catching falling rcbs primers

[upjeeper]

i'm not too happy with the way my rockchucker catches (or doesn't) the primers as they come out. I've got the black plastic deal in place but doesn't seem to catch the primers unless i hold the thing up against the shaft the shell holder is on

would something like this work better?

http://www.shootnhunt.com/reloading/presses/press_accessories/rcbs/0801166.html

 

[lev83]

This is the primer catch that came with my RockChucker. I would estimate it actually catches somewhere in the 60% range of spent primers the others come out with force hit the catch tray and bounce into the floor.

 

[Steve H]

would something like this work better?

that's what came with my rock chucker and it works fine.

 

[Hutch]

Fact of life. The floor will stop almost all the rest. I have a dedicated $20 shop vac for spent primers, powder spills, and brass shavings.

 

[jtuck]

Fact of life. The floor will stop almost all the rest. I have a dedicated $20 shop vac for spent primers, powder spills, and brass shavings.

I've heard never to use a vacuum cleaner for powder. Have you ever run into problems?

 

[The Bushmaster]

Well now if you suck up a pound of powder and throw in a lit match....You might have a problem...Of course if you are sucking up a lot of plain dust and toss in a lit match...You might have a problem too...Your wife might just give you a problem for the lit match in her vacuum too...

 

[Chawbaccer]

I just put a waste basket up close under my press, works good as any thing.

 

[sweet45]

I have a single stage RCBS I 've been using for years, and one of the best upgrades is the hand held primer. It has a tray that hold 100 primers and works great. Don't get a lee, I had one and the handle snapped in half very easily, get the RCBS.

 

[lord1234]

I put a trash can under it. Catches 9/10

 

[rcmodel]

I made a little deflecter shield pattern out of cardboard a couple of years ago to try it out.
Planned to make the final one out of aluminum.

But this one worked so good I never got a Round-Tuit.






rc

 

[Mal H]

upjeeper - If the catcher shown in the link isn't what you have with your Rockchucker, what do you have?

Here is a tip someone gave here a long time ago. I would love to give them credit, but I don't know who it was now.

Assuming you have a catcher in place as illustrated in the link, take a medium diameter soda straw and cut it to about 2 1/4" in length. Then wedge that into the long groove in the piston with the top of the straw just below the bottom of the shell holder groove. The straw shouldn't be too large in diameter or it will catch on the piston sleeve. My straw is .31" in diameter, got it at Arby's, fwiw (I had a spare lying around with the wrapper on it).

The straw will control the flying primer so that it goes into the catcher without bouncing out or missing it altogether. Works like a champ.

[Edit]
I also had a piece of cardboard similar to rcmodel's that works very well, but the straw idea is a little better looking.

The subject had come up before, linked below is a picture of my "backstop". The only reason I'm showing it is because of what it is made of - made me laugh now 5 years later since most of us know what happened to the company mentioned: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=761796#post761796

 

[TeamRush]

I have Lee Turret, RCBS Single, and Dillon Progressive.

I have a good broom and dustpan.

 

[jerkface11]

I've got a Forster. it has a little jar that catches 100% of them.

 

[ADKWOODSMAN]

I just added a piece of thick card stock and came up with a gadget like RC's, works fine.

 

[Otto]

The Rock Chucker design for spent primers is crappy.
And the RCBS engineers decided to make it even crappier with the new Supreme.
Unless you enjoy jerry-rigging, my suggestion is to shop for a different press.

 

[loadedround]

RCmodel: You are a very cleaver person! I was reading these various posts w/o planning to comment until I came across your's. Your cardboard shield is the the ideal thing to deflect spend primers into the receptacle on my Redding Boss press. My two Dillons cause me no problems, but my single station Redding is a royal PIA in throwing spent primers all over my bench and floor. I owe you a cold one!

 

[ReloaderFred]

I don't know what I'm doing different than you guys, but I very seldom have a spent primer get away from me on my Rockchucker. I did fill in the gaps around the mating area of the primer catcher and press with some J-B Weld. I just waxed the press so the J-B wouldn't stick to it and applied the epoxy until it matched the contours and there wasn't anywhere for the primers to spill out. The primers bouncing out of the catcher isn't a problem on mine.

I do have both the old aluminum catcher and the newer plastic one, and I prefer the plastic to the aluminum.

Hope this helps.

Fred

 

[rcmodel]

Fred
I'd like to know what the difference in our presses is?

On mine, sometimes the old primer makes a "pop" sound when it comes out, and the dang things ricochet out of there like crazy.
It's as if there were air pressure inside the sizing die. But there can't be with a pistol sizer die.

Some of them make it halfway across the basement if I ain't standing in the way so they hit me first.

rc

 

[Mal H]

rcmodel - give the soda straw method I described a try. It really does work with those primers that come out fast and furious.

 

[rcmodel]

I will.

Already got some assorted straws laying on the counter by the basement door I dug out earlier!

Thanks for the tip!

rc

 

[R.W.Dale]

If you'll cut a soda straw and place in inside the ram just right it'll prevent primers from coming out backwards and bypassing the primer catcher.

With this simple mod mine catches 100% of the primers

Here is a tip someone gave here a long time ago. I would love to give them credit, but I don't know who it was now.

I've been saying this for awhile

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=5407377#post5407377

 

[Mal H]

It was from 4 or 5 years ago, not as recent as that post. But, if you suggested it long ago, then it could well have been you. (Might have been over at TFL as well.)

 

[R.W.Dale]

It was from 4 or 5 years ago, not as recent as that post. But, if you suggested it long ago, then it could well have been you. (Might have been over at TFL as well.)

I've prolly been using this method for 4 years now. OH! well who care who came up with it first, IT WORKS that's all that matters

 

[Mal H]

Found it! It was at TFL and was only a little over 3 years ago: http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1832295&highlight=straw+primer#post1832295

And it was one of only two posts that member ever made!

You're right though, doesn't matter where the idea came from, it just works.

 

[ReloaderFred]

rc,

I don't know what the difference is. I deprimed 1,000 .38's the other day and there were only 2 primers that didn't stay in the primer catcher. Mine's just a regular old RCBS Rockchucker press, but I did do that little modification on the gap between the primer catcher and the press, but that wouldn't affect them flying past, or bouncing out of, the primer catcher. I do leave a priming arm in the press and that does deflect a lot of them into the catcher, but they don't bounce out. Maybe I'm just lucky.........

I would try the straw trick, but I'm not having a problem.

Hope this helps.

Fred