First Time Coax Owner

[country gent]

Three 44s How is it going with the new press? meeting expectations?

[Three44s]

Yes all is well! Thank you for asking!

I need to experiment with different ways to mount it though. The issue is how high the handle is situated plus the fact that it cycles right in front of the press rather than offsetting like many compound leverage presses do.

The claimed leverage advantage must be when comparing the Coax to non-compound presses.

[country gent]

DO you load standing or sitting? I have mine mounted on the bench in a slide in mount. And used a bar stool to set on. I had thought about a bench with a narrow L on it with the press mounted operating parallel to the long side of the L. I sit facing the bench and with the press in front of my right shoulder. This gives a straight pull (with my head out of the way.)

There is the option of the short handle if you dont need the leverage.
A D handle might help some also. Or possibly a handle with a slight curve to it.

The summit has the same issue with handle height.

[Three44s]

I generally sit. I have a bar stool as well. My standing days are probably behind me though.

We have a farm shop and some ideas about different handle designs have been popping into my head. (I will store you thoughts in there as well, thanks for that.

I watched a video by a seasoned handloader who built an under bench platform for his Forester coax press with an approximately 60 degree angle that turned the press towards him. As it was situated, it was low enough to position the factory handle within easy reach when seated at normal height.

https://youtu.be/z6B_qA85HFw?si=20lFOPGidaMzq4ue

Best regards

Three44s

[AnthonyB]

Someone please define "over-centering" for me?
Tony

[country gent]

How heavy are your bench legs? Could you possibly bolt a block on the leg and mount it down lower. A boxed in angle plate type set up on the leg possibly. Done right it could be adjustable to determine the height thats right for you. But your also going to be lowering the shell holder so finding a happy medium may be tricky.

[Rapidrob]

I've been a COAX user for over 55 years. The older "Brown" painted press. I now have two of them. I could not count the number of rounds loaded over the decades using these presses. The loaded rounds are very accurate due to the floating dies self aligning to the case being reloaded. Run-out of the seated bullet shows very little misalignment.

[Three44s]

Someone please define "over-centering" for me?
Tony

You feel the handle pressure drop off slightly as the handle finishes its down stroke.

Three44s

[Three44s]

How heavy are your bench legs? Could you possibly bolt a block on the leg and mount it down lower. A boxed in angle plate type set up on the leg possibly. Done right it could be adjustable to determine the height thats right for you. But your also going to be lowering the shell holder so finding a happy medium may be tricky.

My bench is actually an all steel framed table and it's built Iike a "tank". The legs are more than up to the task but the frame is massive.

I could mount about anything to it. Make it vertically adjustable as well as rotatable.

I have been thinking about it since I saw the vid in the link in my previous post.

Mark

[Three44s]

I've been a COAX user for over 55 years. The older "Brown" painted press. I now have two of them. I could not count the number of rounds loaded over the decades using these presses. The loaded rounds are very accurate due to the floating dies self aligning to the case being reloaded. Run-out of the seated bullet shows very little misalignment.

Music to my ears! My bread and butter loading is for varmint hunting. I do all sorts of cartridges but varmints are number one!

Three44s

[THE_ANTIDOTE]

Here is how I have mine mounted and it works for me. I can pull up a full size chair or just a stool, having it this way I can sit to the left, center, or right of the press.

[Three44s]

That's very trick! Thanks for sharing!

Three44s

[THE_ANTIDOTE]

You're welcome. Obviously you could mount yours at whatever distance works for you. Not sure if you can tell, but I mount my bullet sizers the same way. The bullets drop through a hole I cut out in the table. Underneath I have a small SS pet bowl bolted to the table with one bolt which serves as a catch tray and when I need to collect my sized bullets...I simply pivot the full bowl out towards the outside of the table and scoop up my bullets, push it back in and I'm ready to go again.

[THE_ANTIDOTE]

Just a follow up.

[Three44s]

Thanks again, I did not catch that earlier!

Good photography BTW.

Question: What is the bullet sizer (I guess I am dense here) as I don't recognize it?

Best regards

Three44s

[THE_ANTIDOTE]

The blue/silver one is a STAR LUBE SIZER, the red one I do not know exactly what it was used for but I modified it and turned it into a bullet sizer. I think the red one was some kind of rivet tool.

[THE_ANTIDOTE]

The blue/silver one is a STAR LUBE SIZER, the red one I do not know exactly what it was used for but I modified it and turned it into a bullet sizer. I think the red one was some kind of rivet tool.

[Three44s]

Thanks

Three44s