I'm making my grandson, Trevor, a Portable Reloading Kit for 38 Special.
He has everything in the box that he will need.
I had a Lee Primer Hand Tool on my bench that I was not using.
( There is a long unpleasant story that goes along with the tool )
It came with a Jam -O - Matic primer feed tray.
I do hope that Lee isn't selling that one anymore.
It didn't take long to do a surgical castration of the feed tray and relegate the tool to a simple seat 1 primer at a time arrangement. A bit slow, but after the modification , the tool worked much better. Trevor tried it. He had a bit of problem with " deep seating " of the primers.
I decided to rectify that little problem.
He has everything in the box that he will need.
I had a Lee Primer Hand Tool on my bench that I was not using.
( There is a long unpleasant story that goes along with the tool )
It came with a Jam -O - Matic primer feed tray.
I do hope that Lee isn't selling that one anymore.
It didn't take long to do a surgical castration of the feed tray and relegate the tool to a simple seat 1 primer at a time arrangement. A bit slow, but after the modification , the tool worked much better. Trevor tried it. He had a bit of problem with " deep seating " of the primers.
I decided to rectify that little problem.
- My 1st move was to take a Dremel and a grinding stone and remove some of the powder coat on the tool . This would allow the JB Weld to make a good bond. I planned to JB Weld a short piece of steel drill rod onto the tool. I cleaned the drill rod well and used plenty of JB Weld to make the attachment.
- 24 hours later, I began cutting the " slope " on the stop that would approximate the slope gradient of the handle.
- As we all know, you can take metal off, but putting it back on is tricky. So working slow, stopping and trying to seat a few primers became the order of the day.
- It took about 45 minutes of slow " trial and error " file work on the stop.
- Once the work was completed, it is now impossible to deep seat a primer with the tool.
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