>> It was fun and all, but it's
>>really something that should only be undertaken in one's garage, and,
>>well, I haven't got a garage any more.
>
>Is this actually safe?

Well, I wouldn't store the gunpowder right next to the stove, or be decanting it while someone else is over at the workbench using an angle grinder or doing a spot of oxyacetylene welding, but with the exercise of ordinary prudence I shouldn't think it would be that big a problem. I don't see the issue as being with mixed-use workspaces so much as shared workspaces. If I'm the only one in the garage, it doesn't make any difference if the other end of the bench I'm working on is set up for cabinetry, because I'm not over there building a cabinet right now, y'know? :)

If I had a garage and were setting up a reloading bench in it nowadays, I'd probably get hold of one of those THE SHIT INSIDE HERE IS FLAMMABLE, YO cabinets to keep the powder and primers in, but that's mainly because I'd have an excuse to get one of those then. Back in the day we just kept the Hercules Blue Dot on the high shelf next to the Aero-Kroil and whatnot.

>... I may have digressed.

Perhaps, but interestingly.

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