Kydex I had. And left over rivers from holster making. I actually enjoy this working with kydex.
Thanks John.
Here is the the other side.
Kydex I had. And left over rivers from holster making. I actually enjoy this working with kydex.
Thanks John.
Here is the the other side.
Kydex is some neat material, I first came across it about 7 years ago. I had injured my left hand and got in a fight with a table saw dado blade the dado blade won. After rebuilding my hand, they used a plastic material the soaked in hot water to make a support cast. I asked what the material was, and they said kydex. I bought a couple of sheets in Camo last year along with black Chicago screws. Have not done anything with it yet. I have a leather sewing machine figured if I can sew saddle leather, I can sew kydex and it worked great.
The link below is for Chicago screws for kydex.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Chicag...L4GSMDP/ref=pd_lpo_2?pd_rd_i=B07L4GSMDP&psc=1
I spent some time at my reloading bench fiddling with my Lee APP trying to process a bucked of 223 brass. I bent two pins on my Lee Universal decapping die - I don't know if I hit Berdan primed brass or what the deal was, but I bent them in pretty short order and didn't finish processing the bucket because I only have one decapping pin of a 3-pack left.
I don't know if this is just bad luck, or if I'm doing something wrong.
In any case, I switched over and started in with swaging the primer pockets, but eventually got tired of that, so I stopped - I'll maybe pick it back up this evening.
My overall goal was get some brass prepped so that I could get a 223 toolhead set up for my Dillon 550 so that I didn't have to load single stage. I'm still not completely happy with the primer pocket swagging setup - I feel like I should go back and do just a slight chamfer on the edge of the primer pocket with a chamfer bit. I know it's an extra step, but once the brass is processed and ready to go, it's done - I'll never have to work abou that batch again, although there will always be brass prep of some kind.
I never got to the Dillon portion of this endeavor - maybe tonight.
I spent some time at my reloading bench fiddling with my Lee APP trying to process a bucked of 223 brass. I bent two pins on my Lee Universal decapping die - I don't know if I hit Berdan primed brass or what the deal was, but I bent them in pretty short order and didn't finish processing the bucket because I only have one decapping pin of a 3-pack left.
I don't know if this is just bad luck, or if I'm doing something wrong.
I spent some time at my reloading bench fiddling with my Lee APP trying to process a bucked of 223 brass. I bent two pins on my Lee Universal decapping die - I don't know if I hit Berdan primed brass or what the deal was, but I bent them in pretty short order and didn't finish processing the bucket because I only have one decapping pin of a 3-pack left.
I don't know if this is just bad luck, or if I'm doing something wrong.
In any case, I switched over and started in with swaging the primer pockets, but eventually got tired of that, so I stopped - I'll maybe pick it back up this evening.
My overall goal was get some brass prepped so that I could get a 223 toolhead set up for my Dillon 550 so that I didn't have to load single stage. I'm still not completely happy with the primer pocket swagging setup - I feel like I should go back and do just a slight chamfer on the edge of the primer pocket with a chamfer bit. I know it's an extra step, but once the brass is processed and ready to go, it's done - I'll never have to work abou that batch again, although there will always be brass prep of some kind.
I never got to the Dillon portion of this endeavor - maybe tonight.
That's it right there. I might have to take some time to sort this stuff out before I try to process it. Thanks!Check out your cases. Igman, among others, can have very small flash holes in 556. You probably found a couple of them the hard way. Headstamp on the ones coming in of late are mostly "IK" and have pink sealant on primers. There are many others going back but on current stuff these seem to be the offenders. Watch out for norma/ruag 9mm too.
I spent some time at my reloading bench fiddling with my Lee APP trying to process a bucked of 223 brass. I bent two pins on my Lee Universal decapping die - I don't know if I hit Berdan primed brass or what the deal was, but I bent them in pretty short order and didn't finish processing the bucket because I only have one decapping pin of a 3-pack left.
I don't know if this is just bad luck, or if I'm doing something wrong.
In any case, I switched over and started in with swaging the primer pockets, but eventually got tired of that, so I stopped - I'll maybe pick it back up this evening.
My overall goal was get some brass prepped so that I could get a 223 toolhead set up for my Dillon 550 so that I didn't have to load single stage. I'm still not completely happy with the primer pocket swagging setup - I feel like I should go back and do just a slight chamfer on the edge of the primer pocket with a chamfer bit. I know it's an extra step, but once the brass is processed and ready to go, it's done - I'll never have to work abou that batch again, although there will always be brass prep of some kind.
I never got to the Dillon portion of this endeavor - maybe tonight.