I came across this little hand press reloading tool called the "PAK-TOOL" in an estate that was being liquidate. This tool is supposed to be a compact tool for the cabin, range bench or where ever you need a compact tool to load your ammo. It seems to have been offered in quite a few calibers. I won't be reloading any ammo with this tool but I thought I would post it here as a point of interest, not something you see very often and surely something I have never come across until now. The tool uses proprietary dies, shell holders and rods to perform all the steps necessary. ALL the parts are proprietary, nothing translates over to other dies, presses or what have you. This particular tool was set up for 45-70 but also included shell holders for a few other calibers of which the dies were not present. Its an interesting idea but it didn't seem to take off.
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| It looks more complicated than it actually is and the press itself is very well thought out. |
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| The instructions make it seem more complicated than it actually is as well.....the inventor could have benefited from a Kaizen mentor. |
6 comments:
Wow what a wonderful looking tool. Any chance you can email me the paperwork?
Bruce County, Canada
I have one in 3006 but is missing the expander die if you have one let me know
William "Bill" English was the inventor of the Pak Tool. He was my uncle. If I recall correctly he manufactured it in his basement in Seattle. He worked for years as head gunsmith at Fredrick and Nelson there in Seattle. He sold quite a few of the tools but I don't think that he made a lot of money on it.
I have a pack-tool for. 220 swift I used back in the day, am 77 now, to reload in my dorm room at the University of Idaho. We kept all our hunting firearms in our rooms and shot pheasants next to our dorm on the university farm on Sundays when no one was around. Nowadays the storm troopers would toss you in jail in heartbeat.
The pak-tool reloaded quality ammo just as well as my RCBS fancy press does today. If there are any young guys out there that shoot the 220 swift and need a cool and a complete press and dies that will fit in your pocket send me $10 what I paid in 1967 and it is yours!
Ted Schmidt
ted7@q.com
I have one for about 50 years now, and have loaded quite a lot in .44 mag and .44 spec w/o difficulties of any kind. Now I've looked for dies in another caliber, but they seem to be unavailable. As far as I've seen there's a similar device now, the Lee Hand Press - and it does use customary dies...
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