What do you use to power chamfer and deburr?

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What do you use to power chamfer and deburr?
I trim my cases with the lee trimmer on a press drill, quite fast, but will not chamfer and deburr.
how do you do it? I wonder if it would work fine if I cut the manual tool in half, then drill a hole, screw a bolt and then use each half in a press drill.
or bite the bullet and just buy a damn giraud for the cases I reload lots of, like 223.
I don't care about trimming and chamfering 100 cases, but 1000 is a bit much for me.
 
Yeah I'm starting to reload 223 this week(orders should be in Wednesday)and think soon I'll have to upgrade to something a little more practical than my standard Lee trim set in a hand drill ;)
 
The most I've ever done at one time with a lee and drill was 250 and my hand was pretty sore after.

If I was going to be doing more than that on a frequent basis I'd consider getting one of the spendier tools. It would be worth it IMHO.
 
I've used lesser products, but when you get over 500 the Giraud stands heads and shoulders over the alternatives.
 
RCBS case prep machine. I chamfer the flash hole, uniform the primer pocket (or clean it if uniformed previously), chamfer and deburr all at one station.
 
that hornady 3 tool thing seems quite nice for general low volume case prep
I don't really see myself doing 1000 223 cases on that though
 
jongun said:
Yeah I'm starting to reload 223 this week(orders should be in Wednesday)and think soon I'll have to upgrade to something a little more practical than my standard Lee trim set in a hand drill ;)
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I like the Lee trimming setup; a good 'upgrade' for it is when Canadian Tire has a jobmate drill press on sale for $30-40. Chuck the cutter head and pilot into the press and hold the brass in your hand with the shell holder/lock stud. Fast and easy.
 
Use the shell holder in a screwdriver. Really easier to hold and quicker to tighten and untighten the holder. Works wonders since i do that
Only issue is the burrs
 
I use my standard Lee zip trim unit. I use my reloading time as quality time , so I am never in any rush to get through it. I have seen where some people on this forum hate reloading, so I can only imagine that it's to save money if nothing else. My Lee zip unit works great, and it's all I need. Not fast, just good.
 
RCBS power trimmer set up with 3-way cutter.

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Giraurd, the time it saves you more than pays for itself. You put the trimmer in front of you , between the trimmer and you are two tubs. Brass to be trimmed and a tub for trimmed , alternating hands and put brass in trimmer and drop in "trim" tub. With the Giraurd you just push brass into a holder mouth first and it spaces off of the shoulder. It trims and inside/outside chamfers in one step. It is amazing how many you can do once you get going.
 
I chamfer/deburr by hand with the lee tool for small batches of ammo. For larger batches I pull out a Lee Zip trim and use it only to deburr/chamfer the cases quickly.
 
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'Boo said:
RCBS power trimmer set up with 3-way cutter.

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How come your reloading bench is so nice and clean..........mine doesn't look like that........Where are all the case trimmings and powder granules and carbon from primer pockets and oil spills and stickey notes and old targets and that red media $hit and chronograph tapes.......WTF ???
 
Giraurd and RCBS timmers are not the only trimmer out there. I have a Gracey trimmer that works great. It takes about 3 seconds each to trim to length, and chamfer inside and outside.
 
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