GW Staar
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Just a little square tubing, a hose clamp and some epoxy, and I now have the perfect companion for my Spent Primer Control Mod.
I had no clue that Case Bling could cause me so much trouble. And yes it has everything to do with laziness, and getting old....and tired eyes appreciating beautiful brass.
We are all getting a little nutz...us bling lovers.
Ever since someone talked me into buying a wet tumbler, for the express purpose to do one thing....create Case Bling, I’ve been modifying (with no small effort) my tools and my methods. For one thing, who, ever, deprimed brass in bulk before wet tumblers! Not me, not in 40 years. But that was then....bling is as addictive as booze.
Once I bought a Lee universal depriming die, and mounted it to my Rock Chucker II, I could no longer tolerate the RCII’s lack of spent primer control. So I fixed that.
Really pleased with the success with THAT project for my Rock Chucker II, (NO more primers on the floor), I was happy enough……until I saw some ideas for a home built Case Kicker!
Seemed to me to be a perfect companion for my Spent Primer Control Mod, to further speed up the relieving of my pistol brass of primers. And was I right!
Below: My specs and materials had to be simple, easy to build, and unobtrusive. IOW's NO additional holes in my bench! Here's what I came up with:
I found a large hose clamp. It worked perfect. I could only use the non-perforated part of it, about 6” was needed to make the flexible case ejector, or “kicker.”
Below: I wanted to fasten the system to one of the Rock Chucker's mounting bolts rather than drill more holes in my benchtop. So I used 1 1/4" steel square tubing, cut to fit, and holes drilled. Steel sq. 1/16" tubing allowed me to raise the kicker off the bench 1 1/4", which made it easier to mount it over the existing RCBS primer catcher pan, with less cutout.
Above: I fastened the kicker to the tubing with two 10-24 bolts. One's a thumb scew. covering a slot rather than hole so that I can loosen it and swing the kicker back to the frame, out of the way, for operations not needing or wanting the kicker's services.
I drilled the holes with a #25 drill and tapped them with a 10-24 tap.
Below: Shows the arm swiveled back out of the way when not in use....only requires loosening the thumb screw.
Below: the modified RCBS Part with epoxy ramp, cut-outs, and a hole in the bottom (drilled out 357 case pushed through) for spent primers.
Below: On the left side of the press, I cut the primer catcher so that I could make a ramp using epoxy putty. The ramp guides the “kicked” brass down into the bin on the edge of my bench.
Above: Notice the "other" ramps (part of the primer control see link top of this thread) One ramp goes down the primer arm "slot".
Below: Here's what's left of the material I used. I'm a pack rat.... never throw raw material away, so I didn't have to pay for anything.....today that is. Being a building contractor, I collect more left-over material than most people. I feel sorry for my kids when I die.
Below: PDF of the cuts made to the steel tube.
Kicker-Model.pdf
I had no clue that Case Bling could cause me so much trouble. And yes it has everything to do with laziness, and getting old....and tired eyes appreciating beautiful brass.
We are all getting a little nutz...us bling lovers.Ever since someone talked me into buying a wet tumbler, for the express purpose to do one thing....create Case Bling, I’ve been modifying (with no small effort) my tools and my methods. For one thing, who, ever, deprimed brass in bulk before wet tumblers! Not me, not in 40 years. But that was then....bling is as addictive as booze.
Once I bought a Lee universal depriming die, and mounted it to my Rock Chucker II, I could no longer tolerate the RCII’s lack of spent primer control. So I fixed that.
Really pleased with the success with THAT project for my Rock Chucker II, (NO more primers on the floor), I was happy enough……until I saw some ideas for a home built Case Kicker!
Seemed to me to be a perfect companion for my Spent Primer Control Mod, to further speed up the relieving of my pistol brass of primers. And was I right!
Below: My specs and materials had to be simple, easy to build, and unobtrusive. IOW's NO additional holes in my bench! Here's what I came up with:
I found a large hose clamp. It worked perfect. I could only use the non-perforated part of it, about 6” was needed to make the flexible case ejector, or “kicker.”
Below: I wanted to fasten the system to one of the Rock Chucker's mounting bolts rather than drill more holes in my benchtop. So I used 1 1/4" steel square tubing, cut to fit, and holes drilled. Steel sq. 1/16" tubing allowed me to raise the kicker off the bench 1 1/4", which made it easier to mount it over the existing RCBS primer catcher pan, with less cutout.
Above: I fastened the kicker to the tubing with two 10-24 bolts. One's a thumb scew. covering a slot rather than hole so that I can loosen it and swing the kicker back to the frame, out of the way, for operations not needing or wanting the kicker's services.
I drilled the holes with a #25 drill and tapped them with a 10-24 tap.
Below: Shows the arm swiveled back out of the way when not in use....only requires loosening the thumb screw.
Below: the modified RCBS Part with epoxy ramp, cut-outs, and a hole in the bottom (drilled out 357 case pushed through) for spent primers.
Below: On the left side of the press, I cut the primer catcher so that I could make a ramp using epoxy putty. The ramp guides the “kicked” brass down into the bin on the edge of my bench.
Above: Notice the "other" ramps (part of the primer control see link top of this thread) One ramp goes down the primer arm "slot".
Below: Here's what's left of the material I used. I'm a pack rat.... never throw raw material away, so I didn't have to pay for anything.....today that is. Being a building contractor, I collect more left-over material than most people. I feel sorry for my kids when I die.
Below: PDF of the cuts made to the steel tube.
Kicker-Model.pdf
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