Now that Charles Dell is no longer with us, where do we get a copy of his book?

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fallingblock

Andy, If you have the first edition, you have most of the main content, but when it became obvious that the extant number of copies would not be sufficient to serve the community several of us prevailed upon Charlie to re-release it.  He completely reread and reproofed the chapters he wrote for the original and even went through Wayne's chapters for obvious typos, etc.  I know he did add some more content in his chapters to include the results of research that he had done and was doing up until he sent the finals off to the printer.  In most cases Charlie's chapters were completely reset, but the same conversational tone was kept and no significant info from the first was eliminated.

Is there enough stuff in there to make it worth buying the second edition if you already have the first?  I can't answer that for you, but I will say that I have both editions and for whatever reason go to the second for my reference, but that's just me.  It might be worth you while to look over a copy of the 2nd with an eye toward differences, that's what I would probably do, given the opportunity.

HTH, Froggie

Jerry,

    I don't think those references were any more completely explained in the first edition than in the second...Charlie left some of the chemistry to the end user it seems.  Any good high school or college chemsitry teacher can help you out or if you need personal assistance, please feel free to contact me directly through a PM  I'm not a chemist, but I sometimes played one at the high school I retired from several years ago.   

    Meanwhile, as to the design and image of Charlie's adaptation of the old Pope style lube pump, I don't remember EVER seeing one in print.  Perhaps DWS would like to have me do a short article on them sometime and at the very least I would be happy to send a couple of digital pix to anyone who asks for same via PM, only please give me a direct email address so we don't clutter up the ASSRA website bandwidth.   

Froggie

Jerry,

    I'll gladly send you a picture or two of the lube pump and its components.  Over the years I have acquired 3, so I can show a variety of parts, etc.

    As to the hardness of the various lubes he used, I think Charlie was more intuitive than scientific about that particular aspect.  He wanted a lube hard enough to not run or drip off the bullet, but still soft enough to be run through the lube pump with a reasonable amount of effort.  The scientific aspect of his research was with the results, both on the target and in the bore.

the Green Frog
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fallingblock wrote on Sep 10^th, 2006 at 9:06am:


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Thanks Laurie, I am  in South Africa. Of the 17 books I brought with me down , this is the only one that is not Martini Oriented.  I have shown this book to shooters down here and the are in awe.  

And now they want a copy. I got mine from Mr. Dell so it's not for sale, although I saw a couple of Martini's that might have made  good trading stock if they had something to boot.

What happens when current supplies of the book run out?