Tom S.
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If you touch the exhoust it voids the warantee.....So for the 1st 100K you have to eat 12mpg.....No thanks......
DougC
Who says? You can replace the exhaust on a GM with no effect on the warranty. I run duals on my 3500 Chevy - and I get a heck of a lot more than 12mpg!
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Perhaps more important than depth is the thickness of the bench top. The more secure a progressive press is, the less trouble you will have using it. My bench is made from two pieces of 3/4 plywood glued and screwed together with a piece of 1/4 hardboard on top. Beneath the press I mounted a 1/4 steel plate with screw holes drilled through. The whole bench is anchored to the wall.
You can build a bench too flimsy, but you can't build one too strong!
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Perhaps the OP is looking to cash in on the "he's gonna take your guns away" craze.
There is one cost I have not seen mentioned: liability insurance. One 'oops' without it and your new business could end belonging to someone else.
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95% lead, the remaining 5% are jacketed.
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Your hobby is knocking over orange cones? I bet you're a riot in a construction site.....
J/K
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"M14/M1A: Clunky, heavy, and overpowered. Essentially a Garand tarted up with a removable magazine, in a half-baked attempt to adapt a 19th century rifle design philosophy to the mid-20th century. Most often named as favorite infantry rifle by people who never had to hump a 10-pound wood-stocked rifle with lots of sharp protrusions and no collapsible anything on a three day exercise, or try to make it through a firefight with the standard battle load of five 20-round magazines."
Yeah, lugging around may have sucked, but not near as much as getting shot by one!
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I use Winchester primers, and have never had one go off in my 650. Years ago, I did have a Federal go off in a Lee Pro 1000.
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Whether your old software will work with Vista depends on how old the software is and which version (32 bit or 64 bit) of Vista you have. The 32 bit version has better compatibility with older software than the 64 bit does. The only old software I have that won't run with Vista is a very old National Geographic Magazine collection. However, most of my software isn't that old.
I am one of the original Vista haters, but even I have to admit that since MS released the service pack for it, it has gotten much much better. One thing Vista offers over XP is better security.
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Well, since they photo'd your license plate, you could just send them in a photo of the money.
Of course, they will probably send you back a picture of the jail...
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Paul Newman at his best!
"What we got here is... failure to communicate."
Bullitt (1968)
Steve McQueen!
"You sell whatever you want, but don't sell it here tonight."
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On Black Friday I spent about a half hour online, mostly at Amazon.com, and got all my shopping done. Life is good.
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Then there's the other side of the story. Years ago, a friend had an old Ford Station wagon, a 65 I think. We went to buy a new water pump for it and the parts guy told us Ford used 27 different water pumps for the 289 that year! Even having the part number didn't help. We had to take the old one so he could match it up. Another friend had a Ford Torino that came with different sets of wheel bearings for the left and right front wheels!
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X2 on the Unique! I used it in .357 loads and after a hundred rounds, my S&W 686 was filthy! I never noticed it that much on my S&W 28 because of the bluing I guess, but it really shows on stainless.
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Hey Mitch,
Uh, yeah. I kinda found a bullet in my powder hopper...don't ask!
Runs great now!!
This thread was my laugh for the day!!
It's encouraging to see that I'm not the only one who does dumb things.
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I also hate the fact that I don't have to press one for English when I call.
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After all my adjustments trying to fix this problem, I was still having the occasional upside down or sideways primer. I tried something different yesterday.
When I begin the upstroke, I have a bullet in my left hand between my thumb and index finger. As the cartridge rotates from station 3 to station 4, I would place my middle finger behind the cartridge and ride it into station 4. I loaded 1000 rounds last night and no more primer issues and it really doesn't slow the process either. After a few hundered rounds this way, it kinda becomes natural. I guess it's a small price to pay for fixing my problem.
If that curred it, I have two things to say. First, make sure your shell plate is adjusted properly. The center bolt should allow it to turn freely, but without any slop. If it doesn't turn smoothly, take it off and look for dirt underneath. Clean and lightly re-lube. Second, make sure your press and bench is secure. This sounds kind of dumb, but you cannot have a 650 too secure. My bench top is two pieces of 3/4 plywood glued and screwed together with 1/4 hard board on top. Under the press, I made a metal plate that all four bolts go through so the individual bolts can't work into the wood. The net result: over the many years and thousands of 45 acp rounds, I've only had one flipped primer, and I suspect I did that loading it into the primer tube.
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I was taught "Never let the sun go down on a dirty gun". I clean mine after I shoot them.
This has history behind it. In the days of black powder, you had better clean it or you might not be able to load it from the accumulation of crud the powder left, plus the barrel would rust very quickly. Even when black powder was dropped in favor of smokeless, the primers contained mercury fulminate that if left unattended would also rust and pit a barrel.
Today's powders and primers negate having to clean a gun so often. Still, old habits are hard to shake, and I still clean my firearms after a day of shooting.
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I don't use Break Free or CLP for cleaning or lubricant, but that's neither here nor there, everyone has their own preferences.
But for rust protection, oil is a loser. Oil is liquid and sooner or later, it will run to the lowest point and leave the metal bare. Believe it or not, cosmoline is still one the best rust preventers, but a bear to use and remove. One of the next best is Rig grease. Gun tests did a test on rust preventatives a long time ago, and Rig did very well. I run a patch coated with it through the bore before putting the gun away. A patch with just about any solvent will remove it when you are ready to shoot.
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I drive a one ton crew cab with an eight foot bed, and it will not fit into one space. That's why I always park way out in the back of the lot.
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I hate the drivers that do 45 on a 55 stretch of road, then when you get to the passing lane they speed up to 70. Then when the passing lane ends, back to 45.
I'm with you 100%.
Also for the comment about Ohio drivers and the left lane: Thank you guys for confirming what I have been saying for years!!!!
Another pet peeve: people on cell phones. Hang up and drive!!
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Mark Twain said "It's a pretty poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."
Or something like that....
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Do yourself a huge favor and get a second opinion.
Several years back, I had a S10 4x4 roll off the ramps and land on my shoulder/chest. Beside breaking a lot of bones (ribs, shoulder blade and collar bone), the orthopedic surgeon wanted to cut. Instead, on the advice of another doctor, I went through extensive physical therapy. Yes, it was hard, and it was painful, but I stuck to it religiously. Later, when I went to see another orthopedic surgeon for a second opinion, he said my shoulder looked fine and said there was no need for surgery. As a side issue, I still have pain, but it's from nerve damage that will most likely never get any better, but my main point is surgery would have done me no good, and I think the Dr. who recommended it was just trying to make a payment for his kid's BMW.
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