Marking Dies

[Steve Koski]

Another trick I probably learned from you guys. Mark your dies, so that when you adjust something, you know where you started and how much you've moved.

I ground a notch into the seating die stem, and I can bounce quickly back and forth between different COLs without making "bad" test rounds.

I marked the crimp die with a sharpie (high tech, I know). Same deal - easy to see where I started and how much rotated it.

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[Clark]

When they come back from Forster, to get the necks honed, they are marked with the go diameter in Sharpie.

I have started marking the go diameter of un honed dies.

I have so many dies, I am lost. I do 60+ cartridges and sometime have many die sets per cartridge. My organizational skill and discipline is low. I fear that the Sharpie marks will wear off.

[Oreo]

I did this to my dies as well. It just seemed like an obvious thing to do at the time & has been well worth it.