New high tech primer catcher tray

kjohn

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Got tired of primers rolling around on the floor. Engineered this marvel for my Lyman turret. I may fine tune it after I patent the original design. :p

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I have a lot of respect for people that have to re-engineer tools (or make them from scratch) no matter how they look.

I got tired of lining my comparator up with the bottom of my dial guage .... my 8 year old's lego and some electrical tape solved that problem.
Likewise, some scrap 3/4 MDF and drill press allowed me to make a "super sized" sorting/reloading tray !

I won't steel your patent ideas if you don't steal mine !

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I now have a RCBS 3d printed primer catcher from ICEDSHOT on this forum. Before I got that little beauty, I found that a big shag carpet in my reloading room captured 99% of the primers, and none rolled far.
 
" a big shag carpet in my reloading room captured 99% of the primers,"

I used to have a shag carpet under my loading area. It almost cost us the house. powder accumulated in it and caught fire from some dripping hot solder.

2 fire extinguishers failed to put out the spreading fire. The thick toxic smoke made my last entry the last. I dumped water on the fire and drownd it. Powder is hard to put out.

A jerry can of water is a good thing to have in the loading room.
 
I use a plastic shopping bag, with a steel clothes hanger bent over the protruding base mounting bolts. It holds a lot of spent primers and catches those that want "fly".

It holds a lot of primers and other bits of whatever collects on the bench, such as the cleaning/lube cloths I wipe the presses down with after I'm finished.

Kjohn, I like your tray, good work. Looks much neater than the bags I attach.
 
I'll have everybody know that the tray and attaching parts were all specially ordered and built in my custom engineering shop.:p

It actually works quite nicely. The primers come flying out of the groove like on a ski jump, so they mostly get fired to the far side of the tray. :cool:

The only addition to this contraption is a little piece of tape over the little bump where I cut a little piece out, just under where the shell holder is sitting.
 
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