What’s the strangest thing on your reloading bench?

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eb in oregon said:
A package of condoms. They are a left over from when I wore a uniform and sometimes needed something to put small things in and keep them dry. I just can't throw them out.
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There’s a lot of jokes to be made about putting small things in condoms. What I found in my limited use is that various lubricants and chemicals always made a mess out of everything. Latex balloons do a much better job and invoke a lot less questions from the other side of the bed.
 
eb in oregon said:
A package of condoms. They are a left over from when I wore a uniform and sometimes needed something to put small things in and keep them dry. I just can't throw them out.
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I’m not going to lie, I have a fresh pack in my reloading room too
 
Stevenvalleyky said:
Well, I have a vibrating womens sex toy on my bench. It gets attached to my powder hopper with a couple rubber bands to help get more consistent powder drops on hard to meter powders. It does work very well.
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Video!!!! come on man!!!
 
The strangest thing that everyone asks what it is, is what I use to hit my kinetic bullet puller on to pull bullets.
Back when I started reloading I used this bullet puller & had a hard time getting the bullets out. Then I found if I hit it on something heavy or hard the bullets pop right out. So I have an old roller bearing out of a train carriage. I picked it up down the hill from a train wreck sight many years ago after the train wreck was cleaned up.
One whack from the pulling hammer & the bullet pops out.
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CoalCrackerAl said:
I use empty med bottles to dump a pulled round into. And a paper clip to push tumbling media out of the flash hole.
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I have a 6" piece of piano wire left over from my slot car racing days in the 1960's. It was the material used to build my chassis. Now, I use it to poke out the media from the flash hole in the cases. It has some sentimental value. I've missed placed it a time or two and have panicked a bit until I found it.

AK Hunter said:
Back when I started reloading I used this bullet puller & had a hard time getting the bullets out. Then I found if I hit it on something heavy or hard the bullets pop right out. So I have an old roller bearing out of a train carriage....
One whack from the pulling hammer & the bullet pops out.
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I have an old farrier's anvil that gets used most for disassembling ammunition with a kinetic hammer. 80 pounds of iron makes a real good thing to bang on.

It has been handy to have for all sorts of hammer tasks. My daughter was at a farrier's school when they decided to replace their anvils. The old anvils were sold for a song so I grabbed one.
 
AK Hunter said:
The strangest thing that everyone asks what it is, is what I use to hit my kinetic bullet puller on to pull bullets.
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Ditto.......

A wrist pin out of a large piston.
Weighs a bit, fits in one hand,good to smack the kinetic hammer on an end.

And a plus to the pin is the ends are perfectly flat so having the pin standing on end, one can do a quick check if primers are seated.
 
1B08B98B-D155-48D7-A592-EEC053D825E0.jpeg It didn’t get mounted to the bench, but the can press works well for its intended purpose. I’m actually liking the idea of keeping it off the bench and doing a load workup with it in the field. I have never done that and have considered a hand press just for such situations. This thing was $6 and I like it the roller handle sucks and will have to be replaced with a wooden one, but otherwise it’s GTG.
 
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