lol, spqrzilla,
I'm guessing it didn't fire back? ;)
-John
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lol, spqrzilla,
I'm guessing it didn't fire back? ;)
-John
Do you have any of the motors on your 1050s? Or are you pulling the handle yourself?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoser
I got this idea to convert a cement mixer into a tumbler that will take 5 gal buckets. Fill the bucket a third to half with brass, fill with ground walnut, spin a lid on, lock it into the mixer and turn it on. It would take cleaning mass amounts of brass down to a couple hours instead of a couple days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoser
Ever seen it done?
Jerry does it.
https://youtu.be/O5y_dsP3dsM
Found my brass. Sized 50 cases. Had bigger plans but life happened.
Q for the reloaders. I goofed and sized some of my 38spl cases .010 below min trim to length. Bullets and loads work fine but its a pain to have two different lengths.
Toss the shorties, trim all of the brass short or just put short ones in the backup pile. Fairly sure I don't want to deal with two different lengths.
I tried a PW autodrive a few years back. Didnt like it. Now it runs my roll-sizer.Quote:
Originally Posted by whitewalrus
Just me pulling the handle.
I know bigger companies use cement mixers to polish loaded ammo.Quote:
Originally Posted by SA Friday
Dont know why you couldnt grab a Harbor Freight mixer and use it.
I think it?s rondog on here that uses the liquid and stainless pins and does large batches in a cement mixer. I think he even posted a video of it in action.
I sold him a mixer. I want to see it in action.
The plastic drum ones at lowes, cost more. But easier on brass, especially if one is looking to earn "cash back" from their investmentQuote:
Originally Posted by Hoser
. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-4-cu...-Mixer/3591096
Bought a Dillon carbide 223 trim die to get through these buckets of 223 brass with less effort on my delicate little arms.
Wrong.
This die is more small base than a small base die and needs a lot more lube than my old steel trim die.
Shit. That was $190 not well spent.
I learned that same lesson Hoser. What I do now is take a small Tupperware container, put about 3-4 handfuls of brass, spray on 3-4 squirts of Dillon lube, give the tub a good shake, continue on. Once I get them all done the cases go back in the tumbler for a couple hours to clean the lube off. If you lube up too many at once it will start to dry on you and get stuck.
When I do my cases, I use a dillion sbd, then the carbide/trim die. On the 1050 toolhead it goes Lee universal depriming die, blank, blank, sbd, blank, trim, blank. I do about 300 cases a run.
I have spent some $$$ this year upgrading machines and tooling in my shop.
My biggest purchase was a roll-sizer to augment/replace my case-pro.
It showed up a couple days ago and I could not be happier. Set up was simple and the machine runs much faster than my case-pro.
I bought 9, 38/357, 40, 45, 223 and 308 dies. I hope he makes a 30 Carbine die soon.
And my new Dillon variable speed casefeeder keeps up just fine.
It chewed through a 5 gallon bucket of 9x19 brass in about an hour.
https://www.rollsizer.com/product/el...ass-rollsizer/
Nice, Hoser, very jealous.
Today I cleaned and organized my reloading bench.
Winter will be gone before you know it so I need to start loading some 9mm before the 2020 shooting season kicks off.
Got tired of breathing corncob and walnut dust just to get range brass that still looked like range brass after all day in the tumbler. Picked up a rotary tumbler and some of those stainless pins and went the wet route. Two hours later that range brass looks darn near like new brass.
I have an intense dislike of cords cluttering my my reloading bench. Between a casefeeder, bulletfeeder, trimmer and starlight LED lights, that is 3-4 cords.
When I built my bench many years ago I ran the casefeeder cords into the support tube and down through the bench top to a plug inside the cabinets. While processing some brass last month for a friend I knew there had to be a way to hide the Dillon trimmer cord and mount the switch box somewhere.
So I mounted the power switch box to the bottom of the casefeeder and ran the plug end of the cord down the support tube. I ran the other end of the cord back into the casefeeder to clean up all the excess and then ran just enough out to reach the trimmer.
When I am not using the trimmer, I just tuck the one end of the cord up and out of the way.
If you look close at one of the pics you will see an empty outlet and no cords.
https://i.imgur.com/DJOuk4q.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6Bbi5hw.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/rHR1SFC.jpg
Well, processed 400+ cases thru clean, size and decap. Belling and priming is next. If course after all that work I find some straglers that need to be done too.
finished priming and painting the new reloading room. Almost done laying down stall mats, materials on hand for running overhead LED shop lights.
This < > close to getting that out of the way.
Kazoo, do you ever sleep?
The ass-kickinist one legged guy I know of.
Rust never sleeps ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Duman
Which tumbler did you pick up? I been contemplating the same thing after I processed a few 5 gallon buckets of brass.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
Annealing brass just got a whole lot less labor intensive for me.
https://i.imgur.com/BUtIbI3.jpg
The AMP Mate, nice..Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoser
That needs Bill Mumy doing an endorsement photo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoser
3/4 of the forum members are, Bill Mumy ??????????????Quote:
Originally Posted by spqrzilla
I think Leslie Neilsen would be a more obscure reference for that.
Danger Will Robinson... ?? Just a guess....
Former Cheetos dude...what flavor tumbler, etc., are you now using?Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
I'm putting together a shopping list...??.
I don?t know if I went the best route but I ended up buying the Frankford Arsenal kit. The larger one that?s rated for like 1K pieces of 223. Only used it twice so far but it works really well. My method for unloading it is sort of a pain. I need to come up with a double layer strainer system to catch the brass in the top layer and the pins in the lower layer. I?d say compared to the old vibratory tumbler it?s more of a pain but the results are way better so the extra work of sorting the pins from the brass and drying the brass is worth it to me.
I?ve also determined that warm water, a teaspoon or so of dish soap, and about a teaspoon of lemon juice works great. No need to spend money on any sort of magical cleaning solution.
Rollsized two 5-gallon buckets of 308 brass today. Such a cool machine.
https://www.rollsizer.com
https://i.imgur.com/outaQ4n.jpg
Hoser, what is the size of that motor?
I'm assuming it's 1/2-HP, 1750-RPM ?
Nice. Hoser is rolling his own.
Not sure. But it has a lot more power compared to the PW autodrive I had hooked up to my Case-Pro.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duman
I think I bought my Case-Pro/Rollsizer in the mid-late 90s. They make loading ammo so much easier and your reloads much more reliable.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
I'm curious if you've taken some pre/post measurements to get an idea of how much the rollsizer is improving the case.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Duman
Yes. A roll sized case will be right at SAAMI spec or about .001 under vs full length resized case.
A roll sized case will be at SAAMI spec all the way down vs a reloaded case which can have a bit of a bulge at the bottom if the chamber was on the large size or if the ammo was on the hot end of things.
A resize die cant go all the way down due to the shell holder and radius on the bottom of a die. You cant get around those two with traditional dies.
So, you deprime on one unit, then size with this machine, correct?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoser