Chronos wrote:The gunk you describe is probably a mixture of case lube, carbon and dust from your tumbling media.
cavok wrote:Just had a quick Google to the Redding site, looked at their reloading dies etc, they make dies for pistol and rifle.
Just as a matter of interest, I have had my square deal Dillon press now for about 4-5 years. I load 5 calibres and in that time have only loaded about 50,000 cases. Possibly a lot more as I help out others. Mine is a 4 stage progressive press, the leats expensive of the Dillon range.
NOT ever has there been an issue with the press, it loads about 300-400 rounds an hour, never has it needed cleaning, or other issues.
The resizing die is clean, no gunk, so why the difference in between the one you have and the Dillon. I tumble my brass for around 30 minutes prior to reloading, change my tumbling medium twice a year. Strange you have brown gunk of the dies?
cavok wrote:SLOW day is it? The original post did not mention he had rifle or pistol dies, hence I posted. Move along, nothing to see here. ALSO if you check Dillon makes carbide dies for .223 and others, I also oil my cases as I de-prime them, makes it easier, smoother, just as lubrication is required for rifle re sizing. Looks like you have a great deal to learn.
Bennybigbores wrote:And it goes on................ And on and on
All my dies get filthy I'm a slob and don't prep or clean unless really motivated, usually use Brake clean as mentioned above or if out of, metho in a pump bottle also does it well and much cheaper than most brake cleaner
Warrigul wrote:Just as I thought, you do realise that carbide dies don't require lubrication wheras the steel rifle dies that 99.9% of the rest of us use do?
Of course I am presuming that your pistol dies are carbide, not all are.
Sorry, reverse trolling in effect.
cavok wrote:NOT being and expert, amateur at best, a person reloading even with CARBIDE dies will find by applying a very slight amount of oil, I use olive oil, to my cases. I apply the olive oil on my fingers on the first 50/100 and then every 50/100. A person doing this on the case will find that the pressure on the handle is significantly reduced, the oil dries and is not a problem. Makes loading that much more easy an never an issue. IT works with all cases, RIFLE or any pistol rounds.
Chronos wrote:the oil dries? where does it go? does it just evaporate into the air or what?
cavok wrote:Not sure you can imagine where the minute layer ends up, but if using iron dies they are lubricated to make reloading easier, what happens to the product used then?
Hinky wrote:Chronos wrote:the oil dries? where does it go? does it just evaporate into the air or what?
Just on the food oils in general here, not shooting, but you can dehydrate olive oil and others.
Turns into a firmer, denser paste the more you do. Ends up kind of like crushed garlic as far as texture goes.
I can only imagine you must end up with a minute layer of this paste dispersed across the dies, brass and fingers.
A warning for those new to reloading- it is unsafe to use oily rifle ammunition. Wipe all oil off before using.
I cannot stress this too strongly and I am sure others on here would agree.
cavok wrote:
THIS whole post initially was about how to clean gunk out of reloading dies, I think in my first post on this topic I said my dies were spotless after 50,000 rounds.