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Posted: 3/29/2011 12:11:41 PM EDT
| Just brought to the office by the brown truck. Any hints, ideas, or wise cracks before I get home and try it out? Looked through the manual and it looks pretty simple I'm ready to try it out. |
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Just brought to the office by the brown truck. Any hints, ideas, or wise cracks before I get home and try it out? Looked through the manual and it looks pretty simple I'm ready to try it out. I'm letting mine warm up for 30 minutes before I calibrate. Calibrate often, if you go away for a while. Don't yak on your cell phone while using it. Plug it into a good surge protector/power conditioner. Don't use it under flourscent shop lights. I always let it dispense, pick the pan up after it settles and then let it reweigh the charge. One or two grains won't budge the 'needle' so to speak. For longer stick powders, I set my target weight to .1 gr. (one tenth of a grain) UNDER my desired weight. There are many tweaks, including reprogramming the unit to run faster, using a McShit burger's straw to keep kernels from falling off the end (over-throwing) and finally pencil erasers to plug the feeding chute somewhat, inside the unit. I've kept mine stock for five years and go to town. It's not the fastest unit and sometimes it'll get into a funk, or drift slightly, but I just unplug it for 30 seconds and reboot/recalibrate it and that solves any quirks. I leave mine unplugged when not in use, but I do warm it up. Good luck! Chris |
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Chargemaster is an excellent tool. Use mine for rifle loading.
Two comments: 1. When I received mine the plastic, especially the breeze cover, easily charged up and gave erroneous readings. Wiping down the plastic with a dryer sheet stopped the problem. 2. I always wait a second or so after it has beeped (finished dispensing) to check that the weight is what I expect it to be. Occasionally, it will be off 0.1 grain. The suggestion to lift the pan and reset it is not a bad idea as long as you do not have the unit on auto dispense. Then, when you set it down it will start another dispensing action. |
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Chargemaster is an excellent tool. Use mine for rifle loading. Two comments: 1. When I received mine the plastic, especially the breeze cover, easily charged up and gave erroneous readings. Wiping down the plastic with a dryer sheet stopped the problem. 2. I always wait a second or so after it has beeped (finished dispensing) to check that the weight is what I expect it to be. Occasionally, it will be off 0.1 grain. The suggestion to lift the pan and reset it is not a bad idea as long as you do not have the unit on auto dispense. Then, when you set it down it will start another dispensing action. Actually, lifting the pan will not force it to 'auto dispense' as the scale is zeroed with the pan already on. When it is removed, you're minus about 171 grains. Now, checking your scale with your 50 GRAM weights and then forgetting to switch the scale back over to GRAINS, while in the 'auto dispense' mode, will result in a mess if you don't catch it in time. Ask me how I know. Chris |
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Chargemaster is an excellent tool. Use mine for rifle loading. Two comments: 1. When I received mine the plastic, especially the breeze cover, easily charged up and gave erroneous readings. Wiping down the plastic with a dryer sheet stopped the problem. 2. I always wait a second or so after it has beeped (finished dispensing) to check that the weight is what I expect it to be. Occasionally, it will be off 0.1 grain. The suggestion to lift the pan and reset it is not a bad idea as long as you do not have the unit on auto dispense. Then, when you set it down it will start another dispensing action. Actually, lifting the pan will not force it to 'auto dispense' as the scale is zeroed with the pan already on. When it is removed, you're minus about 171 grains. Now, checking your scale with your 50 GRAM weights and then forgetting to switch the scale back over to GRAINS, while in the 'auto dispense' mode, will result in a mess if you don't catch it in time. Ask me how I know. Chris If you hit the zero button say to weigh something else while the pan is removed and it's auto dispensing it will make a mess also. |
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Chargemaster is an excellent tool. Use mine for rifle loading. Two comments: 1. When I received mine the plastic, especially the breeze cover, easily charged up and gave erroneous readings. Wiping down the plastic with a dryer sheet stopped the problem. 2. I always wait a second or so after it has beeped (finished dispensing) to check that the weight is what I expect it to be. Occasionally, it will be off 0.1 grain. The suggestion to lift the pan and reset it is not a bad idea as long as you do not have the unit on auto dispense. Then, when you set it down it will start another dispensing action. Actually, lifting the pan will not force it to 'auto dispense' as the scale is zeroed with the pan already on. When it is removed, you're minus about 171 grains. Now, checking your scale with your 50 GRAM weights and then forgetting to switch the scale back over to GRAINS, while in the 'auto dispense' mode, will result in a mess if you don't catch it in time. Ask me how I know. Chris What happens in auto dispense mode: After it dispenses and you remove the pan, it waits for you to replace it after filling a case. When it senses that you have replaced the pan, it begins dispensing another load. The purpose is to save you time so you can be inserting the bullet into the last filled case while it is dispensing the next load. |
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Just brought to the office by the brown truck. Any hints, ideas, or wise cracks before I get home and try it out? Looked through the manual and it looks pretty simple I'm ready to try it out. I'm letting mine warm up for 30 minutes before I calibrate. Calibrate often, if you go away for a while. Don't yak on your cell phone while using it. Plug it into a good surge protector/power conditioner. Don't use it under flourscent shop lights. I always let it dispense, pick the pan up after it settles and then let it reweigh the charge. One or two grains won't budge the 'needle' so to speak. For longer stick powders, I set my target weight to .1 gr. (one tenth of a grain) UNDER my desired weight. There are many tweaks, including reprogramming the unit to run faster, using a McShit burger's straw to keep kernels from falling off the end (over-throwing) and finally pencil erasers to plug the feeding chute somewhat, inside the unit. I've kept mine stock for five years and go to town. It's not the fastest unit and sometimes it'll get into a funk, or drift slightly, but I just unplug it for 30 seconds and reboot/recalibrate it and that solves any quirks. I leave mine unplugged when not in use, but I do warm it up. Good luck! Chris Straw didn't fit - I stretched out some vinyl tubing with a 6.8 case and it fits great. |
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Make the valve used to empty it is closed before you fill it with powder. This!!! I have poured powder all over the table twice because I didn't make sure the spout was closed. 
The only trouble I have had with mine is static. I like the idea of wiping the hopper down with a dryer sheet. |
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