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Posted: 10/23/2008 2:29:36 PM EDT
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I just switched my machine over from doing pistol rounds to do a thousand rounds of .223. I changed the powder bar on the machine to the large one. When I am dropping the charge of H335, a small amount of powder falls out of the measure as the shell leaves the die. It's probably on the order of a few tenths of a grain. What do I need to adjust to stop this from happening? |
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Is it metering correctly other than that? I once had a sliver of the plastic jug that the powder comes in get lodged up in there. If you have a long q-tip, poke around up into the die on that station and see if there's an obstruction. That's how I discovered and cleared my powder drip problem. |
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Check to make sure you have enough tension on the wing nut on the failsafe system, you said you had just finished doing pistol so I would guess that there is not enough tension. Push your handle forward as if seating a primer and with the handle forward the spring above the wing nut should be compressed a credit card should be a snug fit between the coils, the problem most likely is the powder bar is not going completely back and allow some powder to slip thru. |
| So I turned the powder die in about an 1/8" turn, took static out of the funnel with a drier sheet, and it works good now. I'm not sure which fixed it, but it's taken care of. I have noticed that when I slow down the cycling of the machine the powder charge is more consistent. I do my best to go slow and steady. |
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