Priming tools and practices

Yea, what Bryce (BJS6) said.

I pulled a barrel after a match in ‘97 and stored it with eight (Sinclair priming tool) loaded rounds left over from the match. Screwed the barrel on a different panda last summer and the 10-year-old ammo piled into a .180.
If touching primers is a problem, its not a big problem.
 
Dick,

I am almost afraid to ask, what on earth is a hemostat ?? Sounds like something a surgeon would be using to poke around inside a person with !!

Bryce
 
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Cheers FB,

I am told that down this way the pot smokers use a purpose built folded wire clip to get that last little bit out of their joints, tweezers are more the domain of ladies plucking eyebrows ! I guess the Kiwi dopers found the tweezer was to wide and a narrow wire clip got them right to the end better !!

Good point, dirty on the inside and often suck on it with others sharing it and yet they have clean fingers, I guess it must just be about the economics !!
 
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I have two RCBS

one is the newer "Universal" model. It has a square tray that easily holds 100 LR primers. It has a fence to seperate the primer being inserted from the pan. The universal case holder works very well. I use it for Small primers and the older model for large primers. They are well made and seem to seat the primers well.

I plan to buy another Universal model sometime .
 
I thought the Lee tool said it was good for use with CCi and Federal only. But the Federals can go off in my hand? It would suck if I got my one good eye put out priming cases. I imagine my accuracy would suffer if I were blind.
 
BJS6 said:
Centrefire,

You'd have to have your hands pretty well smothered in case wax or have a very serious oily skin problem to mess up a primer picking it up from the tray to the tool !!

Just whipe your hands dry of case lube and start priming.

The whole never touching a primer is another of those old wives tails that seems to surround shooting, essentially sounds in the basic concept but exaggerated out of all proportion in the real world.

If you would eat a sandwhich, liverwurst or otherwise, then your hands are clean enough to prime cases !

Bryce
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So true.

Has anyone thought of trying to soak a primer in oil, seating that primer and touching off the primer? Maybe that would end the "not touching" the primer debate?
 
I have killed them

Big Al said:
So true.

Has anyone thought of trying to soak a primer in oil, seating that primer and touching off the primer? Maybe that would end the "not touching" the primer debate?
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by not cleaning the lube from new cases I had made. I doubt that skin oil would kill them but Mandril lube WILL.

I figure life is too short to handle primers one at a time.
 
I've found the easiest way to get the primers into my Sinclair right way up is to pick them up with the tweezers that came with my old Lyman test weights. There just isn't enough room there for me to get two fingertips in place.

Hah! I can say I'm using the most hygienic practices when it's really because it's just easier that way.
 
John Kielly -That's exactly what I use to put primers in my Sinclair tool.

Pete Wass - Just what do you use for forming cases that kills primers ?

Glenn:D
 
BJS6 said:
Dick,

I am almost afraid to ask, what on earth is a hemostat ?? Sounds like something a surgeon would be using to poke around inside a person with !!

Bryce
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Hemostat is a surgical tool I have accumulated several sets through the years and none were ever used for illegal purposes to my knowledge.

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FBecigneul said:
I don't see how you can contaminate a primer unless you try to contaminate it.
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Actually its quite easy to contaminate your primers if you handle them. I am not saying this is smart but I did do it . Back in the days when I used Hoppes #9 to clean my barrel I decided one day to clean necks of my cases by wiping the necks with some patches damp with the Hoppes. It works quite well but apparently I had fingers still wet when I picked up the primers, I had a couple shots go 4 to 5 inches low on the next match and realized I had contaminated my primers with the oil in the cleaning solvent . Needless to say not only did I quit handling my primers more importantly I never cleaned necks of my cases that way again.
 
Lube from turning necks

Stonewall said:
John Kielly -That's exactly what I use to put primers in my Sinclair tool.

Pete Wass - Just what do you use for forming cases that kills primers ?

Glenn:D
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I use a light oil on the mandrills of my case neck turners and it will run down into the primer hole if it isn't cleaned out.
 
Years ago on a suggestion of Eric Lutfy (owner of Thunder bird ctg Co.)I did a test using 10 Weight oil and tried to make the primers not go off when seated. No luck, they all fired just fine. I was a believer about the not touching the primer. I no longer live under that myth. I have been using the Sinclair tool and have been using it since they came out new. I don't wash my hands before using the tool and have never had a misfire.:confused:
 
I use the RCBS ...

90200 Hand Priming Tool, with the safety mechanism that separates the seating operation from the primer supply, which eliminates the possibility of tray detonation. Mine has the round tray that flips the primers the correct side up with just a few movements of the tray. It's simple and efficient.

With my method I NEVER HAVE TO TOUCH A PRIMER. I place the tray upside down, on top of a partially or fully opened package of primers, and flip them over. Shake the tray a little and insert it into the tool.

My cartridges have never complained to me about how their primers are being seated. In fact, they've always thanked me ... by igniting! Art
 
oneeyedmac said:
I thought the Lee tool said it was good for use with CCi and Federal only. But the Federals can go off in my hand? It would suck if I got my one good eye put out priming cases. I imagine my accuracy would suffer if I were blind.
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I guess what I did'nt know has'nt hurt me yet. I have used a Lee autoprime for thousands of every brand of primer I know of without any issues at all.

Now that I know Im not supposed to use it I will probably start having problems. :(
 
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Primers are blind little fellows, you know. So i just pick them up quietly, with my little paws, and put them in the priming tool. The trick is to not tell them. Never have had a problem. I used a Lee when i started BR and changed the second year to the Sinclair. I like the feel of seating the primer a lot better with a stronger tool that you can adjust.

Dave
 
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Dave Coots said:
Primers are blind little fellows, you know. So i just pick them up quietly, with my little paws, and put them in the priming tool. The trick is to not tell them. Never have had a problem. I used a Lee when i started BR and changed the second year to the Sinclair. I like the feel of seating the primer a lot better with a stronger tool that you can adjust.

Dave
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What one likes. That's all that matters in the end.

Twas me Dick refered to who nearly blew his thumb off using the Lee. I had third degree burns and a seperated muscle.

It was my fault. Lee warns people not to place more than 10, I think it is, Federals in at one time. It was late at night and I was tired. I crunched a primer sideways and it blew the entire tool apart in my hands. My thumb and a small wound on my abdomen was all that happened.

I like the Lee tool and if they would only make it a bit more sturdy I think most people, who like them, would be willing to pay the extra for it.
 
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Pete

Crunching a primer sideways is another reason i quit using the Lee. Also, once in a while i would get a primer in backwards.

Dave
 
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