Post your most USELESS piece of reloading equipment….

[DiffEQ]

But it's not something I check regular production with. If I have a questionable round, I'll roll it on a flat surface to see any really bad runout.

Yep, have a machinists stone for that. I just use the gauge when I want to see how bad and have numbers.

Dillon primer pocket crimp removal/swage tool.

Mine paid for itself, and I swore to never buy crimped ammo again.

Why do you keep them??

I've Held a few back, and in the past few years, they have come in handy to give powder to desperate folk (not sell).

My regularly failing piece of equipment, it's always running dry.

 

[bozo699]

Not a reamer buyer i see?

I’ve bought multiple reamers from Kiff what’s wrong with them?…..
Wayne

 

[Oso]

Any standard decapping die that has the removable/replacement tips, such as RCBS. Decapping tips seem to fail at higher rate with tendency to bend at the thread connection point when dealing with crimped primers.

Full-length decapping rods are much better.

 

[Wingnut00]

Forster co-ax press. What a piece of crap

 

[MGYSGT]

I am my most useless piece of reloading. If something is wrong, I did it.

 

[Beiruty]

I got it with a purchase of bunch of reloading tools from an old reloading retiring from reloading. I never used it.

 

[Tesoro]

Empty primer boxes and powder bottles.

I bought one while in the Army to load for my T/C Contender chambered in 35 Rem. It did take a level of trial and error how to use it to produce accurate ammo. Final results were consistent 1” groups at 100 yards. I did use a grain scale and trickler.

I use an arbor press and wilson bullet seater but to tell you the truth I can load just as straight ammo with the lee collet and seater die! And I can throw more consistent charges with stick powder to trickle up with my plastic/nylon pos Lee $22 powder thrower as I can with my $220 Redding benchrest thrower!

 

[JLT]

I use an arbor press and wilson bullet seater but to tell you the truth I can load just as straight ammo with the lee collet and seater die! And I can throw more consistent charges with stick powder to trickle up with my plastic/nylon pos Lee $22 powder thrower as I can with my $220 Redding benchrest thrower!

I have one of those inexpensive Lee powder throwers. You're right - the darned thing throws charges (at least) as consistently as much more expensive units.

I have a Sinclair comparator nut that must have been made first thing Monday morning or late Friday afternoon. Not even close and the relative measures are so far off as to be of limited value. I have another that is just fine.

 

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any and all hand held neck turners.

Who makes one that is not hand held?

 

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I got a wack a mole 20 gauge kit from a neighbor for taking care of his pointers when he went on vacation. I was 12 years old. Thought I'd died and went to heaven! For a kid who had more time than money it was awesome. I coach a youth trapshooting team and got it out to show them a while back. I think they thought I was kidding till I loaded a few and shot them! They weren't impressed buy the amount of work involved to make a shell. Had it 50 years and it still does what it was meant to do but I think I'll stick with my mec hydraulic!

I just sold my old Lee Loader. Used it with y father's drill press. Slow, but it loaded a lot of Western X-Pert paper shells.

 

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Not a reamer buyer i see?

Absolutely!!!

 

[Just Say Moe]

I had an electric vibratory powder trickler I haven't seen since the last time I moved 30 years ago.

 

[Just Say Moe]

Carbide neck buttons. Went from gotta have one for each die to now I have a drawer full of them.

Send them my way!

 

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I’ve bought multiple reamers from Kiff what’s wrong with them?…..
Wayne

Gunsmith said it was dull. Sent it back to have it resharpend. Then it was fine.

 

[bozo699]

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Any standard decapping die that has the removable/replacement tips, such as RCBS. Decapping tips seem to fail at higher rate with tendency to bend at the thread connection point when dealing with crimped primers.

Full-length decapping rods are much

Gunsmith said it was dull. Sent it back to have it resharpend. Then ii was fine.

I’ve never had that problem I’m really glad they took care of you. Good customer service says a lot
Wayne

 

[GLO123]

The Lee powder measure kit with the tiny yellow measures. No idea why I thought I needed it.

 

[J.d. Popkes]

Any trimmer not named Henderson

 

[Killick]

the problem with the nut is every time you take a measurement you push the bullet a little farther into the hole. it in effect changes the dia of bullet at that spot a little or the amount of pressure you put on the case is not exactly the same so it doesnt measure the same. this is why they dont give really consistent results. some may say this is BS but ive seen it.

I’ll admit you made me check my procedure. So I loaded up 50 rounds for this weekend (load testing) and when I did it confirmed my confidence in the accuracy of my measurements with my Sinclair ogive nut. I also went back to several of my loaded rounds and double checked them which eliminates the possibility of case head abnormalities. My guess for your .020” discrepancy is that you are soft seating your bullets or your brass has become work hardened, lost its elasticity and not gripping the bullet like virgin or annealed brass does. Just a guess, not judging.

 

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I’ve never had that problem I’m really glad they took care of you. Good customer service says a lot
Wayne

With the amount of time you have to wait to get a reamer, too bad they did not get it right the first time. Then you wait some more.

 

[Walt Krafft]

I’ve bought multiple reamers from Kiff what’s wrong with them?…..
Wayne

You actually got something from ptg?? All I seem to get is a credit card bill and a 2,3,4,?? Month long wait and no response to requests for info.