Three44s
05-10-2015, 11:36 PM
A member recently sold me a pair of Lee Zip trims.
I wanted to stretch the horizons on what the little gizzmos will do ......
I could not find much on how to cut pockets ...... save for a partial quote from the CBA web site ..... I'd have to join to read the rest of it. I am a member on more than enough web sites already ..... CBA is certainly worthy ...... but I just don't do the sites I belong to justice already.
The partial quote mentioned a .40 S&W case ..........
My current cutters are Lyman and they use the standard 8-32 thread ........ my idea was to get a coupler nut (they are longer than standard) and and I started looking at a 9mm Luger case .......
Well .... one thing lead to another and by the time I had some sort of a solution for now .......... I was using a 40 S&W case with a 9 mm also.
So here's what I did:
I took the 9mm case and deprimed it and oversized the flash hole and taped it to 8-32. I also deprimed the "40" and then with the two cases facing each other ..... I married them up ...... installed the Lyman cutter into the new threaded rear of the 9mm casing and set it in the Zip trim with the the 40 s&W case in the Zip tool.
I went to town with a box of re-sized 243 Win cases this afternoon and in no time I had them all primer pocket uniformed ........ and no sore hands ....
I read all the "Zip trims are junk" claims and that's all fine and good but I am not buying it ..........
In the course of our ranching ....... we run more than our fair share of Briggs engines .......... they power our side roll sprinkler lines when we move them ........ and there is one thing you learn about rope starters ..... quick!
You learn that you DON'T let them fly to over speed the rewind and you DON'T hit the end of the travel when you are still pulling out!
The zip trim is no different!
And I learned a further lesson with the "zip" ....... when you are re-winding to get another pull on the same case for a particular operation .......... you want to release the pressure of the work so as to allow a more free re-wind of the tool.
I have cordless drills and corded drills and all that good stuff ........ it seems like I am forever re-charging something just to run a little brass.
I can burn some beans on a little zip trim and save money from having to go to a fitness club cause I used power.
Best regards
Three 44s
I wanted to stretch the horizons on what the little gizzmos will do ......
I could not find much on how to cut pockets ...... save for a partial quote from the CBA web site ..... I'd have to join to read the rest of it. I am a member on more than enough web sites already ..... CBA is certainly worthy ...... but I just don't do the sites I belong to justice already.
The partial quote mentioned a .40 S&W case ..........
My current cutters are Lyman and they use the standard 8-32 thread ........ my idea was to get a coupler nut (they are longer than standard) and and I started looking at a 9mm Luger case .......
Well .... one thing lead to another and by the time I had some sort of a solution for now .......... I was using a 40 S&W case with a 9 mm also.
So here's what I did:
I took the 9mm case and deprimed it and oversized the flash hole and taped it to 8-32. I also deprimed the "40" and then with the two cases facing each other ..... I married them up ...... installed the Lyman cutter into the new threaded rear of the 9mm casing and set it in the Zip trim with the the 40 s&W case in the Zip tool.
I went to town with a box of re-sized 243 Win cases this afternoon and in no time I had them all primer pocket uniformed ........ and no sore hands ....
I read all the "Zip trims are junk" claims and that's all fine and good but I am not buying it ..........
In the course of our ranching ....... we run more than our fair share of Briggs engines .......... they power our side roll sprinkler lines when we move them ........ and there is one thing you learn about rope starters ..... quick!
You learn that you DON'T let them fly to over speed the rewind and you DON'T hit the end of the travel when you are still pulling out!
The zip trim is no different!
And I learned a further lesson with the "zip" ....... when you are re-winding to get another pull on the same case for a particular operation .......... you want to release the pressure of the work so as to allow a more free re-wind of the tool.
I have cordless drills and corded drills and all that good stuff ........ it seems like I am forever re-charging something just to run a little brass.
I can burn some beans on a little zip trim and save money from having to go to a fitness club cause I used power.
Best regards
Three 44s