Interesting or unique tools out there?

Michael said:

Ok fine...... be danged if I can get a photo to attach. What's the secret???

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In the window where you type your message on the lower left is a button that says, "Attach files". Click on that and go to your pictures folder. Select the picture you want by double clicking on the picture. The picture will appear in your post where your cursor was.

I only have one pc. of specialized equipment, a made-to-measure bump/tapering die for my .30-06. In essence it expands the nose of a CB to fit my rifle's lead, while adding a small me plat and completel flattening the CB's base, whether gas checked, PB, or a CB with a gas check shank (but used without a GC). It looks like a FL die, threads into your press as does a FL die, but uses a close fitting internal rod and a close fitting "ram, which you use in place of a shell holder and snaps in the press as would a shell holder. (It looks like the rod from a Lee sizing die, btw.) Once set up, you place a CB with or without a GC on the base rod, raise it fully into the press, hold down the [press] handle with your knee and whack the now elevated internal rod with a plastic/nylon mallet, then lower the press handle and remove the reformed CB. The die was made by Ed Wosika (The Hanned Line) and has consistently turned undersized CB's , e.g., Ly. #311291, into tack drivers. Although using it on one of the Lee group buy TL designs of years ago "over there" (Buckshot ran that one I think) seems to defeat the purpose of the TL concept, it makes them more accurate as well as my posts (with pics) have demonstrated.

Vice mounted bench belt sander with tool guide for sharpening lathe tools, which was originally a handheld sander
I've posted this before...and maybe I'll find another unique tool photo to post later.

I tried that and my had cyber literate wife try, "getting the image is too big for the server", even tried cropping it down.

Michael said:

I tried that and my had cyber literate wife try, "getting the image is too big for the server", even tried cropping it down.

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@Michael ,
The photo would have to be "resized." That basically means you are loweirng the quality of the photo, by removing "bits." It looks good smal, but if you blew it up, it would be all "pixelly" and horrid -looking. Cropping just cuts pieces off, but leaves the "quality" alone, so the file is still too big. Think of the new, "resized" image as if it were a van Gohg painting - looks like it has lots of detail from across the room, but if you get close, you see all the "dots" and can't make out detail.

There is free software out there to do that with. It's easy, but the Mrs. may have to run you through it once and you'd be set.

This is the one I use (there are others):

This will create a "smaller" copy of your photo (and keeps the original too) that will work when posting on a forum.

To use the "attach files" feature, you do as originally instructed, but you double-click on the new, smaller copy of your photo. It seems like a pain in the butt the first time, but after doing it a few times, it's pretty quick.

I you're not too averse to trying an image-hosting site (after the Photo-Bucket debacle), Mr. Taffin suggested this one on another site:

Betting your wife could walk you through it once and you'd be set. The neat thing is that it offers several "formats" to post appropriately sized images for your needs. One of them is specifically thumbnails for forums" (or something like that. You click on that, "copy," and then "paste" right in your reply on the forum. Using this method, you don't have to use the "attach files" feature, but is more complicated (not a lot), but leaves your favorite photos available on the site to re-use on another forum or again here, or wherever.

Thank you Jeff,

My wife tells me she will work on it this evening.
Too big... from a $35 Wallmart phone. Umph, go figure.

Here are the photos. Thank you Jeff (this is coming from my wife).

oscarflytyer said:

Do #13 pool balls for Press Handles count?

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Yes sir, yes sir they do!!! Beats the mess out of the small diameter balls they put on presses fro moths factory. Mine are not # 13 but all presses get them.

Picked these up years ago. The Rapine bullet sizer is self explanatory, but the two steel "tools" to the left of it, are not so easy to define. I'm not sure if they were a version of push through sizer, or maybe a fixture in a machine to extrude lead wire?? One is marked 458, and the other is marked 508.

I have to get down in my Reloading room and photograph the 3 piece swaging die set that our very own "Brad" made up for me to convert .243 brass into military spec 6.5 Arasaka ( 6.5 Japanese) They are a work of art!
It takes three swages to bring them down to the exact head size, then I run them into a 6.5 Arasaka FL sizing die then trim the cases and turn the necks to get my "throat size" bullets to load properly! A good days work equals about 50 cases but it is worth it!
The .243 Win case is on the far left Each die brings the .243 win case head down .003" So the .234 win case goes from .468" to 459"

Well, there is a Hollywood standard single stage press. I got two old All American Lyman Turret presses. There's the earthly remains of a B&M single stage loading tool. Added in the mess is a pile of 310 handles and dies.

In a mis-marked box was a set of Hollywood 240 Gebby Super Varminter /6mm-06 forming and sizing dies. I may be missing a bullet seater. Forming dies work very well making 240 cases from 270 cases. My rifle is chambered to use the 270 cases. In current use there are some RCBS dies from the 1960's

I hit the jackpot on an estate sale buying 50 or so sets of molds of different makes. Some of the bullets are long obsolete. Getting into this stuff can pull somebody into an alternate universe.

Oh Oh! I need a 45/70 sizing die, number 89 for Ideal or 90 for Lyman, on the side.

I'll look and see what I have extra. Lyman made an adapter for modern shell holder for the All Americans' and similar presses.

I'm ready to go. Looks like the 310 shop is defunct. I had gotten a .25 caliber barrel sizer from them many years ago.

obssd1958 said:

Picked these up years ago. The Rapine bullet sizer is self explanatory,

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Rapine was deep into muzzle loading molds. I think your dies may be for cartridge guns. I had the use of a Rapine mold for .577 Enfield bullets years ago.

RicinYakima said:

Oh Oh! I need a 45/70 sizing die, number 89 for Ideal or 90 for Lyman, on the side.

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So far a 310 set for 45-70 and a full set for Tru-line Jr. press have surfaced. I'll keep looking. Some stuff showed that I had forgotten. The next task it to find the list of numbers Lyman used identify the older dies. More later. Shoot me a message. Take care and be safe.

A select few of you know what this is and may even have a set of your own.

Mowgli Terry said:

So far a 310 set for 45-70 and a full set for Tru-line Jr. press have surfaced. I'll keep looking. Some stuff showed that I had forgotten. The next task it to find the list of numbers Lyman used identify the older dies. More later. Shoot me a message. Take care and be safe.

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Ian, no clue?

It's a push-through conversion for Lyman or RCBS bullet sizing "H" dies, made by Keith Benedict. My set is from the first run which were nitrided. He offered them in a choice of any four calibers which included a guide sleeve and punch for each. There was a soda bottle catcher option that I didn't get for some reason (didn't have the extra few bucks for it at the time, probably) so the milled aluminum block is a blank that holds the guide sleeves in place and the bullets come out through the hole. This was a money-saving godsend that served me well for years (and still does, occasionally) before I owned a lathe and a pocket full of 1144 push-through die blanks.

I have an improved catch bottle adapter that I came up with right before I stopped making them. I've got a few laying around, if you want one I'll send it to you for the price of the postage.