The orange book is gospel. If you search on the internet (and it will take awhile) you should run into some smaller type one magazines. Start with "type 1 explosive storage" in the search. No matter what you do or how you do it, if it conforms with the orange book, they have to approve it. Good luck.
> > the Institute of Makers of Explosives handbook CONSTRUCTION GUIDE FOR
> > > STORAGE MAGAZINES has helped me . I found it atformatting linkit cost a
> > > few bucks for a small handbook but answers most ?'s.
> >
> >
> > That was a very helpful suggestion. Thanks! I ordered a copy
> > yesterday; hopefully it will answer my questions.
>
>
> I received my copy of this Handbook yesterday, and my advice to
> anybody else who might be thinking of buying this book is: "Don't
> spend your money." The booklet cost $15 plus $3 for shipping, and it
> has about one dollar's worth of useful information in it :-(
>
> The first half of the booklet just repeats information (almost
> word-for-word) from the BATF Orange Book, and the last quarter
> consists of exterior photographs of large industrial magazines that
> don't show any useful detail. In between, there are 8 pages of plans
> for a large class-1 magazine. I did manage to glean a few useful
> tidbits from those drawings -- but certainly not $18 worth.
>
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