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hotwheelz
03-02-2008, 06:50 PM
Only $15 it was a good day Ive been wanting one for awhile. I dont think it has ever been out of the box !!!!!!!!!!!

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg177/hotwheelz-1/tmaga.jpg

happy7
03-02-2008, 06:55 PM
Well done! What a bargain! I have been thinking about one of those as well. I never come across reloading stuff at garage sales around here.

kodiak1
03-02-2008, 07:30 PM
That is about as close to theft as a person can get with out commiting it!!

That is one hot score.
Ken

hotwheelz
03-02-2008, 07:32 PM
I couldnt get the $$ out of my pocket fast enough I didnt even ask if they would take less:-D:-D



That is about as close to theft as a person can get with out commiting it!!

That is one hot score.
Ken

imashooter2
03-02-2008, 07:59 PM
I agree with Ken, you should have been wearing a mask! Really great deal. Congratulations!

sundog
03-02-2008, 08:08 PM
Ya know, it I were a rude, crude and socially unacceptable person, I would say, "I hate you!"

But, since I'm not, I'll just turn green, oops - ORANGE, with envy.

Good buy! and good-bye.

Sprue
03-02-2008, 09:10 PM
Very nice find ! Congrats to ya.

broomhandle
03-02-2008, 10:44 PM
Hi Hot,

Great find! Super price!

I know a guy that found not one, but TWO NEW Lupold scopes in the box NEVER mounted for $10 each!

I'm lucky to find a broken Zebco fishing rod!

ENJOY it!

broomhandle

DLCTEX
03-02-2008, 11:27 PM
Great find, congratulations! That's what I paid for mine at an auction in lightly used condition. DALE

MarkK
03-02-2008, 11:41 PM
SCORE! The key is to never stop looking and you will too find a deal.

UweJ
03-03-2008, 03:38 PM
Great buy.Congratulations.
Wish we had garagesales like that here in Germany :)
Uwe

mroliver77
03-04-2008, 03:05 AM
I have one of them in blue and red. Ram is getting very worn and I hate to spend the money to replace it. BUt for $15 I sure would!
J

Alchemist
03-18-2008, 06:58 PM
Wanna double oyur money????

hotwheelz
03-18-2008, 07:13 PM
I just keep it thanks

DaveD
03-18-2008, 07:30 PM
Nice find! I almost feel sorry for folks selling stuff that cheap. Either they need the money real bad or just don't know what they have. Their loss - your gain!:drinks:

TexRebel
03-19-2008, 01:00 PM
Yup, mask and gun could not have got you a better deal

Throckmorton
03-19-2008, 04:39 PM
Okay then............


ya want to TRIPLE yer money?? :)

Nice Find !!!!!

gcollins
03-19-2008, 05:56 PM
Hot wheel, aint that sweet!!! Around here you find very few guns and hardly no reloading stuff. But for some reason, last year was a bumper crop for me!! I could not believe it. I bought a master caster furnace, the man had it marked $95.00 I jewed him to $75.00, you know ow much those are worth, I bought 6 guns, could of bought another one and made good money on it, but I didn't have enough cash to pay for it. i yard sale for the fun of it.
If I had not got the casting furnace bought, i would of been in the hole $500.00 in gas! But we do it for the thrill, you did good!!!
I hope you do as good or better at the next one.
See Ya
Greg

hotwheelz
03-19-2008, 08:03 PM
OK the next 1 I find like that 1 I put up for sale :-D:-D:-D:-D

Ill keep my eyes open for you fellas:drinks:

LAH
03-19-2008, 08:38 PM
You did GOOOOOOOOOD

RFWobbly
03-20-2008, 09:30 PM
That is about as close to theft as a person can get with out committing it!!

You mean, that's as close as you can come without someone calling the cops !!

Those are GREAT presses. You'll love it.

Congrats. :drinks:

dukers65
03-20-2008, 09:55 PM
h.w. great find.

Lucky Joe
03-20-2008, 10:23 PM
Kind of a neat feeling ain't it when you find something like that. Good find.

jdhenry
03-20-2008, 10:41 PM
NICE!!!!!Sweet find........ I have only once found reloading stuff at a sale:( I got 4 sets of dies, a case trimmer, a 505 powder scale all RCBS , a LEE hand primer and a 2 rifle case for the whopping sum of $50.00 I wish that happend more:)

Lloyd Smale
03-21-2008, 05:33 AM
one of those was my first reloading press. Loaded thousands of rounds on it and it worked fine.

Dale53
03-21-2008, 10:47 AM
I have had the Lyman turret for several years. It is my "dedicated" BPCR loader. I can load a MATCH quality black powder cartridge (40/65, 45/70, and 45/90) in 20 seconds (naturally only use the Holy Black in my BPCR's).

Dale53

rusty shackelford
03-26-2008, 12:17 PM
man,ya all good...... wish i had that luck.

rusty

Sundogg1911
03-26-2008, 02:38 PM
I thought I stole mine at $80 used!

Newtire
04-03-2008, 09:50 PM
Been using mine for over 20 yrs. Got it in a box from a guy worked with me & had a flea market stand on weekends. It was in a box with two 4-holer molds (311291 + 311290) 2-2holers a 450 lubrisizer & some sizing dies, an RCBS scale which I stilll use & a couple of powder measures. All for $160!

Almost left out the 5 or 6 sets of loading dies. Those were the days.

hunter64
04-08-2008, 07:11 AM
I live in Canada and guns are for only evil people in the Liberal/Democratic big city I live in. I have gone to hundreds of garage sales and have never seen even one piece of reloading equipment.

