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Trying to remove the military crimp from some .223 I elected to buy the RCBS bullet swager rather than dropping the big bucks on the Dillon. My thinking was that I don't expect to use crimped brass very often and the extra $$$ of the Dillon seemed unnecessary.

Well enter the idiot (me). I de-crimped all of one piece of brass and ended up bending & compressing the swager rod. I tried phoning RCBS and couldn't get through. Does anybody know how they are to deal with on broken equipment? Or does anybody actually carry these 'rods' instock?

Needless to say I won't be lowering the swager body so far this time:D
 
The best and cheapest way to decrimp military brass is to use a hand held drill with the largest drill it will accept and turn off the offending edges. They don't have to be perfect and give a very nice leading edge to feed the primer.
 
Taylor-Made said:
Trying to remove the military crimp from some .223 I elected to buy the RCBS bullet swager rather than dropping the big bucks on the Dillon. My thinking was that I don't expect to use crimped brass very often and the extra $$$ of the Dillon seemed unnecessary.

Well enter the idiot (me). I de-crimped all of one piece of brass and ended up bending & compressing the swager rod. I tried phoning RCBS and couldn't get through. Does anybody know how they are to deal with on broken equipment? Or does anybody actually carry these 'rods' instock?

Needless to say I won't be lowering the swager body so far this time:D
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Same thing happen to mine - called RCBS had replacement rod in two weeks...

Then same thing happened - bought a Dillon and never looked back.
 
If all else fails, read the instructions! :D

I have swaged hundreds of military brass primer pockets, large and small, with the RCBS kit. Set the swaging die properly, and there is no way you can break anything.

Ted
 
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I found it easiest to call them early in the morning to make sure I got through. Long wait times on hold if you don't. Once you get through though, they are very helpful and shouldn't have any problems with replacing the free parts. I was missing a couple springs washers in my case trimmer (bought "NEW" at WSS but had missing parts and somebody had written on it in pen) but they happily sent me new ones. I was only missing 2 but they sent me the whole set of 6. Took a few weeks to get here but they had to go through customs too.
Great sevice like that keeps me going green.
 
Thx gents...I got through today, and as indicated RCBS was terrific to deal with. They are very knowledgeable and are sending the swager rod out free of charge even though it was my fault:redface:
 
RCBS has fantastic customer service. I have had some Bubba type malfunctions (user caused issues - LOL) that RCBC rectified when I saw no reason for them to do so. I see that most everyone else who has had to deal with them has had very good service as well. To me, good customer service makes me a life-long customer. Kudos to great companies that stand behind their products.
 
RCBS are great too deal with .damage a die . they replaced part free sent extra deprimming pins along . no charge not even shipping . in no way thier falt .
 
Why not? said:
If all else fails, read the instructions! :D

I have swaged hundreds of military brass primer pockets, large and small, with the RCBS kit. Set the swaging die properly, and there is no way you can break anything.

Ted
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i tried to read the intructions and i couldnt figure out what the hell i was doing... i find it a real PITA for doing .223, i cant get the case to line up right and it will decrimp one case then not the next :mad:
 
I really didn't feel like waiting for the replacement parts to finish off the batch I'm doing so I picked up the rcbs crimp remover that screws into the trim mateand attached it to a drill. Several hours later and 3 band-aids I got the batch done. Mixed results however, most seated primers very well but some slipped by without getting completely removed which was a nightmare when I tried to seat them. I don't think I'm quite ready to go to the dillon, but I won't be doing anymore at least until the swager arrives. NOW, time to go heal my little girlyhands.
 
zuke said:
An RCBS chamfer tool will fit into a 3/8 drill chuck. I've done 1000's that way.
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Double ditto. I have even used the Lee chamfer on a drill - wore it out actually - but I was into the thousands. I had to spend another $3.00.
 
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