Handloading Problems

[Laphroaig]

This is an excellent example of April 1 thread. Knowledgeable people jump in, display educated examples of possible solutions and personal opinions all the while the original poster has disappeared. This is academia at its finest, Reloading R686, Master's Thesis. Same interesting concept as a Fusion Reactor for electrical power generation -- just the simple problem of how to contain a bit of the Sun on earth, shades of 1977 / 78 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Check out post #35. 2 days after the OP which gave some good responses to digest. I consider his attempt to be well focused market research.

 

[Varminterror]

That's nice. How many years ago was that? In today's anti gun culture how many of those classes are going on?
With so many many engineering projects, reloading and bullet chemistry are still available classes?

You’re making a faulty assumption - nobody is saying this is “handloading 101,” or that handloading classes are being offered. The projects I described are design projects and grad student projects - with the former being the core part of a Design class required in all engineering curricula around the country. Absolutely nothing to do with the year on the calendar or the any cultural influence.

Engineering Design projects - as the focus of Engineering Design course - can have any industrial, product development, or applications focus. Students are split into teams, say a 24-25 student class broken into 5-6 groups of 4-5 students, and they work on whatever technology/product/project comes to their desk. One group might work on an automobile tire recycling technology while another works on a biodegradable bullet training munitions project, and another works on a new catalyst bed system design for producing pharmaceuticals. The idea is to give students a test drive in developing - engineering - a technology, product, or process solution, and universities collaborate as broadly as they can with industry partners to expose students to as many industrial genres as possible.

I will say also, however, that your irrational personal bias towards current generation schooling is also incorrect. Eddie Eagle gun safety and training programs are becoming more and more prevalent as standard fare in schools around the country, and competitive sporting clays teams are popping up at high schools left and right. No, kids aren’t allowed uncontrolled possession of firearms on school grounds, nor are anyone else, but in most states, your bias isn’t remotely real. Hell, my son’s school has had a bulletin board in their back hallway where students - in a Pre-K through 4th building - could hang photos of their bucks. This in a district school in the largest metro area in the State.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

This is an excellent example of April 1 thread. Knowledgeable people jump in, display educated examples of possible solutions and personal opinions all the while the original poster has disappeared. This is academia at its finest, Reloading R686, Master's Thesis. Same interesting concept as a Fusion Reactor for electrical power generation -- just the simple problem of how to contain a bit of the Sun on earth, shades of 1977 / 78 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

See Post #35. OP last posted yesterday (2/20). Nobody’s “disappeared.”

 

[EricBu]

Nobody has made a great priming system that is safe and fast and efficient.. The quickest way to stop a good reloading session in its tracks is a flipped or misfed primer. (the reason why so many prime off press) Or worse, in most spectacular fashion (being that it is the most dangerous part of reloading) when those little explosives go off in unison.....a whole tube, a whole tray at a time.

Inline swaging is a good thing the 1050/1100 has, to attempt to prevent some of that when loading crimped brass, but I can't speak for how trouble-free it is....jmorris probably can.

RCBS had the most safe system, but strips, though daisy chainable, added the step of having to add strips every 25 primers. But I think the record mishap was three primers going off at one time.

Lee's trays might be a little more safe than tubes, but they are not as fast nor as efficient as tubes even if you can fill the trays faster....they don't feed as well.

The Mark 7 Revo priming system is the diggity giggity. I dump half a brick in the hopper and go. It picks up from the off ladder on the vibratory sorting hopper with a disc system, so if there is by chance a mishap, it will only involve a single primer. Once in a great while it'll get one upside down, and on rare occasions the machine will get ahead of the hopper and you have to slow it down to 1500/hr until the primer offload chute fills back up again. But it's magnitudes better than strips or tubes. The biggest problem is that at 2500/hr, you feel like a one legged man in an butt kicking contest trying to keep the case feeder, bullet feeder, and primer hopper full.

 

[rfwobbly]

There's a lot of wisdom here.
People who can do, end up doing a lot of doing. People who can take others "doing" and present it and put on a good show, usually get the exposure and promotions.

As was taught to me very early in my engineering career: "An ounce of appearance is worth a pound of performance."