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oscar
12-17-2009, 02:57 AM
Can anyone tell me when (year) did RCBS change their finish from the light green shrivelled look to the current darker green "hammertone" powder coated finish?
I guess it was late 1980's but I want an exact date.
Shiloh
12-17-2009, 06:59 AM
I'd give RCBS a call, or better yet, an email.

http://www.rcbs.com/

Shiloh
cheese1566
12-17-2009, 09:43 AM
My RCBS Reloader SPecial 3 has the hammer green finish. It has the date stamp under the top reducing bushing of 86 (1986).
Pressman
12-17-2009, 07:19 PM
That is a question I do not have an answer for, though I have been wondering.
Ken
Hardcast416taylor
12-17-2009, 11:29 PM
Probably the same year that the chinese started making the equipment for RCBS and had to use up all their lead based paint that hadn`t been put on kids toys.Robert
Catshooter
12-18-2009, 07:14 PM
My Rockchucker has the light green wrinkle paint and is dated 1976.


Cat
Shiloh
12-19-2009, 09:33 AM
My RCBS press has been set up so long I haven't looked. I should look it over one day.
It is at least a third hand press. I've had it for at least 20 years.

Shiloh
PatMarlin
12-19-2009, 12:12 PM
I just walked through Huntingtons Sportman's next door to RCBS in Oroville and saw Fred's gun collection and display of all his products built over the years. What a cool place.

Even had the old RCBS gas fired bottom pour lead pot like mine in the display.
tonyb
12-19-2009, 12:39 PM
Caveman needed a way to reload the "rock bullet" A shaped rock and antler case. So he invented the "rock-chucker" press :bigsmyl2:[smilie=s::kidding:

I believe was made out of bronze which turned green'ish

That's my story
Pressman
12-19-2009, 03:58 PM
I have catalogs for 1978 then jump to 1983. Need to find the missing issues. 1978 shows painted frames, 1983 shows powder coated frames. So, sometime within that five year span was the switch.
Ken
oscar
12-20-2009, 10:17 AM
I'd give RCBS a call, or better yet, an email.

http://www.rcbs.com/

Shiloh

Not even RCBS knows. Their reply to my query stated ........"some time in the early 1980's"
PatMarlin
12-20-2009, 01:53 PM
I think RCBS has out lived generations. No one had ever heard of or seen a bottom pour pot like mine when I called in to get some linkage parts.

But when I was there I saw one behind glass in their product display shelves.
1hole
12-20-2009, 08:19 PM
"I think RCBS has out lived generations."

Fred Huntington started what became the RCBS we know today in the early 40's.
Pactific started in the 30s, they sold to Hornady Bullets to become what we know today.
Lee started making loading tools in the early 60s, I think Redding and Bonanza/Forster did too.
What we now know as Lyman started in the late 1800s.

Meaning lots of our makers have out lived several generations.
TAWILDCATT
12-23-2009, 07:19 PM
Ideal started as Barlow around 1870s.when center fire cartridges became popular.
it became marlins and then Lyman in 1925.and now its a combine.:coffee: