A little something I made the other day.

[Kyle M.]

I thought I'd share something I came up with the other day. I recently bought a sporterized but a very well sporterized 1898 Krag-Jorgensen made in 1901. I couldn't find dies anywhere but found brass, imagine that! So I found an old set of Pacific dies on eBay and bought those. They came in a Lee die box which they didn't quite fit in because the decapping stem is so long so I cut a slot in the box for the decapping stem to stick through. That still looked funny and was messing with my OCD. So I thought "Wait a minute! I have a 3D printer!" Now I've printed a lot of stuff but this is my first design, not bad for having used a free CAD program and not knowing what I was doing for the most part.

https://i.ibb.co/pW93Vsj/IMG-2421.jpg (https://ibb.co/cb7Nfph)

https://i.ibb.co/fN9vVrY/IMG-2422.jpg (https://ibb.co/4S2dw4Z)

[Martin Luber]

Nice box! Good solution to the shellholder too. Might add another parts bin to it

[kerplode]

That's slick...Nice work!

[Baltimoreed]

Neat.

[Kyle M.]

Nice box! Good solution to the shellholder too. Might add another parts bin to it

I stole the shellholder location from the LEE die box.

[Brassmonkey]

Very cool!

[dogrunner]

You're missin' a bet..........those would sell!!

[Bull-Moose]

Very nice work.

[Mr_Sheesh]

Nice!

[TNsailorman]

Very nice work Kyle. You should make a run or two of those that would fit the older dies that came with the large round adjustment rings. They won't fit in the modern plastic boxes. james

[Kyle M.]

You're missin' a bet..........those would sell!!

They probably would. It takes about 8 hours to print the box and 7 hours to print the lid. So figure a whole days waking hours for each one. They probably cost about $2.50-$3 in material to make.

[Drm50]

Yea, good idea and nice job but profit would only be made running them in injection mold. Those molds would make many boxes at a time. If it was profitable there would be a lot more stuff made on 3d printers.

[ndnchf]

Great idea! Can you make it with cartridge name on the end rather than the top? I have a bunch of die boxes stacked up on the shelf. It would be nice too see the name from the end. I'd be interested in them for some of my obsolete/oddball dies.

[pietro]

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Nice work, Kyle - it looks like there's a new career staring you in the face...… :D

[pworley1]

Very nice.

[Kyle M.]

Great idea! Can you make it with cartridge name on the end rather than the top? I have a bunch of die boxes stacked up on the shelf. It would be nice too see the name from the end. I'd be interested in them for some of my obsolete/oddball dies.

I can put the name anywhere. I can also move the slots for the die lock rings. I have now designed a 3 die version, and I’m currently making a couple for another member.

[Butzbach]

Very nice!

[ndnchf]

Excellent!

[Mr_Sheesh]

any custom storage needs can be one-offed in a 3d printer, with your choice of color / material, like clear (natural) PLA, or the more usual green, red, orange, or blue as a few known companies use :)

[GregLaROCHE]

Nice job! Makes me start thinking harder about a 3D printer myself.

[smithnframe]

Very nice!

[lksmith]

Yea, good idea and nice job but profit would only be made running them in injection mold. Those molds would make many boxes at a time. If it was profitable there would be a lot more stuff made on 3d printers.
The main strength of a 3d printer is for prototyping and onesy twosies
For volume, molding is the only way to go

[Kyle M.]

The main strength of a 3d printer is for prototyping and onesy twosies
For volume, molding is the only way to go

True, unless you have a ton of printers or you are doing very small parts. A friend of mine who got me into printing has been making disposable razor blade handles for a local factory. He can print 50 at a time and it takes about 4 hours, they've been having him make about 200 a month and have been paying him $4 a piece for them. It costs him maybe $1 in material to make 50 of them.

Another guy who I've seen on facebook has about 50 printers in his garage, he is making cookie cutters and selling them like crazy. I mainly got my printer to do little knick knacks and I've made a few useful things. I bought mine back in 2018 for $250 and have had no problems with it.

[high standard 40]

That look very nice. Good job!

[MrWolf]

Pretty impressed and a bit jealous that you just grabbed a free cad program and did that. Just can't get the motor started to actually sit down and learn freecad. Need to find a good tutorial to learn it. Nice job.

[Ural Driver]

Great idea and nicely done.:mrgreen:

[Kyle M.]

Pretty impressed and a bit jealous that you just grabbed a free cad program and did that. Just can't get the motor started to actually sit down and learn freecad. Need to find a good tutorial to learn it. Nice job.

I used Tinkercad and about an hours worth of YouTube tutorials. I hear Fusion360 is really good, you can get it free for a year but after that it’s a monthly subscription.