Found a maker I've not ever seen ....

[RBHarter]

Never seen or even heard anyone talk or type about an Ohaus . I suspect it's Lyman pre Ideal buy out but I'm lazy and didn't even try to do any research .

I bought an Ideal 225432 with aluminum handles on it and the guy made me such a deal I had to take all 3 ..........
The other 2 are 58 cal Minnie SWC moulds as far as I can tell 1 of them was never out of the box and neither have been used the pins are still bagged and wrapped .
I haven't got a 58 cal anything . Maybe 20 ga slug ?
Maybe someone needs a 275gr Minnie and has an extra 8mm/32 mould of 165-180 gr ? 1 available .

Is the 432 any good in a 222 or 223 ?

 

[Rick]

Never seen or even heard anyone talk or type about an Ohaus . I suspect it's Lyman pre Ideal buy out but I'm lazy and didn't even try to do any research .
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RCBS bought out Ohaus not Lyman. Ohaus entered the bullet mold business in 1972 with 68 different molds all cut with tungsten carbide cherries. About 1975 or 76 RCBS bought out the Ohaus line of bullet molds.

 

[Ben]

Rick is DEAD ON ! !

 

[RBHarter]

Well that works .
RCBS got Lachmiller and Ohaus .
Lyman just used them for a while ....... I have a couple of M5 scales but have recently seen identical pieces in green also .

The chart says the 22 mould is a 438 not a 462 ....but it's stamped 225462 ......

 

[Rick]

Yes and Cramer Molds was bought by The Santa Anita Engineering Company (SAECO) of Pasadena, Ca 1951. SAECO was bought by Redding of Cortland, NY in 1985.

 

[fiver]

that's a lyman mold block.
I think they were referred to as lyman-ohaus for a while, because they used the block but cut them themselves.

 

[RBHarter]

I guess if it casts a good bullet it doesn't matter ,

I looked at mould with handles yesterday . At first glance it looked like something I wanted ....... I popped it open and thought there's a lot of slop here ........ Turn it up to look for a mould number , Lee 2 cavity handles ...
I've done that as a bandaid but I shimmed them up to take the floppiness out .....

Then there was the guy that wanted $10 ea for brass Carcano stripper clips ......

 

[358156 hp]

And Ohaus remains in business to this day, selling precision weighing devices. They just don't offer reloading equipment any longer. I use one of their triple beam scales for weighing alloy components. My scale reads in grams, but you get used to it. I feel like a drug dealer somehow whenever I use it.

 

[KHornet]

I prize my sing cav Ohaus 405 gr. .458 mold, and my Ohaus scale,
The mold seldom gets used, but the scale is used every time I
load.

Paul

 

[Rick]

I'm not positive but I think Ohaus still does and always has made RCBS scales.

 

[fiver]

I think they were making everybody's scales for a while, they all read in grams and done a conversion to grains.

 

[RicinYakima]

I believe they are still making all of the mechanical, and the US made electronic, scales sold to the reloading consumers.

 

[Rick]

RCBS tech on the phone told me a few years ago that their electronic scales are Chinese as is the ChargeMaster.

 

[Brad]

What about their balances?

 

[Rick]

What about their balances?

I'm not positive but I think Ohaus still does and always has made RCBS scales.

Yeah I think the scales are and always have been Ohaus. Could be wrong but seems I read that, Handloader maybe.

 

[RicinYakima]

FYI, a balance is a system where you add weights and move something to bring it into "balance", i.e. the first model Pacific. If it has sliding weights and numbers, it is a "scale".

 

[RBHarter]

I have 3 M5s .
There's nothing original about the base pins basically identical to the Lyman .
Lyman handles fit this better than they fit Lymans .

The markings are nice .
It's clear that it is a 275 M(innie)

The assembly number is kind of cool having the maker
name and matched number on each side .
I got 1090 and 1095 . The one has a goober in a in the front drive band . The other is in the bath as I type .
Makes me sad for a brand new tool to have never been used .

The nuts and bolts for why not

 

[Rick]

FYI, a balance is a system where you add weights and move something to bring it into "balance", i.e. the first model Pacific. If it has sliding weights and numbers, it is a "scale".

Ok I corrected that . . .

 

[Bret4207]

Cramer, those are fine moulds. I have both Cramer and SAECO and while SAECO might have bought the Cramer name and designs, they never made a mould as good as Cramer. Can't say just what the difference is, but Cramer is a step above SAECO which is a step above RCBS which is step above Lyman. Never have run across, much less used, a Lachmiller.

 

[Rick]

I've got one Lachmiller, a 200 gr 45 cal 2 lube groove.