VarmLR Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 Thought I'd share the outcome of a recent commission for Dave at Shooting Shed. I've become the guinea-pig for a "Thingy" for Lyman Gen 6 electronic load dispensers. I sent the plastic factory plug off to Dave with instructions that I wanted something that would work better with powders ranging from the fine and uniform N133 which can easily over-trickle with the standard plug to RS62 which tends to clump. Within a few days he came back with the end result, beautifully machined with a longer plug equipped with more of a gradual bellmouth then the standard version. I tried it today whilst loading for some Muntjac shooting this week and the results were quite impressive. 20 rounds loaded and instead of loading to within 0.2 and then trickling up, I thought I'd try it with straight loads. End result was and ES of 0.1, and four from 20 were just under 0.1gr over, the rest being spot on. Time for a 24.2gr charge was 16 seconds each time. Had I loaded just under and trickled up they would all have been spot on. This was from a powder that regularly threw to 0.2gr over previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No i deer Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 Sounds great.almost time for me to go auto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VarmLR Posted April 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 Certainly sped up loading for me. I think that Dave makes these "Thingys" as he calls them for the RCBS and Hornady machines too. Better than using the drinking straw trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No i deer Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 Can you show us video's with the new thingy versus the original....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevgun Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 MIght give that ago, i'm on the Lathe tonight making a front Lens support for a Drone pro x10 to stop the zero shift problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VarmLR Posted April 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 If I knew how to upload a vid I'd give it a go, safe to say though that it's a big improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No i deer Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 It' a shame the makers of the Lyman gen 6 don't look on ukv as they may lean something about building powder dispensers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VarmLR Posted April 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2018 You could say that about ALL automatic powder dispensers though as they all suffer from the same thing (none that I am aware of throw straight charges using all powders without some propellants being over-thrown due to clumping or just too large a dispenser diameter). The Lyman is no worse (and probably better than) the Chargemaster in this respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furyan Posted April 26, 2018 Report Share Posted April 26, 2018 interested in one of those for my gen6 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.300wm Posted April 26, 2018 Report Share Posted April 26, 2018 I'm interested to know if this will fit the Lyman model 5? I effing stupidly changed from an RCBS to the Lyman and the Lyman isn't even half as good as the RCBS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furyan Posted April 27, 2018 Report Share Posted April 27, 2018 .300wm if i get one for the gen 6 , you can try it on the gen 5 im not to far from you.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VarmLR Posted April 27, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2018 For my .308 and 6.5, where I have stable load plateaus with a tenth or more latitude, I can just set the Gen 6 to auto, press a button a load now knowing that it'll not stray beyond those limits. The BR3 does a similar job (as I'm sure would a Harrell) but only with small grained very uniform powders. For everything else, I think that I would be hard pushed to better the speed and accuracy of the Gen 6 or a Chargemaster fitted with Dave's "Thingy". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furyan Posted April 27, 2018 Report Share Posted April 27, 2018 Thanks VarmLR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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