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Boats,

The dies, as well as the shell holder, are unique to the tool and are not common to any other reloading system.  As the drawing shows, it is kind of an erector set affair, screwing pieces together for the various decapping/capping, sizing and bullet seating functions.  It was only designed to neck size bottle neck cases, although I believe straight case pistol cartridges were full length sized.  When I got back to the states in '78 I didn't see Bill English's ads anymore so maybe it wasn't a profitable venture.  I got the impression he was selling them direct from his home.  I've never seen a used one come up on eBay either.  As his brochure shows, he offered the tool is quite a range of calibers and case configurations.  I don't see 25-06 listed so I must have had it made special order, although my memory fails me now.

Terry

I agree leadball.  If I had not been careful to not lose the instructions, of which the drawing above is the most important, it would have probably become useless.   If you find it and need copies of the instructions give me a hollar and I'll email them to you.  Terry

          TERRY ... I was wondering if any of the English literature that came with the tool, or the actual tool itself, or any of the accessories, have a U.S. Patent number and date affixed to them, or in the alternative, the words " Patent Pending "?

          Does any of the literature happen to have a street address or company name associated with the tool ?

           I really like the tool !

Creed Moor 

As SINGLESHOT1 indicated, the PAK-TOOL apparently  still has limited availability.  I found the following information yesterday on LEVERGUNS.COM in an article by Al Anderson..."Pak-tool is a unique tool that came out in the late 50's and was designed and made by William English of Seattle, Washington. When he passed away Bruce Roberts also of Washington State continued making them. I talked to Bruce the other day and he has moved to Idaho a couple of years ago. The good news is that he is still making them but only has around eighty sets of handles left and because of the price to make the new handles he may not have them for much longer. The good news is if you have a set of handles he can always make the dies for them. I need a couple more myself....If you'd like to talk to Bruce about a Pak-tool give him a call at 208-875-1643. The price of the Pak-Tool with dies is around $60.00 or so but you'll have to check to be sure”  I’m not sure when the article was written and I see the tel# is different from the # SINGLESHOT1 posted.  You can read the whole article at (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)
I sent an email to one of the web sites contacts to see if they had an address for either the author or Bruce himself.  If anyone is able to get in contact the current maker please let us know.

Terry

No, I don't have it handy, but I'll get it tomorrow. He just lives down the street from me. He bought the tools and rights to the product from the fellow you spoke about above. He is set up and has produced a few tools which I understand he sold on e-bay. I'll post tomorrow when I get his e-mail address.     Dave

Dave,

It is a small world that you live so close to the PAK-TOOL maker.  I am always amazed at the depth of information that can come to the surface on this forum.

Val...That IS a nice piece of engineering.  When did Huntington quit making them.

Terry