Easy trimmer set-up

slug

slug

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Here's my trimmer set up for .22 Hornet:

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Here it's set up for .45/70. The set-up time is about fifteen seconds.

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I just turn off the cutter head, pull out the shaft, slip on the spacer ring and reassemble. Change the shell plate and pilot and I'm ready to go.
The spacers are a twenty minute lathe job and I can make one in just under two hours. (I'm not really swift on a lathe.)
Anyhow, it makes changeovers a breeze. That's why I have three RCBS Trim Pro's for sale in the EE right now.
 
i have all the measurements for sleaves just like that, I have been thinking of doing the same thing for quite some time now. looks good :D
 
Fog....it sets the trimmer without undoing the setscrew and moving the collar.
Less hassle and prevents galling of the shaft........like mine looks. Funny how one intelligent guy can come up with an easy solution to something that a fool like me fiddles with for years.
 
What a sweet solution to something I have hated for years. Only problem, it makes me upset that I never thought of it myself!! Calculating bushing length is simple also. Just start at the shortest case you trim, and based on that the bushings would simply be the difference between that trim length and the trim length of the next longer case, etc, etc... (eg, if you trim 6mm Rem at 2.225" and 30-06 at 2.484", the bushing would be 2.484"-2.225" = .259" long. If you also trim 375 H&H at 2.840" then the same system works: 2.840"- 2.225" = .615") Wow! I'm all over this one. Thanks, slug. Eagleye.
 
Greenfields said:
Yodave, would you be willing to PM or e-mail those measurements to me?

Scienceglass@gmail.com

Cheers
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I have four of the older collet style trimmers so my measurements will vary to those for a lever handle type. I have on set up with the three way cutter, one with my outside neck turner-reamer and one with the regular cutterhead. The fourth was for sale so I had to have it........the story of my life.
 
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