Whats up fellas, I was bored yesterday and haven't loaded any rounds for a cpl weeks. Sooo I decided to give my press a good cleaning. Well when I started to look close at every thing , I noticed that the lock n load bushings, and parts of some of the dies have gotten lite rust on them! I know that rust on the bushings isn't gonna hurt anything, but it bothers me to see rust on my dies! Anyway I cleaned the rust off as best I could and gave everything a coat of hornady dry lube. If you guys have any thoughts or advice let me know thanks.

wd 40 and fine steel wool to clean the rust and a decent oil to stop rust

If you have your reloading set-up in a cold and humid room nothing will keep your dies from rusting.

It's not cold or wet. Last week we got a lot of rain, and I left the window open. It has also been humid since we got all the rain, so that didn't help. Oh well, live and learn I guess

A thin coating of RIG gun grease on the inside and outside of you dies prior to storage is the ticket. By the way, RIG is easily removable using a gun cleaning solvent (such as Hoppes #9).

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Originally posted by shootaway:
If you have your reloading set-up in a cold and humid room nothing will keep your dies from rusting.

There is some truth to this. However if that is the only room you have what else can you do? I would suggest you clean your dies and oil them up and store them in a large plastic tub with a snap on lid. You may even want to throw in a bag of desicant . It can be thrown into the oven on low heat every few months to dry it out and will last a long time.

If you have to store your equipment in a humid environment, get a tub with a tight fitting lid, and put a box of mothballs in the bottom of the tub before you add your equipment. The active ingredient in mothballs will deter rust as it weathers away.

You can do the same thing by putting a single mothball in each die box...

The active ingredient that prevents rust is camphor.

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Originally posted by Doubless:
If you have to store your equipment in a humid environment, get a tub with a tight fitting lid, and put a box of mothballs in the bottom of the tub before you add your equipment. The active ingredient in mothballs will deter rust as it weathers away.

You can do the same thing by putting a single mothball in each die box...

http://www.theruststore.com/Bu...ol-Wipes-P27C18.aspx

Best thing that I have ever found.

Otherwise, a cover for your press and the mothballs will work, or VCI canisters.

Jeremy

I keep a light coat of EEZOX on rarely used dies, and I store the others in their boxes with a piece of VCI paper. Been good for 30+ years.