What clever little things have you "invented or discovered" that you can share?

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What clever little things have you "invented or discovered" that you can share?

i'm on some other forms and some have a similar thread with some great ideas on how too improve the reloading bench.so please share.

ie.using a catfood self feeder for bullets is a nice way too have a large amount bullets in close range of you hand when reloading.
 
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I mounted my case trimmer horizontally on the forward edge of my reloading bench and put a garbage container under it to catch the trimmings. Saves a clean-up when the trimming is done.
 
joe-nwt said:
I mounted my case trimmer horizontally on the forward edge of my reloading bench and put a garbage container under it to catch the trimmings. Saves a clean-up when the trimming is done.
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thats a good idea or how about trying a rope to the shell holder handle on the trimmer and mounting a pedal to the floor so you can release the shell with your foot ,it makes trimming with a cordless drill powered trimmer way faster. keep em coming guy's:welcome:
 
Excellent ideas on the case trimmers.

I put a couple acro bins on the bench in front of my case trimmer, so I have a bin full of to be trimmed brass, and one for trimmed brass. Keeps everything at my fingertips. As soon as I add in that foot pedal I should be able to really up the process speed.

I like the premise of this thread, and look forward to more ideas.
 
Do to the fact I have so many different presses, and not enough room to mount them. I mounted a 1/4" steel plate, then drilled and tapped each hole to match the base of what ever press I plan on using at the time. Then a small container with dividers to keep mounting bolts separated for each style of press.
 
I power my trimmer with a cheap cordless drill, like lots of folks. When the battery crapped out, I wired the drill to a little transformer of appropriate voltage like is used on lots of electronic devices.

It is no longer very portable, but it doesn't need to be, and no more battery charging.

Hugh
 
It's not really an invention, but I built a base for my press that is screwed down to the top of the workmate that I use as a bench for the press. It made everything much more rigid and raised the press up to a useful height. I have used it to full length size .338 Win Mag brass with no problems at all. For those with little space for their reloading equipment, a workmate makes a decent low cost bench for the press. I bought mine for $10 at a garage sale. You can also see that I use boxes of bullets (cast .44 Mag, in this case) to add weight to the workmate, it helps keep everything stable for those tough resizing jobs.

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I attach a length of hard hose to my full length Lee Carbide Resizing Die.
Then I run the hose vertically into a bucket that is suspended in the ceiling. There is a hole cut into the bucket that allows the hose to poke through, and all the FL resized brass travels up the hose, then dumps into the bucket.

Speeds up FL resizing chore bt 35% since you don't haste time picking brass out of the FL sizer die, or using an inverted 2L pop bottle.
 
Got Juice? said:
I attach a length of hard hose to my full length Lee Carbide Resizing Die.
Then I run the hose vertically into a bucket that is suspended in the ceiling. There is a hole cut into the bucket that allows the hose to poke through, and all the FL resized brass travels up the hose, then dumps into the bucket.

Speeds up FL resizing chore bt 35% since you don't haste time picking brass out of the FL sizer die, or using an inverted 2L pop bottle.
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any chance you post a pic of that on here?:cheers:
 
-A common one I did, is mounting the press on a piece of 1" plywood,then C-clamping to the bench.
-an o-ring under the stem nut on RCBS F/L resizing dies.
-a breather hole on Hornady seater dies,they should be doing that one at the factory.
 
Built a shelf at eye level for my scale and trickler so I don't have a stiff neck for a week after reloading.
 
OK, this is sort of a lame tip but I put an 'arrowhead' replacement pencil eraser in the bottom of my 'hammer' type inertia bullet puller. Saves the bullet point from deforming.
 
Shootshellz said:
OK, this is sort of a lame tip but I put an 'arrowhead' replacement pencil eraser in the bottom of my 'hammer' type inertia bullet puller. Saves the bullet point from deforming.
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not lame at all - sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to figure out. I WILL be using that little idea - thanks
 
zimbu said:
Built a shelf at eye level for my scale and trickler so I don't have a stiff neck for a week after reloading.
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I have done the same, but with a small 12 x 14 inch table I made in woodwork class about 35 years ago. It is tall enough that it sits on my reloading bench and accomplishes the same as a shelf.
 
I built a tripod to mount presses etc. It used to fold, but was a little unstable, so now its welded solid. Built pate-steel bases for all my presses, trimmers, vise, etc. that mount to top of tripod. Also have wall-mounted brackets for storage. Tripod is very steady and I don't use up any bench-space.

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