Remove a live primer?

[fatious22]

Correction: So one side is not MORE apt to discharge as a result of pressure than the other?

 

[rcmodel]

No, pushing on either side is not at all likely to discharge it, unless you hit it a hard blow.

Pushing it out with the depriming pin in the press does not transmit the shock necessary to set off a primer, unless you slam the press handle down as fast & hard as you can.

rc

 

[jcwit]

What is it about impact versus increasing pressure to remove a primer that is so hard to comprehend.

 

[JohnM]

Can't figure that one out.
Maybe they push on a hammer to drive a nail in? :banghead:

 

[Lost Sheep]

Same way you would remove any other.

I have done this.

I used the sizing die and regular decapping pin without changing any adjustment and pushed the primer out slowly.

There was no significant depression in the primer cup from the ordeal.

Then I turned the primer over, and seated it right-side up and it worked just fine, firing no differently than any of the others in that batch.

Lost Sheep