How many lube pumps did Charlie make, I have #94, seems like a lot of lube pumps. Ledball

Maybe Willis will tell us how many he made, how much did he get for these pumps, I never thought to ask, mine came in a trade.   Ledball

Here is the one I make, too Charlie's specs. I think I have a partial SN list, but not sure how complete it is. Won't be able to check till after this weekends match

What do they sell for?

singleshot wrote on May 16^th, 2018 at 12:15am:


I just got one of these with a rifle I purchased. I assume from the pictures you put the tip of the bullet in first and put the base flush with the casting. Going to have to give it a try! If he put the serial number on the casting it’s #0154 (could also be D154). Singleshot if you have any info on that serial number please send it to me and if you still make other inserts for different bullets.

Funny Charlie Dell story… I had just gotten active shooting in this game, but Charlie had quit making his lube pumps and Willis had not yet started.  On one of my many visits to Charlie’s I told him if he ever started making them again or if he knew of someone who had one they were no longer using, to please let me know.  He must have felt sorry for me (or got tired of listening) because he took me down to the shop and told me to hold out my hands.  He went through drawers and boxes and pulled out the pieces to make one, complete except for finishing the aluminum body tube.  Then he said I should put it together myself!  I took it home and went to a fellow teacher who happened to teach machine shop and Voila’! I had my own lube pump.  When he saw it the first time he berated me because it was unfinished… we hadn’t knurled the body tube!  The next time he saw it, on the loading bench at a match at his range, I watched him circle around, looking at it oddly.  When I asked him why, he said because it looked like one of his pumps but the knurling was different!  We both got a good chuckle when I reminded him what it was.
Over the years I’ve gotten two more, but that’s a story for another day.  I’ve gone on enough now. 
Froggie.

Willis brought me a few sticks of 59c loose in a ziplock bag.  We were at an early CSV event at Brushy Mtn and I was busy as a one armed paper hanger, so I threw the bag in my box and forgot it.  Now I need to remelt the sticks and recast them into usable sticks.  A great gift from Willis that I squandered at the time.  Fortunately that formula can easily be remelted and formed into usable sticks… in fact, Charlie made a neat device to extrude sticks! 
Froggie

Back when I was making the early batches of Frog Guano and had just one of Charlie's pumps, I would take the melted batch and pour the tube full, then push it out when cooled and repeat.  Three or four spare sticks plus a full pump and I was good to go.  I need to go back and do the same thing with the 59C, some Emmert's, and of course the infamous Frog Guano.

Froggie