Neat vintage reloading gear

[HowieG]

I have one just like one on left. Still my main scale. Don't see the need to go digital. Have original box with price written in ink. $17.99
Probably purchased in about 1969 when I was in high school.

Times have sure changed. Now good mechanicals cost as much or more than digitals.

 

[HowieG]

View attachment 1046407The best and strongest press I have ever had. Its a Herters 0Super with an inch and a quarter ram. Also an old bullet sizer from yesterday. All are perfect and nearly 70 years old.

I love those big presses. Good for forming cases or making diamond out of coal.

 

[HowieG]

Ya I figured it would be a pain to print, but I wouldn't car if it took a week if it were for myself lol. Wonder if the Rosen printers would be better.
getting a price from a place that can make the mold and inject the plastic would be interesting, probably a few thousand bucks.

Well, you could get a CNC mill and make them out of blocks of aluminum. That would really be something.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Times have sure changed. Now good mechanicals cost as much or more than digitals.

They’re worth more. Always have been.
Don’t get me wrong, I like my little pocket Lyman digital but I use as a quick check, not my main scale. For that I use a 5-0-5. Real scales are functional artistry.

 

[troy fairweather]

Even the best digital scale I'd think have a life span, don't think I'd use one more then 10 years. A mechanical if taken care off should last forever.

 

[GunnyUSMC]

Did you guys ever have this tool when you were young? This is a Lyman 310 Tool along with a set of dies for 300 Savage and a number 44 Lyman catalog from 1963. The 310 is listed in that catalog along with dies in a caliber of your choice for $16.50. This was the first reloading tool I ever had. I still use the handles along with the priming die for all cartridges with a 30-06 base. Best primer tool I have ever used.

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I started reloading with a Lyman 310 hand tool also. I have a Lyman Turret press, still in the box, that takes 310 dies.

 

[HowieG]

Even the best digital scale I'd think have a life span, don't think I'd use one more then 10 years. A mechanical if taken care off should last forever.

I agree. Digital automatically means a life cycle. A good example is a digital lock on a gun safe. That being said, time marches on and the tech gets better. That applies to mechanical stuff as well. I don't think any of us want to go back to an oil dampened scale.

 

[HowieG]

I started reloading with a Lyman 310 hand tool also. I have a Lyman Turret press, still in the box, that takes 310 dies.

And 310 stuff certainly costs way more than $16.50 today.

 

[troy fairweather]

I agree. Digital automatically means a life cycle. A good example is a digital lock on a gun safe. That being said, time marches on and the tech gets better. That applies to mechanical stuff as well. I don't think any of us want to go back to an oil dampened scale.

I forget the saying but something like the only thing Guaranteed with electronics is Failure

 

[HowieG]

I forget the saying but something like the only thing Guaranteed with electronics is Failure

Well, we may whine about digital scales and such, but we are perfectly happy with our flat screen TV and our computer and probably our smart phone. Very few of us are true luddites. Heck, I even have a still working laptop computer that I carried with me for over a year in Iraq in 2010-2011. It's close to going obsolete instead of failing. Amazing.

 

[Reinz]

View attachment 1046407The best and strongest press I have ever had. Its a Herters 0Super with an inch and a quarter ram. Also an old bullet sizer from yesterday. All are perfect and nearly 70 years old.

I have a Herters Super O as well and it is an absolute beast!

Vintage reloading equipment offers a great value. It’s a shame it is so overlooked.

 

[Howa 9700]

The old Texan.......paired to a Texan shotshell press of same vintage.......around 1970. Press out of picture but only a couple feet to the right. Still works and I still have the shot and powder charts.......and Hercules load data book to go with it. A lot of exact replicas of Win AA trap and skeet loads came out of that thing.

The Texan is pretty much identical to a red scale......either Hornady or Pacific......same vintage. Have seen those on ebay.



Part of the geriatric collection.



Balanced out, they all read the same. Redding powder trickler weighs as much as the scales do.

 

[Reinz]

I like the old Hollywood stuff:

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Pics aren't mine. I just found them on eBay. I don't even have one, just think they're cool. I do have an RCBS Summit, that I think is "inspired" by the Hollywood Senior single stage press.

Did someone say “Hollywood”?

