Pacific Gun Powder Scale Salvage and Repair

Starting with a good complete powder scale above it was zeroed out . This means that all the settings were set to zero and the adjuster at the end on the bottom left was screwed up or down in tell the pointer is exactly on zero. The scale will now give very accurate measurements. Aluminum counter weights were originally used in the Pacific scale  below. What I did was to use aluminum soda cans and a knife to cut the can apart and good sharp scissors. The thin aluminum allowed me to shave off little slivers so I could reach an exact weight 

There are two -20 grain (G) weights one 10 grain weight 6,5,4.3.2,1 and a 1/2 grain weight  or (.5 grain).

The metal was folded for convince and labeled with a permanent marker. An old medicine bottle will hold the weights.

Pacific (or other ) Powder Scale Salvage and Repair

There may come a time when we will need products that are not readily available. Powder scales are invaluable pieces of equipment in reloading and there are a lot of old ones around which could be brought back into service. If you only have one gun and are using one type of powder for the most part the scale could be set and used from loading session to loading session. This is not advisable, it is always good to check the scale each time but I am only saying it is possible.  In a war even if the Pacific scale  had no counter weights it could still be useful as long as the home made propellant was of a consistent weight, size, and shape and people knowing what they are doing worked up the appropriate loads and set the scale in the appropriate place. The two locking lugs would pretty much guaranty the scale would work well from day to day. But making the weights was about 1 and 1/2 hrs work so this is a small investment of time to make sure  the Pacific will meet all your loading needs  Replacement parts and balance weights and scale pans are sometimes not available or if they are they are as expensive as a new scale. In an emergency we may have to find ourselves making parts. Here to the weight of the home made scale pan and wire  cradle are not as critical on this Pacific scale because the counter weights can be set appropriately. 

  Before going on let’s talk about reliability of the old equipment. When it was made it was considered state of the art and worked well and offered very good results. That said there is no reason to doubt that just because a product is old that it will not do the same today. This example has a direct application. An interesting story told by my Dad was in the day when the old Ford model “A” and “T” and farm tractors were what they would depend on in their rural farm community in Lenard Texas. The barn became the family mechanics work shop when these things needed fixing. They worked by kerosene lamps which were not real helpful but better than nothing. On occasion a bolt would be dropped and could not be found. Taking a small stone one of the boys would lay under the vehicle and the other would drop the stone from about the same place. And in a wishful declaration would say “brother, brother go find your brother” the stones glancing blows would generally give them a close proximity of where to go looking for the lost bolt or nut. The moral of the story is the fact that you can use one useful product to fix, find a substitute, or repair another.

  Homemade replacement of balance scale weights and parts--- some of these principles apply to constructing most any product. 1) A product of a given accurate weight if measured accurately will replace a missing counter weight on a scale. 2) Shape has nothing to do with how much something weighs. So a product of a given weight can be folded, bent, waded or changed to meet the need without changing its weight. 3) When you look at replacing parts--- look at another working product to pattern the replacement part after. 4) There is nearly nothing that cannot be copied. We are too used to thinking of buying replacement parts. There was a time when people made replacement parts! Are we any less intelligent? Are we any less skilled today? NO! Our biggest problem in an emergency is not looking at what we can make do with, what is available around us. Our second biggest problem is not using what we have to its best application. Our third disadvantage is the idea “there is nothing I can do” defeatism is a sure sign you will be defeated. 5) There are products that can replace other products and work just as well. We are taught to look at apples and apples sometimes we must look at apples and oranges or grapes and bananas. Plastic can replace metal if not involved in heavy weight bearing operations or mechanical contact or applications of prolonged excessive heat beyond the products heat range. 6) In some cases heat can be used as a medium of forming plastic. 7)Aluminum can replace steal with some of the same restrictions above but steal has even greater applications. 7) Plastic is any product that can be affected and shaped by mechanical force to make a shape or using heat to make a shape. These products include steal, polymers (most of us think as plastic), aluminum, brass, bronze, copper, nickel, etc. People think of the metals mentioned before as hard and unyielding but in reality they are plastic and can be formed by pressure- pressing, heat, sawing, shearing, machining, drilling  or filing.

