Show me Your "Unique" Reloading Setups

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I want to see your "unique" reloading setups. This is not a thread to bash on anyones set ups or anything like that.
I just like seeing home made or modified things that people have created that work for them in their situations.

I'll go first.

First is powder setup. Its a level table that has oscillators on it to allow it to vibrate the case trays, settling the powder. Does this make a difference? Maybe? More importantly it was fun for me to make. It also holds my uniflow with the micrometer measure over my creedmoor scale and my trickler sits on top of the air guard. I'm not a super high volume guy so this is pretty fast and efficient for me and saved me a bunch of money for an autotrickler while still maintaing the accuracy.

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Second are my three presses. I load everything in batches, so instead of the qc plate from inline I just have wingnuts on my bench and swap the whole press stand out. As I progressed through presses / steups I kept the old presses for primary functions. So now my rockchuker II punches primers, my rockchuker supreme does my primers, and the nexus does everything else!

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Looking forwards to what ya'll have!
 
Needed to make a setup. Figured I'd make it mobile. Also could probably store it in a closet. Ranges around me are expensive. Loading ladders then going back home is for the birds. Now i can do my ladders on the fly. It's been working great.
 

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Needed to make a setup. Figured I'd make it mobile. Also could probably store it in a closet. Ranges around me are expensive. Loading ladders then going back home is for the birds. Now i can do my ladders on the fly. It's been working great.

I was trying to get my older brother to make me a portable reloading chest with folding sides that could be clamped to a table anywhere a man wanted to take it.


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No BLJ, a 450 is a lube/sizer for cast bullets. Normal op would be,put nekkid bullet in the (appropriate) die,pull handle and out pops a lubed and "sized" bullet that for all practical purposes is ready to load.

If you're powder coated, they too can be sized for diameter... before,or after PC.

Pistol bullets being short/fat aspect ratio,they're pretty easy... in & out,load it.

Nope,this setup is for cast rifle bullets. The beam style on left indicates through direct measure,recording the actual #'s that these bullets either start to slump and/or have a deformed movement. It's used in initial setups and comparing one lot of alloy vs another. And a cpl other things.

The click type used on the other two gets used once the #'s are established from the beam type.
 
This is an "improved" hardness tester. Just a more accurate and $$$ version of what's already on the market. Main difference is it can measure "time" as well as penetration.

IOW's, how long does it take for the alloy to respond to the applied force.

And there's a bunch more specialized equipment here for cast,high intensity bottleneck rifle chamberings. Handguns and older straight wall black powder based cartridges don't require this stuff. Shooting 6mm, 6.5's, and 7mm cast at starting jacketed velocities/pressure.... and this is what's considered the black art, bits N pieces.


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I was trying to get my older brother to make me a portable reloading chest with folding sides that could be clamped to a table anywhere a man wanted to take it.


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“Keep on keepin’ on…”
I was looking down the barrel of buying a bunch of stuff to make a reloading bench anyway. Just went ahead and bought the turnkey option from Franklin armory (like $200, and 10 min to setup). It's held up well. And I like that I can adjust the height if I get tired of sitting/standing. If you really stuck a case you'd be pressed to get enough leverage to get it out, but on the same note, you don't get enough leverage to really stick a case in there anyway.
 
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