Luke E.

   They usually put a coupon for $9.99 torque wrenches in the emails they send out so if i'm planning a trip I usually pick up one whether I have a use for it or not. Needless to say, I've given quite a few away to friends that say "oh, I never bother with torque wrenches". I've seen a plenty of dirt bike cams burnt smooth up because they were (or weren't) torqued as little as 1lb over spec. They don't put a spec on important parts of gun,cars or bikes just to say there is one.

   I myself and two younger sisters were home schooled, the youngest never attended public school the next attended public school until 3rd grade and I home schooled through high school. What you say is right, while I don't know if you would consider them lobbyist, home school parents can make themselves very annoying to any person(s) that try to interfere with their way of doing things. There is absolutely no logical or legitimate reason for anyone to ever bother home schoolers, they score exceptionally high throughout elementary and high school and a very very large percentage go on not only to attend college but score very high marks. The only reason any citizen or lawmaker ever has had or ever will have for harassing home school families is that they don't have that extra control over them. I've heard some normally very conservative people state that they cannot find anything wrong with what common core teaches but I say they are very short sighted because it's not what is currently common core but rather what it's going to have in it. Like someone else mentioned above, if they can get their hooks sunk in good over the next year or two, within 10yrs there will be a mandate that you must comply in order to attend a state college and they will find a way to diminish the value of any  college not requiring the same. My wife and I do not have children yet but were already trying to figure out a way to ensure that they can attend private school. It makes me sick knowing that we HAVE to pay taxes that go straight towards the indoctrination of children even if mine are in private school. I'm not saying that in a 'i'm paying for private school so I shouldn't have to pay that tax' kinda way but rather a 'I don't want to contribute to the indoctrination of others children' kinda way. The whole thing is disgusting.

Took me a while to learn that sometimes lighter hammering action is more effective than even a breaker bar and cheater pipe combo with more actual force. Once you get it to move a little the twisting motion will work. Either way, glad you got it whooped and didn't burn a complete 2nd day doing it.

 I like to have a stock to shoot out of and then load what i'm about to shoot or just shot. My shooting tends to be spur of the moment and I also like to have enough on hand that I can take a new shooter or visitor out and not have to police their rounds. If I can help make it fun for them their first time out there is a better chance that they will join in with us. I took out my future Brother in law and his buddy (both from Ireland where firearms are limited to what you can PROVE a use for) out to the range where they shot pistols, AR's, scoped guns from a bench and a pro trap set up. My most conservative round count for the day is 1,200 rounds but was likely much more if you count the .22 they shot. I enjoy loading so it's not a headache for me to spend some time on it.

   No problem. I'm usually pretty good at fighting my way out of tough spots... guess that is due to a lot of experience since the one thing i'm better at is, finding myself in those tough spots. I have used one on an oil filter before and after spending half a day fooling with it I has half happy and the other half pissed when it all but fell off as soon as I pulled the trigger. Good luck with it tomorrow.

     The air chisel I just posted for you will add shock to the mix. Sometimesthings just refuse to move with just smooth twisting motion even if it is a lot of force.

2nd what Frankmako said.   I know you said you tried the chisel and hammer thing but didn't have room so here's one more tool to add to the maix and you could get this at walmart if nowhere else. If you can't make it happen any other way and decide to go this route just be careful not to get it into the sealing surface because when these things start going, they GO. WalMart should have a cheap one for around $20 I suspect.   http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=air+chisel

Some seems way worse than others for some reason but since it's a metallic spring in a metallic tube it's close to unavoidable. I will say, a lot of the tubes are not even close to smooth inside but will smooth out over time which will quiet things down a bit. Like Garufa said, you can grease it but if you go that route you will want to clean the tube and spring pretty often because everything from dirt to dust to small elephants will be eager to stick in the grease.

Their main objective is to get ALL schools running the same curriculum, the very curriculum that they have control of, mark my words, the day they have everyone on the same page will be the day they start cramming the curriculum full of anti god, gay and lesbian and islamist BS.

Sweet, thanks, I had a 25% that I used several times but the cashier was a stickler and had to keep it. I'd had it for some time and used it on 15-20 purchases so I had grown attached. Almost she'd a tear over it.

Do you have to use the code online?

   I've got one of the Harbor Freight tumblers and it is great. It has had countless thousands of pieces of brass run through it and does a much better/quicker job than the Frankfort Arsenal that runs beside it. It has a heavier counter weight than most tumblers but the bowl is a big part of the speed, rather than just moving the media and brass around in circles, it also rolls it from the outside in as it goes in a circle. The only issue with the Harbor Freight model that I have run into is, the long threaded bolt that stick up to tighten down the lid will eventually strip. Now I probably 8,000+ pieces of brass through it before it got to bad to use but I replaced it and kept on rolling. I've not used every brand of tumbler but I can tell you, mine does an impressive job and for half the price of most others, it's a winner.    As for additives, I've not used any yet but I have been using the Lyman rouge/nutshell media on my finished rounds and it leaves them looking like brand new rounds. It can leave rouge residue but I dump the rounds out on a towel, lift up each end so that they are sitting in there like a hammock and raise each end up the back down letting the roll back and forth, let them roll back and forth 3-4 times and your done! I don't recommend this media for smaller bottleneck empty brass because it can be very tough to get all the media out of the brass.

