Neat vintage reloading gear

[troy fairweather]

Give me a few days. The money and desire is there so I’m trying to figure out which printer I want. Even if there’s not a cover on thingiverse I am getting pretty fair with 3D modeling and could throw something together. I would just need some dimensions.

I'd like to get one to mess around making some stuff, the one free program to make things looks pretty nice I forget the name tho. There's a bunch on thingiverse, figuring out the slicer maybe a pain for me but I'd like to try some day. I'm shooting for my bday in March to get a printer.

On printers I've seen a lot of good on the ender or the company that makes them.

 

[Offfhand]

Another interesting vintage reloading tool is this Belding & Mull Visible Powder Measure. When I began Benchrest Competition back in the 70's they were widely used by benchrest shooters as they were considered more constant than other powder measures. There is still considerable demand for them for actual use.

 

[WestKentucky]

20 hours seems excessive depending on how much your time is worth, but you are probably working on this for the fun of it.

I think he meant specifically the print time. 3D printers (home units especially) are slow. They are nowhere near the point of mimicking the replicators of Star Trek which is what a lot of people envision. Even a very small part takes hours to complete once the go button is pushed. The 3D modeling can be very quick for somebody who has plenty experience with the program. A part as big as the cover mentioned would take hours to complete the print on. There would have to be some sort of supports built into the thing too or else it would either pop loose from the bed and fall over or it would more likely have some serious distortion where heat allows the material to sag as it cools.

 

[WestKentucky]

On printers I've seen a lot of good on the ender or the company that makes them.

I just bought my printer. I had settled on an ender 3 v2, but a friend of mine told me to check out Voxelab. The Aquila X2 is essentially an upgraded copy of the ender 3 v2 and I got it for $179 free shipping and no tax. The vast majority of the info out about how to use the ender printer will work on the Aquila because most of the parts are interchangeable with exception of the user interface which is touchscreen on the Aquila.

There are plenty things I intend to make that are gun related, but even more for reloading and hopefully for casting but temperatures for casting would melt 3D printed stuff so that may not work unless I make a negative and then cut it out of metal… anyways there are other options that get you the same end result. Not at all unlike the Glock vs everybody else that copied Glock battle in the handgun world.

 

[troy fairweather]

I just bought my printer. I had settled on an ender 3 v2, but a friend of mine told me to check out Voxelab. The Aquila X2 is essentially an upgraded copy of the ender 3 v2 and I got it for $179 free shipping and no tax. The vast majority of the info out about how to use the ender printer will work on the Aquila because most of the parts are interchangeable with exception of the user interface which is touchscreen on the Aquila.

There are plenty things I intend to make that are gun related, but even more for reloading and hopefully for casting but temperatures for casting would melt 3D printed stuff so that may not work unless I make a negative and then cut it out of metal… anyways there are other options that get you the same end result. Not at all unlike the Glock vs everybody else that copied Glock battle in the handgun world.

Really endless what can be made in these things, every year there better and there's more to make.

 

[mkl]

I have an old Redding scale with no compensation. The beam is made out of brass. That precludes magnetic compensation and there is no reservoir for oil so that is out too. Body is cast iron and painted with a crinkle green finish. Have no idea how old but is still accurate when compared to my modern scales; just takes a long time to settle. Bought many years ago on Ebay so I have no clue as to its history. Anyone ever seen one of these before? Remember, brass beam and knife holder, although the actual knife is steel.