Oh FFS!

[Donkey Basher]

I truly have to admire you S62, many on here would never dream of posting a thread like this but you sir have the balls to do so &, in doing, help those who don't overcome their own failings.

Plus, of course, you can be relied on to provide the rest of us with a good laugh at regular intervals

Now to the serious stuff.

Have you been able to remove the decapping pin & expander ball/button? - from the pic it looks as if you have?

If so then you're out of the blocks & over the first hurdle.

Options now are either use a large punch & a decent size hammer to "persuade" the case out of the die or drill the base through the primer pocket & try using a case extractor.

Personally I'd go with the first one & start by sticking the whole lot in the freezer for at least 24 hours.

Then, making sure you have some good jaw protectors fitted, stick the die in a vice, put the punch in the top until it touches the base of the case & then apply as many blows from 'Land Rover tool No.2' (that's the bigger heavier version of Land Rover tool No.1) as it takes either to knock the case free or punch a hole through the base of the case!

Good luck

 

[Donkey Basher]

Just to add, following on from Dunwater's advice about PPE, suggest that you wear a good thick leather glove on the hand holding the punch in case you miss when applying blows with LRTN.2

 

[Tim.243]

Oh, I think we all know what I am good at.

It's not easy being this shite at everything - takes real talent.

Fcuking up. That is what I am good at.


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I worked on the advice given to me from day one of my toolmaking apprenticeship...
Read the drawing
Make sure you understand what to do
If you are not sure ASK

If you don't follow these and **** up the job, you will have to pass the people who gave you the advice to get a new bit of material and they will take the p iss out of you all day...
I was 16 and scrapped quite a few bits lol
What is your excuse

 

[Stalker62]

Stick it in the freezer.

OK.

I don't know why, but I have done this.

I put it inside a plastic glove and then passed it to my wife.

"Can you stick this in the freezer?"

"Why? What is it?"

"I don't know why, and it does not matter what it is..."

"Having a bad day?"

"Just stick it in the freezer please"...




I do not think the freezer is as frosty as my wife just now...

 

[Stalker62]

That's why I use lee dies... not for some technical advance, but they are cheaper to replace when buggered up!

Yes, this is the competition RCBS set...

 

[Bandit Country]

I put it inside a plastic glove and then passed it to my wife.

"Can you stick this in the freezer?"

"Why? What is it?"

"I don't know why, and it does not matter what it is..."

"Having a bad day?"

"Just stick it in the freezer please"...

I'm intrigued as to why you need your wife to put something in the freezer.

No wait ... sometime in the past you f**ked up the freezer and you're not allowed to touch it, ever again?

 

[Fosbery Holster]

@Stalker1962 Could I ask what brand of shell holder were you using ?

l had the very same problem with RCBS competition f/l sizing die but it wasn’t that l hadn’t lubed the brass it was my shell holder that gave up the ghost which happened to be a Lee shell holder (sh1t), binned them and now only use RCBS, no further problems.

 

[tim@tcs]

RCBS will replace foc, I’ve used the warranty a few times

 

[Stalker62]

I think I may have to scrub today, as a bit of a mare.

As I reverse out of home, I completely misjudge it, and run over the 'up-lights'. It is smashed to bits and I am rapidly losing the will.







Just back from the farm (at least I have another five bags of pellets) for the poults.




I asked my wife (I am not authorised to shop on Amazon) to buy me some sticky numbers. I have the brilliant idea that I am going to number the feeders. I have seven in the pen, and I think that numbering them will assist the management of them.

The Amazon envelope arrived before I set off, and Mrs.S62 threw it into the truck. At the pen, I rip it open and find..



Three No. 2s for marking your dustbin. I don't even live at number fcuking 2.

She will try again this afternoon.

I get home and try and face down today's reloading Demon. Obviously I am 'paused' on the .243, but I have about eighty rounds of .308 to complete.

An hour later and I am struggling up the path back to the house, carrying waaaay too much stuff. As I make the kitchen door, I mess it up and drop a box of 50 freshly made rounds. It is raining and I am scrabbling around, on my hands and knees, trying to gather them all back up.

