georgerkahn
01-14-2019, 03:35 PM
In the midst of a loading session with my RL550b press, the shell holder could not be turned/advanced. "Huh?" It turns out I tried to put a (large pistol) primer in a (.44 S&W Special) case which already had one in it. I did not now if I had put a new primer in already, allllmost seating the 2nd upon this possible new primer (most likely guess) -- or, perhaps a case who's fired primer was not removed.
In any case, all I had to do was loosen the grub screw, followed by plate screw, to remove this case. Yes -- maybe I could've/should've thrown it away, but... it seemed like a challenge to do removal of both primers. What ended up working really quick and easy:
I put my $16.95 Harbor Freight "drill press" vise on bench, and grabbed a random RCBS shell holder. I then took the sizing/decapping assembly out of the die. Opening the vise, I stacked the case with two primers atop the shell holder's bottom (it wouldn't fit in one right-side-up due to 2nd primer sticking out), and then inserted decap assembly in the case. Opening vise just wide enough for the stacked parts -- after donning safety glasses to be OCD -- I slowly turned the vise handle, and with hardly discernible effort, BOTH primers dropped out.
It worked so well I "filed this method" should this ever occur again... and, elected to post this here as a solution which proved to work, should you ever seat a 2nd primer in the same case, and wish to remove them...
geo
In any case, all I had to do was loosen the grub screw, followed by plate screw, to remove this case. Yes -- maybe I could've/should've thrown it away, but... it seemed like a challenge to do removal of both primers. What ended up working really quick and easy:
I put my $16.95 Harbor Freight "drill press" vise on bench, and grabbed a random RCBS shell holder. I then took the sizing/decapping assembly out of the die. Opening the vise, I stacked the case with two primers atop the shell holder's bottom (it wouldn't fit in one right-side-up due to 2nd primer sticking out), and then inserted decap assembly in the case. Opening vise just wide enough for the stacked parts -- after donning safety glasses to be OCD -- I slowly turned the vise handle, and with hardly discernible effort, BOTH primers dropped out.
It worked so well I "filed this method" should this ever occur again... and, elected to post this here as a solution which proved to work, should you ever seat a 2nd primer in the same case, and wish to remove them...
geo