Today I set up the lathe, collected all my tooling, tore apart a Howa 1500 and took some measurements, indicated in a replacement barrel, and threaded the metric tenon. I'll chamber/cut/crown and thread the muzzle tomorrow.
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The frankford arsenal case prep center? If so how do you like it? Was just about to order one"Been avoiding trimming 850 6.5CM and 500 308 for weeks now. But the time has come.
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With my slowly worsening carpal-tunnel sydrom, I may have to buy one of these things soon.
It appears that you have a shorter handle on your press than the one that came with mine.I did this.......... a forster coax mounted on a 4" inline fabrication riser. View attachment 7510431
"Been avoiding trimming 850 6.5CM and 500 308 for weeks now. But the time has come.
"
With my slowly worsening carpal-tunnel sydrom, I may have to buy one of these things soon.
Money well spent, why I waited decades to buy I am not sure.
The frankford arsenal case prep center? If so how do you like it? Was just about to order one
That is a badass vice! Did you make the ways or just restore an original design?Today I mounted a new pattern vise to make use of its swivel jaws on the irregular shaped objects in out awesome hobby. View attachment 7510341
I have the triway for 308, 223 and 300blk.So my review of it, I’ve don’t about 1500 cases of 223 on mine, and if you have carpel tunnel then you should probably look elsewhere. I think I’m going to get the giraud triway trimmer. After 300 cases my hands hurt so bad I physically couldn’t do another one and I have young 27 y/o hands.
the triway would at least change it from a 3 step process to 1.
Yea 1000 pieces of 223 in the FA would take me probably 8 hours and my hands would need surgery after.I have the triway for 308, 223 and 300blk.
I take a high speed drill and clamp it in a vice so the cutter is pointing up. I can do 1,000pcs of .223 in about 1 hour.
I had two 5 gallon buckets full to the top of winchester 223 brass, that had been languishing in my shed. I resized and trimmed it almost 15 years ago and hadn't touched it since.
I had never cleaned it, so it was still coated with resizing lube. So I dragged them out and began running all of it through the wet tumbler using 5/16 ceramic tumbling media instead of steel pins. I'm about 2/3rds done right now.
The 223 is very easy on the hands. In a high speed drill the torque is very light. The 30 cal stuff is a little more difficult. I can't do as many of those or do them quite as fast, but still the cheapest and easiest solution I've found.Yea 1000 pieces of 223 in the FA would take me probably 8 hours and my hands would need surgery after.
It does just as good a job on the outside, it just doesn't get into the primer pockets, but I could care less about that. They get clean enough.what’s the purpose of the ceramic over SS?
For some reason wet tumbling with ss pins and citric acid doesn’t remove hornady one shot.
So my review of it, I’ve don’t about 1500 cases of 223 on mine, and if you have carpel tunnel then you should probably look elsewhere. I think I’m going to get the giraud triway trimmer. After 300 cases my hands hurt so bad I physically couldn’t do another one and I have young 27 y/o hands.
the triway would at least change it from a 3 step process to 1.
So my review of it, I’ve don’t about 1500 cases of 223 on mine, and if you have carpel tunnel then you should probably look elsewhere. I think I’m going to get the giraud triway trimmer. After 300 cases my hands hurt so bad I physically couldn’t do another one and I have young 27 y/o hands.
the triway would at least change it from a 3 step process to 1.
Yes that is definitely the problem at least with the hand pain. Interesting idea.If your hands are like mine part of the problem is trying to hold something that small firmly enough.
Spark plug pliers are your friend. The black handled ones with the red tips (Lisle 52990).
Set it to the shorter cases so they're all the same.Let's for the sake of argument you end up with thousands of pieces of quality range brass that is in specks but short of trim lenght.
What now?
Those 3 way trimmers dont do so well with that.
We made adapters to hold the lyman tools in a strait cordless screw driver.
That is a badass vice! Did you make the ways or just restore an original design?
Huh?Let's for the sake of argument you end up with thousands of pieces of quality range brass that is in specks but short of trim lenght.
What now?
Those 3 way trimmers dont do so well with that.
We made adapters to hold the lyman tools in a strait cordless screw driver.
If it didn’t need to be trimmed then I wouldn’t have touched it at all. These are AR rounds not F classes loads.The problem showed up when I sorted out several hundred pieces of fc 223 (range brass) nice and clean.
It was all short of 1.75 but not very consistant.
I guess running it all shorter would have been an option but I was hoping it might make the cut next time if recovered.
I don't guess that will efect volume but maybe slightly on neck tension?
I use a mandrell and set all to 0.002 thousands.
I am open to any suggestions.
If it didn’t need to be trimmed then I wouldn’t have touched it at all. These are AR rounds not F classes loads.
Well you have me on that.
I treat the ar rounds as if my life depended on them.
It's an exercise in futility with inexpensive bullets to hone skills with.
I haven't used it yet to be honest. That handle extends 8" off the yoke of the press. The press also came with the short forster handle. I might end up changing to it to shorten the throw. I'lll just have to see how it all feels once i begin using it.It appears that you have a shorter handle on your press than the one that came with mine.
What are your thoughts on it?
I found some 9mm 115 grain bullets yesterday and ordered some, but I have not been able to find much, if any, powder in stock for my various rifle applications. For the 9mm stuff I am planning on using some Unique that is normally allotted to my 20ga shotgun.Got powder today and bullets yesterday, probably enough to reload 2021 match season brass for 2022 match season lol.
After I posted my question, I went to my reloading room and noticed that your handle is the same length as mine...but never got around to amending my post/question.I haven't used it yet to be honest. That handle extends 8" off the yoke of the press. The press also came with the short forster handle. I might end up changing to it to shorten the throw. I'lll just have to see how it all feels once i begin using it.
AA4350 has been made by at least 2 different manufacturers. The older stuff was made by Lovex in the Czech Republic and the newer stuff (2009) has been made in the IMR plant in Canada.I answered a phone call from my brother.
"I can't find H4350 for my 66 gr 140 gr NBT 7mmRM load. Can I substitute AA4350?"
I used Quickload and told him "Reduce to 65 gr for the same pressure and velocity. "
You've really piqued my curiosity. Are these for hunting? Home defense? I reload for 12 and 20 ga but it's all 8's, 8.5's, and 7.5's - for clays. When I lived in a slug-only state, I could not stomach sitting down at the bench and squeezing off enough rounds to warrant reloading.Not recent but the last thing I loaded was some Slugs.
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You've really piqued my curiosity. Are these for hunting? Home defense? I reload for 12 and 20 ga but it's all 8's, 8.5's, and 7.5's - for clays. When I lived in a slug-only state, I could not stomach sitting down at the bench and squeezing off enough rounds to warrant reloading.