Home-Made equipment

[xfer42]

I drilled a small pilot hole all the way through. Then the big hole only goes through about 80% of the way. So there is a small hole for the pins.

[ar15barrels]

blocks for your die set. that's awesome. do you have to drill and another small hole in the middle for the depriming pin?

Use a spade drill bit and there will already be a little hole in the middle.

[Boots]

I made a couple reloading trays from leftover counter-top material from my kitchen remodel.
One for .223 and one for .308

[fsx]

which spade drill bit works for 9mm?

[Boots]

which spade drill bit works for 9mm?

I used a 3/8" spade for the initial hole and then reamed it with a 25/64 steel bit.

[mnguyen84]

nicely done. i'll trade you my USPS flat-rate reload tray for your die tray

[ojisan]

nicely done. i'll trade you my USPS flat-rate reload tray for your die tray

Cheap stuff...I bought a child's sandbox toy set back a few years ago for around $2.
I use the bucket to catch media as it pours from the tumbler, I use the sand screen to filter out the brass from the media.

[Boots]

Cheap stuff...I bought a child's sandbox toy set back a few years ago for around $2.
I use the bucket to catch media as it pours from the tumbler, I use the sand screen to filter out the brass from the media.

Now that's using your head! And to think, the kids can even play in the walnut media and think it's sand. LOL

[Boots]

nicely done. i'll trade you my USPS flat-rate reload tray for your die tray

I still have some scrap material laying around... and even the Formica sheet (I did my own lamination)

[H3llpl3ss]

I just keep the old boxes of factory ammo that I have shot and put them in those.

[dangerranger]

this is the smelting set up I use. also kind of geto functional. DR

[Brasspolisher]

Cheap stuff...I bought a child's sandbox toy set back a few years ago for around $2.
I use the bucket to catch media as it pours from the tumbler, I use the sand screen to filter out the brass from the media.

Alternate $2 media separator: Colander and mop bucket from the $.99 store.

A pal made a tumbler out of a $7 ice-cream machine from Goodwill. Slow, but quiet -- he could leave it on all day while at work and come home to beautiful brass. Lasted about a year until the motor gave up.

[anto]

this is the smelting set up I use. also kind of geto functional. DR

LOL. Looks like you're trying to poison some kids with lead cupcakes

[fairfaxjim]

I needed a custom mount to fit my Dillon Square Deal B and my Hornady LNL AP presses on a rollaway tool box. Some scrap aluminum strut material and joiner pieces with some angle and flat bar from Metals Supermarket and instant (well almost) custom mount.

[mnguyen84]

Wow Jim. that looks pretty pro...

---but yeah.. i need to go back to the 99cent store to get a mop bucket.. and look up what a colander is on dictionary.com