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Posted: 5/10/2013 7:28:13 PM EDT
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Well I finally found enough excuses to buy one... It should cut my loading time in half with extruded powders, and its $20 off at midway, and it comes with a $50 rebate. Sold.
Anyway, does anyone else use one? How well does it do with long cut stuff like 4064? |
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I've had one for years and it's a great scale/dispenser.
With that said I hardly use mine anymore since I can drop a charge, pour it in the scale pan, trickle up ~.1 gr, and dump the charge into the case much faster than the Charge Master does it. I even have my CM reprogrammed so that it runs much faster than the factory settings. I still use it sometimes when I'm not in a hurry and with the longest grain extruded powders like Varget and RE-22, it still has a purpose but not as much as it used to. EWP |
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With that said I hardly use mine anymore since I can drop a charge, pour it in the scale pan, trickle up ~.1 gr, and dump the charge into the case much faster than the Charge Master does it. Then you're not using it correctly. The increase in speed comes from the fact that IT can dispense the powder, while YOU seat the bullet. |
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I've had mine since early '06. You can get a McDonalds straw and cut it to 1/2" in length and insert it into the end of the powder dispensing tube. This can help mitigate the kernels sticking to the threads and falling off after the target weight has been achieved, causing an overage.
For longer stick powders, I usually set my target weight to .1 (1/10th) of a grain UNDER what I want and more often than not, it's right on the money. I've never done the speed mods, but should fiddle with those down the road. Let it warm up for 30 minutes, at least, calibrate it often, plug it into a good power supply, if you have one, don't talk on your cell phone while you're using it and don't put it under flourescent lighting, if you can help it. Also, don't keep your powders in it for more than a day or two. Some double base powders can really eat through the green plastic hopper, melting it, in essence. These caveats have been reported by people over the years and some might materialize in your situation and some may not. Chris |
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I really like mine. It got me back into stick powders. I use it as it came with no mods. I do highly suggest you get a pan/funnel. That is a pan and funnel combined. I can charge my case and seat the bullet before the machine goes into final trickle mode.
I bought a Lyman pan/funnel. It weighs half of what the CM pan does and some people have glued a metal washer to the bottom of their"s. I have no problem using mine unmodified. Sometimes in trickle mode a few granules of powder will fall together causing an over charge. You have to look at the charge weight to see this it does not make any sound to tell you. It does have a little arrow that indicates it but reading the charge weight is much easier. I use a small home made scoop to correct the over charge which btw is never more than 2 tenths of a grain. You could probably use tweezers too. Thanks for the straw trick info. I may try this to see if it will prevent the overcharge. I don't use the CM for ball or flake powder. My RCBS Uniflow will throw them nearly perfectly. |
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