 

[vsteel]

I have an old Herters press that I used from the 50s but changed it out in the late 80s for a RCBS Rockchucker 2 press. I got tired of messing with the adapter because the Herter press doesn't have industry standard threads for dies. I have an old Lyman all orange powder measure I still use, I think it might be from the 50s as well.

I still use the Redding scale but not sure which one it is, kind of looks like the Redding #1 but doesn't say what it is on the box. Not sure if it counts but I have an old Herter reloading manual, third edition from 1970. The "complete guide to reloading" is from 1947. (It shows me the right load of cordite for my 300 H&H). I have some old Lyman, Lee, and Speer but I thought those two were the more uncommon and notable examples of old.

 

[vsteel]

Oh and I forgot my Herters powder trickler. A lot of my stuff came from my grandfather so a lot of 40s to 60s era stuff.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

I have an old Herters press that I used from the 50s but changed it out in the late 80s for a RCBS Rockchucker 2 press. I got tired of messing with the adapter because the Herter press doesn't have industry standard threads for dies. I have an old Lyman all orange powder measure I still use, I think it might be from the 50s as well.

I still use the Redding scale but not sure which one it is, kind of looks like the Redding #1 but doesn't say what it is on the box. Not sure if it counts but I have an old Herter reloading manual, third edition from 1970. The "complete guide to reloading" is from 1947. (It shows me the right load of cordite for my 300 H&H). I have some old Lyman, Lee, and Speer but I thought those two were the more uncommon and notable examples of old.

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That's really cool. I remember Dad kept a bunch of other things in the box his Redding #1 came in and it fell apart and got pitched.
I still have some other items he had like this box of patches dated 1940
and his Winchester .244 loading dies for his old Lyman Junior turret press. 5/8 dies.
That old ammunition in the first picture, and a whole bunch more, came from him and my father in law when they passed.

 

[hdbiker]

I'm still using my original Lee hand priming tool, the one with the screw in shell holders

 

[Bob Willman]

Ideal 33 Win.



Bob
WB8NQW

 

[Offfhand]

Early RCBS press and bullet swaging dies. They made bullet swaging dies and then this press long before they began making loading dies.

 

[MFInc]

Love my Ohaus 1005, it's from the 60's.I will buy another this summer.

 

[Riomouse911]

This is about the only “vintage” reloading equipment I have, a set of Lyman All American dies in .45 Colt. The case is like a leatherette vinyl and the inside is lined with a blue fuzzy-finish. The dies look like they’re either polished or shiny nickel plated on the outside, even the shell holder is shiny. I believe they’re a product of the 1960’s, like I am.



Other than some old IMR powder cans and maybe some old CCI rifle primers I inherited from a friend, all the rest of my stuff is post-1995.

Stay safe.

 

[barnfrog]

This is about the only “vintage” reloading equipment I have, a set of Lyman All American dies in .45 Colt. The case is like a leatherette vinyl and the inside is lined with a blue fuzzy-finish. The dies look like they’re either polished or shiny nickel plated on the outside, even the shell holder is shiny. I believe they’re a product of the 1960’s, like I am.

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Other than some old IMR powder cans and maybe some old CCI rifle primers I inherited from a friend, all the rest of my stuff is post-1995.

Stay safe.

I have a similar set in .44 mag. I dig the wrench that comes with them.

 

[Riomouse911]

I have a similar set in .44 mag. I dig the wrench that comes with them.

Those are cool. I’m such a goof, it took me a while to figure it what that was.

Stay safe.

 

[Catpop]

This is about the only “vintage” reloading equipment I have, a set of Lyman All American dies in .45 Colt. The case is like a leatherette vinyl and the inside is lined with a blue fuzzy-finish. The dies look like they’re either polished or shiny nickel plated on the outside, even the shell holder is shiny. I believe they’re a product of the 1960’s, like I am.

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Other than some old IMR powder cans and maybe some old CCI rifle primers I inherited from a friend, all the rest of my stuff is post-1995.

Stay safe.

My first set was just like that, except 35 Remington, I too still have box and still use those dies!

 

[WestKentucky]

No but I'd really like to pick one up, think of I had a computer I'd have one by now. He a learning process but there's so many things that can be made cheap.

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.