Welcome aboard.

  Windham Weaponry makes a good rifle, I don't personally have one but a friend does and loves it. Windham is owned buy the guy that used to own Bushmaster so it isn't just some no name company that jumped on the AR bandwagon and assembles parts in their personal garage. I received an email from CDNN today with some really good prices, I'll try to post a link for you, if it doesn't show as a link, just copy and paste into your browser.    http://cdnninvestments.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99c3876c30b42968d4190988b&id=fa034fc338&e=2006653f6e

   You hit it in that last sentence.. I will pick up odds and ends here close by me but I am always adding stuff that I don't HAVE to have right now to a "David" list until he is going to be at a show that i'm going to anyways or the list gets large enough that it is worth the haul to go see him at home.

 OKAY!!! Well I just got off the phone with Steve @ Wilson and he said that they had a problem with what sounded like a pretty big batch of these blocks. I told him that I was I was able to bottom out the adjustment screw in the bore and he said that it wasn't necessarily an issue with the threads so much as the fact that the entire hole was not cut deep enough. He said to send them back in and he would either fix or replace both of them.  Dolomite, To touch on your instructions non compliance idea lol He said that he gets a great many calls from folks that are not able to get their blocks to adjust only to find out that they are trying to adjust the setscrew!  I'll post results once I get them back and try them out.    Thanks, for all the help guys. 

   I have the gas block, I have the breakdown from the link sitting on my bench at home and I know exactly how this thing is supposed to work. My issue is that is isn't doing it's job. There is one setscrew and one adjustment screw, the one you calling the setscrew with the nipple on it IS the adjustment screw. The actual setscrew has no bottom in the allen pocket, it is made so that you can barely slide the allen wrench in and break it loose then slide the allen wrench all the way through the setscrew and into the adjustment screw, make your adjustment, back the allen wrench out so that it is only in the setscrew, tighten setscrew and then you should be good to go BUT all the way in or all the way out makes no difference.

LOL nope, I wish it were that easy.

   I wasn't meaning he didn't deserve your business for making the decision to price his ammo that way, as a matter a fact a good friend of mine has been doing the exact same thing in his shop and I will buy from him as long as he's not so out of line on what I need. On the other hand, I have seen a good many folks come in, ask the price and make a weird face and turn around and head out the door. Not everyone is worried about trying to keep their money local. Just didn't want you to mistake what I was meaning there because i'm the last to tell someone what they should do with their own stuff.

   No, I had missed his post but I was already aware of the set screw.

  Yes, I sure do. lol I would sure feel like an idiot had I not have though. I even pulled the setscrew completely out just to make sure that wasn't causing a problem when I first started trying to adjust it at the range. When I got it back home I stripped it all completely down and checked it all over again and the problems still remain the same.

   I understand the pressure differences between port locations which is why I choose what I did.  It does lock back on the last round and unless I didn't notice, it has done so without fail. My original thought about the tapered hole was just the same as yours but since nothing else has seemed to make sense, I put it back on the table of possibilities. The screw goes in far enough and even passes the gas port BUT the cylindrical end of the screw is a much smaller diameter than the bore in the area of the gas port. Its kinda hard to explain without pictures but... The end of the adjustment screw is necked down and smaller than the threaded portion of the screw, but the adjustment screw hole is the same diameter all the way down (obviously since it's a one sided hole). The business end of the adjustment screw is enough smaller than the bore that even with it screwed all the way in, it causes very little reduction in gas. Did that make any sense at all lol I can try to post pics tomorrow if it didn't.

I have checked the block/port alignment it is pretty much spot on. You are correct, it is a free float guard but the way it mounts, it's either tight or it's not. I guess my over gassed theory stems from the fact that i'm running fairly hot supers through a 16" barrel with pistol gas port and from everything i've heard or read, if I were to run a standard gas block and fire supersonic ammo through it, the result would be overgassing. Are you saying otherwise? Like I said I'm always open to learning new things. Whether i'm right of wrong about the over gassed under gassed thing is really not my problem (although I would like to know that as well). My real problem here is an unresponsive "adjustable gas block.

   Well that makes a lot more sense. I knew that the Dillon trimmers were awful exspensive to not be capable of trimming whatever I wanted it to trim. The Little Crow WFT trimmers are doing a pretty good job in large numbers for me but i'm never against faster.