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I haven’t had much time to play with this, built the electronics part, did the programming and threw together the mechanical parts months ago. It’s still a long way from being a finished product but it’s also one of those projects that can get lost do to “life getting in the way” if I...

I built a machine that will decap and sort 45 ACP by primer pocket size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJgU3-OXuUU

I have never ordered from them but would now. I cast and coat my own and don't treat myself that well.

In use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssw-AbNH7N4

There are reasons to own various dies but if being able to simply accurately set and adjust depth from one position to another you can save a lot of money making a "beginners level" tool vs buying a special die. All it does is hold an indicator off a surface, as long as you don't move it it...

Shooting with a buddy awhile back I was reviewing data on my old shooting chrony and he wanted to know what "hack" I had done in order to make it give high, low, average, ES, SD and review all the shots. He was kind of upset that is was just a plug and momentary push button away, all the years...

The one a week and a half ago?

Well, the doctors didn't kill me last week and I got tired of laying and sitting so I did a few minutes of resting out in the shop today. Not a big project but an easy one I had been intending to do when I had a few min. It's just a 3/16 rod with a .100" bearing embedded into one end that can...

In their first life the aluminum blocks were used along with a fixture to duplicate the FIA approved roll cages in F430's but with materials that were SCCA approved. I almost never throw anything away that I could "recycle" including the left side cage shim, in this case.

I think I am about there. The best 10 second, 10 shot 100yd group I have fired so far and with a .22 none the less.

I also use the bulk Hornady 55gn FMJ with good results. Not sure where Berry's gets theirs from but they are not all the same.

I had a little time today and built an H&H style gauge too.

Runout = circularity + concentricity

I built a media separator for a bank of cement mixer size tumblers. It is on casters to roll from one to the next and doesn't have the normal crevices that trap and hold media. Not a lot to explain on this one so I'll get to the photos and video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScrYaUscDe8

Depends where you are actually measuring from but .002 is common.

Answers to questions I haven't asked before? I really don't know. I did play with it for a few minutes and found belt fed ammo for a Mk 48 has the same runout as Federal "premium" ammunition and both have half the runout as ammunition I loaded years ago for my belt fed 1919 on a Hornady LNL.

There have been a few times I have wished I had a simple little concentricity gauge dedicated to the reloading room for measuring runout in cases and to see how well bullets are being seated, so I built this one today. There is a slot machined into the base plate that the bearing holders ride...

As far as I know no one makes a 380 shot load. They go from 9mm to .22.

380 shot shells. First step is to turn the .223 case back and I built a little fixture to trim them to .980" Once locked into the fixture I rough cut them long then hit it on a disk sander that gets it to .980" I used Winchester SPP to ignite the N310 under a cardboard wad with 60 grains...

Working up some loads and needed a quick brass catcher so I knew what brass was fired from each round. Lucky for me, I had to clean the pool earlier and that gave me an idea. A few 1/8" straps, and a section of tubing and two bolts and I was ready to go.