I bought some 7.62x39 brass from a member here and wanted to deprime it before tumbling.
The first case I tried to deprime broke the pin of my LEE universal decapping die!
After a couple of tries to locate a suitable rod to make a replacement I decided to fix the original rod but I had done a repair previously by drilling a hole in the top of the rod and installing a decapping pin.
Now I had a rod with broken pins in both ends!😡
I heated the end with the original pin red hot and sharpened the.070” drill bit and successfully drilled out the original pin!
The hole is a little over sized so I used some Loctite to hold it in and decapped all of the brass without any problems!
If I break the pin, a little heat to soften the Loctite and I will be back in business!