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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
Finally got it mounted and setup. Made a Lexan primer explosion guard and then attempted to load a few rounds. I immediately had primer issues and was really perplexed till I found out that some of my once fired Walamrt Winchester White Box 9mm cases were headstamped WCC instead of WIN. I found out that Walmart on occasion is getting shipped the WCC stuff which is Winchester's military brass which has crimped in primers. Luckily most of my once fired brass is Federal and it runs fine. After looking thru all my brass and ammo, it looks like I have about 500 of the WCC brass and I made a tool to fix them and it works great.
Today being the hardcore DIY'er (and a cheap b@stard), I built a vibratory brass tumbler from an old polisher motor and some scrap wood..... I have run three batches so far today (about 300 cases per batch) and it works great using some walnut lizard bedding from a pet store with a capful of NuFinish car polish. I also cobbed up screened tumbler to quickly seperate the media from the brass when finished.
Planning on my first of "production" loading tonight.  |
It is a good idea to visually inspect the brass on any military caliber for crimped in primer pockets . Sort those and put them aside to batch process .
I use a Lee universal de-priming die on them , in a single stage press . I then process the primer pocket crimp and then finish reloading them along with the other brass .
I use the universal de-priming die quite a bit .
God bless
Wyr