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Trickling to a pan on A&DFX120i
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With my A&D I went high tech.
My powder "pan" is a plastic scoop with a long handle snagged from a box of laundry detergent. I use a aluminum kitchen funnel through the hole in the top of the windscreen cover on the A&D. The trickler is the highly refined Mark 1 Mod 0 thumb and forefinger. edit - a small glass bowl of powder sits to the side of the A&D with some powder for adjusting the charge. High tech stuff here
I trickle to weight on my RCBS 1500 using one pan then transfer it to the laundry scoop which goes onto the A&D. While I am adjusting the charge using the funnel and finger trickling on the A&D the RCBS is doing it's thing. When I am satisfied with the weight I seat the bullet and prep a new case by dipping the neck in the Imperial graphite and wiping off the outside with a paper towel and putting my powder funnel on it. By that time the RCBS is finished and I start all over.
If you cannot find a decent laundry scoop a plastic 1 cup measuring scoop works also. A powder throw can be substituted for the RCBS Chargemaster. It takes about 30 to 45 seconds total from when the RCBS starts dispensing to round going in the ammo box. It won't impress the brother in law but it works fine for me
My powder "pan" is a plastic scoop with a long handle snagged from a box of laundry detergent. I use a aluminum kitchen funnel through the hole in the top of the windscreen cover on the A&D. The trickler is the highly refined Mark 1 Mod 0 thumb and forefinger. edit - a small glass bowl of powder sits to the side of the A&D with some powder for adjusting the charge. High tech stuff here
I trickle to weight on my RCBS 1500 using one pan then transfer it to the laundry scoop which goes onto the A&D. While I am adjusting the charge using the funnel and finger trickling on the A&D the RCBS is doing it's thing. When I am satisfied with the weight I seat the bullet and prep a new case by dipping the neck in the Imperial graphite and wiping off the outside with a paper towel and putting my powder funnel on it. By that time the RCBS is finished and I start all over.
If you cannot find a decent laundry scoop a plastic 1 cup measuring scoop works also. A powder throw can be substituted for the RCBS Chargemaster. It takes about 30 to 45 seconds total from when the RCBS starts dispensing to round going in the ammo box. It won't impress the brother in law but it works fine for me
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+1 JimSC. I made a scoop out of brass rod, hammered it flat and bent up the sides. My pan came with my old scale that came with my original RCBS reloading kit as did my powder dispenser. That dispenser throws about +/- .3g which I weigh on the A&D and adjust with a pair of tweezers for (+) and my Mark 1 Mod 0 thumb and forefinger for (-). I can complete a weighed case to .01g (my scale seems to go +/- .005g) in less than 15 seconds. Most of the grains of powder I use are about .008g so I have to look at my loose powder for the appropriate sized powder grain.
I'm not going to spend 500 bucks to go slower.
I'm not going to spend 500 bucks to go slower.
That's pretty much how I use my FX-120i and it works great.
Though I have a Chargemaster, I find it's actually faster to simply throw a charge with my Lee powder thrower into a pan, then put the pan on the FX120-i and trickle up with my Frankford Arsenal trickler that's sitting right on top of the cover dropping the kernels through a lee funnel that's sitting in that hole in the cover. It works!
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It's very usable without a phone but let me share the process as I remember as it does take alot of extra time. I would go out of my way to get an external controller.
To start loading you calibrate the scale and fill the autothrow and trickler. At that point, you weigh a charge and trickle it manually, literally droping kernals by rotating the tube, to the charge you want. Once its at say 40 grains, you hit a button and it saves the charge weight. When you want to go up to 40.1 or 40.5, you manually trickle up to that charge and save it again. This makes it more time consuming to load 5 charge weights of 3 or 5 rounds. And if you have to drop back from 41 to 39, you have to dump some and trickle back up.
Overall its very time consuming if doing a variety of loads. Not much of a time savings over manyually trickling if you are doing <20 loads of 4 or 5 charge weights.
The phone / tablet / etc is nearly essential from a time stand point. If time is not an issue, I am not sure how much value the autothrow / trickler provides.
If you are loading 100 of the same charge its fast either way.
To start loading you calibrate the scale and fill the autothrow and trickler. At that point, you weigh a charge and trickle it manually, literally droping kernals by rotating the tube, to the charge you want. Once its at say 40 grains, you hit a button and it saves the charge weight. When you want to go up to 40.1 or 40.5, you manually trickle up to that charge and save it again. This makes it more time consuming to load 5 charge weights of 3 or 5 rounds. And if you have to drop back from 41 to 39, you have to dump some and trickle back up.
Overall its very time consuming if doing a variety of loads. Not much of a time savings over manyually trickling if you are doing <20 loads of 4 or 5 charge weights.
The phone / tablet / etc is nearly essential from a time stand point. If time is not an issue, I am not sure how much value the autothrow / trickler provides.
If you are loading 100 of the same charge its fast either way.
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