SmeeAgain
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A few years back I purchased a tool to form #10 & 11 caps from aluminum cans. It works amazingly well.
With the current primer shortage, I wondered what we could improvise with.
What I tried was to carefully remove the anvils from spend primers, then using a pin punch I was able to reform the primer cups. After a good cleaning, it was a simple matter of adding new primer compound & replacing the anvils.
While it was a slow, methodical process it did work... and worked well.
Obviously under normal circumstances, this isn't worth the time & effort but... when the time comes when things aren't normal... it could be a real game changer.
Now is the perfect time to experiment & educate ourselves... before it becomes necessity.
With the current primer shortage, I wondered what we could improvise with.
What I tried was to carefully remove the anvils from spend primers, then using a pin punch I was able to reform the primer cups. After a good cleaning, it was a simple matter of adding new primer compound & replacing the anvils.
While it was a slow, methodical process it did work... and worked well.
Obviously under normal circumstances, this isn't worth the time & effort but... when the time comes when things aren't normal... it could be a real game changer.
Now is the perfect time to experiment & educate ourselves... before it becomes necessity.