Primed vs Unprimed Annealing

[Whit holman]

Take your decapping rod out chuck in drill
File till it fits flash hole

 

[tenring]

and I had to dig one out of my leg with eyebrow tweezers,,if I had it to do over I would have went to ER,,,,that friggin hurt,,glad it wasnt higher and to the left though!!!!!

Same thing happened to me years ago. Annealing with a torch, dropped them in a pan when necks were red. I had a few in the pan, heated one case, dropped it in the pan with other hot brass, and did not see the live primer and it exploded. Put a hole in the tin pan but missed me. Almost crapped me out!!!!

 

[Alexander-M]

Take your decapping rod out chuck in drill
File till it fits flash hole

Whit,
You and I posted basically the same recommendation seconds apart. Just before you posted, I said:

"Chuck the decapping pin in the drill press and use a file to reduce its diameter to the size you want.
That's what I did and it works fine."

Must be a good idea!

Alex

 

[muleman69]

Chuck the decapping pin in the drill press and use a file to reduce its diameter to the size you want.
That's what I did and it works fine.
Alex

I wish I new this a week ago as I ordered small pins , I had a half dozen large here the whole time.

 

[Whit holman]

That’s funny our post show the same time

 

[pirate ammo]

That’s funny our post show the same time

a lot of think alike, but some have faster fingers.

 

[Fotheringill]

Being human, we all make mistakes. A better practice would be to deprime ALL before annealing.

 

[Alexander-M]

I wish I new this a week ago as I ordered small pins , I had a half dozen large here the whole time.

Don't be too sure. I also ordered (from Lee) a new pin thinking that the one I had, according to the specs, was a reject.

It was supposed to be a Ø0.062" pin, but in reality, it was Ø063" at the very tip, Ø0.069" about 1/8" up, and Ø0.075" at the top - all way too large since the pin has to go in the hole at least an 1/8", I would think.

Well, would you believe, the one I ordered was exactly the same!

So I filed the original to Ø0.058", and have been using it for every cartridge without any problem. I still have the new one as received.

Alex

 

[muleman69]

Don't be too sure. I also ordered (from Lee) a new pin thinking that the one I had, according to the specs, was a reject.

It was supposed to be a Ø0.062" pin, but in reality, it was Ø063" at the very tip, Ø0.069" about 1/8" up, and Ø0.075" at the top - all way too large since the pin has to go in the hole at least an 1/8", I would think.

Well, would you believe, the one I ordered was exactly the same!

So I filed the original to Ø0.058", and have been using it for every cartridge without any problem. I still have the new one as received.

Alex

.058 is were I'm at on the small, I even ordered a new decaper from Redding and it came with only one pin? I must have missed something along the way

 

[hogpatrol]

In the past I've always unprimed my brass with a depriming tool after initial tumbling but before annealing. I have recently upgraded to lapua brass for a 6.5 creed that have the undersized flash hole. I can no longer deprime with my frankford arsenal deprimer as the pin is too large a diameter. Is their any harm with annealing with the primer left in? And then depriming during my sizing step with my die?
Thanks
Beef

No