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I rigged a photo electric switch above the beam of my old 10-10 powder scale to see how sensitive it was. After this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLp9M6VI3gM I weighed a gn of powder and counted the kernels, a calculated resoultion of .02083 grains.

Working up loads on a non .223 AR recently in the rain and cold, I decided that it would be nice to have a brass catcher for the rifle and bought a $7 one that worked but not the best mounting system, so another $10 for a QD mount off of eBay and a 3/8 strip of 1/8" steel and I had found a use...

Made some changes so a local reloading business can test the concept out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNXz97yWp2w

Topic on another forum had me trying out .22 cal pellets propelled by a nail gun blank today. I tried out the #2,3 and 4 power ranges today in a 24" .22 rimfire barrel. *The #4 disintegrated the pellet but it looked like the #3 and #2 were making round holes in paper at 15 yds or so, so I fired...

Added a collator off one of my reloading machines and a "flipper" for bullet sizing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cc1hUj343w

Had a few hours after supper tonight and threw together another idea I had. Looks like it will cut down 2880/hr .223 cases to be final trimmed for 300 blk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD2tugzRnD0

Ok, it's just going to be a push through sizer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y-3IAGlky8

A recent thread caught my interest so I decided to build one. I found a suitable donor die in my stash, an RCBS 44mag/SPL die. Ran a file across it and found that it was way too hard to machine. So I heated it up to take the heat treat out of it. At that point I drilled and tapped it...

Ok, I am just playing around. Click photo to play.

Tired of working your fingers to the bone culliing small primer 45 brass from large, only to have one stop your reloading dead in it's tracks? Well, take a look at the innovative, new and improved, super, diet and patent pending, cull-o-matic. Ball point pen included. No brass was harmed in...

I had recycled some parts off of my auto bullet sizer but put it back together today and shot a short video of how it works. It uses the same gear motors as the bullet caster and auto reset rifle targets, so it is pretty slow but they were free and it runs by itself. Click photo to play video.

After a number of years making rust, I ran the auto caster again today. You have to click the photo to play the video.

I got around to processing some brass with it today. The adjustable speed make processing the brass quick work. Click the photo to play the video.

After going through the powder coating process and giving copper plating a try, after USPS lost the first shipment, I finally received a new batch of the Bayou bullet coating from Donnie, that he FedExed to me. What you get is a two part mix and you add acetone, tumble and bake. I just ran a...

I have been looking into setting up a bullet plating operation but ran across a thread on coating over at castboolits and thought I would give it a try as it is pretty simple and fast. My coating chamber was built by making a few cuts in a used beer box. HF powder coater and a bottle of powder...

It is 3/4" box tube that makes up a 5" truss making it quite strong an still light enough I won't mess up the wood floor. The adjustable padded feet also help out. Couldn't fit all of the most used equipment on at one time so there is a bottom shelf to hold them and an air compressor a friend...

The first run of the PLC controlled 1050 was a success. Along with the auto drive I added a PLC that controls the motor. There is an up and down limit switches that are on a clock so if the tool head doesn’t reach either in the allotted time the timer times out and stops the motor, this keeps...

Playing with my PLC controled automated 1050 tonight, I was thinking of how to make sure that no steel cases could be fed into the machine. It already will have "no bullet/inverted,no cases" sensors on it but what if a steel case happened to make it into the feeder? I grabbed a magnet off the...

The results using stainless steel media always impressed me; however, being accustom to the large batches my big Dillon tumbler can turn out the idea of only being able to 2 lbs of brass (only 230 rounds of 9mm) at a time just wouldn’t be worth it. The Thumler’s tumbler despite costing almost...

Reloading for the 217.49mm X 3785.41 cm3 Doesn’t really fit anywhere so I thought I would show off the lowest cost projectile launcher I have reloaded for. I had a little time to play today waiting on a delivery, so I put together my 217.49mm X 3785.41 cm3, hauled it and a few hundred feet...