Author Topic: Most mystifying piece of reloading equipment? (Read 1045 times)

Questor · « **on:** July 07, 2004, 06:16:23 AM »

What's the strangest piece of reloading equipment you've ever seen? Mine is a little shaker with a tube that is used for dribbling powder. Somebody have me one and I eventually threw it away because I never had an application for it.

ricciardelli · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2004, 07:51:20 AM »

Well...my meatloaf and lasagna pans and my paint brush "racks".

Questor · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2004, 08:19:28 AM »

Ricciardelli:

Meatloaf pans are essential equipment. I also like pie pans because it's a great place to stage bullets next to your progressive press. They're easy to pick up. Then there are the new coca cola plastic 16 (or 20?) ounce plastic bottles. Cut off the top to make an excellet powder funnel for dumping powder back into small mouthed powder jugs. Coke bottles also makes a great funnel for doing oil changes.

Canned air, as sold by wal-mart, is a great thing to have around for blowing the crud out of a progressive press.

Nylon disposable gloves are great for gun cleaning and for reloading so you don't have to handle lead bullets during a long reloading session.

An old toothbrush is handy for brushing the crud out of reloading presses.

A big old plastic peanut butter jar makes a great place to put spent primers. A sawed off milk jug is a great place to store worn out brass.

Sincerely yours,
Martha Stewart

ricciardelli · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2004, 08:57:39 AM »

A toothbrush gets old? Hell, I've been using the same one since 1943...

Other items I find on my reloading bench are medical syringes (glass not plastic) and needles, MEK, TCE, coffee filters, jeweler's screwdrivers, exacto knife, an assortment of hex keys and a big bag of Jelly Belly jelly beans.

JBMauser · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2004, 01:56:00 PM »

I just retired my arrow field point that I have used for some time to flare the necks of my cases to stuff cast bullet in. I bought the lee neck expander. I still use an old 30/06 full lenght resizing die upside down in my press and push cast bullets through the top to size cast bullets .312 works great. JB

BruceP · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2004, 04:19:48 PM »

Well I did not buy them where I usually buy my reloading supplys but I have my empty coffee cans and butter bowls, but then those are just standard equipment...RIGHT?
BruceP

Jack Crevalle · « **Reply #6 on:** July 08, 2004, 01:20:49 AM »

Bottom half of a Altoids tin with Velcro on the bottom.

The other half of the Velcro is in the middle of my case trimmer. Shavings fall into the Altoids tin which can be removed and emptied.

Leftoverdj · « **Reply #7 on:** July 08, 2004, 04:20:20 AM »

Some folks might consider a drill press to be an odd bit of reloading equipment.

But that would only be the folks who don't have one.

Wlscott · « **Reply #8 on:** July 08, 2004, 05:11:49 AM »

Anything that I just bought, but haven't figured out how to use yet :grin:

skb2706 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 08, 2004, 10:10:01 AM »

I agree with the worthlessness of the 'dribbler' and I have one never used it but the most mystifying would have to be a piece of rough top belting. On those hopefully rare occasions when I have to pull seated bullets I use it with pliers to pull bullets. Leaves no marks, faster than any other method I tried. Also use an assortment of Sharpies...........different colors for load development.

catman · « **Reply #10 on:** July 08, 2004, 03:11:34 PM »

My Wife, she's great at tumbling brass

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #11 on:** July 09, 2004, 12:02:47 AM »

a lee progressive press!

skb2706 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 09, 2004, 04:45:56 AM »

I wish my wife would tumble my brass...........................

Zcarp2 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 10, 2004, 12:44:26 PM »

Quote from: Jack Crevalle

Bottom half of a Altoids tin with Velcro on the bottom.

The other half of the Velcro is in the middle of my case trimmer. Shavings fall into the Altoids tin which can be removed and emptied.

That has bugged me for a while, now I have a solution! Really appreciate that idea!

I use an old kleenex box to catch spent primers on an old pacific C-press. Rip it to fit the press body below the primer disharge point.

Zcarp2

ricciardelli · « **Reply #14 on:** July 10, 2004, 01:29:35 PM »

For days I have been looking around my reloading room for other "strange" pieces of reloading gear. I could find none, except for an old 1'x1'x1' cardboard box in the corner.

I have thought and thought, and pondered and pondered, and finally today I came to realize what it was for.

It is for cartridges that come out of any of my presses that are not "right"!

Knowing that if I remove that box the next 500 rounds will be all buggered-up!