Rick, I finally took your advice...

smokeywolf

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You missed the point Brad, of course I've done that but geez, ya don't expect me to admit it do you?
Reminds me of one of my favorites... "I may not always be right, but I'm damn sure never wrong."
 
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Ian

Notorious member
I keep a cheap-o won't drop water consistently powder dump set up right by mine.
I just drop a few grains short, set the pan down and press the button.
it's ready for me before I have the bullet seated.

Now I know how to make the AMT auto measure work at less than glacial speed. Thanks.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Discovered tonight that this thing auto-dispenses and counts charges metered if you recall a stored load. Pretty nifty.
 

Rick

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Discovered tonight that this thing auto-dispenses and counts charges metered if you recall a stored load. Pretty nifty.

8870Didn't read the owners manual huh? The auto dispense is everything, just set the powder pan on the scale and it goes to zero and then throws the next charge. The storing loads is great if you have enough standard loads that you use over and over.
 

Brad

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I find Chinese difficult to read?
I did read the manual on installation of the power feed. Perused the manual on the DRO on using a couple features.
Otherwise it was mostly knowing the break in cycle and changing fluid in the gearbox.
 

Ian

Notorious member
I did RTFM, but just the part necessary to set up the memory and dispense. It didn't auto-dispense with just scale weight input (had to push button) until I turned it off and back on again last night and recalled the setting, then it auto-zeroed and auto-dispensed and counted, something it didn't do when I first initialized it and created the load. As I have time I'll read the rest of it since the instructions are actually somewhat intelligently written and useful, not the case most of the time.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
half the time I read them for the comic value.
you ever read the instruction manual for a Norinco made gun?
they had to have been written by a 1930's screenwriter setting up a scene at a Chinese laundry.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
If so was selling a product in China that might matter but I’m not
 

Pistolero

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I'm generally a manual reader. I spent a career using very complex software where reading the
manual once was not even CLOSE to enough to get full use out of the capabilities available.
Often in a given day, there were three of the submanuals for the software open on my desk, referring
to several different portions, so I could figure out how to best take advantage of the tools I had.

Of course some manuals today are 95% "WARNING: do not use your hair drier in the bathtub" and
"WARNING: never load your gun, under any circumstances" , "WARNING: always wear heavy gloves,
eye protection and hearing protection when using your new radio"
or similar foolish or entirely useless
"safety warnings" intended more to be useful in avoiding lawsuits than actually providing any useful
information to the user.

Actually explaining how the item WORKS is only occasionally included.

Of course, I exaggerate, but only slightly. We could probably have a 'forever thread' on
"The stupidest safety warning in the manual for my new........."

Bill
 
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fiver

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yeah WE could.
I have read the directions on new die sets from time to time, just to see.
I'm also pretty big on saving manuals and the like if they seem like they might be even remotely helpful at some time in the future.
 

Rick

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Bill, you forgot the warning that says . . . The state of CA has determined that if you use this product you'll glow in the dark and your children will be deformed along with numerous other things we have yet to determine.
 

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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Rick,
Proposition 65 was written by hallucinating idiots who thought their kids were glowing in the dark.
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Yep, I left out the "California" warnings. Each one, worthy of at least one eyeroll.:rolleyes:

Apparently "California has determined that " EVERY single thing on the planet causes cancer or some other horrible
disease.

Bill
 
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