Greetings
I'm using a 9mm Redding titanium carbide resizing die and the 'sharpish' edge on the die entrance is occasionally catching the case. I'm using a new LNL and have verified that the timing is correct on the shell holder. The cases don't catch too often but even 1:20 is a bit of a pain as I have to 'nudge' the case by hand to un-catch it. I've done a bit of investigation on the LNL design and it appears that the case retainer spring is tilting (EVER so slightly) the case in an outward angle. i.e. that's the root cause of the slight case misalignment. Oh, the case retainer spring is properly seated. The other mitigating cause of the case jams is that there's VERY little taper on the entrance to the 9mm sizing die.
One interesting footnote is that I have a similar set of Redding dies for 40 S&W and the leading edge of the sizing die is much more rounded/tapered. So, even with the slight "case tilt" caused by the LNL case retainer spring the 40 S&W die has enough entrance "rounding" to minimize/eliminate any case jams.
Anyway, I guess what I'm looking for is either a "fix" for the retainer induced case tilt or a resizing die that has a little more rounding at the entrance.
thanks!
JohnG
I'm using a 9mm Redding titanium carbide resizing die and the 'sharpish' edge on the die entrance is occasionally catching the case. I'm using a new LNL and have verified that the timing is correct on the shell holder. The cases don't catch too often but even 1:20 is a bit of a pain as I have to 'nudge' the case by hand to un-catch it. I've done a bit of investigation on the LNL design and it appears that the case retainer spring is tilting (EVER so slightly) the case in an outward angle. i.e. that's the root cause of the slight case misalignment. Oh, the case retainer spring is properly seated. The other mitigating cause of the case jams is that there's VERY little taper on the entrance to the 9mm sizing die.
One interesting footnote is that I have a similar set of Redding dies for 40 S&W and the leading edge of the sizing die is much more rounded/tapered. So, even with the slight "case tilt" caused by the LNL case retainer spring the 40 S&W die has enough entrance "rounding" to minimize/eliminate any case jams.
Anyway, I guess what I'm looking for is either a "fix" for the retainer induced case tilt or a resizing die that has a little more rounding at the entrance.
thanks!
JohnG
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