|
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 9,716
Campfire Outfitter
|
OP
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 9,716 |
More of a question about box storage and what you do with the extra boxes. Like most of us, I use dies from different makers. Typically, for other than competition dies, I use the boxes that one of the manufacturers provided. I don't like leaving them in the open air. Shiny things attract friends, kids, etc. So, regardless of whose dies I buy, I always get Hornady boxes. They hold the normal dies I need for most of my reloading. In this case, for 222 Rem, a seating die, a neck sizer, crimp die, body die and a case gage. I tried the Lee box, but it cracks easily and I cannot fit everything inside. The Hornady boxes stack nicely on the shelf and are inexpensive. I bought some from Midsouth for $3.50 ea. Dies that I do not use from other sets, leftovers or freebees end up in a RCBS or Redding boxes in a milk crate.
Safe Shooting! Steve Redgwell www.303british.comGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain Member - Professional Outdoor Media Association of Canada
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 18,902
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 18,902 |
Box they came in, in a drawer of my bench.
Even my Herters 30-06 dies are in original cardboard box.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 151,118
Campfire Savant
|
Campfire Savant
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 151,118 |
I use the original boxes.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2016
Posts: 3,754
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Dec 2016
Posts: 3,754 |
original boxes as other have posted. i do put a silica gel absorbent or 2 in each box. i used to have some of those little square cardboard doo-dads, but ran out long ago and have a bunch of the silica packs on hand anyway
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 23,024
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 23,024 |
Steve Redgewell: Die storage is indeed an important issue. I have a friend who stores (and uses) his dies out on the work bench in his detached garage out in western Washington. His dies are often found to be rusted! I store my many dozens of sets of dies in their original factory boxes on shelves in my dedicated home workshop/loading room that is kept warm and dry at all times. The metal storage locker I keep the dies in has several large packaged desicant (sp?) packs placed throughout it and on every shelf therein. I take SPECIAL care with my various Wilson dies and tools as they are specially susceptible to rust. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,237
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,237 |
I store mine in the original boxes with some pieces of VCI treated cardboard in the box. I went with the VCI when I found some rust a few years ago when we had an extremely humid summer. No rust since.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 42,743
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 42,743 |
For those that are finding rust on their's...
Mine get a routine small application of Amzoil's version of WD40,
Rust has not been an issue on them, here in Oregon's High Humidity during the winter months.
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 7,959
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 7,959 |
Use original boxes, stacked at back of reloading bench. . Got tired of them falling over when I used press so ran a bungee cord around them secured to bench works great.
kk alaska
Alaska 7 months of winter then 5 months of tourists
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 9,716
Campfire Outfitter
|
OP
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 9,716 |
This is for those of you that mix your dies.
For example, I use equipment from at least three companies. As a result, I end up with unused dies. I didn't keep all the individual die company boxes. I would need a storage room for junk. I keep the extra dies in plastic bags, labeled, in milk crates. Where do you store your extra, unused stuff?
I try to keep my most used dies together.
1. collet die (Lee) 2. body die (Redding) 3. seating die (Redding or Hornady) 4. crimp die (Lee) 5. case gauge (Wilson)
Safe Shooting! Steve Redgwell www.303british.comGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain Member - Professional Outdoor Media Association of Canada
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 1,989
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 1,989 |
On a shelf above the loading bench, in their original boxes.
lightman
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 810
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 810 |
I'm like kkAlaska, but my reloading room has a dehumidifier in it.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 623
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 623 |
Filing cabinet drawer next to my loading bench.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 15,680
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 15,680 |
On a shelf above the loading bench, in their original boxes. Same here. I initially clean my dies with a degreaser and coat them with Break-Free or Bullfrog. About once a year to do maintenance on them. I also run a dehumidifier in my house which sits in front of the reloading room and blows dry air in.
Z
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 1,582
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 1,582 |
I have a bunch of those rust guard six space tackle boxes. The Crimp, M-Die, Basic die sets, shellholders and decapping pins along with the established loaded (but without powder and primer) Pet loads. ( I use The bullet/case cartridges if I need to re-set a seater die.) Same for Dandy rotors, snap caps. Bricka and Bracka. I am over organized! Clean the dies with MEK, usually preserve with Sheath or whatever they renamed it.
Watch 'Yer Topknot!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,712
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,712 |
Like several others my dies are kept in their original boxes on a shelf over the reloading bench. My shop is in the basement which is a few degrees cooler than the rest of the house. Rusting has never been a problem. My most used dies (.223) are a mixture of F/L and neck sizers and are stored in an open topped box sitting on the side bench.
Jim
|
|
|
|
457 members (16penny, 10gaugemag, 10ring1, 11point, 1beaver_shooter, 10gaugeman, 59 invisible),
2,710
guests, and
1,265
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,191,386
Posts18,469,642
Members73,931
|
Most Online11,491 Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|