What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[NHshtr]

Made up 25 rounds of .44 mag with 23.8 gr. of H110 topped by 240 gr. XTPs. This load shoots really well from the Henry carbine.
Also made up 30 rounds of .243 Win for the Henry Long Ranger. It seems to like Varget more than a traditional .243 powder like IMR4064. That load is 43.7 gn, Varget with 95 gr, Hornady SSTs.

[Rifletom]

Randy, got to doing yard work and stuff in my shop and plum missed out on 2400 at my LGS. Said he'll be getting more in next week.
He still has 1lb'ers of Unique left!! . But, I'm good there. I guess there is hope.

[Mr. Neutron]

This project wasn't so much "At The Reloading Bench" as it was on the bench in the barn.

I built a wet rotary tumbler. It worked pretty well on it's initial tryout of around 50-75 .380 ACP cases; it definitely has room to to do many more of these or other, bigger cases. Holds around a gallon of water.
I did so few because I wasn't quite sure of my case weight-to-steel pins ratio. I need to find a scale to weigh this stuff, and buy more S/S pin media........

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Oooops! I just noticed ya can't see much of the shiny "after" cases; mostly the "before" vibratory tumbled ones are visible. My bad. Hopefully, you get the idea...... I'll take another pic........

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Here's a video of my Hillbilly Engineering at it's best......

https://youtu.be/0b0CgNRYsCs


I did notice the motor got a bit warmish, despite 35 deg. outside temps, after spinning for about 2.5 hrs.. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a, say, 6" dia. aluminum fan blade set up that'll fit a 5/8" dia.shaft? I've seen these somewhere; need to look/SEARCH fer awhile, I guess......

[Mags]

https://youtu.be/0b0CgNRYsCs

Looks like you got it mostly figured out. The brass looks good.
Can't see the video though. It's set to private mode.

[Mr. Neutron]

Oh, crap....... Sorry about that....... For some reason, I *think*it won't go "Public" until tomorrow at 3 pm. Can't figure out how to change that......

In EDIT: I think I have it sorted now..... Maybe.......

[Mags]

Oh, crap....... Sorry about that....... For some reason, I *think*it won't go "Public" until tomorrow at 3 pm. Can't figure out how to change that......

In EDIT: I think I have it sorted now..... Maybe.......

It plays now. That is quite the machine. You should have filed for a patent before posting the video.

[The Happy Kaboomer]

12 ga and 410 unloaded on my skeet field this evening.

[Rifletom]

Tumbler looks fine to my eyes. Innovation at it's finest.

[Mr. Neutron]

Thanks, Rifletom!!!

The important thing to me is that it seems to work pretty well so far. That .380 brass came out lookin' like new inside & out. Anxious to try it out with the rifle stuff I reload for.

I do need to figure out a better "routine" or system for separating the pins from the cases. I have a tight mesh screen and screened colander, a 2 gal. bucket with a bunch of holes in the bottom for pins to drop thru (but cases don't) into a bigger 5 gal. bucket, my old deal I bought years ago for my dry tumbling media to drop thru while catching the cases, and stuff. It'll get resolved with more use, I reckon.......

I did discover that my old Machinist's magnetic base makes a good magnet for rounding up stray pins & such, so that helps some.

Like I said earlier, I'm just happy it works. I'll get the frame & base painted, and "refine" it a bit more as I go along.......

[Rifletom]

Went to my LGS yesterday to get 2400. GONE!! He does have three 8lb'ers of 2400 still and about 25 1lb'ers of Unique[surprisng!] Oh well.