Who else gets attached to reloading equipment.

[Zendude]

My stepdad and I took the plunge into reloading a few years ago and learned it together. He passed a couple of months ago, so my equipment has quite a bit of sentimental value attached to it. I often feel like he’s still there watching me when I’m cranking out rounds.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

My stepdad and I took the plunge into reloading a few years ago and learned it together. He passed a couple of months ago, so my equipment has quite a bit of sentimental value attached to it. I often feel like he’s still there watching me when I’m cranking out rounds.

Sorry for your loss man. Not sure what your spiritual beliefs are but I'd put money down that he is in fact checking in when you're reloading.

Attaching significance based on an associated memory of a lost loved one can make an every day object very important to us.

I have a wordless iece of ash that is polished smooth from use. One end has a point and the natural shape of the branch made a good handle. Why? Because my grandpa used it to poke a hole in his tilled garden and drop a seed into it.

Reloading equipment would be the same for me if anyone in my family cared about guns. I'm hoping my nephew will take interest some day.

 

[hdwhit]

I had not really throught about it in terms of attachment, but since I'm still using the RCBS Reloader Special press that I bought when I graduated from a Lee Loader, I guess I would have to say that I am attached to it.

 

[LoonWulf]

Only time I ever get attached to my reloading equipment is when I don't get my fingers out of the way fast enough

Yeah, I've done that.....

I actually have some relading tools I'm attached to, mostly small stuff like my calipers, and my old Lee handprimer....go figure

 

[mdi]

Tools and guns are things I very rarely sell (I started working as a machine operator in '65 and I still have my Craftsman 8 oz. ball peen hammer I got the week I started, and I still have the first gun I bought). Anyway, I have an old friend I picked up many years ago. It's an old C-H "O" press of cast iron, paid $13 for it. Don't know the model number and I have purchased presses since and use my Co-Ax 90% of the time, I'll never part with my C-H...

 

[Offfhand]

I can't say I've ever been "attached" to a reloading tool, certainly not to the extent that I've continue ussomething better comes along. But I have a sentimental attachment to my first tool and powder measure, which I bought many years at the age of 15, so I mounted them on a wall of my loading room along with other trophies, as shown in attached photo. I also collect vintage loading tools, as shown in photo of the four successions of Pacific loading presses. The heavy Hollywood now serves as a bookend, and a half-century old Gun-Clinic bench priming tool is still in use because no better bench mounted priming tool has come along, same with the run-out indicator Made by Ferris Pindell, shown here.View attachment 803874 View attachment 803875

 

[GW Staar]

I've never even considered ditching a piece of reloading gear that wasn't outright broken.

In fairness, when our microwave oven conked out a few years ago, I cracked it open and scavenged the magnets and wire from the magnetron. I was able to part ways with the rest of it, but I tend to accumulate stuff.

Agreed.....I had to give away my first RockChucker.....to my father-in-law who helped me pay for it when I was young and poor.....and helped him get started with reloading. (of course I bought a Rock Chucker II to replace it.)
As for using parts from "conked out" stuff, I'm also guilty.......and you may or may not know that an extremely easy way to get super powerful rare earth magnets is from old Hard Drives......much easier to take apart than the Microwave oven too. I use them for lots of things.....as illustrated here: (magnet part is screw into the support and has two parts hanging on each end....and wrench "stuck to it".)

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[Shimitup]

My stepdad and I took the plunge into reloading a few years ago and learned it together. He passed a couple of months ago, so my equipment has quite a bit of sentimental value attached to it. I often feel like he’s still there watching me when I’m cranking out rounds.

My condolences as well. My uncle passed away last year and I inherited his Rockchucker, he started handloading a few years before I did and is responsible for getting me started. His wears the old wrinkle finish green paint while mine has the hammer tone paint. I bolted his down in place of mine. I think he's pleased that I'm cranking out the rounds with his old press.

 

[GT1]

Help out the new guys if you are sure it won't be used by you ever again. Don't consider it a hand out, think of it as a hand up. I would like to think my presses will be put to good use when I can't use them anymore, or after I'm gone. Regardless if they are sold or given away. Better than being busted up as scrap because some unknowing person sees them as that.

 

[cfullgraf]

Only time I ever get attached to my reloading equipment is when I don't get my fingers out of the way fast enough

Yeah, I've done that.....

That is what they call "putting yourself' into your work.

 

[GW Staar]

LOL! Yet not at all a laughing matter when you do it. For me, that's why I bought a bullet feeder for my Pro 2000. Self defense.

I'm even still attached to my old Lee pocket plunger reamers.....told you I was old. Yet I haven't used them or my Lee Target Loader for 30 years.

 

[entropy]

I kept the MEC 600 Jr. my Dad gave me when he moved, even though neither of us had loaded shotgun shells for 10 years at that point. Glad I did, not only for the nostalgia (He taught me how to load shells when I was 9), but now that I am back into trap leagues, I am using it. I loaded my first box after over 30 years with it yesterday.

 

[doubleh]

I don't know that I would call it attachment but I'm using most all of what I started with because it works.

 

[SamT1]

Shameless plug:
I listed my tru-line jr on eBay. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/163277485597

It’s part of my therapy. I load pistols on the loadmaster and I’ve never used the truline besides trying to do 223 small base and it wouldn’t.
Still can’t make myself list the CH though.

 

[Mel1776]

I have never sold a tool. I did give away a feeler gauge to one of my sons though.

 

[Toprudder]

I've sold a Lee Challenger press before. The only two presses that I think I could say I am attached to are my Dillon 550 (first press) and a Lee Classic Turret. I've pulled the lever on both of those (especially the Lee) many many times.

 

[alfsauve]

Only time I ever get attached to my reloading equipment is when I don't get my fingers out of the way fast enough.

Been there. Done that. Almost punched perfect .38 hole in my finger.

 

[alfsauve]

I'm past the "collecting" and "hoarding" stages of my life. I cleaned out my parents' and in-laws' homes when they passed away and we threw out so much. In both cases we had to just draw a line-in-the-sand and throw out everything on one side of it. I did not, could not, keep all of dad's tools and camera stuff. Being over 70, I'm thinking towards the next stage in my life. My children have different interests/hobbies, and they're not going to know what to do with a 1970's Herter's C-press or a lot of other stuff. They won't appreciate the revolver my dad taught me to shoot with or my great uncles service pistol. We've quit hoarding and collecting. That which only has sentimental value to us, and is of no interest to our heirs, is sold to collectors or given to museums, or just thrown out if it has no value. My great uncle was badge #2 with the Cordele, GA police dept. I gave his badge and gun to the local museum there.




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