Case prep...

CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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Am I the only one with OUTSIDE deburring issues??

I have use "spaceships" and the LEE and Lyman tools for years as well.

The lee is actually nicest if it was just a bit more agressive.

I was looking thru a fellas stuff last few days. (Sorting out for sale) and he had a Frankfort Arsenal case prep machine and a RCBS machine. The RCBS had a tool I had not seem. There was a Long tapered inside debur tool and a "cup looking" tool similar to that LEE but different. Searching I found it may be a carbide out side deburr tool for 50$!!!!

My issue comes with soft necks and the dullness of the "fins" of the starship style tools. There always seems be something there I can hang a thumb nail on. It aint smooth! Then with annealed cases if ya push AT ALL ya ruin the case...

Is this RCBS tool "worth it"?

CW
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Your "spaceship", actually L.E. Wilson, tools are easily ruined if you turn them backwards. Like a drill bit, they only cut one way. If you stick it over the neck and grind if back and forth, you just turned the cutting edge over. FWIW
 
CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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RicinYakima said:
Your "spaceship", actually L.E. Wilson, tools are easily ruined if you turn them backwards. Like a drill bit, they only cut one way. If you stick it over the neck and grind if back and forth, you just turned the cutting edge over. FWIW
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I probably have 4-5 of them... Im SURE i have turned them backwards in the last 100k + or so cartridges I have loaded... :p ;)o_O
 
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fiver

fiver

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that might actually cut that little line that's always around trimmed cases.

their other one won't.
the wilson is so far pretty much the best at out side turning i've found.
the inside angle seems to work the smoothest with cast bullets too.
the fancy lyman ones cut nice but too shallow of an angle, and the outside cut sucks.

<<<<<< also in search of a better outside neck cutter that i can mount on the rcbs machine.
best i've actually done is to setup my neck turning tool and just run it into place enough to scrape that line away, but not to actually cut the necks.
 
Brad

Brad

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SINCLAIR CASE MOUTH DEBURRING TOOL HOLDER | Brownells

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this and a cordless drill make quick work of inside and outside deburring.
 
Intel6

Intel6

Active Member
I also use a cordless drill to deburr mostly. I also found that wet cleaning with stainless pins can also knock off the burr. I did a batch of 300 BO brass and as an experiment I left the burr on them (some with a significant burr) and just tossed them in the wet cleaner with pins. After my normal 1 hour clean the cases were clean and deburred. there was some minor burrs left on but not much to speak of. Then I had lots of .30 cal brass rings in my pins I had to get rid of along with bits of brass.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
All I use is the manual version of the RCBS chamfering/deburring tool. I have an after market holder/drill adaptor made for that tool. Use to use it with the drill motor but now all I do is have it standing in the holder, next to the RCBS motorized trimmer. After trimming a case, manual debur, immediately after.
 
358156 hp

358156 hp

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My primary case trimmer deburrs for me, inside and out. At least for rifle cases. I rarely trim handgun cases unless I have a specific need.
 
CWLONGSHOT

CWLONGSHOT

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I have a RCBS BOSS machine. It works wonderfully. Its variable speed. No set speeds I mean. Also two of the six tools spin 2x faster then other four. So I out inside and outside there.

I have been using the lee trim hand tool with this and just discovered a much better case holder from Lyman.

 
Pressman

Pressman

Active Member
What Brad says. I have one and it works great and does not cost too much or take up valuable bench space.

"Spaceship", a few years ago I found an eBay seller listing a Herter's Rocket. It was a deburring tool.
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
That RCBS upgrade is an interesting little critter. I do have an RCBS case prep machine of some kind that I snagged from somewhere. It is NIB and is unopened, and I have been meaning to take it out and put it to work this cool season. Maybe one of those carbide outside deburring tools is adaptable.......another thing to skulk out after the annual blast furnace departs. Yeah, summer returned a couple days ago--it was 102* here yesterday at 5:20 P.M. when I wrapped up dialysis for the week. Ugh!

Rick, that is one industrial strength case trimmer depicted there.
 
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david s

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When doing more than a few hundred cases I use a somewhat ancient Lyman power trimmer and a "Tri-Cut" cutter. The Lyman as originally set up would trim to length and with the Tri Cut it trims, deburrs the case outside and chamfers the inside in one operation. This leaves me just needing to clean up the cases flash hole. I regularly use the Lee case trimmers also. Just sit watching something and let my hands work on auto pilot with the Lee trimmers, same with chamfering the flash holes. Have the Lee chamfer tool but didn't particularly care for it and an RCBS and Redding rocket ships, case prep isn't the most interesting part of reloading for me. More one of those necessary evils.
 
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david s

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I bought the Tri Cut at a gun show 20-25 years ago, I think it was made locally (Montana) but can't say for sure now. It uses the standard Lyman pilots.
 
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