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Now, like most of us, I love the kit, especially if its got dials for measuring things. Well, having seen, on this very forum, an RCBS Casemaster with two dial micrometers, I thought "I can do that". So I machined an extra brass bar and bolt for mine, as you can see. Being a myope, I rely on my short sight to give me magnification, and approaching the end of a cut, I lowered my specs to get a better view of the final result. (the brass knob on the right of the pic!) Whereupon a minute piece of brass swarf lept into my left eye! Twenty four hours later, following a visit to A&E, (nothing to be seen on the slit lamp), all is well, but it mightn't have been. I'll not rely on my specs in future, but wear the goggles, as I ought.

I am glad it turned out ok in the end - we only have one pair of eyes - they are worth looking after

Mike

Ouch.

Hmmm... and I have been working all day without my safety glasses, no idea where they are... I am relying on my reading glasses to mill some fine detail work and have even removed the guard to get closer. Last week I was using a jewellers loupe on the lathe, it is an odd feeling to feel a piece of stainless spinning at 800rpm kiss the loupe.

I can see one is doing run-out but what does the other do?

Again, taking the idea from ? possibly a U-Tube demo on this forum, you can measure case neck thickness without having to re-adjust the micrometer. Totally superfluous! My first mishap in the fifteen or so years that I have used this lathe.

zeroveez wrote:Twenty four hours later, following a visit to A&E, (nothing to be seen on the slit lamp), all is well, but it mightn't have been.

Glad to hear you're ok. I think ENS's pipe-drilling still leads the running for the FB(UK) Darwin Award though.

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I have built some gauges that measure both neck run out and case neck thickness however you need to use two dial gauges or swap it from one point to another.

That's dead flash, tharris!

It's odd that you were injured that way as I have two stitches from today's effort to remove the ram from my Magma Lube sizer. It didn't want to move and suddenly it changed its' mind and the top of it hit my eyebrow. A VERY close shave. It could have been my eye.
As I said two stitches to close the wound. OUCH
Hope you recover soon.

zeroveez wrote:That's dead flash, tharris!

They are nice one they have been polished and part anodised, in fact the hard part is trying to take a picture of the things as the flash shows up marks that I cannot see in the flesh

"They are nice" Yes, I'm very tempted to copy them. The trouble is that I bought my reloading gear in 1996, or so, in a state of ignorance and deprivation, (no lathe or milling machine). Over the years one reads, see's, and learns, (the rubber washers to allow re-sizing dies to "wobble and self centre") for instance, source Precision Shooting Reloading Guide, copyright Precision Shooting Inc., 1995. You buy things that you learn, later, that you might have made better yourself.