How long have you been reloading?

[Dhayes]

Here is Hubby working on reloading, with a little observer

 

[benenglish]

Long-time cat lover here, but...cat hair inside dies is bad news.

 

[deemus]

Long time cat hater here. lol

You don't own a cat. You merely hold it in captivity.

 

[Nortex]

Now, I'm wondering...is there a way to get a cat to lick my brass cases clean. Maybe I could put some of the larger ones on its paws (458 Socom, 50 Beowulf, etc).

 

[Dhayes]

Long-time cat lover here, but...cat hair inside dies is bad news.

What happens when cat hair gets into dies?

 

[hkusp1]

What happens when cat hair gets into dies?

They explode with the force of the Hiroshima bomb.


Sent from a creepy ass cracka.

 

[benenglish]

What happens when cat hair gets into dies?

Any hair in dies can result in scratches to the die. I'm too embarrassed to admit to the number of dies I've damaged in my life.

Now, admittedly cat hair is fine and not the worst problem in the world. True die damage, in my experience, has come from being silly enough to decap at the press and get all that gritty primer residue all over things. Get some of that between brass and die and you can get serious scratches to the die with one pass.

But that grit is easy to control. Decap away from the press, dies, and lubricant and you're good to go. Cat hair, though, floats around and sticks to everything, including all those lubed cases waiting to go into the resizing die.

 

[Paul5388]

Cats are a lot like dogs, you just have to get the right breed. I had this one for 17 years and he never really bothered anything.

He was mostly a blue eyed Indian Birman, but his daddy was a common gray cat. He didn't get to come into the loading facilities. ;-)

 

[rlw454]

started about 1975 with rcbs jr. press still use it today/ paid about 80.00 for kit

 

[alaska1996]

I started on my 8th birthday, so a little under 9 years.

 

[Sugar Land]

tsk tsk tsk

 

[alaska1996]

Are you going to keep taunting me, it's getting old.

 

[Sugar Land]

Something that you are not...

 

[alaska1996]

Ah, now I see

 

[Rottweiler]

Ordered my first press (Dillon 550b) 2 days before I left the Air Force in 1989. It beat me to my parents house.

 

[alaska1996]

How's that 550b treating you?

 

[michael e]

Since 17/18, had more time than money. So 14 years now.

 

[vmax]

since 2008

 

[rvrrat14]

Started in my dads workshop in 1978. Been manufacturing since. Peaceful and rewarding hobby.

 

[Rottweiler]

That 550b has seen LOTS of loading. I have 5 big coffee cans of spent primers. Don't know why I save them but I do. Many parts have been replaced at least once by Dillon, most were my fault some just plain wore out. I keep telling myself one of these days I'm gonna box it up and let Dillon do a complete refurb on it