bluetopper
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I get inconsistent trim lengths on some expensive brass and it's really irritating. Is there a real consistent trimmer?
Can you post your setup jmorris? I'm intrigued.
I wouldn't say this is the way I always do it or even often do it but once I found myself away from home with a press and brass that was supposed to be sized and trimmed, that wasn't.
Folks were going to be there for some belt fed fun the next day so I was kind of forced to find a solution.
I did have a lathe available, so I took a section of 1.25" barstock and drilled an 11/32 hole all the way through it, then drilled a 29/64 hole through all but 3/8 of an inch or so from the end. Then bored the small hole to .345 and the large one to
.475.
Then I just faced the small end to the trim to length. Place it up against the belt sander I had previously made from an old dryer motor, part of an old john deere hay baler and old roller skate wheel and I was in business.
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Ingenious idea. Wouldn't the sander eventually wear the jig down causing inconsistent lengths?
.40
About as good as it gets.
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