dragon
12-29-2015, 10:35 PM
I'm not sure if this will be useful to anyone or not...
I have been using an old set of Lee dippers that is metered in .001 cubic inch along with the new ones. The nice thing is that the old ones happen to have volumes that are in between the new ones, so you can get finer 'grained' measurements if you use both sets!
Unfortunately there are many new powders that are not on the slide card for the old set of dippers. Also the VMD on some of the powders still around has changed a bit as well. I finally got tired of calculating the values all of the time and created a spreadsheet to do it for me and entered the VMD data for my most common powders.
I tried to upload the open document spreadsheet, but the site wouldn't allow it. If you would like a copy of the spreadsheet just drop me a PM or something. Here is a sample pdf file export showing the results for some of the powders. This also shows the volume of the old dippers in CCs.
156785
Use this info at your own risk, as I quite likely messed something up!! Remember to always weigh a few charges to make sure you didn't read a chart wrong or grab the wrong dipper, or a new lot is different.
To see a good example of how I find this useful take a look at Bullseye... There is a jump of 2.8 grains between the 1.0 and 1.3 cc dippers. There are two old dippers that fit in between them though and really help to fill in that gap!
-Dragon
I have been using an old set of Lee dippers that is metered in .001 cubic inch along with the new ones. The nice thing is that the old ones happen to have volumes that are in between the new ones, so you can get finer 'grained' measurements if you use both sets!
Unfortunately there are many new powders that are not on the slide card for the old set of dippers. Also the VMD on some of the powders still around has changed a bit as well. I finally got tired of calculating the values all of the time and created a spreadsheet to do it for me and entered the VMD data for my most common powders.
I tried to upload the open document spreadsheet, but the site wouldn't allow it. If you would like a copy of the spreadsheet just drop me a PM or something. Here is a sample pdf file export showing the results for some of the powders. This also shows the volume of the old dippers in CCs.
156785
Use this info at your own risk, as I quite likely messed something up!! Remember to always weigh a few charges to make sure you didn't read a chart wrong or grab the wrong dipper, or a new lot is different.
To see a good example of how I find this useful take a look at Bullseye... There is a jump of 2.8 grains between the 1.0 and 1.3 cc dippers. There are two old dippers that fit in between them though and really help to fill in that gap!
-Dragon