I had the luxury of sleeping until 6:30 a.m. Monday morning.
The highest temperature I measured yesterday was 96.3F.
I went for a 1.4 mile walk with no consequences. I took the precaution of taking a couple of ibuprofen an hour before I walked out the door. I picked a route where the 20 mph (sustained) winds were blocked. It was still cold.
I have a little bit of coughing. In the morning I had some lung-whistles upon exhaling but those went away as my lungs cleared. No headaches. No nausea.
My stomach shrank. A bagel fills me up.
My little hobby is chugging along. I have a single-stage press and assembly is the slowest operation because there are multiple steps involved. I am averaging 5 units per minute.
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I am feeling house-bound. The weather look-ahead predicts cold, -19 F wind chill and -10 actual for early Saturday morning but Wednesday and Thursday look balmy.
This does not look like the dreaded H3N2 so your prayers for my health paid off. Thank-you all.
Single-stage here, too. Do you batch the different steps, like say, 50 units at a time doing step A, send those 50 units to step B, etc...? I'll get a couple hundred cleaned and sized, then go through the last 2 steps in batches of 50 at a time to fill up a box.
ReplyDeleteI run the cases through the polisher in batches of 250-to-300.
DeleteI resize and deprime in when I have an oatmeal canister full of polished brass. Then if I intend to load cast or plated pewter medallians I expand the mouth of the brass by 0.005" to 0.015" with a second pass. These steps go very fast because I cobbled together a finger to automatically kick the case out of the holder. I think that I average 12-to-15 per minute once I get into my groove.
I prime in batches of 100 or more, currently that same oatmeal canister.
I DO NOT BATCH the assembly phase. I pick up one polished, primed brass cup. I add the required amount of sacred dirt. I tip the cup to visually verify that the magic dirt is there. I immediately cap the cup with the pewter medalian and put it into the press to seal-the-deal.
If anything interrupts me, if I bump my hand against the magic dirt dispenser, anything that takes me out of the groove...I dump the magic dirt into the top of the dispenser and redispense.
When I removed the sealed assembly out of the press I grip it where the rim of the cup meets the pewter medallion to ensure that the crimp flattened the flared mouth and that the medallion is firmly held.
Single piece processing through assembly drives the risk of a double charge to nearly zero. Visual inspection greatly reduces the risk of squib loads which can cause your cordless drill to become constipated.