WinchesterAA
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Hello!
I'm building a fairly portable reloading bench that can be C-Clamped or bolted to a variety of tables and such, and need to know what diameter bolts to buy to mount the press to the bench.
I looked over the manual, but it doesn't say anything about the mounting hole sizes, or list the bolts I'd need in the parts list. I'm guessing 3/8ths, but guessing doesn't always work
Can anyone that owns one specify that, please?
Additionally, I figured out why I could not close the bolt on some of the dummy rounds I made with the lee classic loader. Brass needing FL sizing was a good guess on the part of some of the members here, but that turned out not to be main issue. Actually, the neck sizer hole was drilled at a slight angle. I'm thinking maybe 20 to 30 minutes of an angle. The end result is that no matter what I did (and I tried a lot of things, including rotating the die a small increment per tap with a hammer. Certain increments yielded more-true, but not-true-enough bullet seating), I couldn't get a bullet in there straight and that resulted in one side of the throat sheering one side of the bullet 100% of the time, even on the cases I could fit in there. The angle is visible when a sized case is still in the die. The sleeve doesn't 100% fit the case (ie, it's loose) and when the case is fully hammered in there, consistently, one "side" of it does not make contact with the sleeve. Ideally, contact with the sleeve would be uniform.
So scratch that classic loader. I bought a classic cast breech lock loader and some decent dies, including a FL sizer which I would have needed anyway, sooner or later, and now I can also reload for my Remington model 81 in .35 Remington, too =)
I'm building a fairly portable reloading bench that can be C-Clamped or bolted to a variety of tables and such, and need to know what diameter bolts to buy to mount the press to the bench.
I looked over the manual, but it doesn't say anything about the mounting hole sizes, or list the bolts I'd need in the parts list. I'm guessing 3/8ths, but guessing doesn't always work
Can anyone that owns one specify that, please?
Additionally, I figured out why I could not close the bolt on some of the dummy rounds I made with the lee classic loader. Brass needing FL sizing was a good guess on the part of some of the members here, but that turned out not to be main issue. Actually, the neck sizer hole was drilled at a slight angle. I'm thinking maybe 20 to 30 minutes of an angle. The end result is that no matter what I did (and I tried a lot of things, including rotating the die a small increment per tap with a hammer. Certain increments yielded more-true, but not-true-enough bullet seating), I couldn't get a bullet in there straight and that resulted in one side of the throat sheering one side of the bullet 100% of the time, even on the cases I could fit in there. The angle is visible when a sized case is still in the die. The sleeve doesn't 100% fit the case (ie, it's loose) and when the case is fully hammered in there, consistently, one "side" of it does not make contact with the sleeve. Ideally, contact with the sleeve would be uniform.
So scratch that classic loader. I bought a classic cast breech lock loader and some decent dies, including a FL sizer which I would have needed anyway, sooner or later, and now I can also reload for my Remington model 81 in .35 Remington, too =)
