Homemade?

[Andrew Mason]

Nice job Mason, how much do you think you have in it other than a motor?

Russ

well, i would say about $150
i did not actualy buy the motor, i had gotten the floor buffer for free as just some old piece of junk that didnt work (it had a bad switch)
so all of my cost is in the bearings, pullys, shafts, and nuts and bolts.

[gcouger]

I*like the elegace of your your solution. It probaly works fine and the price is right.
I'll try in the trunk of my wife's car

Gordon
Leaning to shoot again ater 30 years of city livin'

[Ohio Rusty]

I make homemade dippers often. I user a piece of thick copper grounding wire -- peen one end flat, solder an empty .380 or 9mm or .40 cal. shell on the end, tweak the shell length on the belt sander for the grain load I need.
Ohio Rusty ><>

[bear67]

Holder for multiple Dillon Toolheads. I needed a holder for at least 3 Dillon toolheads and this will work with or without powder measures. I started with 3" channel iron and you need 5" lengths per toolhead for this design. You could use wood and countersink the bolts on the bottom. The riser for the toolhead itself is a 9/16 bolt with the head cut off and bolted to channel iron with nut top and bottom--toolhead rests on un-threaded part of bolt after the head was removed. The shellholder is a 1 1/2" 1/2" bolt fastened with 2 nuts like the other pin riser. The locater pins are just held by 3 drilled holes.

This works just like I needed, but I think I will fabricate another for additional toolheads and instead of putting the shellholder on a pin, I will set up the milling machine and mill a slot for the shell holder to fit vertically like the factory Dillon stands. You could weld the pins and not use threaded bolts. I did not have Dillon stands (maybe one), did have time, channel iron in scrap bin, and my time is my own--time does not mean much to a Hog.

[TES]

No one has been able to find out how he did it. I don't think he's told anyone... sneaky! I've never seen an answer anywhere anyway.

I got this figured out. Not going to say it though. The only thing that makes me nervous about this set up is that the primer plunger still makes contact with the seated primer at each interval in the process. One piece of crud on the plunger could mean a detonation and I'm pretty sure that's why this would never make its way onto a production model.

[finstr]

Here's my tumbler I made out of some stainless steel. Used some Delrin bushings and an old variable speed drill to drive it. Note the zip-tie on the trigger for 'cruise control'. 5 lbs of stainless pins inside make the brass like new.


Here's a fly tying bench I made from some oak and walnut


A concentricity guage I made


and a rod wrapping machine I made for when I'm in the mood to make fly rods


Stainless ingot molds


A cow horn coyote howler call

[Lucky Joe]

Darned if you wouldn't make a good neighbor. Nice work, but not sure what you mean with the pins in the tumbler.

[ncbearman]

Darned if you wouldn't make a good neighbor. Nice work, but not sure what you mean with the pins in the tumbler.

Go to the STM ad at the top of the page. Instead of walnut or corn media you use steel pins and water in your tumbler.

[Lucky Joe]

Very good, thanks.

[Reloader270]

Very Interesting threat!!

[Cesure]

A little wire, a little solder, a little .22LR case, a little grinding and I've got a little dipper. Precisely (well +- .1 gr) 1.3 grains of Win 231 powder for my 32 S&W reloads.

[psychicrhino]

Man there alot of great ideas here for sure.

[slohunter]

Thanks, looking at all this stuff I realize I need to craw back under the rock I came from!

[Jeff R]

Before I started casting Boolits, a couple short months ago, I used to call these things "M1 Gas Cylinder Removal Tools." Now, I call them "Barrel Slugging Mallets." They work great for getting the slug into the muzzle. They are made from ironwood, which I gather from the woods behind my house. On the lathe, it turns "like butter."

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[rasto]

Homemade uniquetek for two powder bars which cost me 16 bucks totally. Do not do it DIY
Small powder bar is restorable.

[Cesure]

Before I started casting Boolits, a couple short months ago, I used to call these things "M1 Gas Cylinder Removal Tools." Now, I call them "Barrel Slugging Mallets." They work great for getting the slug into the muzzle. They are made from ironwood, which I gather from the woods behind my house. On the lathe, it turns "like butter."

Nice mallets. I'll bet that ironwood holds up pretty well.

[rasto]

Placed electricity and light to my safe.
The batteries are being recharged and will stay there as backup power source.

[rasto]

And my the third project (long weekend ) was finished as well.
I know nobody read or appreciate it but I do not care.
Here you are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyi-hspjn2I&edit=vd

[Four Fingers of Death]

pretty cool rasto.

[NineInchNails]

Nothin fancy or technical, but this helps me a bit. When swapping turret disks on my Lee Classic Turret Press I needed a way to safely store & keep the dust off the disks that are set up with their own dies and Lee Pro Auto-Disk Powder Measure set and intact. I just cut a bunch of appropriate lengths out of a piece of cheapo 4" PVC drain pipe and used some inexpensive flat PVC caps. Keep in mind that 4" PVC pipe (SCH 40) is NOT the same as 4" drain pipe. I glued the bottom caps only.







You can label each tube, paint them or whatever you want. I'm considering lining at least the bottoms with something just to ensure that the decapping pins don't ever take a hard hit if I happen to drop the turret disk into the tubes. I know I don't 'need' a powder measure for each turret disk, but it's nice to not have to adjust it back & forth every cartridge I load. It's also nice to have extras for parts, etc...