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Old 02-18-2020, 09:31 PM
Brake Man Brake Man is offline
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I use an RCBS aluminum trickler. At one time I had rigged a sewing machine motor to turn drip tube, but it was easier to turn with my fiingers.
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Old 02-18-2020, 10:43 PM
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I use the Dandy electric trickler
https://dandyproductsllc.com/product...owder-trickler
It makes it so simple and easy I don't know how I got along without it.
Dan
If you're handy you can make your own Dandy. Some brass tubing, a coil spring, Clairol hair color bottle as the hopper (which BTW a standard 1# powder jug cap fits over the opening perfectly) a spray can cap, a momentary push button switch, a AA cell holder and a pager vibrator motor. I'm so happy with the prototype I haven't bothered to make it pretty.

I used to use the RCBS with added lead and a closed cell foam sheet on the base.
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Old 02-21-2020, 12:48 AM
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If you're handy you can make your own Dandy. Some brass tubing, a coil spring, Clairol hair color bottle as the hopper (which BTW a standard 1# powder jug cap fits over the opening perfectly) a spray can cap, a momentary push button switch, a AA cell holder and a pager vibrator motor. I'm so happy with the prototype I haven't bothered to make it pretty.

I used to use the RCBS with added lead and a closed cell foam sheet on the base.
I'd love to see a picture of your DIY "Dandy". Here is a YouTube by a DIY shooter that made his own.

https://youtu.be/CgtIDLxvZjQ
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Old 02-23-2020, 06:28 AM
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.....One thing to make sure is to raise your powder measure to eye height when you are sitting doing powder charges, to reduce strain and be as accurate as you can be, IMHO. I built a tower frame.....

Allen
I use a Redding trickler that I have sitting at an angle for faster powder dispension. (powder rolls out of the trickler tube faster with the tube at an angle.)

Yep... it took me years to get my lazy arse to build a shelf and brackets, paint it, and mount it to the wall to have my powder scale at eye level. Doing quantities of measuring with the scale on the bench is masochistic on your posture, and hard to see the pointer properly. The shelf is mounted sturdy enough so that I can rest my right hand on the right side of the shelf with 2 fingers grasping the Redding knurled knob. The Redding trickler rests inside a short piece of white PVC pipe. Inside that pipe is a piece of wood dowel that I angled. This way the trickler rests at an angle and the powder drops out faster.

("What's that funky hardware on the left side of the shelf you ask??" I had cut the shelf a couple of inches too short for my right hand to rest on it comfortably, so rather then make a whole new shelf I simply added a bracket to the left side of the shelf so the foot of the scale rests in it. It's much securer then it looks, and the scale can't fall off of the shelf even if you knock the foot off.)

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Old 02-23-2020, 06:51 AM
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BTW,
My green Redding trickler is over 30 years old. I don't know if the production dimensions and machining of these tricklers has changed, or maybe it varies from production lot to production lot. But very fine powder particles that are similar to the size of table salt (or maybe slightly larger perhaps) do occasionally get caught up between the rotating tube and the bore that the tube spins in. That is a PIA when it happens, because it causes some resistance. When I'm using large particle powders like IMR powders it works smooth, fast and easy like a charm. I'm not sure if other tricklers have this same annoying problem.
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Old 02-23-2020, 10:19 AM
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Since I'm not into being masochistic, for me, the solution to reloading cartridges and sitting down comfortably while doing it is as easy as building a custom bench/counter top tall enough so that you can comfortably sit on a chair or short stool and have your scale, etc. at roughly or just below eye level. That is what I have used for years and it avoids the need to be bent over in a chair or stool to do it.

In our previous home, I had a fairly normal height counter top on my reloading bench so years ago I had a sturdy counter top stand made for my scale and powder trickler with a low raised edge (for lack of a better word) around it to keep the scale or trickler from falling to raise those items to a point where they were comfortable to view straight on at eye level while seated without having to "bend over" at the waist.

In our new home when it was built, I simply had a taller counter top area installed in my man cave where my scales and trickler sit to provide for the same thing.

I've had two full spinal fusions resulting from the foolishness of my youth - 6 lower back vertebrae fused - and I can't imagine powder charging cartridges while standing up.......... Or bending over at the waist to do it either. But maybe that's just me...

To each their own, I guess

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