I.E. Reloading Workshop

[stilly]

I finally have all the components and my bros press. Went by Dillon on my way outta the Phoenix area and picked up a strong mount along with a spare parts kit and a few other tidbits.

I will be ready to start reloading after I rearrange my garage and/or build a new bench!

Now that I have it, I realize I need to reconfigure stuff!

Oh, I still need to get a (digital?) caliper and a bullet puller (just in case). Any advice on these two?

Leave it at home that day. Lately, I just have not been myself and would feel bad if an accident happened and there was a poor dillon press laying in a million pieces in my driveway... And EVERYONE would point the finger at ME for NO reason in particular I am sure...


What I told you in PM still stands though. all joking aside. OR come to the clinic and have fun fun fun...

[SoCal Gunner]

I was going to get a dial caliper from Grafs but it was sold out at the time. I just took a coupon to Harbor Freight for their $10 caliper & it's been working. I like my Lyman inertia puller.

I have exactly the same two items! No issues with the HF digital calipers and I compared them against expensive analog ones from my workplace. The Lyman (I think they are almost all made by the same company) inertia puller has a universal shell holder.

[Javi]

I was going to get a dial caliper from Grafs but it was sold out at the time. I just took a coupon to Harbor Freight for their $10 caliper & it's been working. I like my Lyman inertia puller.

[Darryl Licht]

I finally have all the components and my bros press. Went by Dillon on my way outta the Phoenix area and picked up a strong mount along with a spare parts kit and a few other tidbits.

I will be ready to start reloading after I rearrange my garage and/or build a new bench!

Now that I have it, I realize I need to reconfigure stuff!

Oh, I still need to get a (digital?) caliper and a bullet puller (just in case). Any advice on these two?

[stilly]

I might break an old beer over it, but I wont waste a bit of that powder! It's too hard to find...

Come to bullseye and buy a bottle of Leverevolution...

[Darryl Licht]

POP dat **** open and toast the new machine!

BEtter yet, grab it by the top and beat that dillon till it breaks open! Now if the dillon breaks durring the christening ceremony then please post picz of that FO SHO! :O

I might break an old beer over it, but I wont waste a bit of that powder! It's too hard to find...

[hardhead]

I'd be in for this. I have most of the reloading equipment, read a lot of text, but never reloaded a round (can't find powder).

[BigBronco also not a Cabinetguy]

There is a very good chance it is fine. Look for rusty color deterioration and a foul smell for issues.

[stilly]

POP dat **** open and toast the new machine!

BEtter yet, grab it by the top and beat that dillon till it breaks open! Now if the dillon breaks durring the christening ceremony then please post picz of that FO SHO! :O

[Darryl Licht]

Does powder go bad?

Hi everyone:

Helped my bro get all the Dillon reloading equipment out of his shed today. He hasn't used it in 11-12 years and is letting me borrow his Dillon 550 indefinitely. When we opened up all his stuff he had a 1lb canister of Winchester WST1 powder unopened. Here's a pic:

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The canister is still sealed, but it is 11-12 years old. It's been stored in a dry place, but he lives in the Phoenix area where there's little such thing as a cool place. Is this still fine to reload 9mm with, or should I be concerned with the age of this?

[stilly]

Yeah, based on your previous schedule you were setting up, June is prolly best...

THAT or we can do it in may, but I would provide the air presses and air powder and air primers and air shells so everyone would have to be really good at pantomiming. Well, that or I can get a guy who works at the circus and he can certify everyone in being a mime that day...

[BigBronco also not a Cabinetguy]

June works best for me.

[stilly]

Well Easter was boring... Good food at the table but I was only thinking of how there could have been a group of guys eating pizza and hard at work making some rounds and learning... I was able to make some green bullets though...

Shall we shoot for may or june then?

[HeffeAdams]

I would love to go. I am thinking about getting in the business, and this would be a great way to learn the proper technique.

[stilly]

SERIOUSLY FOLKS? Now I have a GOOD reason to hate on Catholicism...

I think People are looking at this the WRONG way. I mean, According to the Bible, Didn't Jesus make dies for your dillons? And what more proof do you need that reloading is a religious thing? Oh wait, maybe he DIED for your SINS.

Still, I think that Jesus would want everyone to go and IMPROVE themselves on that Sunday. And if anyone knows his user name here, let me know so that I can run it by him and make sure that he is on the same page as me.

FINE then. I am gonna go shooting that day at Steale Peking...

I am gonna set up some eggs and let my .45 find them...


I even bought a stupid RABBIT for that day man!

What am I gonna do with it now?