Faster deburr and chamfer

[brokeasajoke]

So in an effort to make brass prep go a little faster for bulk .223 I decided I need to power my Rcbs/LE Wilson tool. Yea you can buy such devices and the hornady duo isn't real expensive but I like to make things.
$2 sparkplug socket 5/8 (sparkplug sockets are deep enough where as most standard deep sockets the flats are only deep enough for a nut)
$.07 10-24 set screw (I'd recomend fine. thread next time cause the socket thickness doesn't allow for many threads.)
$3 drill adapter.
Total $5.07 to speed things up. Yeah I shoulda got the triway trimmer in stead of the WFT.

 

[JFrank]

So in an effort to make brass prep go a little faster for bulk .223 I decided I need to power my Rcbs/LE Wilson tool. Yea you can buy such devices and the hornady duo isn't real expensive but I like to make things.
$2 sparkplug socket 5/8 (sparkplug sockets are deep enough where as most standard deep sockets the flats are only deep enough for a nut)
$.07 10-24 set screw (I'd recomend fine. thread next time cause the socket thickness doesn't allow for many threads.)
$3 drill adapter.
Total $5.07 to speed things up. Yeah I shoulda got the triway trimmer in stead of the WFT.

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Faster or Better?

 

[jepp2]

Faster or Better?

Rather than make my own holder, I bought one. To me the outside chamfer is more uniform, since I can hold the tool in line with the case neck better. And if anything, it cuts less off to avoid the "cookie cutter" case neck.

 

[JFrank]

I'm in the faster isn't always better camp.

 

[brokeasajoke]

When there is about a 1000 cases setting here for a couple of hungry ARs, it is faster and better. Everything else I usually just load in batches of 20 or less so such a device is not needed. On a side note, let the drill or electric screwdriver turn slow.

 

[JD9000]

So in an effort to make brass prep go a little faster for bulk .223 I decided I need to power my Rcbs/LE Wilson tool. Yea you can buy such devices and the hornady duo isn't real expensive but I like to make things.
$2 sparkplug socket 5/8 (sparkplug sockets are deep enough where as most standard deep sockets the flats are only deep enough for a nut)
$.07 10-24 set screw (I'd recomend fine. thread next time cause the socket thickness doesn't allow for many threads.)
$3 drill adapter.
Total $5.07 to speed things up. Yeah I shoulda got the triway trimmer in stead of the WFT.

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Is it possible the set screw is canting the cutting plane so that it isn't perpendicular to the rotational axis?

 

[brokeasajoke]

Of course it will.

 

[CoyoteTan]

When there is about a 1000 cases setting here for a couple of hungry ARs, it is faster and better. Everything else I usually just load in batches of 20 or less so such a device is not needed. On a side note, let the drill or electric screwdriver turn slow.

I don have your machnical skill set so I have to buy the set from Brownells. But the concept is the same and works out order good, when you have to deal with 1000s rounds of 223 cases, every little bit helps.

 

[Mikemci]

Is it possible the set screw is canting the cutting plane so that it isn't perpendicular to the rotational axis?

My first thought too.

 

[TIMO]

I like the idea. If it works for you, that is all that matters. For me as well, I just don't do a ton of cases at once. I should post my DIY tool for compressing the ejector spring for disassembly and re-assembly. Works on a REM 700 bolt and AR15 bolt. It is made from an M-16 blank firing adapter (BFA).

Tim

 

[Baddog0302]

on 223 brass with the primer crimp left after de priming using the chamfer end of the tool makes cutting out the crimp, then chamfering the case mouth, just switch ends on the case.

 

[abishai]

I went the other way and just tightened the brass in my cordless drill chuck and hold the chamfer tool in the other hand.
When you have a thousand to do every little trick helps

 

[brokeasajoke]

on 223 brass with the primer crimp left after de priming using the chamfer end of the tool makes cutting out the crimp, then chamfering the case mouth, just switch ends on the case.

That's and idea. I normally chuck up my primer pocket tool as a seperate step on my LC brass.

 

[JFrank]

When there is about a 1000 cases setting here for a couple of hungry ARs, it is faster and better. Everything else I usually just load in batches of 20 or less so such a device is not needed. On a side note, let the drill or electric screwdriver turn slow.

Doesn't Frankford Arsenal make a prep center with a decent trimmer for that kind of volume?
I would be concerned about un even case necks cutting by hand.

 

[Dans40X]

The Gracey & Giraurd case trimmers accomplish 3 operations at once & is as quick as sharpening a #2 wooden pencil in an electric pencil sharpener.
The above mentioned equipment have worked well for me for the past 25+ years for gas impingement/piston/op rod rattle battle reloads.

 

[alinwa]

I like the idea of wrapping the tool in masking tape for slip-fit instead of set screw.

And I use these a lot, does both sides at once.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0014136PA/?tag=accuratescom-20