THE ACCURATERELOADING.COM FORUMS


Moderators: Mark
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
loose primer pocket?
 Login/Join
 
One of Us
posted
Is there anything that can be done to a loose primer pocket to tighten it up?
 
Posts: 91 | Location: south carolina | Registered: 17 June 2010Reply With Quote
One of Us
Picture of Grumulkin
posted Hide Post
Probably but that doesn't mean you should.
 
Posts: 2911 | Location: Ohio, U.S.A. | Registered: 31 March 2006Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of aktoklat
posted Hide Post
Throw them away, over pressures lead to primer pocket enlargement.This sounds like a accident waiting to happen.


Focus on the leading edge!
 
Posts: 453 | Location: Louisiana by way of Alaska | Registered: 02 November 2004Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
By any chance are you using Remington primers? They have the smallest OD of all the LR primers out there. You may very well have enlarged primer pockets, but before dumping the brass I'd try other primers. I've been thru this drill before.
 
Posts: 8169 | Location: humboldt | Registered: 10 April 2002Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
Primer pockets can be measured with .001 increment gauge pins.
Primers can be measured with micrometers.

I have started out using one brand of primer and changed to another when the primer pockets got loose. My primer pockets get loose due to wear from many multiple loads not from high pressure.
 
Posts: 13978 | Location: http://www.tarawaontheweb.org/tarawa2.jpg | Registered: 03 December 2008Reply With Quote
One of Us
Picture of Von Gruff
posted Hide Post
Check out the link and scroll down for the dimensions of primers.

http://www.radomski.us/njhp/cart_tech.htm


Von Gruff.

http://www.vongruffknives.com/

Gen 12: 1-3

Exodus 20:1-17

Acts 4:10-12


 
Posts: 2693 | Location: South Otago New Zealand. | Registered: 08 February 2009Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
how many times this brass been shot? this does not mean you are over pressured. when i shoot brass around 6-8 times mine get loose to. i just toss them. and yes remington primers are the loosest fitting. primer pockets do stretch thats a fact.
 
Posts: 1137 | Location: SouthCarolina | Registered: 07 July 2004Reply With Quote
One of Us
Picture of vapodog
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Grumulkin:
Probably but that doesn't mean you should.




quote:
Originally posted by aktoklat:
Throw them away, over pressures lead to primer pocket enlargement.This sounds like a accident waiting to happen.


Two good pieces of advice in a row.....


///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill
 
Posts: 28849 | Location: western Nebraska | Registered: 27 May 2003Reply With Quote
  Powered by Social Strata  
 


Copyright December 1997-2023 Accuratereloading.com


Visit our on-line store for AR Memorabilia