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Heat treat oven didn’t explode when plugged in.

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Yo, that's legit!

I really like what you did there!

CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:47 am Heat treat oven didn’t explode when plugged in.

Justsomedude wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 8:14 am Yo, that's legit!

100%. We found a few tweaks to make, but yeah. My buddy is one hell of a talented designer.

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 11:29 pm I'll answer a text. Not a call.

I very rarely use texting - I usually have it turned off. But when I do have it turned on, I absolutely positively will NOT do business via text. VERY unprofessional. Send me an email or call me.

Zorba wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 9:43 pm

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 11:29 pm I'll answer a text. Not a call.

I very rarely use texting - I usually have it turned off. But when I do have it turned on, I absolutely positively will NOT do business via text. VERY unprofessional. Send me an email or call me.

I don't carry my phone around the house (right now I have no idea where it is) and the ringer is off 99% of the time. I'm lucky to check my voice mails once a week and emails even less.

Zorba wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 9:43 pm

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 11:29 pm I'll answer a text. Not a call.

I very rarely use texting - I usually have it turned off. But when I do have it turned on, I absolutely positively will NOT do business via text. VERY unprofessional. Send me an email or call me.

Had a VP once try to tell me to text a customer that was not responding to calls and emails. I told him no. VP ended up texting him and that caused the customer to reply to my last email.... With a blistering rant about how he was in a family crisis, it was unprofessional to text him about this, and he would be considering other suppliers when the contract was up.

I tried not to tell the VP "I told you so", but I failed.

Admin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 1:26 pm

Zorba wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 9:43 pm

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 11:29 pm I'll answer a text. Not a call.

I very rarely use texting - I usually have it turned off. But when I do have it turned on, I absolutely positively will NOT do business via text. VERY unprofessional. Send me an email or call me.

Had a VP once try to tell me to text a customer that was not responding to calls and emails. I told him no. VP ended up texting him and that caused the customer to reply to my last email.... With a blistering rant about how he was in a family crisis, it was unprofessional to text him about this, and he would be considering other suppliers when the contract was up.

I tried not to tell the VP "I told you so", but I failed.

I HATEHATEHATE that we get spam text now. That and the outright scam texts.

Bought one of these but I keep finding it on my wife's night stand. Weird.

That’s a total shocker.

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 10:16 pm

Zorba wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 9:43 pm

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 11:29 pm I'll answer a text. Not a call.

I very rarely use texting - I usually have it turned off. But when I do have it turned on, I absolutely positively will NOT do business via text. VERY unprofessional. Send me an email or call me.

I don't carry my phone around the house (right now I have no idea where it is) and the ringer is off 99% of the time. I'm lucky to check my voice mails once a week and emails even less.

Yea, there's that. I "think" I know where the thing is, but I'd have to go looking for it. I forget to take it with me about 25% of the time when I leave the house - which isn't good, that's the only reason I have the thing. I detest voice mail, but its a necessary evil. My life runs on email - that is generally the fastest and best way to get ahold of me.

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:36 pm

Admin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 1:26 pm

Zorba wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 9:43 pm

I very rarely use texting - I usually have it turned off. But when I do have it turned on, I absolutely positively will NOT do business via text. VERY unprofessional. Send me an email or call me.

Had a VP once try to tell me to text a customer that was not responding to calls and emails. I told him no. VP ended up texting him and that caused the customer to reply to my last email.... With a blistering rant about how he was in a family crisis, it was unprofessional to text him about this, and he would be considering other suppliers when the contract was up.

I tried not to tell the VP "I told you so", but I failed.

I HATEHATEHATE that we get spam text now. That and the outright scam texts.

That is EXACTLY why I have texting turned off most of the time. I refuse to put up with that crap.

Admin wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 1:26 pm

Zorba wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 9:43 pm

jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 11:29 pm I'll answer a text. Not a call.

I very rarely use texting - I usually have it turned off. But when I do have it turned on, I absolutely positively will NOT do business via text. VERY unprofessional. Send me an email or call me.

Had a VP once try to tell me to text a customer that was not responding to calls and emails. I told him no. VP ended up texting him and that caused the customer to reply to my last email.... With a blistering rant about how he was in a family crisis, it was unprofessional to text him about this, and he would be considering other suppliers when the contract was up.

I tried not to tell the VP "I told you so", but I failed.

Yep - I'd probably have a similar reaction. Texting was never intended for that - its for short, 1 off messages like "I'm running late" or "Get some milk while you're out", not an entire **** conversation.

In today's episode of being bored as shìt and dickin around, I successfully reloaded some small rifle primers and tested them with good success, just because. Took some experimenting to match the power of the CCI primers I have but I'll always have the ability to shoot, even if components dry up. Pictured with a puck of the compound in it before and after anvil.

^Cool

Finally assembled my press riser bracket dingus. Works good. Could stand to be thicker, or have a brace added. It works fine, I'm just being fussy about the flex.

Looks good!

I have the same balance beam.

There must be a story behind the nuts holding down the press.

PFD45 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 8:36 pm Looks good!

I have the same balance beam.

There must be a story behind the nuts holding down the press.

Those are spring nuts. (Minus the spring) Made for attaching stuff to unistrut.

Why did I use them here? They were in the tool box, and I didn’t have to go outside to my van to get any hardware.

How consistent are those powder throwers? I use a chemical scale that goes 2 (maybe 3, can't recall) digits past the decimal. It takes time but I know all of my powder weighs the same.

That one’s older than either of us.
And at least with fine powder like H110, it’s dead nutz consistent. Using my balance beam scale, it’s always within a tenth of a grain.

Depends on the powder, but how consistent do you have to be?

I have variations around. 1 or so grains on 5.56 and .308 ammo with TAC, and about. 1 grain with Universal and Bullseye for 9mm and .45. It's not exact, but I'm not loading match ammo. If I was I would use a powder trickler to get to final weight.

Being brand new to reloading I really have no idea how close is good enough so I went for exactly the same. And ironically I'm just reloading to mess around with sub loads to shoot out in the backyard to keep from pissing off the neighbors. It's not like I'm benchrest shooting or anything.

All depends on your scale also. I mean it doesn’t change how consistent it throws, but how well you can measure.
My beam is a tenth of a grain. My Hornady electronic dispenser is a “tenth”. In quotes because it will round up down if it’s two tenths over. My cheap Amazon dope scale is in tenths, if I recall.
On my beam scale (just checked cause I’m curious) a tenth is hard to see. Essentially the top of one mark lines up with the bottom of the other, rather than being centered on each other when something’s a tenth off.
I zeroed then moved the weight to a tenth