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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 807 Location: Annapolis, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Powder measure help Reply #30 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 10:40am	Print Post
	I betcha more than one Desoto got melted down and went into making B&M powder measures, flour sifters, and black powder mills. Not good ju-ju.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16077 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Powder measure help Reply #31 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 11:15am	Print Post
	I use my Harrell's measure all the time for BP, and although I have a Lyman 55 with metal hopper, and a B&M with metal hopper, I still prefer the poly bottles on my Harrell's. But at 72 I like a little excitement to spice up my life. I chirp my tires once in awhile taking off too! Dangerous stuff!

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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11455 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Powder measure help Reply #32 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 12:18pm	Print Post
	Living on the edge. Conquering danger, chirping tires, making passes at the wrong gals, handling dangerous highly explosive volatile materials is just a few of the things that make life worth living.

	A blind squirrel runs into a tree every once in a while.
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GT Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2039 Location: Northeast Wyoming Joined: Jun 28^th, 2015	Re: Powder measure help Reply #33 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 1:40pm	Print Post
	You guys are all living on the edge!!! I do non threatening things like stand in front of large rotating masses, peeling small amounts of material off... The freeze plugs do work well but a plastic poker chip with a 5" long wooden dowel glued on it and marked so I know when the opaque brass hopper is empty works well. Maybe I ought to switch to a slot machine token instead?

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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11455 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Powder measure help Reply #34 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 1:52pm	Print Post
	Large rotating masses are dangerous. The largest one I stood next to weighed over 800 tons. Rotor in a power house. It was moving about one 3/4 rotation a minute. It had temporary plates and angles attached to it. If a piece snagged your clothes and sucked you in, you were a gonner. Not going to stop it.

	A blind squirrel runs into a tree every once in a while.
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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2744 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: Powder measure help Reply #35 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 6:10pm	Print Post
	Joe, The earth is a large rotating mass. Be afraid... be afraid Here is my B&M lid. An aluminum cap with a brass rod and a disc that rides on the powder column. When the knob gets close to the cap it is time to refill. Jack

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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3561 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Powder measure help Reply #36 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 6:40pm	Print Post
	sign found near a powder 'incident' up in the Pacific Northwest. Ammunition consultants.


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gnoahhh Oldtimer Offline Posts: 807 Location: Annapolis, MD Joined: Mar 31^st, 2010	Re: Powder measure help Reply #37 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 6:42pm	Print Post
	That's a good idea, but it would hamper the little game I play with myself called "peek in the measure and guess if there's enough to finish this batch of cartridges." Last night I won the bet - I dropped the last charge, and then cycled the B&M one more time and only got enough to half fill the measure. Had to pay myself a beer.


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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: Powder measure help Reply #38 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 6:49pm	Print Post
	Why not just buy a BP powder measure that you can see through or is just safe to use. This goes back to buying a boat, licence, insurance, life jackets, fire extinguisher, gas, maintenance and on and on and then only being typically used a few days or months out of the year.

	" It Is Better To Now Have Been A Has Been Than A Never Was Or A Wanna Be "
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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16077 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Powder measure help Reply #39 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 6:51pm	Print Post
	A couple of my commercial customers were large machine shops here. One had two big DC driven 50 ft. lathes that machined ship shafts and big rollers for steel rolling mills. Stuff that was close to 50 ft. long, and 6 ft. in diameter. I did the electrical repairs and trouble shooting, and often watched those daredevil machinists crawling all around those lathes while a shaft was in the chuck being turned. I was chicken and stayed back a couple feet.

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Rebel Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4292 Location: Rockets and Race Cars Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Powder measure help Reply #40 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 6:52pm	Print Post
	3rd times the charm, guess I'm gonna take up cee-gar smokin

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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3561 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Powder measure help Reply #41 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 6:57pm	Print Post
	true response here- I load with nothing over the end of the tube. I am a fussy sort and if I don't like a particular drop, it goes back into the hopper. Some sessions see one or two, others quite a number go back into the thing. If I covered and then uncovered it each time it'd be a pain. I empty then at the end of a session as well and store, mounted with the cap on. No black powder in the loads.


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Skalkaho Oldtimer Online Posts: 784 Location: Montana Joined: Sep 29^th, 2006	Re: Powder measure help Reply #42 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 7:00pm	Print Post
	Westerner living on the edge...again....Had to throw that in Joe.....
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	May the Bullet Gods be with you.......
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Jeff_Schultz ASSRA Board Member Offline Posts: 1603 Location: Ransomville, NY Joined: Apr 25^th, 2004	Re: Powder measure help Reply #43 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 9:14pm	Print Post
	Are you saying 1.75 RPM?

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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: Powder measure help Reply #44 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 9:25pm	Print Post
	Joe I might have been the one driving that DeSoto ?. If so I did not mean to back over you again.

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