26Charlie
08-18-2007, 11:18 PM
Got one of these in nearly new condition. About half retail price. Here's the things I learned using it so far:
It only turns about as fast as you could crank the hand one.
You can easily stall the motor or cause the cutter to dig in & stall. A light to moderate hand pressure on the feed is required.
The Allen wrench and the set screw in the cutter head which holds the pilot in place are not matched quite correctly - too loose, so the wrench jams and skips in the set screw socket.
There is no place to buy a set screw Sunday evening.
Shells should be sized, deprimed and expanded prior to trimming. Otherwise a little leftover crimp may jam the shell on the pilot, or the universal holder may not hold the shell straight due to a centering ball indexing in the primer pocket.
It was not cutting very well, and pushing up burrs, and shells seemed to stick on the pilot. Aha - put a little bullet lube on the pilot. WRONG - now it did not cut hardly at all. Wait a minute - wipe a little cutting oil on the cutter with my finger tip (I used a sulphuretted oil called Sulflo, but any cutting oil would probably work). Now it would cut very well for three shells. So I saturated a patch with cutting oil, and used it to wipe the case mouth inside and out lightly for the depth of the cut. That works for each case very nicely.
I started with a big can of .44 Mag and Special splits, getting about a box of .44 Specials and a box and a half of .44 Russians out of it, as well as learning the tricks.
It only turns about as fast as you could crank the hand one.
You can easily stall the motor or cause the cutter to dig in & stall. A light to moderate hand pressure on the feed is required.
The Allen wrench and the set screw in the cutter head which holds the pilot in place are not matched quite correctly - too loose, so the wrench jams and skips in the set screw socket.
There is no place to buy a set screw Sunday evening.
Shells should be sized, deprimed and expanded prior to trimming. Otherwise a little leftover crimp may jam the shell on the pilot, or the universal holder may not hold the shell straight due to a centering ball indexing in the primer pocket.
It was not cutting very well, and pushing up burrs, and shells seemed to stick on the pilot. Aha - put a little bullet lube on the pilot. WRONG - now it did not cut hardly at all. Wait a minute - wipe a little cutting oil on the cutter with my finger tip (I used a sulphuretted oil called Sulflo, but any cutting oil would probably work). Now it would cut very well for three shells. So I saturated a patch with cutting oil, and used it to wipe the case mouth inside and out lightly for the depth of the cut. That works for each case very nicely.
I started with a big can of .44 Mag and Special splits, getting about a box of .44 Specials and a box and a half of .44 Russians out of it, as well as learning the tricks.