The small Akro-bins that come with Hornady and Dillion presses, hold 100 9mm, 40 S&W or 45ACP rounds just fine. Problem occurs when you go to larger rounds, like .44SPL/MAG or .45LC. The little bin is just.......too little.
No problem, Akro-bins are commonly available either through Hornady/Dillion or any number of retailers and the next largest size fits nicely.
But, since there's "no free lunch", this creates another problem. All the extra weight hanging on the little braket, which starts to bend and bow under the weight of a hundred 250gr 45LC. So what's needed is a front end support. I was going to make one with a wooden block and a sliding rod so that it could be pushed out of the way. But this week I was in the big box hardware store, that will rename nameless, but is based in Atlanta (Smyrna actually), and it occurred to me a "Z" bracket would do the job. Looked through all the normal hardware and I could have bought an "L" bracket and bent it, but then I found this lumber metal mounting hardware:
Now I needed a vertical offset of ~1-1/4" GUESS WHAT the offset of this bracket is? Yep, 1-1/4". Rather than use wood screws to hold the bracket, I used flat head bolts, countersunk in the workbench.
Ah, now all set for those 45/70 rounds.
I'm still lovin' my Hornady LnL AP. Just order 4000 more bullets, which should hold me for a month....or two.
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