Lyman primer pocket reamer question

I picked up the lyman reamer was not exactly happy with it
tried neck debur tool
wood working tool
pocket knife

I now use it as a gauge to check pockets

if pocket work needs to be done Dillon swage is the way to go
 
Travel240z said:
What issue did you have? I was wondering about the taper.

Completed 50 brass and will seat the primers tomorrow.
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Turning the handle to ream the crimp got boring fast -- try doing 2-4 hundred in a night --- i ended up doing 1-200 a night

when i finaly did get around to putting primers in the odd one did not want to go ----> out came pocket knife or a vld chamfer tool--- then in went the primer
 
I believe I have the same tool, and found it didn't adequately remove the crimp on lake city 7.62 military brass. Didn't seem to matter how much I reamed, was constantly crushing primers.
Ended up biting the bullet and getting the Dillon SS 600.
 
Thanks for all the answers gentlemen. I had a 100 percent primer seating run.

I must agree that I had given up on the handle and switched to a drill to operate the reamer. I would mount the brass in a small padded vice. Was realatively quick and painless this way.

Also, the drill made a straighter cut.
 
The reamer is threaded into the handle. Simply threaded it out and chucked it into the drill. The shaft of the reamer is larger than the threaded section and therefore the threads do not get damged by the drill.
 
just having some fun said:
Turning the handle to ream the crimp got boring fast -- try doing 2-4 hundred in a night --- i ended up doing 1-200 a night

when i finaly did get around to putting primers in the odd one did not want to go ----> out came pocket knife or a vld chamfer tool--- then in went the primer
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I have every type crimp remover made except the Dillon type unit and wish I had bought it first instead of trying to save money. But below is the fastest crimp remover I have at this time, first I use the VLD tool to remove 90% of the crimp, next is the RCBS crimp remover and the Lyman reamer is used as a GO NO-GO gauge to see if enough has been removed.


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I have found a even faster method, I just bought 500 Lake City cases that had been processed, Cleaned, Deprimed & Swaged. And I have a feeling I will buying a lot more this way and enjoy not having sore fingers.

http://brassbombers.com/223-556-Cleaned-Deprimed-Swaged-LC-Only-500-Pieces-2LC-S0050.htm
 
You have to watch it.. there are pocket uniformers which cut primer pockets to a standard depth, that's it. Then there are the ones which will deburr etc. The Lyman one I picked up at basspro just does the depth, not crimps.
 
yomomma said:
You have to watch it.. there are pocket uniformers which cut primer pockets to a standard depth, that's it. Then there are the ones which will deburr etc. The Lyman one I picked up at basspro just does the depth, not crimps.
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It sounds like you should do something really wrong at work and get reamed properly. :stirthepot2:
 
I use the RCBS case mouth chamfering tool secured in a drill press chuck - "pointy end" down. Just a "touch" removes all trace of the crimping on ex-mil .223 brass and gives a nice bevel to the primer pocket - makes seating in a Dillion 550 a breeze!!!
 
2 seperate tools, both of which I have and use. I'm finding an aweful lot of primer pockets that are shallow and depths varying all over the place. My recent batch of Norma .308 has some primer pockets at small rifle/pistol depth and some at large rifle depth. Diameters are consistant. I have alot of Hornady .223 with shallow pockets and crimps. All my WCC 5.56 was shallow, crimped and had many under min. diameter. What a f**kshow. QC worse than the cheapest Chinese products. Consistent primer seating is impossible when some seat easy and below flush and others need to be bumped in flush on the press. The reamer will open undersize pockets to min. SAAMI diameter and the uniformer cuts to min. SAAMI depth. Federal primers are a good tight fit when seated by hand. Its a crappy job best done with some Aleve or Aspirin in your system lol.

yomomma said:
You have to watch it.. there are pocket uniformers which cut primer pockets to a standard depth, that's it. Then there are the ones which will deburr etc. The Lyman one I picked up at basspro just does the depth, not crimps.
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