chamfer tool

[deputy bruce]

I was think about a chamfer tool to swage military crimps was looking at a rcbs my question is do you have to use a chamfer tool in a drill press before or after you remove crimp or is it all ready for primer thanks

 

[rcmodel]

No, you don't have to use it in a drill press.
Although it is much faster if you have a lot of cases to do.

A twist or two by hand will remove all the crimp and it is ready for priming.

rc

 

[Clint M]

If you swage the primer pockets you should not need to chamfer them I may have misunderstood your post. If you go the chamfer route find a small pin, drill something you can use as a gauge to know when you have removed the crimp as it's easy to go to far.

 

[Reloadron]

Just a little note on the terms here. When it comes to cartridge primer pockets you can swage them or you can ream them.

Cartridge primer pocket swaging tool.

Cartridge primer pocket reaming tool.

One swages the material and one reams material away. Either will remove a primer pocket crimp, not to mention you can remove crimps with a #2 phillips screwdriver bit.

A Chamfer Tool is normally associated with de Burring and cleaning up a case mouth to prepare it for bullet seating.

Case Mouth chamfer tools.

Also, yes, you could chamfer a primer pocket. For many it's about speed as in I want to do a few hundred cases and then as RC mentions motorized in some form is much nicer to have than one at a time by hand. Just a matter of patience and time.

Ron

 

[45lcshooter]

All of the many of 1000's of 223/556 rounds I have hand primed(yep I still do it old school with a single stage press and Lee hand primer, when I blast of 10k rounds a year) I have very little issues priming when there is some type of crimp, all I have to do is spin the case in the case holder to get better fit, then squeeze the handle. So I don't chamfer any crimps out.

 

[Hondo 60]

If you only have a few to do this works well & is CHEAP!
Only $3.99

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/389104/lee-chamfer-and-deburring-tool

 

[deputy bruce]

chamfer

thanks for all your ideas they will be great thanks again deputy bruce

 

[Sunray]

Rich guys use it in a drill press. The rest of us use a chamfering tool while watching TV. Or a swager in a press. Some avoid milsurp cases altogether.

 

[FROGO207]

I have the RCBS/made by L E Wilson inside/outside chamfer tool. I have a small battery drill that I can chuck the center spindle from the outside chamfer portion into and it works slick that way. Recently I have purchased a CH4D primer pocket swager and use it as I do not want to remove any of the primer pocket material to hopefully prolong case head/primer pocket life. Might not make any difference but that is the new reloading related experiment as of late around here.

 

[ZGunner]

I started off using a Lee chamfur tool because its what I had. I then ordered an RCBS swaging kit and used that for a bit. But I'm not sure if I had it set up wrong, I would still hang a primer on about 20% of the brass.

Now when I process a bunch of military crimp brass I use a pocket reamer in a drill. It saves time and my hands don't cramp after 10 minutes.