Digger
12-23-2012, 08:41 PM
Beginning loading for my .308 and reading about the powder cop dies out there got me thinking after reading of a incident in the factory rifles forum with input from Kwiedner's concept ....
Went out to the mancave and sat there looking at my setup and pondered.
Have a lee classic turret with the two Rcbs sizer and seater dies and a lee power thru rifle for the powder dump , double disc set and a lyman sizer m-die .
I size and prime by batch so my final steps are : neck size(m-die) ,powder drop , powder check and seat boolit.
I had a older Redding three die set for 38 special laying around and looked carefully at the sizer , decapper die.
Removed the center punch and had my basic set up to work with from there .
Went down to the proverbial Ace hardware and wandered around in the bolt and nut selection for a while and came up with ..... a 5/16 female brass flare for compression fit of 1/4 inch tubing.
the threads were a little loose but snugged up at the end .
looked some more and found that a 2 inch long screw post , the aluminum screw shaft that is used on big binders of paper work such as big thick manuals ,,, slipped thru just a little sloppy ...
Came home and went to work grinding the little end screw of the screw post down to just slip inside of the .308 case and ..... Bingo !
It all works !!
Will not be highly accurate but excellent visible cue to go by ....
At the end of my down stroke , I let the handle drop so to speak and vibrate the machine ever so lightly and when the screw post is caught on the edge of the casing when it comes up ... "bink !" it drops every time in to the casing and shows me the level with a side ways glance .
Just put this together today so I marked the level with a black felt tip for now but it sure makes me feel much more positive about the process over all with out having to look down inside each time , trying to see with enough light ....check out the link.
http://s1301.beta.photobucket.com/user/digger83/library/
Went out to the mancave and sat there looking at my setup and pondered.
Have a lee classic turret with the two Rcbs sizer and seater dies and a lee power thru rifle for the powder dump , double disc set and a lyman sizer m-die .
I size and prime by batch so my final steps are : neck size(m-die) ,powder drop , powder check and seat boolit.
I had a older Redding three die set for 38 special laying around and looked carefully at the sizer , decapper die.
Removed the center punch and had my basic set up to work with from there .
Went down to the proverbial Ace hardware and wandered around in the bolt and nut selection for a while and came up with ..... a 5/16 female brass flare for compression fit of 1/4 inch tubing.
the threads were a little loose but snugged up at the end .
looked some more and found that a 2 inch long screw post , the aluminum screw shaft that is used on big binders of paper work such as big thick manuals ,,, slipped thru just a little sloppy ...
Came home and went to work grinding the little end screw of the screw post down to just slip inside of the .308 case and ..... Bingo !
It all works !!
Will not be highly accurate but excellent visible cue to go by ....
At the end of my down stroke , I let the handle drop so to speak and vibrate the machine ever so lightly and when the screw post is caught on the edge of the casing when it comes up ... "bink !" it drops every time in to the casing and shows me the level with a side ways glance .
Just put this together today so I marked the level with a black felt tip for now but it sure makes me feel much more positive about the process over all with out having to look down inside each time , trying to see with enough light ....check out the link.
http://s1301.beta.photobucket.com/user/digger83/library/