Just before the pandemic, I was loading some .45 LC for my Vaquero and chasing the proper crimp for my .45 ACP for my Springer. Almost a year and a half ago. Somehow where I was in the process became frozen in time, and everything had stood mostly as it was then. Well, I says. I'd best get back out there. Still sitting there were 50 rounds of each all nicely primed, each in their own 50 round box. In the wooden tray lay a pile of 230 gr LRN of the special roundness reserved for the 1911. But things were not as nice as they at first seemed because possums.
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Evidence of their visits punctuated the bench, and my scale had been knocked off the tool box--I put the scale up at eye level on my old VW tool box, as I no longer have that van. The tools integrated nicely into my larger tool box but for the 17 mm hex key, which would make a great melee weapon. So, they'd knocked off the scale. Since the scale is about twenty years old, the glue that held the graduated scales had dried and hardened. The shock of getting knocked off popped both graduated scales right off the frame. So much fun. Now the scale appeared to need an epic calibration check. I glued them back on to where they appeared to go. I weighed a few things and got puzzled. I needed something smaller than the 250 gr check weight that came with this old RCBS balance. I read where a dime weighed about 35 grains.
As I weighed several dimes, I discovered that the scale was off now by 1.4 grains. On this balance, you get tenths of a grain by rolling a graduated weight along a graduated scale and lining up little lines with each other. You can get to 0.05 grains fairly reliably. Luckily there are threads that let me take it down below the zero. So I rolled it back so that now the arrow balances at the zero where it's supposed to. Just so I would not forget, I wrote "Add 1.4 gr to pan" on tape and stuck it right by the pan. So, enough for today before it gets hotter than the hinges of Hades out there.
I hear the call of the reloading shed. After all, we're past the All Star Break and the Giants are in it. Love to load to a ball game on the radio. Perhaps I shall wake up inspired on the morrow to get back out there for a few innings.
CDFingers
The post-pandemic, approximately-35 grain dime
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