It is sort of a good news story. As I am picking them up I notice that one, then two, then three (finally five) have no primers in.

Bullets, and powder yes, primer no. My tears of frustration are washed away by the increasingly heavy rain.

Some days you just need to write off.


So, the .243 die is in the freezer. Although I did spray the brass with lube, I think I may have used the wrong case holder and so when I went to remove it, the brass slipped out of the holder and stuck fast in the die.


The brass was a bit 'proud' and I thought I could 'plier' it out. Turns out I couldn't.

Hacksawed the live primer off (I did say I made things worse) - tried the "Stuck Case" kit (yes I have one) and because I had hacksawed the head (real head end not miss-named bullets) end off, I am now left with a tube of brass, rammed in a tube of steel.

I have a family member who is good with their hands. When next they are over, I will share this tale of woe with them, explain that I have already put the offending item in the deep freeze (remembering all the while to look like I know why I did that) and then pass them the frozen lump in the hopeless expectation that they will fix it.

In the meantime, I am going for a lay down.


At this rate I will probable fall off the bed...

 

[Jura]

What is, how many stuck cases in July can we get campaign?

Aye, this was me yesterday afternoon....

 

[Stalker62]

I'm intrigued as to why you need your wife to put something in the freezer.

My wife says I have not to touch anything hot, cold or sharp...

 

[Stalker62]

Could I ask what brand of shell holder were you using ?

Honestly, could not swear it.

I have one the years bought a couple of brands but now only RCBS.

 

[Stalker62]

RCBS will replace foc, I’ve used the warranty a few times

Operator error.

I would not dream of claiming.

 

[bowji john]

OK.

I don't know why, but I have done this.

I put it inside a plastic glove and then passed it to my wife.

"Can you stick this in the freezer?"

"Why? What is it?"

"I don't know why, and it does not matter what it is..."

"Having a bad day?"

"Just stick it in the freezer please"...




I do not think the freezer is as frosty as my wife just now...

I will be interested if this technique works for you

I tried it

Not enough differential shrinkage between the two metals to help me

Mines gone in the bin

 

[merlin]

My wife says I have not to touch anything hot, cold or sharp...

This will be nil consolation, but I am tarred with a similar brush.... I have what I like to think of as a "reverse Midas touch": everything I touch turns to shite.....

Amongst my friends, my DiY (in)ability is legendary. I am the Reg Prescott of the North


If there is a hole to drill in the wrong place, a cable to go through, a water pipe to puncture, I'm yer man

Ironically, my son is a Joiner, and a bloody good one. He sure didn't inherit his ability off me. The look he gives me whenever I pick up a tool is a picture.....

 

[Liveonce]

why the freezer, steel shrinks as it cools, so unless the brass also shrinks and at a faster rate than steel then the result will be the case is stuck even tighter in the die.

????

 

[Fosbery Holster]

Honestly, could not swear it.

I have one the years bought a couple of brands but now only RCBS.

With my fcuk up l was using what according to the Lee shell holder list was the “correct“ holder for the 6.5x55 brass l was loading, unfortunately for me (and Lee) the internal rim of the holder flaked away (monkey metal) before I was aware of the failure it left me with a stuck case minus its rim.

Contacted Lee with photos of said correct damaged holder and eventually they supplied me FOC with two more of the same (3) plus another pair of 2’s, now then one of the no2’s wouldn’t fit at all but the other did, the new no3’s were as slack as the proverbial witches ……. hence binning the lot and buying RCBS……that solved my problem.

Good luck, you’re not as daft as you make out……………..…are you ?

 

[Dalua]

Not sure about the freezer, but does brass not melt at a markedly-lower temperature than steel?

Perhaps you could ask Mrs Stalker to put it in some suitable freezer-to-oven cookware and then pop it in the oven at Gas Mark 114/1750°F or Fan oven 1730°F?

 

[3.5mag]

We must have been separated at birth

 

[Stalker62]

OK.

So this may help some.

It will not help me (having hacksawed the damn brass).