Broke Decapping Pin

[bertn]

Referring to cleaning debris from the flash holes... you have to look carefully, easy to miss something... but with the pin in place it punches the flash hole when you size... reassuring to have it there.

I agree but that does not work if you do handpriming before resizing.

A Walnut or corncob crumb might be harder to miss but a double stainless pin stuck in a flash hole is easy to spot.

Cheers
Bert

 

[XCR User]

Wow, breaking a decapping pin sure sucks. For me I try to buy just use only Boxer caps and just this alone. When I shoot at the range and collect my brass sometimes I scoop up other brass and some of those are Berdan and the shells look identical to the ones I shoot. Any how I do try to do a physical check on my shells for reloading and I do miss the odd Berdan cap when reloading and I've bent my decaping pin. Too bad there isn't a tool out there to extract any of those caps and that this tool doesn't exist commercially. I've seen on Youtube other ways to decap Berdan caps and some of these are creative on converting these back to Boxer on Youtube.

 

[dcalf]

So you decap before you tumble and then size without the pin? How many misfires do you get?

Why would i get misfires? You can't wet tumble with the spent primers in anways (it would never dry), so I dont know how you would do it otherwise.

 

[hoytcanon]

Why would i get misfires? You can't wet tumble with the spent primers in anways (it would never dry), so I dont know how you would do it otherwise.

I was talking about the propensity for plugged flash holes.

 

[dcalf]

Oh! Honesty, never had one. Wasn't something I've considered either, and I've done multiple K handloading, and on the Dillon.

 

[TakDriver]

The decapping pin broke flush with the bottom of the decapping rod holder and I just can’t get it out. Should I get the universal decapping die rod or can I get a decapping rod holder and pin? It’s a Lyman 2 die set. I haven’t reloaded in 25 years so I’m a bit rusty on this. Thanks.

I have a universal decapping die you can have, I don't use it as I now have RCBS decapping dies for each caliber. It's virtually new. Pay for the shipping and it's yours

 

[barsik]

you might try rigging up a type of kinetic hammer setup to get that stubborn pin out. the light weight of whatever is left of that pin isn't going to make it easy. I'm thinking of maybe locking the holder in a vicegrip and whacking the vicegrip on a vice kind of thing. good luck

 

[blazinbilly]

Is there any way to put it in your bullet puller, like TakDriver suggested.

 

[Raton57]

If the end of the decapping rod has slits in it can you put small flat screw driver blades in them and loosen the broken pin. My fix for a 243 rod was to by a 9 dollar set of 6mm Remington dies and steal the rod.

 

[cowbelly]

I got it fixed up I’m back in business. Thanks to all.

 

[bertn]

I got it fixed up I’m back in business. Thanks to all.

decapping pins arrived already?

 

[cowbelly]

Not yet I’ll let you know when they do.

 

[bertn]

If the end of the decapping rod has slits in it can you put small flat screw driver blades in them and loosen the broken pin. My fix for a 243 rod was to by a 9 dollar set of 6mm Remington dies and steal the rod.

A Lyman stem has no slits in it, it's just a totally flat end. The decapping pin gets screwed tight against this flat end by the collar. So it needs a head on the decapping pin otherwise it would fall/pull out of the collar.

 

[bertn]

Not yet I’ll let you know when they do.

Mailed them out Thursday morning on my way to work. It was a nasty snow day here so not sure if the post people did their rounds that day to collect mail.

 

[BassAckwards]

I had one of those Redding decappers break off on me just the other day, heated the tip up smoking hot and tapped the old chunk out. Found a small RCBS pin and it was a little to tight to put in hot, so I ran a small file over the one end, coated it with epoxy and tapped it in. Works good, and should last longer than I