Reuseable Primers?
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blacksmithden
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The Myans think the end is comming in 2012. Unfortunately, they'll have to postpone the apocalype for me.....I just don't have the time 
Bearhunter. Just hold onto that tool. I was looking at one that punches out gas checks and it's $398 USD !!!! GAG !!!!! Although, at $38/1000 (if you can even find them) if the damned price keeps climbing, I might be buying one anyway.
Bearhunter. Just hold onto that tool. I was looking at one that punches out gas checks and it's $398 USD !!!! GAG !!!!! Although, at $38/1000 (if you can even find them) if the damned price keeps climbing, I might be buying one anyway.
blacksmithden
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Yea. I was looking at that. Two things. One...you can't mount it in your press. Two...if there's one thing I've learned in reloading...you get what you pay for. Right now, he's got it listed for $39.95 plus $10.95 shipping to Canada. Corbin's is $398.00 !!!! I don't know....it's temping.
Anybody else here bought the "Freechex II" from this guy on ebay and tried it or am I going to be the guinea pig on this one ????
From what I can tell, there are 3 options for making your own gas checks right now. This guy on ebay who makes them out of old pop cans.....Corbin who want you to buy copper strips to make them which can be expensive in itself....or go to a local tool and die shop and have something made up, but that's gonna kill you with cost.
The high speed punch dies that Honady uses to punch these things out on mass must have paid for themselves 10000 times over by now. I bet they guard the like Fort Knox
So....now that we've TOTALLY hijacked the thread from "make your own primers" to "make your own gas checks"................sorry seba
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I read somewhere online (here perhaps) that the primer compound is still installed by hand in the factories. Pretty much a case of squeegeeing a wet paste across a plate full of cups.
I've read of the Russians using the strike anywhere match heads to reprime .22 LR, because it was their only option for ammo out in the Communist sticks of backwoods mother Russia. The written article was in a gun magazine, maybe 20-25 years back. They installed the compound wet, IIRC.
Whoever wrote up that bit on refilling primers, either purposely or out of ignorance, did all those that read it, a disservice, by not specifying that the primer compound (match head paste) be handled wet, at least quite damp.
As far as SHTF, who really thinks there will be a supply of strike anywhere match heads available? Not really commonplace anymore. The few places I see with wooden matches at all, have safety matches (no sand or crushed glass to help the ignition) that require a finer friction surface to work. Even then, the tweakers have wrecked that source, as the match heads have been used as a source of phosphorous for use making meth, IIRC.
It's gettin' so that a kid can hardly get enough education and supplies together to make a damned stink bomb these days!
The Tap-O-Cap. Read enough reports of accidental discharges from seating the cap on the nipple to wish to stay well clear.
The FreeChex tool supposedly works. I won't swing a hammer that many times to make a gas check. It starts with using a hole punch to cut out circles of pop can material, then uses a different punch and die to shape them. Sort of. The pictures I've seen looked pretty nasty. YMMV.
The Corbins want to be paid rather too much for their time to consider, IMO. Nice workmanship, but lots of coin.
Over on Castboolits, there are a couple different options. A poster by the moniker of patmarlin has a design he is marketing. His uses strips of sheet copper, also available from him. About $100 Cdn, plus waiting time while he spools up some production.
There are a couple other designs that are not being marketed, but are a little more elegant, that can be seen there (look for a thread titled "A new source of gas check material for those that roll their own" on the Castboolits sub forum, among others.
I'm about half done making a gas check making set. I have a punch that works to my satisfaction for cutting discs, but have not got a decent working model of the forming tool yet.
Cheers
Trev
I've read of the Russians using the strike anywhere match heads to reprime .22 LR, because it was their only option for ammo out in the Communist sticks of backwoods mother Russia. The written article was in a gun magazine, maybe 20-25 years back. They installed the compound wet, IIRC.
Whoever wrote up that bit on refilling primers, either purposely or out of ignorance, did all those that read it, a disservice, by not specifying that the primer compound (match head paste) be handled wet, at least quite damp.
As far as SHTF, who really thinks there will be a supply of strike anywhere match heads available? Not really commonplace anymore. The few places I see with wooden matches at all, have safety matches (no sand or crushed glass to help the ignition) that require a finer friction surface to work. Even then, the tweakers have wrecked that source, as the match heads have been used as a source of phosphorous for use making meth, IIRC.
It's gettin' so that a kid can hardly get enough education and supplies together to make a damned stink bomb these days!
The Tap-O-Cap. Read enough reports of accidental discharges from seating the cap on the nipple to wish to stay well clear.
The FreeChex tool supposedly works. I won't swing a hammer that many times to make a gas check. It starts with using a hole punch to cut out circles of pop can material, then uses a different punch and die to shape them. Sort of. The pictures I've seen looked pretty nasty. YMMV.
The Corbins want to be paid rather too much for their time to consider, IMO. Nice workmanship, but lots of coin.
Over on Castboolits, there are a couple different options. A poster by the moniker of patmarlin has a design he is marketing. His uses strips of sheet copper, also available from him. About $100 Cdn, plus waiting time while he spools up some production.
There are a couple other designs that are not being marketed, but are a little more elegant, that can be seen there (look for a thread titled "A new source of gas check material for those that roll their own" on the Castboolits sub forum, among others.
I'm about half done making a gas check making set. I have a punch that works to my satisfaction for cutting discs, but have not got a decent working model of the forming tool yet.
Cheers
Trev
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the only way i would even consider trying that is if all i had was what was in the article with nothing else and surrounded buy zombies, pitbulls with aids or some other horrific hoard with no chance of rescue
