Aluminum Funnels

I have been using a Lyman E-Zee Powder Funnel for decades. Absolutely no static cling. Finally wore enough (after several thousand cases) that my neck turned 22 caliber BR cases were occasionally sticking in it. I ordered another from Amazon.ca a few months back. It is still the exact same product. Works a charm. I did notice that the price has almost doubled since I bought mine. I paid $7.95 plus about the same for shipping. I ordered a total of 7. One for myself and the rest for a group of fellow reloaders. It saved on the shipping cost.
 
Or, you could just fasten a light, flexible copper wire to your funnel with a tapped screw (just drill the hole and turn the screw in) and fasten the other end of the wire to your press.
That ground will drain off the static electricity as it builds on the funnel. No static on the funnel, no powder sticking to funnel.

I was assuming that in the interest of safety, your press was included in all of your metal reloading equipment being connected to an earth ground. Think a metal plate, copper is best, that any major metallic piece of loading equipment is connected to. This drains all electricity, man made or static, harmlessly away. A convenient connection to earth ground is the centre screw on the cap of any electrical outlet in your wiring system.
 
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I used to use the plain old RCBS funnel and every time I dumped Varget into the funnel to put it into a .308 case, I had to tap the funnel a couple times to get the powder to drop. Not because of static but because of the kernel size of Varget. While you don't think it takes any extra time to do this, it does add up when you add 2-5 seconds every time you dump a charge. I bought a Saturn funnel a couple years ago and the powder just drops through as fast as I dump it in. This funnel probably saves me about 10 minutes per 100 rounds.
 
Norpro stainless on Amazon, under 10 bucks for three.......... We are big time canners and makers of our own sweet tree juice here. Stainless is a long lasting tool for such activity.
 
Years ago I went to night classes to an electrical course given my by an electrical inspector for the area. The course was given so a home owner could wire his new house in accordance with the electrical regulations. I later went into some fairly advanced courses in radio, but have never forgotten that original course by the electrical inspector. He would point out how many people were killed every year by 110 volt electricity, then state that every one of those deaths would not have happened, if the safety precautions in his course had been followed. The words "ground it" were virtually ringing in our ears at the end of a lecture.
And the deaths by 110 volt electricity are still happening, from the same mistakes! On this very thread is a post that would result in death by 110 volt electric current, if carried out. Someone wrote, I think it was in this thread, that a person could be on a wet basement floor, contact 110 volts ac with his upper body, but be safe if he/she had on a pair of rubber soled shoes.
This is absolute hog wash, the person would be dead, and here is why. It's called capacitance and it allows ac current to flow through non electrical material, in particular rubber shoes. You can google electrical capacitance to see why this happens.
Electrical regulations has made your house about as electrically safe as it is possible to be. Remember, every large piece of metallic equipment in your house, like appliances, furnace duct work, etc., is already grounded. If you add larger pieces of metallic equipment of any type, say a loading press, to your work place, be sure and ground it.
 
H4831 said:
Years ago I went to night classes to an electrical course given my by an electrical inspector for the area. The course was given so a home owner could wire his new house in accordance with the electrical regulations. I later went into some fairly advanced courses in radio, but have never forgotten that original course by the electrical inspector. He would point out how many people were killed every year by 110 volt electricity, then state that every one of those deaths would not have happened, if the safety precautions in his course had been followed. The words "ground it" were virtually ringing in our ears at the end of a lecture.
And the deaths by 110 volt electricity are still happening, from the same mistakes! On this very thread is a post that would result in death by 110 volt electric current, if carried out. Someone wrote, I think it was in this thread, that a person could be on a wet basement floor, contact 110 volts ac with his upper body, but be safe if he/she had on a pair of rubber soled shoes.
This is absolute hog wash, the person would be dead, and here is why. It's called capacitance and it allows ac current to flow through non electrical material, in particular rubber shoes. You can google electrical capacitance to see why this happens.
Electrical regulations has made your house about as electrically safe as it is possible to be. Remember, every large piece of metallic equipment in your house, like appliances, furnace duct work, etc., is already grounded. If you add larger pieces of metallic equipment of any type, say a loading press, to your work place, be sure and ground it.
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How did we go from a thread about plastic or metal funnels and arrive at "grounding your press or YOU'LL DIE!"
 
Backwoods said:
How did we go from a thread about plastic or metal funnels and arrive at "grounding your press or YOU'LL DIE!"
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I told it like it was, so if your going to quote me, stick to what I said.
And I stick to what I said. 110 volt house current kills a lot of people every year. Actually, more than all other voltages combined. Anyone with rubber soled shoes on a wet basement floor that lets the upper body contact a bare house current line will be killed.
Come on, you professional electricians, where are you?
 
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