Back in the '60's I purchased a Herter's M-81, 2 station, C-press to load .244 Remington cartridges. I kept the press all these years up in the attic. Recently, I purchased a new .357 Mag. Ruger SP101 and found out the reality of ammo cost these days! Consequently, I went digging around atop the house and pulled out my old press. Disassemble, cleaned and re-lubed everything. My son, a machinist, had to fabricate a pair of shell holder adapters to accommodate the lacking holders of today (no meat at all!). This is one beast of steel my friends! And she's just about set to go. Thought you all might like a look into history. The don't make them like this anymore!



And here's a close-up of the adapters my son made for me out of stainless steel no less!



Finally, two side-view pictures:





Now all I've got to do is scrounge up enough $$$ for the components and we're good to go! Hope you don't mind a look back at some real "Americana"!

Nifty, I never had the opportunity to see one of these before. What was the idea behind having two rams?? Was the intention to use both simultaneously, or one at a time??

- mike

Mike,

You use them one at a time. One station is for the sizer and another is for the seater. You can see the ears for the primer arm on the left station.

Hey Crestliner, Thanks for the flicks. REALLLLY a nice old press.

you have raised him properly. I had one of those old warhorses when I enlisted back in 1968. My brother (we served in nam together for five months)
got out a year ahead of me and traded it for a Lyman Tru-Line Jr! What a brainiac decision.

Rich
DRSS
Knowledge not shared is knowledge lost...

I picked up this press just before enlisting in 1965. Made 2 "WesPac" cruises myself on the U.S.S. Shelton, DD-790. We chased sanpans up around the DMZ and did a lot of shore bombardment there as well. I am very happy that I never got rid of this old press. Just wish I'd have kept a few of the old Herter's catalogs as well. They were classics!

Nice pixs. And if you ever get tired of reloading, you can use it as an anchor for the QE2. I have a RCBS Jr like that. I bought it used 50 years ago and it's still going strong.

That's an interesting arrangement.

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Originally posted by mho:
Nifty, I never had the opportunity to see one of these before. What was the idea behind having two rams?? Was the intention to use both simultaneously, or one at a time??

- mike

I've got a triple ram Pacific press that I just love. No screwing with resetting dies or rotating a turret - just stick it and go!

Very nice! Thanks for sharing!