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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.