Sick and tired of primers on the floor.

[tightgroup tiger]

I use an old 30-06 resizing die as a universal depriming die to deprime on my RC II and I don't have primers flying anywhere. I also have a universal depriming die from RCBS with a spring loaded punch pin and it shoots them everywhere.
My old 30-06 die just lays them down on the original catch pan and they behave. It works for 9mm and .357mag but tries to resize my 41mags so I can't use it for that. I get all kinds of hell when my wife steps on one in her bare feet so I just use the 30-06 die and everyone is happy.

 

[CMV]

A pie box?!? Sorry Galil, but it ain't redneck unless it's a beer can.

Natty Light at that!

 

[docv]

My folks used to make me vacuum the basement, because of the live primers in the shag rug...... Like playing Minesweeper, it was, long before that game exsisted.

You had cool parents. Did they help you keep score?

 

[dh1633pm]

I went to an estate sale a few years ago. There was a small table with a C&H press bolted to it. It was rusty and froze up. But under it was a cooking sheet. The die in the press was a universal decapper. The C&H does't have a primer catcher so I guess that was the reason for the cooking sheet. I purchased the press for $15.00. I didn't keep the cooking sheet.

I just mentioned it because sometimes the best solutions are those that might not look pretty but get the job done. There might be options that you just haven't thought up yet. My Buchanan Hand Press has a clever little primer catcher. And sometimes the solution is just a cookie sheet away.

 

[entropy]

You had cool parents. Did they help you keep score?

No, and the KA-BOOMS were real. It was as punishment for dropping primers in the carpet.....

 

[bbqreloader]

The primer catcher, as given in the link on pg1, has worked for me for years when I'm doing 223 and 30-06 on the RCBS.

 

[jmorris]

I have 3D printed a couple of solutions, this is one of them.

 

[GW Staar]

jmorris's fix is a good one one.....for the late model Rock Chuckers, but if you have an old one like a Model I or Model II, there is a pretty cheap an easy way. Steps below:
1. You Drill out a .357 case, keeping the rim....drill a hole in the bottom of the plastic primer catcher, and press the case through rim up. Then epoxy putty around it to funnel everything to the case. (add a clear flex tube under it to a primer can on the floor.
2. Coat the primer arm slot with Vaseline. Then form an inclined ramp in the primer arm slot around the original primer arm pin (also Vaselined) with epoxy putty.
3. Also with epoxy putty make a worm (think modeling clay and kindergarten) and form it around the top of the slot, in front of the ram and form the top of the ramp from the ram to the slot. (see the video)
4. Use a McDonald's straw in the ram slot to guide the spent primer to your ramp.
And if you really want to have fun, make a case kicker to speed things up!

Now watch the vid to see how it works.......it'll work even faster if you aren't dexterity-challenged like me.
If you click the VIMEO word at the bottom you can make it full screen and see the details a bit better...... THR has the how-to for both this and the kicker on site, links posted below for if anyone's interested.


Primer Containment Fix
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...x-for-primer-containment.687678/#post-8545659

Easy Case Kicker
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...-dont-need-a-3d-printer.826510/#post-10645540

 

[Caplock]

I lay a cotton strip cut from a gun rag between the priming arm and the ram.
1x3 inches is enough.
Small enough it is not in the way.
Primers hit something soft instead of the press.
Most stay in the pan that way.

 

[GW Staar]

Here's hoping someone smarter than I will have solved this problem years ago!....................
Later models of this press seem to have solved the problem by turning the ram around so the slot is to the rear, redesigning the catcher and adopting a different re-primer. I haven't tried it, but it may be possible to turn the ram 180° on my old Mark 1 machine... but that would render the re-priming gadget unusable. (Which may be OK as I rarely use it anyway.) Thanks for your ideas!

So, if you've used your Model I since it was new......you may have the record for patience. I had a model 'I' bought in 1974, which I gave away when someone "donated" their model 'II'. I don't think ever used the on-press primer system on the Model II, having moved to hand priming early on, while using the model I.

It was the "new" processes of depriming before wet tumbling that put me over the edge. Primers went everywhere......my mods were a save the sanity necessity.....and the constant need to speed things up. (at my age, you know....so much to do....so little time left!)

 

[JohnB-40]

I place an old bath towel on the floor under my RCBS Jr. when I size and deprime. Any spent primers that don't end up in the catch tray land in the towel and don't bounce or roll away,never to be found. I just shake the towel over the trash can when finished. I also place the towel there when priming for the same reason.

 

[pert near]

When I finally had enough I dumped my RC supreme & bought a MEC Marksman.