Sizing PC bullets

[NevadaJack]

What do you use for powder coat? Is one PC better than the other?

[Doubles Shooter]

If you are just starting to powder coat, go with Smoke's powder and follow his instructions to the letter.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...raying-bullets

[elginrunner]

What do you use for powder coat? Is one PC better than the other?

Im using eastwood, so far they have been great. Smoke has a good rep as well.

[OS OK]

If using the Lee push through size die, there's a couple tricks out there to increase production a little and make this sizing exercise go a little quicker.

At first, it was pretty slow as I held the cast in place centered on the push post and eased it into the bottom of the size die. Later as I got a little faster doing this I caught my finger up a little between the side of the post and the die...that kinda scared me thinking I could have taken a chunk of meat out of my finger pad.
I came up with this idea of putting a small spring around the push post so I could just drop the cast on the post and the spring would do the guiding as I reached for another cast.
That worked well but as I got into the faster pace of sizing in a hurry, I started filling that little red plastic catcher and pushing the lid off and spilled several batches of fresh sized cast to the floor. That's when I started putting a strong rubber band around the container and that stopped all the accidental spills.





I forget what year it was but here in the CB forum several of us were talking about building an upside down press...this would allow you to merely drop the cast into the base of the upside down size die. This went very well also. Some presses like this RCBS Jr. allows the handle to be screwed into the cam assembly so you can still pull down for this upside down process.



This turned into a forum wide quest for speed and that led into feeders for the upside down press...we all went into different directions to achieve some type of feeding system to increase sizing speed even more.
For me it was to set up a sizing table with a tube feeding the die and I was happy with that, still am.
If you use the search function you can find all the threads about sizing & upside down presses.

With this simple feed table next to the press I can feed the casts down the feed tube at a pretty good clip.





Sizing can be a monotonous job but you can at least speed it up a bit.

[elginrunner]

OS OK,

that's a neat set up! thanks for posting pictures about it!

[clum553946]

I just use my Star sizer. Fast down stroke motion.

[nueces5]

Sizing can be a monotonous job but you can at least speed it up a bit.

First of all I congratulate you for the excellent ideas !!
I'm going to steal some of your ideas !!!