Whow! There is a lot of talent here. Very humbling. Thanks
Whow! There is a lot of talent here. Very humbling. Thanks
I made a gas check trimmer sometime ago. Needed it to square up my checks.
Last edited by WILCO; 01-06-2012 at 01:09 AM.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face!" - Mike Tyson
"Don't let my fears become yours." - Me, talking to my children
That look on your face, when you shift into 6th gear, but it's not there.
Boy,I'm just happy to cut a screwdriver slot in a bolt with a hacksaw.
Pro Patria-Ne Desit Virtus
JMorris,
When do you find time to shoot?
Jim
JMorris,
When do you find time to shoot?
It doesn't take that long if your just shooting so you have empty brass to load.
Tumbler is crude but made it from a plan in the American rifleman magazine in the 1970's. Pulleys are from a 1960's or 70's clothes dryer, motor is a junked furnace blower motor, drum is made of plywood. It's still going 30+ years now.
Last edited by ronbo; 02-22-2011 at 12:28 PM.
Not much, but it sure makes this job cleaner:
Oh, and if you haven't seen it yet, there's a really neat thread similar to this over at THR:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=218188
Here are the tools I use to reload Berdan brass. I enlarge one flash hole from the inside with the drill bit then use the homemade LEE type punch to tap out the old primer, I then use the modified chamfer tool to remove the primer crimp. I have had no problems with the slightly larger flash hole and used a Dremel tool to open a small hole in the nose of the chamfer tool to clear the anvil in the primer pocket of the Berdan brass. I resize with a standard die with the decapper pin removed and the sizer button raised to not hit the inside of the brass.
Simple, homemade and works for me.
Then being the tight wad that I am I don't like to throw away anything that might still have a use. I took an old easy reach back massager and cut the handle down and removed the big rubber donut from the end and it fit in the bottom of my small Lyman bowl, I clamped it in a split 2"x4" and "Wha-la" a new tumbler.
I just took 100 or so .45 acp brass out of it and they look great, of course I forgot and they were in there four hours.
Last edited by lead-1; 02-23-2011 at 10:02 PM.
I just took 100 or so .45 acp brass out of it and they look great, of course I forgot and they were in there four hours.
I made an inline countdown timer for my tumbler. I used a 2 gang DEEP outdoor rated box, a countdown timer a GFCI outlet proper cord grip (NOT a romex connector) and a 12Ga. Ext. cord.
I usually put the tumbler in the garage or somewhere away from where I am, set the timer and walk away from the noise.
Looks like jmorris has created a perfect Catch-22. The more streamlined the reloading process, the more time to shoot. The bar has been raised very high.
Gee. And I thought i was being innovative when in made a powder dipper out of a cut off 06 case and an old screwdriver.
Ken
Made these awhile back. Working on more dies.
Man!! I have to get off my woodlathe,you guys are great!
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 |