Primer pocket tool

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Travelor

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I have read about, but cannot find, a tool to correct oversized primer pockets. The tool is used to restore the correct primer pocket size after repeated firings have caused the pockets to expand.

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Can someone help with a source or article?

George
 
when I have oversized primer pockets I use 2 things,,,,,,,,,,, #1 the trash can to discard the bad brass and # 2 a midway or sinclair catulog to order new brass,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

the wind is my friend,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

DD
 
david dumas said:
when I have oversized primer pockets I use 2 things,,,,,,,,,,, #1 the trash can to discard the bad brass and # 2 a midway or sinclair catulog to order new brass,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

the wind is my friend,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

DD
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Hahahahahah
I'm in bed for the 4th day with the swine flue and you just made me laugh!
Thanks
vinny
 
Travelor said:
I have read about, but cannot find, a tool to correct oversized primer pockets. The tool is used to restore the correct primer pocket size after repeated firings have caused the pockets to expand.

Can someone help with a source or article?
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How about bedding the primer pockets for perfect fit? You'll need to insert a teeny little clay plug in the flash hole of course. and it would help to have a 'dummy' primer of the exact size/shape of what you'll use for live primers, but the bottom of this 'dummy' should be smooth unlike the underside of a live primer.

Coat the tiny little dummy with release agent, put release agent all around the base of the case, and wrap tape on the case body to prevent bedding compound clinging to it if things get messy.

Then put a tiny little dab of bedding compound in the primer pocket, and then seat the dummy primer. Wait for the bedding to set up, then remove the dummy and you'll have a better fit. Of course this might only work once, and it will take an incredible amount of time to do, and if you have 20-20 vision before you start, you'll be wearing quad-focals by the time you're done.

Here's a serious alternative, which I'm sure the late Skip Otto would endorse: Toss your brass, buy new!! Skip would reload a case at most once. When you consider all the time/money you spend on stuff, the cost of brass is incidental. Speaking of time, that's the one thing that none of us, no matter how wealthy, can purchase. But you can certainly free up your time for other things if you spend money on new brass. Live a little! :D
 
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Travelor
RCBS and R.W Hart both sell tools to fix loose pockets and I owned both of them.
If it was me I would stake the primers once you drop them in with a thin drift or pin punch in 3 or 4 locations.
I have tried more ways than most people and this has always worked the best.
Lynn aka Waterboy
 
Lynn said:
Travelor
RCBS and R.W Hart both sell tools to fix loose pockets and I owned both of them.
If it was me I would stake the primers once you drop them in with a thin drift or pin punch in 3 or 4 locations.
I have tried more ways than most people and this has always worked the best.
Lynn aka Waterboy
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You ever slip with the punch when staking in live primers? :eek:

Egads, people, it's your money and time, but I say toss your used-up brass and buy new!!
 
Bill Ohio said:
You ever slip with the punch when staking in live primers? :eek:

Egads, people, it's your money and time, but I say toss your used-up brass and buy new!!
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Bill
I think the problem here is one of communication.We are not talking about used up brass at all.If you use Norma brass and anything but a weenie load the pockets may not survive the first fireforming in a Ackley Improved chamber.
Waterboy
 
Lynn said:
Bill
I think the problem here is one of communication.We are not talking about used up brass at all.If you use Norma brass and anything but a weenie load the pockets may not survive the first fireforming in a Ackley Improved chamber.
Waterboy
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You guys are searching for an answer to a problem that doesn't exhist. If I have a case neck split, I don't come on here asking for a way to fix the case neck I toss the brass. If I have a partial case head seperation I check my loading dies and chambers lengths, not ask how to weld a case. If I have loose primer pockets I toss the brass and get new... It happens.
 
pbike
The 300 Ackley is about the winningest cartridge in 1000 yard benchrest.If you use Norma brass you get 2-3 firings before the primers get loose.It takes 1 shot just to improve the case in your chamber.
Which cartridge do you shoot that allows you only 1 shot before you toss your brass at $1.20 a piece?
Waterboy
 
Nobody pays much attention to me..

So I'll go ahead and post my usual "no-never-minder".

If you've got loose primers then your bolt face probably has "ring around the primer" already. Unless the primers are falling out why concern yourself?
 
A simple way

to use cases with loose primers is to use either Nail Polish or Primer Sealer. It works the very best and is easy to use. I have 15 or so 30 BR cases I keep in case I need them. I use primer sealer once I re-prime them and have them at the ready. Not all of us can afford to throw away servicable brass.
 
Lynn said:
Bill
I think the problem here is one of communication.We are not talking about used up brass at all.If you use Norma brass and anything but a weenie load the pockets may not survive the first fireforming in a Ackley Improved chamber.
Waterboy
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Thats a relief to hear.
I had suspected that the Norma Brass might be a bit soft, and I had a swollen primer pocket from a load that should have been within limits when I used a Norma case.
If the brass was up to US standards such a swollen pocket would have indicated 65,000CUP or more. I was pretty sure that the load wasn't that hot.

If the brass was soft that means I probably didn't put as much stress on the action as I had thought.
 
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