... No shortage there.

Primers, like raspberries, require the human touch. $$$

The title should read how primers aren’t made

Interesting video until the audio screwed up!

Thr last part I was like, what the heck?

💰😉 "already exposed bullet..".

It's a lot harder one teaspoon at a time...

Imagine this Factory lighting it on fire

Why has the audio and video speed been reduced so that it is undecipherable?

Why did the second half of the video slow down to half speed?

Also for anyone smart & brave enough to reuse spent primers with the various compounds that can be used at home, there is a pesky annual ITAR fee of $2500 in the U.S.A. on top of the $10 ATF fee. That fee is simply to manufacture. If you actually intend to export, many more hoops to jump through.

There's isn't enough money in the world to get me to do Sean Fitzsimmon's job. Very dangerous!

Lead Styphnate (yellow powder) is extremely sensitive unless wet. This is not a job for just anyone, and transporting primer mix is extremely dangerous.

watch at 2x from 0:50

Anybody else have a stroke at the end of this video?

Ive seen Lord of War Ik how bullets are made.

Omg what happened to the SOUND half way through

Primers are not available because ammo manufactures are holding them to make ammo. They don't give a crap if reloaders need them. Pretty screwed up video at the end !?!?!??!?!!?

Uhhhhh why did it slow down suddenly? Am I the only one who got that wtf

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Pervaiz bhai ye pistol value for money nahi hai. 160000 pe apko 10000 rounds life bohat kam mil rahi hai.

making primers like that on a large scale is so dangerous, I hear some manufacturers actually expect accidents to happen, so they make the facilities modular and completely compartmentalized, and have funds allocated annually to pay for injury or death. This is way most ammo manufacturers don't make primers......honestly I wouldn't ether

What the hell…why did audio go crazy slow at the end?

diiireeeccctttlllyyy iiiinnn ttthhhhheee cccaaaaggeeeessss.......

forbidden bread crumbs

I’d like to know what they’ve been doing the last year. “Shortage” my ass, it’s almost 2022, who are they really making ammo for? Price gouging assholes at federal and the rest come to think of it.

Just imagine, dose primers, will be the beginning of the end of many children's

So why is there a shortage then

Well, that turned into a David Lynch movie, all-of-a-sudden. I'm surprised a midget wasn't dancing and talking backwards.

About midway through, the voiceover slows way down - and enters the twilight zone…

Im not saying i would do it obviously but there hasn't been a better time to rob a ammo factory or even just a primer factory... i doubt you'd make it out alive but i also doubt they would expect it...

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still cant afford ammo...

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THE VIDEO IS DEFECTIVE AND SLOWS DOWN FOR SOME REASON ???

What in the heck is up with the slow mo part of the video... I thought something was wrong with my video player. Super annoying.

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Wtf was that slow mo

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Cheap manufactured faster as candy and you pay $100 for 1000

The way the narrator says measure bothers me

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