What Would Happen If You Vacuum A Bullet Off The Floor?
If there were real live ammo on the floor and you used a vacuum cleaner to pick it up. What would happen to the vacuum? Could the bullet kill you?
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If there were real live ammo on the floor and you used a vacuum cleaner to pick it up. What would happen to the vacuum? Could the bullet kill you?
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The bullet would not be provoked into action.
Firstly, you will need to hit the back of the bullet to ignite the gunpowder or explosive within. When that happens, the hot gases produced will propel the projectile in the front. In order for the projectile to gain enough speed, it needs to be in a confined space that is just slightly bigger than itself then the the gas is able to push it. unless your vacuum tube is slightly bigger than the bullet, there will just be a lot of smoke and possibly some damage to the internal parts of your vacuum cleaner. it’s unlikely to have gathered enough speed to hit you.
I think I need to clear up the terms a bit.
a bullet is the projectile. generally made of lead and copper, sometimes lead and steel.
“ammo” would be a cartridge, the entire item that composes of a case, a primer, a certain amount of gunpowder, and the bullet.
in guns after you shoot a round off the part that is ejected is the case.
I have accidentally vacuumed live .22LR cartridge off the floor and nothing as happened to me. it doesn’t mean you’re supposed to do that or its safe.
with enough force hitting the primer of the cartridge it is possible to set off a cartridge accidentally without a gun. so if that happened in the vacuum you’d need a new vacuum to clean up the remains of the old one, a shotgun or rifle cartridge exploding can make you suffer hearing loss or eardrum damage, and if you were close enough to the cartridge when it exploded you may suffer some shrapnel injuries or powder burns.
Well..
First of all, a bullet is a little lump of lead. There is nothing to go off. In the right calibers, it is capable of removing the blades of the fan in the vacuum.
What you are asking is: what would happen if you vacuum a cartridge off the floor?
There are two major types of cartridges, and the result depends on the type.
The first type is a centerfire, with a primer in the middle of the base of the case. The likelihood of the fan being able to strike the primer is very low if not almost impossible.http://www.gunblast.com/images/Taurus_Mo…
The second type is the rimfire. These are currently low power cartridges, with the great majority being the 22 Long Rifle. There is a possibility that the fan blade could strike the rim of these cartridges and set one off. It is still a low possibility event, the angles would need to be just right for it to happen.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…
Were you to set off a 22 Long Rifle cartridge in your vacuum cleaner, there might be some damage to the fan and fan housing. The bullet from the cartridge will not get enough energy before it is released from the cartridge case to do any damage. The overall likelihood of any real damage is low.
Could the bullet kill you, a yes statement with lots of words to explain. Yes it could kill you if just the right things happen. The fan blade would have to hit the case just right to set off the primer mixture in the rim. The bullet would have to come off the case at just the right angle to fly across the fan and be thrown off the fan blade. At the same time, the case would have had to been knocked back and struck again by the fan blade causing it to hit on just the right point in the fan housing to create a hole. The bullet flying off the fan blade would need to go through that hole and fly to your temple. Your head would need to be within a couple of inches of the fan housing at that time. The angle through the temple would need to be just right and all the correct structures would have to be hit. The chances, less than one in a billion. I have never heard of a case, so the one in a billion probably overstates the danger.
Conceivably yes,
The bullet has to go thru the centrifugal fan blades that make the vacuum pressure. If one of those blades were to strike the bottom of the bullet where the firing pin of a gun normally strikes it, it could go off.
the bullets would go up the tubes, down the tubes, around the tubes, and into the bag thingy.
pretty uneventful. for a bullet to go off, it needs to be hit by a pin right on the tip. that’s the only way to detonate it
no, unless there was something to light the gunpowder..it wouldnt go off..i think