  A blow with a hammer will give the above weights a flatter shape. Though I used a permanent marker for this example these weights will be eventually stamped with numbers as I have the stamp set. With the new counterweights this Pacific scale will now work as well as if it was new.

  The weights you see above can be used to weigh heaver items beyond the combined weight of the whole group. This would be accomplished in one of two ways 1) by setting up the Pacific scale and weighing multiples of the weights above and dumping the products in a measuring cup. A measuring cup has a lip so it would be easier to use to return the product back into the balance scale pan, other than that the measuring cup has no other application. Another words this Pacific scale can do the same things as any other scale. The obvious reason for needing to measure heavier weights is apparent in setting up a shot gun loading machine and checking the weight of the charge bar shot hole. This is typicality only done once and afterwords the shot weight will be relied upon as being measured accurately. The same is true on the powder side of the shotgun press as long as you use the same powder. If you change the powder then you would need to check the weight again in loading book and confirm it in  your scale using the loading information for the powder involved. 
2)You can also do the above in reverse using the scale with a known weight and balancing small quantities of the shot or other product involved and dumping it into a container. There is more than one way to skin a cat! 
    Knowing these additional weights of oz to grains could be useful. 1/2 oz = 218.8 grains = G, 5/8 oz = 273.4 G, 3/4 oz = 328.1 G, 7/8 oz =382.8 G, 1 oz = 437.5 G, 1 1/8 oz = 492.2 G 1 1/4 oz = 546.9 G, 1 3/8 oz = 601.6 G, 1 1/2 oz = 656.3 G, 1 5/8 oz = 710.9 G, 1 3/4 oz = 765.6 G, 1 7/8 oz = 820.3 G, 2 oz = 875.0 G. 2 1/8 oz = 929.7 G, 2 1/8 oz = 929.7 G, 2 1/4 oz = 984.4 G, 2 3/8 oz = 1039.1 G, and 2 1/2 oz = 10938.8 G

   In an emergency the Pacific scale would be the easiest to reproduce with a 3/16 all thread rod and two threaded counter balance side by side as seen in the second photo below. The front steal and the rear aluminum. The rear balance wings set on two pins drilled into the aluminum casting seen as dark spots in the aluminum "V" notch. 

               

 Richard W Norman Junk Ologist  

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Doors and Windows

Everyone at on time or another has wished that an effectual door or window would be opened in their life but never stop to think that such success or failure in their own life may be directly related to whether they helped to open or close such doors to success or failure  in other peoples lives. Can they rationally be-leave that the heavens will forever give them continual success in this world or the next without a day of reckoning, whether for good or bad. Those who lift others find that others lift them. What we do with the doors and windows of others lives may well determine the success of our own. Richard W Norman

If they pass laws against guns then you will either make your supplies at home, salvage or do without. Below 1) Tactics Techniques and Concepts of Anti-armor Warfare historical training manual 2) KFM Fallout Radiation Meter Kit Instructions This is a home made fallout meter developed during the cold war. They knew the public could not get a meter in an emergence so this was designed so anyone could build one with stuff you had around the house.3) US Ammunition Price list from 1912. Not just a neat document but it includes bullet weights and black powder charges for many old cartridges.  To see military e-manuals and gun e-books click here www.firstpatriotpress.com. No waiting, get it now as an E-Book over 70 to chose from!

Making a Gun Safe Fire Resistant

You could have knocked me over with a feather. In looking at gun safes I became acquainted with one of the men who build them. His company that makes one of the higher quality safes uses 5/8 Sheetrock as a fire-retardant. One layer gives 20 minutes of 1200 degree protection. Although it cuts down on internal space it may add an added measure of protection in a less expensive safe that you would have had to pay a lot more money for. They use up to three layers. I am in no way suggesting that you tare a interior of a well designed gun safe apart but I am saying if you have an old safe that has been gutted you could make it something special. Or if building a cubby hole  for a planed gun safe, you might make it a little larger and add to the enclosure, 3 sheets of 5/8 sheet rock this should make any gun safe better and more fire resistant. 

