Ouch

OP-

Be happy it was only a finger nail and not another body part.

I hate to say this, but some of you guys don't need to operate machinery of any kind, much less reloading equipment. Be careful!!!!

Reminds me of a co-worker, back in the day. He mashed a finger or thumb nail, and after it turned blue he put a small drill bit in a press so he could drill a hole in the nail to relieve the pressure. He turned on the drill press, and when the drill bit started into the nail, it grabbed and he drilled a nice hole completely through his finger. Needless to say, it relieved the pressure.

Ya'll stay away from everything!

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Stew0576, I'm glad you didn't insert a primer in that finger as there's no place to put the powder!

Demi-human said:

I deprime with a hand press, so I removed the decapping pin and the expander...

Still hurts.

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What hand press, please tell? I can see a lot of depriming whilst watching some college football.

Just a Lee Hand Press.



I got it for thirty dollars and have it set with a universal depriming die.
It saves gunk from getting in my loading press.

I like it. I dump all the primers out every ten or fifteen. I can use it upstairs at the table.(With appropriate clean up.) I was thinking of boring the side so the primers fall out the bottom.

Having said that, I see a new Lee Automatic Processing Press in my future. De- priming is the one operation I like separating, it’s dirty. This press will be mounted on a lap bench so I can set it, or myself, anywhere and de-prime anything for cleaning.


Of course, that won’t prevent me from catching my thumb in a case because I dropped the handle on the loading press, it just keeps me from ramming a pin through it at the same time...

(Just so y’all know that I haven’t missed out, I’ve been skewered through my palm into my wrist by an ornery framing nailer. It was sunk to the head and kinda weird not being able to move my hand down from “wave”. I have never insulted a tool for being old since. I have cursed them for a myriad other things, but not for being old...)

This is the tool I use for depriming. So far I have deprined over 50,000 cases with out any problems.

No matter how well designed a tool is or how "idiot proof" there will be somebody that figgers out how to screw it up, and often in the process damage body parts. I started using tools under my Pa's instructions at 10 or 12 and used hand tools/machinery to make a living for the next 60+ years and I have only about 7 or 8 inches of scars on my hands. Most of these injuries came about when I had a brain phart, not paying attention or goofing off . Only one or maybe two injuries were not my fault (faulty tools/machinery). I had the one finger slice when reloading and none others since mainly because I like reloading and pay attention to every step, every time...

And yes, I agree there are some people that should not be allowed to use anything more complex than a rubber hammer...

It like my Dad used today when he ran a sawmill
“Son it ain’t the machinery, it’s the ignorance around it!”

jmorris said:

but there are a lot of machines ...

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Yup back on Feb 27,1931, great-grandpa got his long sleeved shirt stuck in a lathe.
Ripped his shirt AND his arm off.
True story, I found the newspaper report while doing the family tree.
Luckily quick first aid saved his life.
He died July 10,1932.

Yep, ran a depriming pin thru my left index finger (missed bone). Learned a lot that day.

I too have had nails reroute while framing. But a press hasn't tried to eat me yet.
That looks very painful and I don't want to try it.

Amen, and try your best to not become complacent. The man that taught me a lot I know about machining was one that spent a lifetime working around the most dangerous equipment, a few years of them were in the middle of a ship, during wartime, machining necessary parts to keep the missions going. One day I asked him how he lost one of his fingers, he replied “oh, making some shelves for the bathroom” (for his wife).

Its often what you don’t think will get you that does.

Stew0576 said:

I always chuckled when I read the stories on here about people getting finger's stuck in a press, well not anymore I was sizing .270 cases today and didn't move my hand for some stupid reason and fully buried the decapping pin through my finger nail, the worst part was my finger was stuck on the pin, had to use my other hand to free my finger from the press, will never laugh again ouch

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Next time, take a picture before you pull the lever back up!