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@Intheshaw1 I've seen setups on commercial setups with balance beam setups, multiple scales are needed to keep up with a fast moving machine. Digital would require the same kind of setup, and it can't be on the machine as the vibrations cause issues. The vast majority use a volume measuring system, usually multiple ones as well.

having a digitally measured powdered charge on a fast operating press would be a pretty big technical challenge. The measures (you'd need more than one) would have to be off press, and somehow get their charges to the press when needed. Neat idea, but I don't see it being something that could be done easily

prior to automation I stood. I could never find a way to be sitting just right to use the handle, always felt awkward.

ever since I used Pledge I've had zero issues with any of the primers I use, Ginex, Winchester, S&B, Federal, CCI and so on.

solid pins wouldn't really work, how would you get them to hold onto anything? if you oversize them you might end up cracking the slide (seen that before), or you'd need to stake them.

nice @Will Abrahams

what are they getting stuck on? I load 124 and 147gr and never experienced this. I have had the dropper get stuck and a bunch of bullets spill out, but adding the return springs to the dropper fixed that

I've got 6 of the droppers, one is the old original version without the ball bearings, but they all work just fine. Sounds more like an adjustment error vs an actual problem with the dropper itself.

will that still detect no powder?

there is obviously something wrong with your index pawl. or perhaps maybe the top limit screw is in too far, stopping the press from going up high enough to activate the index fully.

thick ones. The thin ones degrade a lot faster, faster than I expected really. I've never had a feed issue with them either and I shoot 147gr bullets at 130PF. I know Robin Sebo hates them, he swears they cause jams, but when training with him I had him install one and not a single jam lol. But he says he hated how it felt and threw it away lol, I went and grabbed it off the ground and threw it in my kit as a spare hahahahaha

yeah I don't see an issue with that space not having any grip surface

I've been using them as long as CZ has been making them for the Shadow and later my Shadow 2s. Having sat with the engineers at CZ numerous times and talked about this, they say it saves wear and tear on high round count guns, most especially to the slide at the spring box. For the cost it's super cheap insurance. I've shot them to failure and never had a jam (did it on purpose with an old practice gun). I've never seen anyone have a jam up from them either, here in Canada or in Europe and Russia. I'm sure someone has, and I'd say that person needs to inspect their guns more often.

It's funny on my ARs I had no issue with the front sight being visible in the RDS, but I still removed them. But with my pistols, it was an absolute issue to have a front sight visible. So away it went.

I'd buy a nicely made plug that was designed to be able to be removed once in (slightly taller than flush I guess)

@Steyrarms I load for a few different people most of use Tightgroup, but the girlfriend uses WSF, swapping powder measures and not toolheads is sooo nice

It would be nice to see a setting that could be adjusted that allowed bullets falling off as the toolhead comes down. Shouldn't be hard to do given all the other stuff they've incorporated

@Steyrarms I made a couple of my own stands and made an insert for where the main bolt that holds the toolhead on the press is on the holder to accept a powder measure as well, I have an extra powder measure that I swap out on the same toolhead for different powders for 9mm. that way my powder measure is not just being left hanging somewhere

video would be great

now that is a nice and clean setup dude, very nice! Beer brains at work!

if you're using mixed brass then you're going to run into issues with the manual measure doing that, it's unavoidable. Cases aren't going to be consistent in length and therefore some will get belled more from the measure. What I'm having trouble figuring out is why you're getting such issues with rounds not passing the gauge, unless it's related to making compressed loads? My mixed brass all passes my Hundo and my Armanov gauges and even the Dillon single gauge I have. If it doesn't pass it's because of a damaged rim, not because of anything to do with crimp, flaring or whatnot. One test I guess you could do is rollsize, process, and then gauge a thousand cases, make sure they all fall into the gauge with no bullets seated. Then run that brass through and load it and see what you get.

@Tanfastic I sure hope so, cuz that would rock

@quiller yeah looks like the swage is sitting over too far to the right in the pic. I don't see the shellplate moving when the toolhead comes down either. Let us know how the new shellplate works for you. If that's not the problem I think I know what it is.

@quiller yeah I'd say you need to give them a call. Something needs to be adjusted for sure.

I've got the Mr. Bullet Feeder Pro on my Revolution, much prefer it to any of my older Mr Bullet Feeders. I like being able to dump a full 1000 bullets into it and not have to much about with filling it more often