Richard W Norman

If they pass laws against guns then you will either make your supplies at home, salvage or do without. Below 1) AK47 operators manual all the army thought a soldier needed to know 2) Arasaka Rifle some of the history as well as information on some models you should not shoot 3) Gun Reloading Equipment a Buyers Guide the very least you would need to buy. To see military e-manuals and gun e-books click here www.firstpatriotpress.com. No waiting over 70 to chose from, get it now as an E-Book!

    

9 MM Makarov Brass Homemade

It pays to be able to reload ammo as we watch the men and woman we have elected push and plan for national disarmament over and over again. Some may not be able to come up with the ammo they want for the gun they are lucky enough to have. The Makarov cartage has a bullet that is 9.22 MM making captured ammo in a war unusable in NATO guns that shoot 9MM Luger.
 In a time of national crises it may be necessary to make ammo you do not have or can not get. First use good loading information and powder charges in this system is completely safe.  Using a case trimmer cut down 9MM Luger shell casings to the same height of a 9MM  Makarov and use a Makarov sizing dye if using the larger bullet. If using a normal 9MM bullet then use the 9MM Luger sizing dies and full length size. It is said that the cut down 9MM Luger shell casing will not chamber well in all guns. In that case if you find that your gun is one of those that douse not chamber well drill a hole .388 diameter in a steal plate and using a file widen the entrance in the steel plate slightly using a home hydraulic press  press the empty case through with a steal rod inside the empty shell casing, then load normally.(Or tap them through if the press is not avalible)
 If you have to scavenge bullets when ammo can not be had it will be necessary to reworking loaded 9 MM Luger ammo in an emergency (like a war and at no other time) it will be necessary to pull the bullet cut down the shell casing to size and cut the powder charge as the cut down smaller shell casing will increase chamber pressure and could blow up the gun. Increase the powder charge in tell the gun functions normally. Save the remaining powder as it will be useful in reloading used shell casings. Richard W. Norman
 If they pass laws against guns then you will either make your supplies at home, salvage or do without. Below 1) Developed in a simpler time Small Arms Defense Against Air Attack 2) Because of surplus import back stock military ammo that rusts gun barrels with corrosive primers this manual was written. How to clean the gun and stop the attack on your gun. 3) Gun Control and ammo and gun storage and burial To see military e-manuals and gun e-books click here www.firstpatriotpress.com . No waiting, get it now as an E-Book over 70 to chose from!

Substitute Gun Oil

We may not be able to go to the store and buy what we need in the future so putting away a little something would be wise now wile you can. This is my personal back stock of varying powder solvents and lubricants some military surplus and others from regular store brand variate. I bought most of this stuff when it was a dollar a can at gun shows. The metal plate they set on was a scrap of air conditioner duct in case the very old cans ever leak. I spend some time talking about alternatives for gun oil and homemade Hoppe's #9  formula in my book. But in an emergency finding a substitute for gun oil could be a problem if you use the wrong stuff. The lightest readily available oil is automatic transmission oil as it is a straight 10 weight oil. Multi-weight oils like 10-30 and 10-40 etc thicken as the gun heats up and could make the gun unusable. In a stress situation auto transmission oils are the lightest readily accessible straight 10 weight oil you can find. power steering oil, hydraulic oil   are all 10 weight oils. A BAD FORMULA found on the internet was absolutely ridiculous and that was 25% STP oil treatment which is like honey 25% 30 weight synthetic motor oil  motor oil and  50% automatic transmission fluid. The viscosity has to be very close to 90 weight gear oil which would not do aney gun, any good. To see a gun book by the author clock my name. The book deals deals wit the political problems of the day and the rest deals entirely in home arms ammo and gun supply's. Another words how to make what you can no longer buy in the future in order to keep your gun working when no one else could.    Richard W Norman 

