Homemade?

[hollywood63]

My fingers get tired prepping brass so I decided to look at the motorized brass prep units. Well they are nice but $150 for a motor driven chuck is a bit rich. I looked around and noticed I have a collection of cordless drills. 12 volt is easy to power, and keyless chuck is already there so I looked and found a nice metal box and this is what I built.
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I will ill mount it to a board later so it does not move around.

it works good!

Paul in WNY

Paul
This will get copied as I have a cordless with junk batteries and a good charger...................very cool

Thanks
Art

[fralic76]

I made a part for a Lee press to deprime only. It allows you to deprime without using the primer arm.




Anyone who wants to make it can find it here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1972400

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[Twmaster]

Ooooh. I need that for my Lee Challenger.

Thanks man!

[mistermog]

ditto

[Traffer]

I saw a picture of a treadmill tumbler on a facebook page that a guy made. Pretty easy build. I think it held 2 or 3 buckets for tumbling. It was big enough to put a huge barrel on. maybe even a 55 gal drum. Good use for those old treadmills.

ANeat , is that a treadmill motor on the tumbler ?

[Loudy13]

Had some spare parts and needed to hold my probe somehow. Used a powder stand I recently replaced and a left over die body to hold the probe. Unplugged the sensor and put it through the other hole in the stand. Works pretty good.

[Twmaster]

I made a part for a Lee press to deprime only. It allows you to deprime without using the primer arm.




Anyone who wants to make it can find it here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1972400

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I printed one of these. Works great! Thanks!

[Johnny_V]

If you've ever swaged primer pockets on .223 brass, then you know what a pain in the a** it can be when you run into a batch that has dinged necks. Trying to get the mouth of the case over the backup rod can drive you crazy, especially with dinged necks.

I made this neck iron to straighten out those dings. If, during the swaging process, you encounter a dinged neck, you simply push the case over the iron, give it a bit of a twist, and voila, the neck is ironed round. I made this unit to thread on the end of the backup rod (1/4"-28 NF).

[flyingmonkey35]

If you've ever swaged primer pockets on .223 brass, then you know what a pain in the a** it can be when you run into a batch that has dinged necks. Trying to get the mouth of the case over the backup rod can drive you crazy, especially with dinged necks.

I made this neck iron to straighten out those dings. If, during the swaging process, you encounter a dinged neck, you simply push the case over the iron, give it a bit of a twist, and voila, the neck is ironed round. I made this unit to thread on the end of the backup rod (1/4"-28 NF).

Neat. Love the stuff we come up with.

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[greenwart]

Bullet Blocks for those little stubby C311-100-2R

[NoAngel]

I've made LOTS of custom seating plugs for the various cast bullets I load and lately have taken to reboring abused junk Lee molds into slick sided powder coat molds like these two.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...55#post3959355

[iwottopq]

...and this is my little help in casting...

[iwottopq]

...or this to mount and dismount the hammer spring in the Baikal IZH-18MH...

[Kenstone]

Primer pusher on a Pro 1000 to feed the last 10+ primers:

[Four Fingers of Death]

That is neat Kenstone, it is a real aggravation with the last few primers and they are a pain to remove when you are finished.

[Norbrat]

That is neat Kenstone, it is a real aggravation with the last few primers and they are a pain to remove when you are finished.

I use a long cable tie to push the last few primers down.

[Kenstone]

I use a long cable tie to push the last few primers down.

Yea, I've seen vids showing a paper clip or pipe cleaner to push the primers, stopping midway thru a stroke, and reaching around with a lot of poking.
Takes as long to load the last 10 as it does doing 50.
By adding weight to push the primers, loading continues the same as the 1st 90 primers.

This pic is self explanatory:


I made the angle bracket by slicing off a piece of common metal angle, straightened it, and re-bent it like this:

The rod is something I had, turned down to 1/8"dia. x1" long on one end to fit thru the slot in the trough, and bent to go under the shell plate to push the last primers over the primer pin.
I think a 1/8" diameter brass rod will work too, and would be my preference.

One thing I need to work around is that paper clip squeezes the tray and restricts primer flow, so it cannot be clipped on while there are still primers in the tray.
And one must be alert to the possibility of the rod sliding over the primer pin, after the last primer in the trough has been pressed into a case.
Trying to seat the rod end into a primer pocket would cause a major CRUNCH.

[Norbrat]

That is a neat solution, Kenstone.

I had thought about how I might be able to add a bit of weight to the top of the cable tie, but I reckon it would be too flexible.

I also keep a pair of bent hemostats handy when I'm using the Pro 1000. Comes in real handy for picking up errant primers.

[darrondb]

Tool stand that I built for the Dillon 550. Constructed out of 1/2 inch HDPE. Holds full set of hex drivers, screw driver, lock ring wrench (cut down Craftsman box end wrench), powder bar adjustment driver, tool head pins (so I don't loose the pins when I'm swapping out tool heads), primer pick up tubes, and complete primer assembly (this makes primer size changes a piece of cake). Most of my tools I keep in a machinist box on the bench, but this holds all the commonly needed items for running the Dillons. A place for everything makes it harder to loose critical items!

[Traffer]

Very nice. I'm always frustrated being organization freak with not enough room for things. I have sets of tools for Auto repair, carpentry, computer repair, reloading, making reloading tools, welding, fixing just about everything etc. I spend more time organizing, looking for stuff and reorganizing than I do working with the stuff. I complained about being disorganized one time to a very wise person. She said, "you are not disorganized, you just need places to put your stuff." She went on further to tell me that her mother taught her "a place for everything and everything in it's place" I can appreciate that now.

Tool stand that I built for the Dillon 550. Constructed out of 1/2 inch HDPE. Holds full set of hex drivers, screw driver, lock ring wrench (cut down Craftsman box end wrench), powder bar adjustment driver, tool head pins (so I don't loose the pins when I'm swapping out tool heads), primer pick up tubes, and complete primer assembly (this makes primer size changes a piece of cake). Most of my tools I keep in a machinist box on the bench, but this holds all the commonly needed items for running the Dillons. A place for everything makes it harder to loose critical items!