gws
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Post by gws on Mar 17, 2021 19:31:03 GMT -5
I'm finding the 3D printer very useful......and fun..... This project just presses onto the top of the press.
What's really neat, is you can share the print files and anyone with a printer can print it....well for this one you might want to find an old used RCBS Pro 2000, since they don't make them anymore.... But the point is, an idea is easily shared or even converted to other equipment....
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Post by hacker54 on Mar 17, 2021 21:47:10 GMT -5
Interesting Greg. Do you plan on such for all presses with that type of setup? Do you still use a LED light to verify that a primer is in place and is that within the view of the camera?
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Post by bob on Mar 17, 2021 23:34:17 GMT -5
Very nice Greg! By the way is that UL approved?  |
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Post by gws on Mar 18, 2021 21:50:12 GMT -5
Interesting Greg. Do you plan on such for all presses with that type of setup? Do you still use a LED light to verify that a primer is in place and is that within the view of the camera? I only have one press with that type of setup.....it has 5 stations vs. the 7 stations of my only other progressive. You see...5 is on the short side so one does not want to waste a station on a powder cop....audible, visible, or video. Therefore placing the cop outside the stations....in between them as you noticed is an efficient way to still be safe. IMO the most critical part of progressive reloading is to make sure there's a charge and only one charge in each case....no powder charge can be as dangerous as two charges.
On the 7 station press, there's enough stations to allow having one station be a powder cop.......I still use a camera and video monitor, but it's a bore scope that goes inside an old sizer die...I've showed it off once here maybe a year ago.
The only LED's I've ever used was to light up cases enough to see inside. Primers you can't see until you're done.......but you can feel the difference between seating a primer or seating air. That said, these days I prefer to Size, deprime, and prime on a single station for the first two, and a bench primer to prime.
I deprime first.....then I wet tumble....then I size on the Rock Chucker.....then for rifle I trim & prep brass. I do the rest on the progressive.
The rest? What's left after all that? I don't size with an expander inside I don't like what it does to accuracy....so for rifle on the Pro Chucker 7, 1-feed prepped brass. 2-expand necks separately with an M-die (stepped for straight seating). 3-charge. 4-Powder-check (powdercop). 5-Feed bullet. 6-seat bullet. 7-taper crimp .......see? you can use 7 stations even doing already-sized and primed cases. Of course station two can prime as well as expand...expand on the up-stroke, prime on the down-stroke. But I prefer the feel on the bench primer.
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Post by gws on Mar 18, 2021 22:11:31 GMT -5
Very nice Greg! By the way is that UL approved? Only the wall wart. Not union approved either..... |
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My daughter came from Missouri, my son and grand son, my wife and I had a nice dinner of grilled "porter house" pork chops, corn on the cobb, my son, G'son and I share 10/5. G'son is 4 minutes early though @ 10/4.
Pooh I hope you find to right house . 
