Time to powder coat

[Dragonheart]

After looking this thread over it looks like Location storage and weather are the problems.

I would say you are 2/3's right. I have never had a problem with storage in the last 7 years.

[OS OK]

OS, As usual you reply with plain old common sense and I guess being somewhat anal like myself helps.

I personally just can't grasp the concept of those in a hobby that accept, as Smoke put it, "OK rather than Right". It is their nail to drive and all they have to please is themselves. But I grew up on the old concept, "If it is worth doing it is worth doing it right". Not to say I don't have mistakes, but at least I start out trying to do everything the best I can.

A fast sizer really is the answer and I first started inverting a RCBS Rockchucker driven by a pneumatic cylinder, "Ram Chucker". It could do more than size. Then in 2015 I just set up a pneumatic cylinder just for sizing, "Ram sizer". It will size as fast as my old hands can pick up a bullet and drop it into the shoot. I originally built a pneumatic feeder for it, but to load the tubes of bullets to supply the feeder took a lot of time and it was the same process as dropping bullets into the single tube, so now that is the way I do it.
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Rich...that sizer looks sweet...do you get into the zone and really haul bananas? I have trouble using the shoot when sizing FWC's and long rifle cast...how do you handle them?

[Conditor22]

This is a rough, budget prototype I threw together and have sized tens of thousands of boolits with. I bought a heavier duty press to upgrade the entry level lee press but haven't had to. I've even used a cheater bar on this a couple times when I had oversized boolits.
One day I'll upgrade this and build type 2 with pneumatic power and a boolit collator to automatically feed the boolits so all I have to do is push a button or switch.





It's crude but it works (and doesn't have trouble with wadcutters )

[Dragonheart]

Rich...that sizer looks sweet...do you get into the zone and really haul bananas? I have trouble using the shoot when sizing FWC's and long rifle cast...how do you handle them?

So far no bullet has been a feeding problem. The little stubby 103 grain 9mm give me the most grief as there is so little to grab on to, almost as bad as the .22. My square tube drop shoot is held in place by a 65# on/off magnet so it is just a matter of getting the angle right to fall into the die. Might try that and see how it works for you. Once a bullet drops into the die with the power of the pneumatic cylinder it is going to get pressed through, oversized or not.

When I get into the zone I do a consistent 35+ bullets a minute and can keep it up for several hundred before I need a break. The pneumatic feeder I constructed a while back is faster in operation, but the carousel of tubes holding the bullets has to be filled, so the time dropping bullets to fill the tubes negates the extra speed. so why not just drop the bullets into the shoot to begin with? I have just had to many irons in the fire to build a bullet collator to fill the tubes, so I am still doing it the old way feeding the shoot by hand.