What's a Zip Spindle?
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Thanks I understand how Google works and I've been through the rigamarole reading about it but no where does it say, that I can find, what it's for. I'm guessing its some kind of depriming component. Although it clearly won't fit through the flash hole. Call me stupid, but I'm new to reloading.
It's a Hornady Zip Spindle.
It's a Hornady Zip Spindle.
You sure are going to a lot of trouble to make me look stupid far more than you are trying to help me. Thanks for nothing.
That does not come up when I search under google. Click your own link and find out. Please stop posting under this thread. People like you who tell people like me to go elsewhere and look for information apart from this forum cause the entire forum to be useless and otherwise pointless. CGN is loosing points in the eyes of everyone with this terrible attitude you have towards newcomers.
Can someone useful post on this topic?
That does not come up when I search under google. Click your own link and find out. Please stop posting under this thread. People like you who tell people like me to go elsewhere and look for information apart from this forum cause the entire forum to be useless and otherwise pointless. CGN is loosing points in the eyes of everyone with this terrible attitude you have towards newcomers.
Can someone useful post on this topic?
My understanding of it is that it's simply the same as any other FL or neck die except they have threaded the outside of the rod(spindal) above the expander ball and decapping pin.
I dont really see any great advantage to this however I'm not a big fan of Hornady's dies or products in general.
I dont really see any great advantage to this however I'm not a big fan of Hornady's dies or products in general.
I have the same die and don't see any benefit to it. Actually I found it to be a pain in the ass because unless the top is tightened really really tight the decapping section was passing through the threads and coming down with the casing..
and acrashb, if you have nothing to add to the thread go elsewhere otherwise you are trolling.
This is what hornady says:
Ha, all I got was slippage until I busted my knuckes tightening the spindle lock.
Other than that, once I got the spindle nice and tight it worked just fine. I don't see anything wrong with the dies except for that.
and acrashb, if you have nothing to add to the thread go elsewhere otherwise you are trolling.
This is what hornady says:
Ha, all I got was slippage until I busted my knuckes tightening the spindle lock.
Other than that, once I got the spindle nice and tight it worked just fine. I don't see anything wrong with the dies except for that.
Your experience mirrors my own when I setup my .45ACP dies tonight. I didn't quite have the nut tightened down and it just slipped through when the casing passed inside the sizing die.
When I tightened it up with some wrenches, problem solved.
Ahh, so I've not been tightening it enough..... man I really let 'er have the torque too. Hmm.
So this basically does nothing. I like Hornady stuff. Yet lately, I'm interested in getting some Redding dies... as soon as I'm done poking media out of my flash holes. See yas in 6 years.
So this basically does nothing. I like Hornady stuff. Yet lately, I'm interested in getting some Redding dies... as soon as I'm done poking media out of my flash holes. See yas in 6 years.
Everything one needed was in my picture.
Search "hornady zip spindle" (obvious), click on "fewer shopping sites" (notice the black-coloured thingy on the upper left, because you don't want to buy one), and open the Hornady PDF (circled in red). The numbered picture and matching description make the use of the thing obvious. Hint: the zip spindle is labeled #1.
For the google-challenged:
http://www.hornady.com/assets/files/catalog/2009/71-77_dies_accessories.pdf
It's not trolling to encourage people to answer the simplest questions themselves. It cuts clutter here, and self-serve is faster for the questioner than waiting for someone to respond on the site. If I was doing it in a humorous way and someone didn't get it, that's life on a forum without the usual non-verbal clues to assess context.
Lee calls slippage a design feature, because it makes one less likely to destroy the decapping pin if there's some debris in the case. I don't know if I agree, but it is another way of looking at it. My Hornady dies had both the standard and zip spindle, didn't have a problem with either.
Yes. You came off as a total a-hole. I suggest next time just help someone genuinely from the beginning. Now, several people think you're a:
On a lighter note, I have tried the zip spindle with a ridiculous level of torque on the collet. I noticed a decrease in the level of pressure needed to extract the plunger from the inside of the neck. I don't have a neck thickness gauge or a run-out checking tool so I can't report on anymore concentricity this thing may have promoted.
On a lighter note, I have tried the zip spindle with a ridiculous level of torque on the collet. I noticed a decrease in the level of pressure needed to extract the plunger from the inside of the neck. I don't have a neck thickness gauge or a run-out checking tool so I can't report on anymore concentricity this thing may have promoted.
