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March 6, 2013
From the comforts of home, I just finished teaching a two-day seminar to customers in Singapore.
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March 5, 2013
I’m guarding the clean but wet brass from bombers as it bakes dry in the afternoon Arizona sun.
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March 4, 2013
Start with two buckets for brass. Label them #1 and #2.
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March 3, 2013
What happens if a case of ammo is dropped 65 feet, struck by a fired shot, exposed to the detonation of a blasting cap, ground under the tread of a bulldozer or torched in a fire?
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March 2, 2013
Calipers are an instrument for taking an inside or an outside measurement, having either two bowed legs or a sliding jaw.
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March 1, 2013
Measuring the crimp is arguably one of the most difficult measurements to take when reloading ammunition.
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February 28, 2013
We have a winner in the “most obscure spam” competition. Congratulations, Holly!
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February 27, 2013
Underside of vacuum tube sockets in the old Eniac-1 computer. The rectangular objects are Mica capacitors whereas the tubular ones are resistors. The color dots and stripes encode the values of the specific parts.