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Thread: Monotonous duty . . . 'sizing' . . . Wanna race?

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    Monotonous duty . . . 'sizing' . . . Wanna race?

    Well most of you have seen these upside down presses by now but there's a twist to mine...
    I have just about learned the coordination to run the dang thing at a pretty good clip...without too many hiccups.

    "Wanna race?"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcvhKHVn7gU&t=1s
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    definitely fast but id bet if you had to take bullets down more then .003 you'd have an awful sore arm sizing on the up stroke.

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    Howdy Lloyd...I'm sizing on the down stroke but your right...I get a sore arm anyway and mainly in the shoulder joint.
    This is why we should all have a peck of grandkids around for this kinda stuff!
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    Thats pretty slick! I noticed your helper showed up about half way through!

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    Quote Originally Posted by lightman View Post
    Thats pretty slick! I noticed your helper showed up about half way through!
    That was 'Sassy' newest shop dog... cute lil pup but she wants to take anything loose out of the shop around on the front porch and chew on it. Have to watch her like a hawk...but, eventually she'll grow out of that and prolly start digging holes everywhere......that's alright too so long as I don't step in one and disappear.
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    I need to see the camera angle from the side where you are adding the boolets. Can't tell too much from the side shown.

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    Your alloy is definitely softer than mine.
    Water dropping for convenience while casting has it's downsides.

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    Hahahah you look like me with my star sizer minus the bucket and tube system to direct my boolits. I’m only 30 so water quenched 45 boolits don’t kill me too bad bud I also put a much longer arm on mine to make life easier.
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    Theres guy on one of my other groups thhat put a bullet feader on his Lee sizer die. That was fast. I can do pretty decent with most my bullets. Except those pesky little 380 acp bullets.

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    Nice, love the pup!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dondiego View Post
    I need to see the camera angle from the side where you are adding the boolets. Can't tell too much from the side shown.
    There's a video at the bottom of this article that shows all the angles.... https://thereloadersnetwork.com/2018...wn-press-what/

    A YouTube vid here too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bhSQvM4xtQ
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    I just tried on my RCBS Rockchucker with a lee die and did 25 in a minute and it took 1:25 to do 39. You got me beat!

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    Great video, and clever setup!

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    Nice! But I'm not racing you until I get a sizer that has a feed ramp (I like my fingers with all the meat on them, thank you), and that sizes on the downstroke, unlike the flipped Lee single stage I use now.

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    I mounted a lee hand press upside down on my bench with a piece of hose that fits tightly over the lee die and feeds the bullets into a coffee can under the bench. Works pretty good but I could see where a bit better quality press would be even better. Its a bit tough on it to size water dropped bullets more then .003, especially if there gas checked. Actually the star works just as fast but I hate putting wear on it for large batches of bullets that don't need to be lubed when I can use a 20 dollar lee ***. I chuckle at kevins post. I took a chunk out of my thumb already once trying to race and the only one there keeping ET's was me.

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    Already donated a little of one finger to my range: slipped using an impact driver, which drove right into the back of my pinky holding the work piece (that taught me better than to not use gloves, clamps or a screw guide). The club president didn't help; he went around the work crew showing them the "chunks of Kevin" still on the bit. Mostly blood, but I did have a hole where there used to be nail, skin and bone. I'm lucky the nail grew back, and that it was my weak hand (hurt for quite a while).

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    For you guys that still size in your single stage...'right side up'...here's a tip that'll increase output some...



    Put a spring on the push post that is a little taller than the post and the spring will center the cast good enough to go into the size die...all you need do is get fast at putting the cast within the spring and don't have to worry about nicking a finger holding the cast centered.

    Also...a rubber band around the little red container top will prevent it from pushing off the plastic base and spilling your freshly sized cast all over the floor.
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    That last idea is golden! Kind of like the difference between the Redding pass-through brass sizer vs the Lee Bulge Buster. The Redding is faster since you just drop in the case!

    I'm using this one!

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    Typical UTube video.... all I can see is the back of your hand and you dropping boolits through a hole in the table. That's all I see....shoot it again from the other side .
    I don't like Utube video's any way .
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    Quote Originally Posted by OS OK View Post
    Put a spring on the push post that is a little taller than the post and the spring will center the cast good enough to go into the size die...all you need do is get fast at putting the cast within the spring and don't have to worry about nicking a finger holding the cast centered.
    Stupid question - where do you find the appropriate springs?

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