 If they pass laws against guns then you will either make your supplies at home, salvage or do without. Below 1) All American Anti-disarmament Handbook, it is a ammo, gun, supply system in a book  you can make just about anything you might need in an emergency, gun manufacture, repair and ammo production with out loading equipment, three different powders and primers and much more. 2) below is self explanatory and is a operation manual as well as maintenance manual for the gun.3) Salvaging old used brass and how to bring it into a usable condition. To see military e-manuals and gun e-books click here www.firstpatriotpress.com over 70 to chose from. No waiting, get it now as an E-Book! 

Living like a king.

Be satisfied with what you have—work for what you need—if you have talent make what you cannot afford and forget fad or fashion and what you cannot make or afford—("clean up, paint up, fix up, and use up" Spencer W Kimball)-- live within your means and you will live like a king. By cutting your budget you will be more likely to be able to afford to buy and store better guns, ammo, and most important re-loading equipment, books and information.   Richard W Norman

If they pass laws against guns then you will either make your supplies at home, salvage or do without. You can now have a library of such books that will fit on a CD or flash drive for a small investment. Why not? Below 1) How to peaceful exit a potentially deadly situation as well as gun use. 2)Homemad sheet metal brake. This tool was manly designed as a homemade clip factory but was placed in the book below as a hobby tool for bending metal. 3) below is self explanatory and is a operation manual as well as maintenance manual for the gun To see military e-manuals and gun e-books click below. No waiting, get it now as an E-Book! You can now have a library of such books that will fit on a CD or flash drive for a small investment. Why not? If they pass laws against guns then you will either make your supplies at home or do without.

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Armed Resistance and the 4th of July

The 4th of July alwase brings to mind the need of vigilince and sacrifice to stay free. WWII is so close in the past that perhaps we can relate to the strugles of others as they too sought fot their fredoms.The Philippine have over 7000 islands. We sometimes look at only the larger islands in the study of history but take for granted that the Japanese were in completes control, but they were not. In WWII the US army was pushed out of the Philippines or captured but there were some isolated pockets of resistance at first. Soon these Filipino  people were uniting and swelling their ranks. The Filipino people have an indomitable sprite and were not to be ruled over willingly. The rallying cry to fight the Japanese was simple but effective. "If the least we do is to fertilize the soil where we fall, then we will grow a richer grain for tomorrow's stronger nation" If such a occupation happened here by the invader or the traitor in high places then I would suggest a revision of that statement. If the lest we do is to fertilize the ground with the blood of those who stood against the Constitution and sided with the invader or oppressor then we will teach our children to look for a better tomorrow and leave a generation more politically aware to support good people at the ballet box.  The small towns and villages of the Philippines held meetings and voted to unite in the defense of their liberty. They planted extra food crops and were prepared to see their towns and villages burned to the ground rather than submit to the invader. General MacArthur did not know at first the formidable force they created and when he was asked if they should attack he urged restraint so as not to strengthen the Japanese forces in the outlying arias. The Japanese were limited on some islands as to only be in control of the major port and a city or two but some of the rest of the islands were printing their own money and running their own lights and telephone and electing their own leaders independent of the invader. When General MacArthur did come these islands that had so limited the Japanese were easily retaken. Richard W Norman

If they pass laws against guns then you will either make your supplies at home, salvage or do without. You can now have a library of such books that will fit on a CD or flash drive for a small investment. Why not? Below 1) Home mad sheet metal brake. This tool was manly designed as a homemade clip factory but was placed in the book below as a hobby tool for bending metal. 2) below is self explanatory and is a operation manual as well as maintenance manual for the gun. 3) Black Powder Arms in Modern Application in a time of desperation you may need to use a black powder gun because you cannot get anything better better covers everything including powder production and salvaging potassium nitrate from dirt, loading, etc . To see military e-manuals and gun e-books click here www.firstpatriotpress.com over 70 to chose from. No waiting, get it now as an E-Book!