I think we ought to pool some knowledge here on this design to make it reliable so ya can market it. Im suprised lyman didnt keep that patent renewed
I think we ought to pool some knowledge here on this design to make it reliable so ya can market it. Im suprised lyman didnt keep that patent renewed
Those who would trade freedom for safety deserves neither and will lose both
I saw a Lyman sizer die, the hammer in punch out type listed for $75. I'm sitting on about 20 or so and had a tough time getting $5 a few years back. Now I'm the winner, I'll undercut him and only charge $65.
BTW, I've used them, they are not very good, horribly undersized IMHO.
I started collecting them when I'd see them at gunshows listed for about $20. Sometimes get 2 sets for that. The odd one I paid more. Some sets were new, never used, some sets didn't have the correct dies in them. Most venders didn't know what they were.
My nicest find was a #10 handle in 30 US. The bullet sizer is a bit wonky, my idea is to hone it out a bit and use it for 303 Br.
Nitro
nitro-express, I don't think the common calibers of push through dies are bringing that kind of money, just the harder to find ones. For instance, you'd have a hard time giving a 30-06 away for free! BUT, I recently saw and bid on the first 32 S&W Long die I'd ever seen. I can't remember what it went for, but it was a bunch! The only ones I've made a serious effort to track down have been either for my handgun rounds I like to shoot or the old hyphenated calibers (32-40, 45-70) I use for single shots. The others hold little or no interest for me, but of course YMMV.
Froggie
"It aint easy being green!"
Haw! I saw this thread and remembered a set of 310 tools that I bought in 1966 and never used. After seeing the prices on e-bay I hot footed out and looked into a box I haven't looked in for 10 years, not only did I find the 310 tool and .45 APC and .30-06 dies for it NEW in Box but I found a bunch of dies I'll never need!
Now I have trading material for my Lyman mold handles I need! Thanks to you guys!
I saw one bottom feeder on fleabay buy a pretty nice post War steel handle set in 32 S&W Long for just a little over my (fairly reasonable) bid, then immediately take it apart and put the handles up for more than he paid for the whole thing, each die individually for about a third of what he paid for the whole thing, and the empty box for about $30... all in all, he sold it in pieces for about three times what he paid for it within a week or ten days of buying it. Plus a nice, complete set has been broken up.
Froggie
"It aint easy being green!"
I have become my Father. The prices of 310 tools and dies, along with many, many other items, causes me to often say, "you want HOW MUCH for that!!!" I'm also like Dad in that I ain't gonna pay it.
"In general, the art of government is to take as much money as possible from one class of citizens and give it to another class of citizens" Voltaire'
The common virtue of capitalism is the sharing of equal opportunity. The common vice of socialism is the equal sharing of misery
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I have my die sets from some years back. Pretty cheap, compared to today's prices. Got a couple of oddball pieces off Ebay this last year. Like others, saw some vendors breaking down sets and selling separately, pushing up the price. They are merely maximizing profit. Okay, it's capitalism, all I will say.
One of my father's favorite statements: "If I say a chicken dips snuff, look under his wing for the snuffbox" How I was raised, who I am.
When I first joined Ohio Gun Collectors’ Association nearly 20 years ago, new and like new die sets for the 310 and TruLine Jr were commonly available for from five to fifteen dollars. I remember about ten years ago getting a 9mm Luger die set (310 Tool, black and grey striped Leisure Group box) and a 32 S&W Long set for the TL Jr in the old flat box with individual boxes for each die. Even through the amphibian haze of time I’m sure I paid ten bucks or less for each of those sets...Brand New In The Box! Try to find either one for five to ten times that today (and no, mine are being used and aren’t for sale!)
Froggie
"It aint easy being green!"
It's all the fault of those Lionel Train guys. They started it.
"Appetites for gun collecting are often whetted by mechanical ingenuity, artistic features or historic associations" Norm Flayderman.
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BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
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