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'
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.
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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.
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.
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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
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" Holes kill stuff. "
Darned if you wouldn't make a good neighbor. Nice work, but not sure what you mean with the pins in the tumbler.
Lucky Joe
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Very good, thanks.
Lucky Joe
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Very Interesting threat!!
Man there alot of great ideas here for sure.
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Thanks, looking at all this stuff I realize I need to craw back under the rock I came from!
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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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.
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pretty cool rasto.
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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...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |