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a lot of people are drilling and tapping the primer slide for a small setscrew so they can adjust how far it goes in, regardless of using Primetime or the factory setup.

those collets are the same as Dillon, RCBS etc. and don't feature the crimped in oring that QC did. Crimped into place and then cut in spot so the collet naturally wants to open. this means you don't have to take the head off the puller to put bullets in and remove them. Crazy gluing the oring on regular collets works, mostly, but not as good as the crimped in version.

Many thanks! I found a plate that fits, but it doesn't have the cut for the spring loaded pin, your pics should help me make the cuts in the right spot!

Anyone here have the older Lab Radar bench rest mount? I have one and have somehow misplaced the quick release plate from the tripod head on it. Trying to find a replacement plate and having zero luck. Lab Radar doesn't have any either and can't provide me with any info on that old setup. Pics and or measurements of an existing one would be great. If someone had a spare QR plate they wanted to part with, that would be even greater!

I've run about 200k through my mixer since getting the blades coated, so far the coating is still in place although I don't think it will be for much longer. Was it necessary? Honestly I don't know. I've heard from people that have done similar or replaced the blades with delrin paddles or something, and from those who've done nothing, with mixed results. In my case I've drastically shortened the time in the mixer over my previous attempts when I got the sharp burr on the mouth of the case, perhaps that's all I needed to do?

previously the owner of Quinetics claimed he made most of the kinetic bullet pullers on the market, just changing the name and color per the various brands. No idea if that is true or not. Sad to see them no longer available from QC though, they were the best collets you could get.

out of stock, and I'm only looking for the collets, not the hammer.

Love their collets for kinetic hammers, but they seem to have vanished. Anyone know what happened? Would love to see someone else take up their production.

I remove the big spring, nothing I hate more than hearing that thing squeak as the machine is cycling. I tried lubes, different springs etc, and it still squeaked annoyingly. Adding in the bushing from Immortobot also keeps the toolhead aligned better with less twisting.

@shred yeah the timeout one was annoying. Initially I disabled that and the Calibration and End Cycle alerts, but after loading tonight I re-enabled End Cycle alerts as I didn't like looking at the press and wondering if it stopped because I hit the button, or if it's just waiting for me to stick my hand in there before moving again.

I don't clean because I don't need to. There is no benefit to cleaning the guns after every session. Lube regularly yes, but clean, no. If I did that I'd be cleaning the gun 4 or 5 times a week. That ain't gonna happen.

Just a heads up that Mk7 autodrive updates for the Revolution and 1050/1100 machines are up. Possibly others have been updated as well but I only have those two machines to confirm. You can now turn off the Idle Time Out alert and other alerts. Still no Single Cycle on every screen though. grrr

so here is a question for you, and I hate to bother you with it here, but..... Why doesn't Mitutoyo make a set of calipers with metric, imperial and fractional measurement on the display. I know, I can convert, but being from a metric country, I actually have to do math for most of the imperial numbers to get fractions (other than the simple ones). I get that maybe it's not as accurate and Mit are known for accuracy, but it's a common feature on cheaper ones and would be nice to have on the Mitutoyo.

I actually dropped them off some time ago lol, had been waiting for the call to do so. Which makes them losing them even more frustrating. We were waiting for a chance to throw them in with a big job, as they are very very tight with what they allow to be sprayed (manager is, um, a dick).

Hoooboy, @DenC that's some necro posting from Pistol Forum lol. Yeah I've seen a few friends have slides break at the spring box on older SP01 Shadows, not the tactical if memory serves, just the regular Shadows. Spring box would detach from the bottom of the slide and then recoil rod would take off. CZ always replaced the slide. If I remember right, none were super high round count guns, they were all fairly new and CZ identified the issue from specific batches of casting. Probably too many Pepsi cans in that batch or Ladas or something. I've seen two newer Shadow 2s break (maybe 3 even) at the breach face, breaks were near identical, and those slides were also replaced by CZ (this was a couple years ago). No idea what the issue was there or round counts on those guns. Between all my CZs I'm at about 1.25 million rounds through them all, with a couple guns over 200k (old Shadows). All I've ever broken are slide stops and TRS and firing pin springs. Plus a couple front sights.