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Anything wrong with tight headspace?
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<blockquote data-quote="25WSM" data-source="post: 1777498" data-attributes="member: 38048"><p>Nmbarta that is correct. I made a tool that I was going to market that was exactly what you just described. </p><p>It was a lock ring I cut in the lathe and made the indicator marks on. So basically a lock ring with a graduation mark every 1/36 around its circumstance. All you do is screw it down on top of the dies lock ring with some extra turn on it. Run your die down to touch shell holder and lock it in place. Now give 1/4 turn up on ring with marks on it. Lock it down. Your ready now. Just size a brass and measure the difference between fired and sized. Let's say you got . 005 crush and we want . 003 you just loosen the lock nut only 1 graduation mark and lock it back down. Then you can remove the big ring off the top of the die. Works like a champ. Most can make one at home.</p><p>I didn't market it because you learn in very short order how far to turn a lock ring to get the crush you need with out it. Plus if you look at the whidden die with the clicker that came out it does what mine did plus makes noise. I made mine up when Hornady came out with the comparators. Sorry another hospital rant here. Just need this to get me through a situation here. Plus we just had a huge thread on setting dies up to give the perfect bump that that die makers never tell how to do. Thanks guys.</p><p>Shep</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="25WSM, post: 1777498, member: 38048"] Nmbarta that is correct. I made a tool that I was going to market that was exactly what you just described. It was a lock ring I cut in the lathe and made the indicator marks on. So basically a lock ring with a graduation mark every 1/36 around its circumstance. All you do is screw it down on top of the dies lock ring with some extra turn on it. Run your die down to touch shell holder and lock it in place. Now give 1/4 turn up on ring with marks on it. Lock it down. Your ready now. Just size a brass and measure the difference between fired and sized. Let's say you got . 005 crush and we want . 003 you just loosen the lock nut only 1 graduation mark and lock it back down. Then you can remove the big ring off the top of the die. Works like a champ. Most can make one at home. I didn't market it because you learn in very short order how far to turn a lock ring to get the crush you need with out it. Plus if you look at the whidden die with the clicker that came out it does what mine did plus makes noise. I made mine up when Hornady came out with the comparators. Sorry another hospital rant here. Just need this to get me through a situation here. Plus we just had a huge thread on setting dies up to give the perfect bump that that die makers never tell how to do. Thanks guys. Shep [/QUOTE]
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