I think your conscience would be bothering you so bad that you would have to just get rid of it. Night and day it would be constantly reminding you of how deceitful you were, nagging you, pestering you, how can you live with such a burden. Have you gone to church and confessed to your minister? Part of the repentance cycle is to make amends and the only thing I can think of is to sell it to me for 50 bucks. lol

hotwheelz
10-26-2008, 09:40 PM
Well it has taken me long enought but I finally got it mounted up on my new bench , I learned a few things during my first loading season tho #1 dont have your decapping pin hanging to low it will get bent on the back side when turning the turret ..... # 2 dont set you dies to deep they also will run into the cut out on the back side # 3 using the primer arm will take some time to get used to with my fat fingers it has been a challenge [smilie=1: I got 100 .44 loaded up today and after my self tought lessons things went smoooooth and Im very happy with this machine and even happier with the trigger time I got this afternoon.


http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo241/Hothweelzz/Picture005.jpg

Hardcast416taylor
10-27-2008, 04:11 PM
One weekend a buddy, that hasn`t heard the casting calling, got a box of loading stuff at a sale. He kept the brass, bullets and dies all for 9mm. He called me and asked if I wanted this wierd loading press, ever hear of a 450 Lyman he asks? He was told it was not workable when he got the box. He offered it to me for free, probably cause he thought it was broke. It was a Lyman 450 sizer with a 357 die and rn top punch. The "broke" part about it was the dried up old Lyman black lube. I scraped and melted it out and it works like new.:-D

Hardcast416taylor
10-27-2008, 04:19 PM
Bad Hotwheelz....Bad Boy!!! Only have ONE can of powder at any one time on your bench when loading!!!!!! Especially different types of powder. It is too easily done, mix-ups in powder usage. Congrats on the press though it`s a honey!:holysheep

northwolf
10-28-2008, 04:40 AM
hotweelz
Man, do you have a very nice CLEAN loading bench!! Even my wife would be proud of me, if it would look like that! I better change my password, or she will know what it supposed to look like...:mrgreen:...:groner:

GOPHER SLAYER
11-11-2008, 12:55 AM
About three weeks ago I stopped at a yard sale and low and behold a table was covered in reloading equipment. There was a Lyman S-T turret press, a press named Liberty,which looks just like RCBS jr. only the ram is not as loose as a jr. A Redding powder measure with stand, a C-H measure and a 12 ga MEC reloader.I asked what they wanted for all of it and the lady told me to make an offer. I never do. If it's yours ,you price it. Finally the grandson asked an uncle what to charge and he said ,tell him fifteen bucks since it has a set of .38 spl. dies in one press. Needless to say I bought it all. You could tell none of the equipment had been used in years and needed a good dose of WD40. That makes seven presses I have and ten or eleven measures, I lost count. Of course as I have pointed out in these pages before,reloading equipment doesn't bring much in Southern Cal. Most shooters we see at the range buy factory ammo ,shoot it and leave the brass on the ground. Neither me nor my friends bother to pick it up anymore. After several 5gal. buckets of .45 brass what do you do with it. Of course if it's something like 45/70 then it doesn't lay there long.

dukers65
11-11-2008, 03:09 PM
the last good thing at a garage sake was my mother's neighbor passed away,and the widow was selling some of his possessions. amonst them was a remington 20 gauge auromatic with a beautiful case for 25.00. she called my brother-in-law.

Dale53
11-11-2008, 06:17 PM
MY next door neighbor was an elderly woman who had just lost her husband. She asked me to come over and look at a couple of old guns he had there. They were not worth much, but I placed a proper value on them for her to sell and she did so.

The interesting part of the story is an old muzzle loader she had sticking in the garbage can. I asked her about it and she said it wouldn't even shoot cartridges, was in poor shape and was going out to the trash. I asked if I could have it. I then took it to Friendship, IN at the Natl Muzzle Loading shoot, had it appraised by an expert in Ohio Rifles (it was an original muzzle loader built in Ohio). Even tho' the rifle was in poor condition, I received several hundred dollars which I immediately gave to my aged neighbor (the original owner). She couldn't believe it! Her smile made my day...

Dale53

Reloader06
11-11-2008, 09:49 PM
Good on ya Dale.

Matt

LAH
11-12-2008, 09:12 AM
What Matt said.

Typecaster
11-12-2008, 10:45 AM
Dale—

Just reading about your kind actions made my day. Thanks!

Richard

Dale53
11-12-2008, 01:13 PM
Thanks for the kind words, folks. I am not a hero here, just trying to do what's right.

As a matter of fact, there are more kinds of compensation than money. The smile that lit up that lady's face was more than worth it.

It's no more than what most of us do on this forum day-to-day. Just trying to help out the other folks who may not have as much experience as we do. The only difference, is we cannot see the smile we bring to some faces when we help solve a problem for someone on a forum.

Frankly, in general terms, I have been helped by many, many people over the years. We like to think that we have "grubbed out all the answers" on our own but if we reflect a bit, others have contributed to our fund of knowledge at work, at play, and elsewhere.

The upside of all of this, is I tend to learn about as much as I teach others when I think and try to resolve THEIR problem or problems.

Dale53

jcwit
11-12-2008, 04:59 PM
Dale, Glad I popped on this thread and read your post. Made my day and makes me realize we still have hope yet. GOOD JOB DALE !!!!!!!