"Rigged" a loading press

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gasmandave

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Kind of crude but works, still needs refinement.
It's an old bottle capper.
Charge all six cylinders, drop on six balls. Press...wack with mallet if stubburn, grease, reassemble pistol & cap. I did 5 Remington 1858s and 3 Colt 1851s in about an hour.


 
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The advantage of loading 8 BP pistols is after you fire them all you have such a smoke screen that it gives you enough time to reload without being seen:D
 
I have another idea. Take one cylinder (don't put it on the press, use a different level surface), charge, and drop the 6 balls on. Rest a small square (or round) steel plate on top of the balls on that cylinder. Take another cylinder and put it on the press platform. Charge the chambers and place the 6 balls on on it. Then carefully pick up the other cylinder (the steel plate on top) and carefully invert it and place it on the other cylinder. Press both at once! One press, 12 chambers loaded. :cool: ;)
 
Pressing the six chambers is a little stiff, to do 12 chambers at the same time I would need a longer handle on the press to get more leverage. I would think I would have to add a rod to slip into the center cylinder pin hole to add stability to the lower cylinder or it might rock to one side or the other and kick out. One cylinder at a time works for me for the time being.
 
Someone around here once posted of running a bolt through the cylinder with a large washer on either side to jack screw the balls into place.

Steve
 
Here's mine:

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That's a pretty good set up, the "duelist" has a pretty good set up as well. The only issue I have is you only load one chamber at a time. That makes it kind of slow as far as I'm concerned. Although if you are trying to get a good load accuracy wise it would allow you better access per chamber to keep track of what you load. Six different loads to try at once. You could do it with my set up but I think it would be easy to loose track of what was in each chamber.
 
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