Use a Frankford Arsenal hand deprimer. It works way better and keeps all that shit off the press, which stays much cleaner. Plus, doing them by hand lets you know if the primer pockets are starting to loosen up.
Rock Chucker Spent Primer Solution
- Thread starter JaoeyP
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I bought one of the printed units from eBay, from a seller called Elite 3d Design. It's not perfect, and I also have a couple pieces of primer box cardboard wedged behind mine to keep it tight to the ram, but it does catch 98% of the primers and leaves the press much cleaner when depriming and resizing.
I have an old RCII and needed to reverse the orientation of my ram so the slot is facing the rear, but that was easy. My biggest issue is that the little magnet wedge that slips inside the slot in the ram gets moved around too easily, and it occasionally holds primers without dropping them down the tube to the collection bag I use.
Mine was $15, and I'd spend that on it again for sure.
I have an old RCII and needed to reverse the orientation of my ram so the slot is facing the rear, but that was easy. My biggest issue is that the little magnet wedge that slips inside the slot in the ram gets moved around too easily, and it occasionally holds primers without dropping them down the tube to the collection bag I use.
Mine was $15, and I'd spend that on it again for sure.
ELR LVR
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dhagerty40
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that is the factory primer catcher!
ELR LVR
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That's correct! sort of, The factory one was green (at least mine is anyway)
But they sell this repro on ebay for like 20 bucks
dhagerty40
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mine was different.. The Rockchucker 2 I bought in the 80's came with a black Catcher and it threw about 8-10 primers per 100. about 5 years ago, I got a replacement as my old one cracked. this one was also black and still throws about 8-10 primers. the problem with it is that when it gets about 1/2 full and sits a while, Now it just slides off and I am picking up all primers!
I just ordered one from primercatcher and should have it in a couple of days. Will see how it works!
SmittyJon
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Talk about an over-engineered solution, to a simple problem ... I just use an empty, plastic dry-wall compound pail, set on a small, low table, about foot below my Rockchucker. Takes a few seconds to set up and take down. Easy peasy, with no retainers, tape, zip ties, tubes, etc., etc., required.
The pail catches about 99% of spent primers. Of course there's ALWAYS 1 or 2 of the little SOB's that somehow launch themselves, and get away. But they get swept up when I sweep the shop floor.
SJ
The very original one for the RC was an aluminum one, then they had green ones and now, they are black.
I give a 100% satisfaction/fit guarantee - if you don't like it or it does not work for you as expected for whatever reason, reach out to me and I will refund your payment, or jointly figure out the problem and fix it. (in 10+ years, I have not had a single customer taking me up on that offer, so it is a very low "risk" on my side 
)
)That's what my Rockchucker has.
JaoeyP
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Just ordered one.I give a 100% satisfaction/fit guarantee - if you don't like it or it does not work for you as expected for whatever reason, reach out to me and I will refund your payment, or jointly figure out the problem and fix it. (in 10+ years, I have not had a single customer taking me up on that offer, so it is a very low "risk" on my side
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