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    Dillon Tool Heads and stands - how to cover?

    I load on a Dillon 550b that I have had since it was a 450....many years.
    I have accumulated a fair number of die sets, tool heads and tool head stands.
    I wonder what you Dillon users use to cover them up....or do you just leave them open to the elements in your reloading/casting area?
    In my OCD personality, i want it neat and organized.
    Before I start to figure out what to do, I thought I would get other input.
    I mean, I could cover each of them with an old sock, but then there are no labels and with 12 sets of dies i would have to go through each of them to find what I want.
    Yeah, i know....first world problems, right?
    But I have started to think about this a bit as fall closes and winter approaches.....that is my casting and reloading time.
    Your thoughts?.
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    I have a shelf that runs the full width of my bench and is about 10 inches above the bench top. I keep all of the toolheads on their stands underneath the shelf. This way they are protected yet they are easy to get to.
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    I'd get a wall hung metal shop/parts cabinet with several adjustable shelfs and keep them in it.
    Some are just crazy expensive, but Amazon lists a few for 1-200 bucks that look really nice and would last forever.
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    i have been using a king size pillow case to cover my presses, suppose you could custom sew something and put labels on them.
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    I currently store them in the old military version glass front bookcases, but I also have an old particle board bookcase that lays on its side. I had a piece of plexi in front of it, but took it off and haven’t missed it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rancher1913 View Post
    i have been using a king size pillow case to cover my presses, suppose you could custom sew something and put labels on them.
    I thought the same thing. However, sewing is a skill I never picked up.
    Maybe Dillon can make a new product?
    Guys like me that love the accessories would probably pay stupid money for each of them.
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    I keep dust off a lot of things on basement shelves by inverting pint and quart take out containers over them.
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    I mean Dillon does make the covers for the machines and the tool head set ups, pricey, but......
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    Quote Originally Posted by B1GB1RD View Post
    I mean Dillon does make the covers for the machines and the tool head set ups, pricey, but......
    I have a cover for the 550 press.
    I just looked at Dillon's web site and did not find tool head covers.
    Can you post a link if you can find them?
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    i have not seen dillon tool head covers but you could buy a regular dillon cover and take a pair of scissors to it to make it fit, at least it will have the dillon name on it
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    Quote Originally Posted by rancher1913 View Post
    i have not seen dillon tool head covers but you could buy a regular dillon cover and take a pair of scissors to it to make it fit, at least it will have the dillon name on it
    Not after you cut it short enough to fit a tool head.
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    Dillon tool head covers, part #11143, $14.99.
    The description is RF100 / Quick Change Dust Cover

    https://www.dillonprecision.com/11143

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    Unless you have a powder measure on every one of them you might try the pint or half gallon size zipper type refrigerator bags. They are transparent so you could see the labels on the toolhead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by C.F.Plinker View Post
    Unless you have a powder measure on every one of them you might try the pint or half gallon size zipper type refrigerator bags. They are transparent so you could see the labels on the toolhead.
    I worry about this as the bags can't 'breathe' and would trap water vapor down here on gulf coast
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    I use pillow cases on the complete machines (MEC shotgun presses too).

    On the tool heads, I use lead shot bags. Just about a perfect fit. I also use the shot bags on my Redding powder measures.

    No labels but a toe tag tied to the shot bag with calibers written on them would solve that.

    MEC's are easy, gauge in declining size left to right, 12, 16, 20, 28, .410 all sitting on the same shelf.

    Always considered cutting down a couple of Bemis Double A seamless for the two Dillons. Just never got around to it.

    Always figured that if the weave on those Bemis bags was tight enough to keep flour in, the weave was tight enough to keep dust out.

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    cut the legs off old jeans and sew the end shut.

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    I have 12 different tool heads. but only 3 powder measures. I store assembled tool heads w/o powder measure in approx 4 by 4 inch cardboard boxes with the conversion box insode. Label on the box and stack nicely taking minimum room and dust free GW

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    I use the cheap blender covers. Just looked they went up like everything else at a lil over $8 each. Prob find them cheaper. Works for me and also covers my Xbox.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FISH4BUGS View Post
    I have a cover for the 550 press.
    I just looked at Dillon's web site and did not find tool head covers.
    Can you post a link if you can find them?
    https://www.dillonprecision.com/11143
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    Quote Originally Posted by B1GB1RD View Post
    I get that. But not all my tool heads haver a powder measure on it.....not at over 100 bucks per powder measure.
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