How to remove a flipped primer

[SDDasher]

First, buy your survivors a million dollar insurance policy. Next line the area around the nefarious primer with walls of lead twelve inches thick and ten feet tall. See if your local bomb squad will loan you one of their bomb disposal suits. Then follow the instructions above and you should be OK.

 

[Zero333]

Like some others have stated. Pouring water or oil into the primer compound renders it inert.

 

[Jay Christopherson]

just de-prime it. Use a little less force (push it out, rather than pop it out like you might a fired primer). Take reasonable precautions and use a bit of common sense. It's really not as dangerous all that. Dusty had the right of it earlier in the thread...

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Like some others have stated. Pouring water or oil into the primer compound renders it inert.

Have you actually tested that? I know of primers soaked in oil for a year that still go off.

 

[LHSmith]

Have you actually tested that? I know of primers soaked in oil for a year that still go off.

I agree. There have been numerous tests done on fluids that would make the primer inert. IIRC all but one was successful 100% of the time. Don't recall the fluid....and it was not WD-40. Attempting to deactivate with a solvent will create false security.

 

[Zero333]

Have you actually tested that? I know of primers soaked in oil for a year that still go off.

I only used water and not oil (just heard of others using oil), but I've deprimed many live primers right after putting water in the case and not one went off.

I doubt those primers you speak of were still soaked in oil after a year of sitting around.

Next time I go to the range I will prime a few cases and put several drops of water to soak the primers and shoot them without powder or bullet and see what happens.

 

[Twoboxer]

I only used water and not oil (just heard of others using oil), but I've deprimed many live primers right after putting water in the case and not one went off. . . .

That's because live primers do not "go off" when you deprime them.

If you want proof, next time you do that, put the primer back in an empty case, chamber it, and pull the trigger. As long as it has an anvil in it . . .

Be prepared for a loud noise

 

[Dusty Stevens]

And to replicate the tests take a lid from a spray paint can or carb cleaner, put some primers in there and cover em with oil, yes submerge them in oil for a year then put em all in a case and youll get 100% ignition. Ive seen it done with wd40, kroil and 3in 1 oil and all 3 did not kill a single primer after a year.

 

[JohnKielly]

Never have seated a primer backwards yet, but I've knocked out quite a few the right way around for various reasons & none of them popped.

 

[rogn]

ROCK, as was said pokeing and scratching around in a primer may be a good way to get your fingers damaged, count them before you start. Just dont mess with the compound, its inherently unstable, including sensitive to friction.
I purchased a Lee super whatever priming tool which has the facility to install primers upside down(why did they ever evolve an ideal into crap) so Ive been decapping more reversed primers in the past year than I have wearing out 3 auto primes. Again as mentioned by the majority use a universal depriming tool(if available) steady slow pressure , you wont hurt anything by wrapping the press in a towel. Incidentally how many of you out there have a fire extinguisher in easy reach of your loading room? At some time in the past when younger and even more intellectually impaired than now I did a lot of apprentice redneck "experimenting" with primers, let us say testing sensitivity. Again as someone stated it takes quite a bit of focussed force, generally percussive forces to set one off. Are primers dangerous, yes without a doubt. They really arent little antipersonel mines looking to blow you to pieces.

 

[chkunz]

I just throw that piece of brass away.