Lyman M Die Spuds

[rodmkr]

How do you store them?
Have quite a few and would like to store them in some
kind of order rather than the (just dump them in the die box)
that I do now.
Any good ideas accepted

rodmkr

 

[Brad]

I keep them in the die they came in?
Would be easy to make a small block with holes drilled and tapped to hold them

 

[Cherokee]

I bag & tag them, the ones I don't use all the time. Used ones stay in the die.

 

[462]

I use two pieces of scrap 2" X 4". I drilled holes in one to accommodate all the Lyman and RCBS bullet sizing dies and top punches, and the other for several expander dies and their many spuds, and the various multi-caliber, utility-type dies.

 

[RBHarter]

I have several Plano tackle box tray/boxes that are practically a godsend for my bench for small parts .

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Im building a NOE sizer collection. I think Ill have some fishing lures looking for a new home soom myself!!

looks good!!

cw

 

[L Ross]

Mine lay around on random horizontal surfaces in various states of assembly, along with the bodies, other dies, pliers, wrenches, a 50 cal penetrator core for ironing out dents, a dental pick for picking polishing media out of primer pockets, and other detritus related to reloading. I waste more time trying to find stuff in the debris field I call my reloading room than I probably spend actually loading. Sounds terrible, but I always have ammo.

 

[Brad]

Debris field? My wife often asks if a small nuclear device was detonated in my loading room.
I can’t even call it organized chaos, it is just chaos

 

[creosote]

Pluss one for repurposed fishing boxes.

 

[358156 hp]

How about a large cartridge plastic box, perhaps one for an African or Weatherby caliber? One box could hold up to fifty of them.

 

[L Ross]

Debris field? My wife often asks if a small nuclear device was detonated in my loading room.
I can’t even call it organized chaos, it is just chaos

Yeah, like the aftermath of a plane crash filled with loading equipment.

 

[CZ93X62]

Don't say "Debris field" like it's some bad thing. Organization is over-rated.

 

[Ian]

I share the same sentiments as someone wrote earlier, you can be a slave to organization or you can spend your time enjoying getting stuff done. I draw the line at can't find half my stuff and have so much stuff drug out of it's home that there's no place left to work. When that happens I put away as much as I can without derailing most of the in-process projects and make room for the one at hand. My main problem isn't that stuff isn't put away, it's that I have too many simultaneous projects happening in the same space.

 

[Intheshop]

Delete

 

[RBHarter]

"Far better a creative mess than tidy idleness ." Unk but so true .

 

[John]

I keep mine in a plastic Lyman mould box. That is 22, 24, 28, 30 R, 30 P, 35R, and plenty of room left.

 

[FrankCVA42]

I use the old yellow plastic boxes that Speer ammo and bullets come in. Black magic marker tells me what's inside. Yeah my reloading room looks like a disaster lately. i keep a lot of my power tools that come in the plastic boxes in there as the garage gets too humid. Plus tool boxes with goodies for my lathe, wood working hand tools, some gunsmithing tools. They used to hold mostly wrenches and socket sets but started getting tiny rust spots when stored in the garage. Cleaned out my roll around tool box and wire wheeled them,sprayed some Rustoleum rust converter and now they are all bright shiney red. Have two more to refinish. I won't even get into the Long Island tool boxes aka 5 gallon plastic buckets. Frank

 

[JonB]

Here are a few ideas:
I use a plastic ammo box (for 500 S&W Mag) for similar items, like the custom made expanders made for use in Lee Universal "flare" die.
I use a plastic ammo box (for 12 Ga) for some excess Lyman lubesizer dies.
I also use the plastic 7 compartment organizers (weekly pill keepers) for Lyman top punches.

 

[StrawHat]

At one time, whenever I entered my shop, garage or loading room, I would put 10 items away before I started whatever project brought me there. 10 nails, 10 sheets of plywood, 4 nails and 6 nuts, you get the idea. I would do it everytime I went in. After about 6 months things started looking pretty good!

Kevin