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Reloading
Looking to get advice on initial setup
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2397953" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>No problem, glad to help. It does take awhile to get it all put together if you're starting from scratch. Do you know someone who loads? This is the kind of hobby where we all like to help guys start out, and even once you have the basics covered it's always nice to have a connection to let you try a piece of kit or a process before you buy it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The Sinclair inserts are steel, correct? Probably they're more round than the aluminum Hornady inserts. The holes in my Hornady comparators are pretty apparently oblong, but I don't have a way to quantify how out of round they are without buying a bunch of pin gauges. It's ultimately a $40 tool and not worth the cost of my figuring out how poorly made it is <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> But I think that was the root of a lot of my inconsistency with the comparator. Sure I could rotate a cartridge and get 0.001" repeatable measurements at some point around the diameter, but there's a lot of tolerances aligning to get that result and I was ignoring some large swings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2397953, member: 116181"] No problem, glad to help. It does take awhile to get it all put together if you're starting from scratch. Do you know someone who loads? This is the kind of hobby where we all like to help guys start out, and even once you have the basics covered it's always nice to have a connection to let you try a piece of kit or a process before you buy it. The Sinclair inserts are steel, correct? Probably they're more round than the aluminum Hornady inserts. The holes in my Hornady comparators are pretty apparently oblong, but I don't have a way to quantify how out of round they are without buying a bunch of pin gauges. It's ultimately a $40 tool and not worth the cost of my figuring out how poorly made it is 🤣 But I think that was the root of a lot of my inconsistency with the comparator. Sure I could rotate a cartridge and get 0.001" repeatable measurements at some point around the diameter, but there's a lot of tolerances aligning to get that result and I was ignoring some large swings. [/QUOTE]
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