Had a very good friend pass two years ago and his brother wanted me to come up and look at his reloading stuff to see if there was anything I wanted as he knew his brother would want me to have anything I could use.
He already had a RCBS Rock Chucker in his reloading room and I took the RCBS Junior and dies, bullets, brass for 41 Magnum my friend had just purchased since he got one.
I have had portable reloading before but this time I decided to try something unique and this is what I came up with:
Note: The 1/4" base plate does not need to be clamped to a bench. It is sitting on indoor/outdoor carpet on the steel topped table and doesn't move.
The 3/4" mounting rods were all turned on my lathe and all are within .002" overall length and turned square on the ends and tapped for 1/4X20 socket head cap screws.
This is the botttom of the plate showing the cap screws exposed on the bottom. The caps sink into the carpet and grip it adjacent to the case mouths indicating where they contact the carpet. The rubber side of the carpet is down.
The bowl at top right has a magnet on it for primers to be held in. Vice is bolted to base plate to hold L E Wilson case trimmer. Note the tool handle in the full up position does not contact the table so no pinched fingers.
The top plate is 3/8" plate. Note the collet bullet puller at left rear. It is secured to the 3/8" plate with a 7/8X14 threaded hole and the puller is carried there and there is another hole on the other side for the seat die to be carried in. See first picture for location of second die hole.
The three cases on the right are 30.06 cases with, two on left have had their shoulders set back. The case on the right has been trimmed to length and neck expanded to make 8X60 Mannlicher cases that I made up for a friend who has the rifle. Case on the right is fireformed. I have been making him cases and loading his 8X60 ammo for 35 years.
This whole set up is very rigid. I carried this rig to Virginia last year and reloaded my friends 8x60 ammo. It weighs about 60 lbs I guess so it's weight keeps it in place.
He already had a RCBS Rock Chucker in his reloading room and I took the RCBS Junior and dies, bullets, brass for 41 Magnum my friend had just purchased since he got one.
I have had portable reloading before but this time I decided to try something unique and this is what I came up with:
Note: The 1/4" base plate does not need to be clamped to a bench. It is sitting on indoor/outdoor carpet on the steel topped table and doesn't move.
The 3/4" mounting rods were all turned on my lathe and all are within .002" overall length and turned square on the ends and tapped for 1/4X20 socket head cap screws.
This is the botttom of the plate showing the cap screws exposed on the bottom. The caps sink into the carpet and grip it adjacent to the case mouths indicating where they contact the carpet. The rubber side of the carpet is down.
The bowl at top right has a magnet on it for primers to be held in. Vice is bolted to base plate to hold L E Wilson case trimmer. Note the tool handle in the full up position does not contact the table so no pinched fingers.
The top plate is 3/8" plate. Note the collet bullet puller at left rear. It is secured to the 3/8" plate with a 7/8X14 threaded hole and the puller is carried there and there is another hole on the other side for the seat die to be carried in. See first picture for location of second die hole.
The three cases on the right are 30.06 cases with, two on left have had their shoulders set back. The case on the right has been trimmed to length and neck expanded to make 8X60 Mannlicher cases that I made up for a friend who has the rifle. Case on the right is fireformed. I have been making him cases and loading his 8X60 ammo for 35 years.
This whole set up is very rigid. I carried this rig to Virginia last year and reloaded my friends 8x60 ammo. It weighs about 60 lbs I guess so it's weight keeps it in place.
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