Ok, I laughedOriginally Posted by Luke
Ok, I laughed
Bert Gummer is my spirit animal
19 seconds isn't quite long enough for me. How about a two minute video?
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Bert Gummer is my spirit animal
I had a longer one but it was only at 1800 RPH. When I figured out how to make it work reliably at 2100 RPH I deleted it.
Next time I fire it up I'll do a better and longer version with some commentary.
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I want a running commentary, like a play by play.
But for reals I'm jealous, that's a killer setup.
Semper Gumby, Always Flexible
Per requests - a longer video from this weekend's activities.
Saturday night I reloaded and case gauged about 3100+ rounds solo and Sunday AM a buddy and I loaded 1700- more.
On the solo run I was pretty effectively loading on the 1050, filling primers and case gauging all in parallel. I did struggle a good while with priming issues, for some reason the press gets moody and primers aren't getting installed. I haven't figure this new issue out 100% yet and yes I've cleaned everything and replaced the blue tip on the primer feed tube - twice.
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How is the Nobel working out?
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The price is definitely right and availability seems good. It burns very clean, comparable to ETR-7 aka (I think) Maxam CSB-1. Also, low smoke and temperature stable.
Down sides:
- It is a rough granular powder with lots of different granule sizes. They are small enough to pour through a flash hole and make a mess if your press fails to insert a primer. This happened a LOT this weekend and is a new issue. In this past priming has been a very reliable operation for me. Larger flake powders do not have this problem. It is dense enough that it doesn't tend to fly out of cases very easily.
Metering: It has weird settling issues, perhaps caused by the irregular granule size. When I started I was doing 20 throw sets and weighing (3.7 gr x 20 throws - 74gr). After 2000 rounds I checked and the throw had increased to 76 grains! I am used to my final check being VERY stable with ETR-7, which is a round flake. I re-calibrated (I am using a micrometer on the powder bar) and after another 1000 rounds I re-checked and it had crept up AGAIN to about 75.0.
The next day I re-calibrated before loading and loaded 1700. This time the check after loading was down to 72.4 grains.
My target power factor is currently 132 (I need 125+), so I am fine with that but it is irritating.
When I look at the powder measure there definitely seem to be layers of larger and smaller irregular granules. Perhaps shaking up the 0.5 kilo / 1.1 lb powder jugs before pouring them in the powder measure would help. I'll try this in the future.
Last edited by GuanoLoco; 03-27-2017 at 11:17 AM.
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Looks like cat litter, did you let Luke in your shop?
Thanks for the news on the powder. I'm currently loading with CFE Pistol.
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I resent that.Looks like cat litter, did you let Luke in your shop?
Thanks for the news on the powder. I'm currently loading with CFE Pistol.
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I haven't been to guanos man cave in a little while. Other skanks have. Doesn't bother me though. He can do what ever he wants with who ever he wants. It's what ever. I don't even think about it really.
i used to wannabe
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