Eightbore, at 2:00 AM the bridge is almost always empty. At least it was for me. Your rant was a good one and I for one loved it. You, in no way offended me and you know it I hope.
Warning to all board members do not insult a mans dog's looks or his PW. I have done both and lived to regret it. I have MECs for the boys to use and a Spolar now myself. This is just an updated PW in many ways. PWs are fine machines. Sorry if I got under your skin Eightbore.
PWs are fine machines, if the UPS man knows where you live so he can deliver parts to keep it running. Oops, I did it again. Sorry. A PW and for that matter a Spolar are a fine machines that do not tolerate tinkers and home educated repairs. Unlike a MEC, which any idiot could take apart and put back together, with a reasonable hope of getting it to work again, PWs have just a few more moving parts which most reloaders have no hope to get back correctly in place and timing. From what has been posted here this PW seems to be operated by someone who knows what to do so that is not a problem.
Eightbore, I have loaded a 100-150K on PWs before I replaced them so I am not a virgin in PWs. Certainly you may have loaded ten times as much and I deffer to your expertise in this area. My remark about the primers on the MEC vs. PW loaders deals with the MEC machine tendency to have the primer hang up and then fall off the primer drop or have one fly off it if the spring return suddenly flies back. I understand how a primer might drop off the PW and by some weird fate land in the powder. I just think that it is ten times more likely with a MEC than a PW.
I would be willing to pay real money to have a "live primer in the powder" load tested to see how much it increases the pressure. Maybe someone can get Hodgdon to run a test of have Mr. Bell run a test. Count me in for a hundred bucks.
Once again I am sorry if I made you just a tad touchy about those PWs. By the way it is off the right side of the bridge on the Annapolis side of the channel if you are looking for parts for your machine. I did keep the hydraulic setup off that machine and used it on my Spolar. Had to change one small part and it works just like a PW.
