Processing brass in Bulk

[tomtenney]

Brass processing

I am looking for a company that can fully process some 223 and 308 brass. Local to so cal would be great.

[Cropper]

I have good news for all the people that have asked me about my lube die conversion...
I finally picked up a bunch of hardware and can now offer a do-it-yourself kit to dramatically increase the lube volume as well as make it easy to see when you are getting low before you actually run out.
The kit has a separate clear lube reservoir that you mount on the case feed support and then tubing and fittings to get the lube to the lube die.
All that is required is to tap the lube die 10-32 and then screw in the fittings and tie-wrap the reservoir to the case feeder support.

I would be interested in this as well. Or perhaps some clear pics of it disassembled if your into charity...

[pakk]

The dillon trimmer die over-sizes the neck.
I don't use the dillon trimmer for precision rifle ammo.

I use my redding bushing neck die and a giraud for that.

I'm curious to how accurate you find this process to be assuming one is using top quality components? Would you be ok using this process to maintain MOA at 100 yards? 2-300?

Could you go into detail to what your process is for precision ammo?

[ar15barrels]

Could you go into detail to what your processy is for precision ammo?

The trimming method will have little effect on accuracy.
The bullets and powder charge consistency as well as case sizing consistency is what effects the accuracy.

I don't use a dillon trimmer on my precision ammo simply because I want those cases to be chamfered to ease the seating of vld bullets.

I use redding bushing dies for sizing as they control neck tension well and then I trim, chamfer and deburr with the giraud trimmer.

[bearstatearmory.com]

What do you do about finding your short cases after you've completed the process. I'm finding about 5 per hundred on average that are in the 1.740-1.746 range, and I do that by measuring every single case that I trim with a pair of calipers. If I didn't catch that I would end up loading those and I couldn't imagine that would be a good thing.

[ar15barrels]

What do you do about finding your short cases after you've completed the process. I'm finding about 5 per hundred on average that are in the 1.740-1.746 range, and I do that by measuring every single case that I trim with a pair of calipers. If I didn't catch that I would end up loading those and I couldn't imagine that would be a good thing.

On blasting ammo, I don't do anything about them.
It's only blasting ammo...

[diver160651]

I'm curious to how accurate you find this process to be assuming one is using top quality components? Would you be ok using this process to maintain MOA at 100 yards? 2-300?

Could you go into detail to what your process is for precision ammo?

Not trying to thread jack-- but MOA ammo under your terms is not close to precision


Jt

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[Jasonaspears]

Great info. Did you ever come up with a price for those lube kits?

[ar15barrels]

Great info. Did you ever come up with a price for those lube kits?

Not enough interest so I didn't pursue it...

[sirgrumps]

I am looking for a company that can fully process some 223 and 308 brass. Local to so cal would be great.

This guy is in Long Beach

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=906558

[JC Smith]

Sorry if this has been asked before but I didn't see it.
Brass sized, trimmed, polished and pockets swaged. Have a Lyman M die for station one. Does the case neck need any sort of lube?
Old thread so hopefully someone still listening. Thanks.

[ar15barrels]

Brass sized, trimmed, polished and pockets swaged. Have a Lyman M die for station one. Does the case neck need any sort of lube?

If the cases are dry tumbled, there will be enough residual dust from the corn/walnut to act as a neck lube.
If the cases were wet tumbled completely clean, you should lube the inside of the necks with dry lube.

[JC Smith]

Dry tumbled, 24-grit (doesn't get stuck in the flash holes) walnut hulls with a little Nu-Finish (the car polish in the orange bottle). Thank you - JC

[JC Smith]

I put the locknut on the underside of the toolhead.

Tried that but it wouldn't work on a Dillon 550B with the "regular" tool head. The lock nut was hitting something on the shell plate (the star I think it was). HOWEVER, now that the new short trim die tool heads are available for the 550B it does work, but with some installation difficulty. It's a PITA getting a wrench on the lock nut in that confined space inside the cutout of the tool head. But it can be done and since doing that I've had no further problems. I did change one thing in the process though... I was paranoid that I might have been picking up some sort of contamination from inside the lube die and causing the scratches so I've just been giving the cases a little squirt of the Dillon case lube, about 100 at a time. It's a little messier than using the lube die but at least no more lube dents.

[ar15barrels]

Tried that but it wouldn't work on a Dillon 550B with the "regular" tool head. The lock nut was hitting something on the shell plate (the star I think it was).

Sounds like your lock nut was too thick.
The standard 3/16" thick dillon lock nuts don't have an issue.