Looking for a Forester Coax primer drop tube....the original screw in type. Stupid price may be ok,
Ben
Ben
No mess decapping press??
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Ned Ludd
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Decapping with a reloading press is liking trying to wash your behind with the underwear still on it.
This is all you need:
https://harveydeprimer.com/
This is all you need:
https://harveydeprimer.com/
Spent primers are nasty, its the bad lead residue in the black stuff with minor amounts of carbon. My old Rockchucker press is used with a Lee decap die and has a plastic wrap-around primer catcher held on with rebar wire poked thru holes in the plastic - decap is done in a separate operation. I wear nitrile gloves while decapping, immediately clean up everything upon completion and deposit spent primers and clean up stuff in a sealed plastic bag then toss in trash; lead dust cannot be absorbed thru the skin but can be inhaled or ingested.
Punching out the spent primer & having it slide directly into a disposable container would be better. Lead can make a person sick and is difficult to cure. Just thinking about an accumulation of dust from a decade or more of decap operations involving 10's of thousands of primers. Scrubbing out that plastic primer catcher would be a good move.
Punching out the spent primer & having it slide directly into a disposable container would be better. Lead can make a person sick and is difficult to cure. Just thinking about an accumulation of dust from a decade or more of decap operations involving 10's of thousands of primers. Scrubbing out that plastic primer catcher would be a good move.
Consider a custom full length sizing die. My resizing process is to wash the brass, lube then full length resize & decap in one stroke. Works best if your necks are very consistent. Plan B is to use expander expander mandrels to obtain consistent neck tension.
Ben
PDS
Gold $$ Contributor
For a dedicated de-priming press the Lee Classic Cast press is probably the cleanest lowest price press available. On mine I filled the priming slot with a piece of aluminum plate. No dust can leak out. With a Lee Universal De-capping die you can handle any case size and also military brass with crimped primers.
The Co-Ax is also good but it's expensive,hard to find at times and the overhead handle is harder (at least for me) to use for the repetitive strokes used in de-priming. The shell holder on the Co-Ax is also a chore to change for different size case heads.
I own both of these presses and that is my experience.
The Co-Ax is also good but it's expensive,hard to find at times and the overhead handle is harder (at least for me) to use for the repetitive strokes used in de-priming. The shell holder on the Co-Ax is also a chore to change for different size case heads.
I own both of these presses and that is my experience.
Ned Ludd
Silver $$ Contributor
That makes perfect sense if you don't mind lubing up dirty fouled cases and depriming at the same time you resize them. To me, that makes for a horrible mess if you prefer a spray-on lube, and makes little sense as I alluded to above. I prefer to decap cases prior to cleaning with SS pins/tumbling, which then do a pretty good job cleaning out the primer pockets. After cleaning, I first uniform the primer pockets, then anneal, then lube and re-size cases, then clean off the lube, then trim/chamfer. That's the order that makes the most sense to me, as I don't want to spray a bunch of One Shot lube onto dirty, still-primed cases. However, to each their own. As long as you end up with a satisfactory product, the processing order may not matter that much.
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The Lee Classic cast works great. I filled the priming arm cut out with a block of rubber, and ran the drop hose into a bucket on the floor. It stays pretty clean.
It's affordable for a dedicated depriming press, but a great all around press too.
I use mine for most all of my reloading now.
It's affordable for a dedicated depriming press, but a great all around press too.
I use mine for most all of my reloading now.
You’ve been holding out on us Ned,
cool tool ...
Poor Shot 65
Silver $$ Contributor
This is what I use as well. Works great and keeps the mess away from my presses
I do the same, I bought the Forster Co-Axial press 40 years ago but did not like it except for the depriming feature. So it has been on my bench ever since and that is all I use it for. I doubt most people would pay that much for a depriming tool even if it is the best.
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1013020665
This one, has been decapping cases in my garage for 10 years.
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Brownell’s has the Redding Big Boss II on sale right now, and wth the 11% off code makes it $175. It has the drop tube primer collector, like the T7.
Shooter13
Gold $$ Contributor
I agree on this but so easy to swap out dies you’ll use it for a lot more
Lee #90045
I mounted on a ledge, with a tall Rx bottle lid (with a hole in it), screwed under a hole in the ledge.
Put a Mighty Armory decap die on.
1/8 turn to remove med bottle, Cap and dispose the full primer bottle, and snap a new empty in its place.
It'll handle any case, and keep your real press clean!
I have an extra Brand New one, I could ship for $35.
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