Post your most USELESS piece of reloading equipment….

[danny]

I have been watching to see when someone posts that their primer pocket uniformers are their most useless piece of equipment. My primer pocket uniformers are among my most useful pieces of equipment...safety equipment at that.

Danny

 

[bozo699]

Yep,
THAT video. I no longer watch ANY content from the source. Sort of like Putin's attempt to prevent NATO membership in neighboring countries actually had the reverse effect of increasing it.

Danny

Maybe….. But he’s not wrong!
Wayne

 

[Tesoro]

I love mine. They are easy and accurate. Once I set them up and lock them down, I NEVER adjust them again. Perfect trimmed brass.

I had hell of a time with 223 keeping them even and square. Sold it.

 

[DocCarbon]

I can't post a photo of it as it's somewhere far afield but it came via Chinese Freight shop ,measure once measure 12 times all different except what I was measuring was a SS ball bearing .

I then realized it was DANGEROUS and practiced the Boomerang throw ,it DIDN'T work for that either !.

 

[cowboybart]

Yup, the run out gauge is a winner - I sold mine with 2.5 years of dust on it.
Carbide neck buttons - another joke
Moly tumbling set up is the one I went all in on, then realized I had been duped

 

[hogpatrol]

A half dozen containers of different brands of partially used sizing lube. All of it's a PITA.

 

[3Sigma]

1. Me

2. My budget

3. RCBS primer pocket brush ( just scratches the hell out of it and I use a uniformer to clean it out) https://www.rcbs.com/case-processing/primer-pocket-brush/571.html

4. Flash hole debur tool ( I buy good brass when possible)

5. Crimp dies on precision cartridges on bolt guns (22-250)

 

[Kracken McGraw]

The Sinclair Neck Turning Caseholder that chucks up in a drill. My 1/2 inch drill will hold any of my cases that I need to spin and do it with less wobble.

I agree to disagree, lol!
This case holder in my gyro screwdriver has been a lifesaver for arthritis in my hands. I spin brass in pad to clean necks, plus push brass into my deburring tools that are mounted solid in a block on my vise.

 

[KMart]

I agree to disagree, lol!
This case holder in my gyro screwdriver has been a lifesaver for arthritis in my hands. I spin brass in pad to clean necks, plus push brass into my deburring tools that are mounted solid in a block on my vise.

The 1/2 cordless drill will handle any case up to and including a 6.5x55 case.. The drill chuck is larger than the Sinclair tool and easier to operate with arthritic hands. Just open the chuck all the way and put the case in base first to do the things you describe. I am sympathetic to the arthritic hands. I am no spring chicken.

 

[jackson1]

Been handloading for close to 50 years and have shelf on the top of one of my loading benches that hold my biggest hand loading poor purchases, in my opinion. First is a Pac electronic powder dispenser (a very early model) and scale. Second is my Hornady gauge, the one with the bullet straightening feature. I see them every day and they are a constant reminder of purchases made without proper due diligence. Have many other tools that I currently rarely use, but handloading is a lifelong love affair and I will make more foolish purchases.

 

[Mark W]

The 1/2 cordless drill will handle any case up to and including a 6.5x55 case.. The drill chuck is larger than the Sinclair tool and easier to operate with arthritic hands. Just open the chuck all the way and put the case in base first to do the things you describe. I am sympathetic to the arthritic hands. I am no spring chicken.

This is what I do as well. Just a cordless drill, no other devices required

 

[k80skeet]

Mine was a Mec 650. Too much going on at once to get right. Give me a 600 JR any day!

I agree 100% Wayne Mayes the Greatest skeet shooter of all times. Used nothing but a Mec 600jr for all his loading. He Set or still owns all the records Skeet Shooting in history. Including shooting 200 Hundred Straights with the .410 No one else is even close to that record and probably never will be and he died 10 years ago. I have own all the shotgun reloaders made and today I only my (14) 600jr's. I have been shooting for over 60 years and loaded 5 to 6 Millon rounds and over 90% were loaded on 600jr's.

 

[Tesoro]

RCBS kinetic bullet puller that kept putting shards of aluminum into the dumped powder. And then I made a post on this forum about it to find out I was putting the collett in upside down! Most embarrassing post not the most useless tool!

 

[AckleymanII]

The run out gauge works pretty darn good IF you use a piece of fire formed brass.

 

[DiffEQ]

Forster co-ax press. What a piece of crap

Check the nut on the lever.

 

[Murray Brook]

If any of you guys ever have the feeling to purchase this, take 2 aspirins and lie down till the feeling passes.

 

[bozo699]

RCBS kinetic bullet puller that kept putting shards of aluminum into the dumped powder. And then I made a post on this forum about it to find out I was putting the collett in upside down! Most embarrassing post not the most useless tool!View attachment 1345044

I remember that thread very well!… nothing to be embarrassed about my friend!….
Wayne

 

[jds holler]

I haven't read through all these posts, but I guess I'll say RCBS Case lube and pad. I've just got better and cleaner alternatives. Hate that goopy stuff. jd

 

[Kracken McGraw]

I haven't read through all these posts, but I guess I'll say RCBS Case lube and pad. I've just got better and cleaner alternatives. Hate that goopy stuff. jd

I’ll second that!
That thick sticky stuff is what I started out on in the early 80’s. Nothing but the Speer handbook and no mentor. RCBS should have been ashamed of themselves for that one!

 

[shooter74]