550B and universal powder

[fishboy747]

I cannot seem to get my powder measure to drop a consistant 6.0 grains ov universal for the life of me everything tight and wing nut set properly so when handle is pushed foward to seat primer a buisness card is barly able to fit between the coils as dillon suggests. i try and throw 5 consectutive but get between 6.0- 6.8 grains and periodic nothing drops. Any suggestions. by the way this is for a .45acp 200gr. mihec H&G clone star cases and as close to as possible handle operation with an inline base.

[Alvarez Kelly]

Static cling in the hopper? Wiping out the hopper with a used dryer sheet may help. It's usually worse in low humity environments. Try hanging a clean, used dryer sheet over the edge, but in the hopper. I've heard it helps...

[220swiftfn]

Ok, it sounds like the fail-safe is working the way it should on the return, but do you have the powder die set right?? If you aren't belling the case, you're probably not getting a complete cycle on the powder measure (this is assuming that you're using a Dillon measure, you didn't say.....) Other things to check/do are to pull the measure apart and make sure everything is dry and clean, put it back together and then run a pound of powder thru it manually (open the charge bar all the way) this gives it a good coat of graphite, which helps the measure settle in. Other than that, the only other thing I can think of is buffing the inside of the measure base, but that's usually just for those anal few that are trying for less than .1 deviation........



Dan

[runfiverun]

look in your powder funell.
i had a spider attempt to live in one once.
then watch your slide.
it's going forward to get the powder is only half the equasion.
i set my spring so that it compresses when i am seating the primer.
the old powder measures used to have springs around them,i got so used to seeing that, i started putting a rubber band around the hopper and the bar where the tee thing is.
make sure the bar is going all the way back in the slide to make the drop too.

[Dan Cash]

+1 on bar travel. When your operating handle is all the way down and ram is up with a casing in the powder die, the little white plastic bushing that pushes the measure slide rearward should just make contact with the back side of the slot that the measure slide rides in.