Storage of H & I dies and top punches

[Ben]

Tell me what you think about this ? ?

 

[Brad]

I think that is slicker than snot. Well designed, well executed. Very practical.
I may work on a divider system for a drawer under my bench for Star sizer dies. The existing bin is over flowing and many more are yet to be made.

 

[Ian]

Kitty LIKES. I use a cigar box with drilled maple inserts for my stuff, but that drawer is outstanding.

 

[L1A1Rocker]

Very cool!

 

[smokeywolf]

That's pretty swell Ben. What type of material is your plate/organizer?

 

[fiver]

I just throw mine in a plastic fishing box with dividers in it.
I don't even label them, I do kinda keep them in order from smallest to largest so it ain't quite a disorganized mess.

 

[Ian]

That's pretty swell Ben. What type of material is your plate/organizer?

My money is on pvc-coated pegboard.

 

[Ben]

Yes that is what it is Ian.

Ben

 

[Pistolero]

Looks good, very nicely organized.

However, being a good bit lazier...
Mine are in a plastic divided ammo box designed for holding shotgun shells.
I have overrun my 25 divided locations, and need to add a second shotshell
box, will be obtained at the next gun show.
A piece of birch plywood has holes drilled to hold the top punches and sits inside the
H&I die box, there is plenty of extra vertical room.

Bill

 

[Brad]

Hey Ben, I'm kinda disappointed it isn't made from walnut and nicely checkered!

 

[Ben]

Please Brad,.........Don't say things like that..... I'm crazy enough to do it.

 

[Brad]

Oh, I know. I bet the finish would look like a mirror too.

At least it won't need a recoil pad?

 

[smokeywolf]

Ben, I need you to swing by my place and help me organize.


Over at the reloading bench, I just have my H & I dies and top punches loose in a small drawer. Don't have enough Star Dies and punches to bother with yet. Bullet moulds, swaging dies and case sizing, seating and crimping dies are in a GI foot locker.

 

[Brad]

Being the kind of guy I am I will volunteer to "store" some of that tooling smokeywolf. I don't make that kind of offer often but I'm willing to make an exception this time. Those collets in particular seem to be cluttering up lots of good storage.

 

[smokeywolf]

That is incredibly kind of you Brad. Keep in mind, the most important collets you may ever own are the ones known as "emergency collets"; two brass ones in the blue boxes on the bottom shelf.

We had an almost identical system to Ben's in the Universal Studios Machine Shop for 5C collets.

 

[Todd M]

That is top notch Ben! I only have a handful (small handful) of dies right now, but I like your system!