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<blockquote data-quote="SidecarFlip" data-source="post: 876182" data-attributes="member: 39764"><p>'bout halfway between Mudrunner and myself.</p><p> </p><p>If the die sets were 70 bucks, you don't have bushing dies. Bushing dies start at 200 and go up.</p><p> </p><p>You have fixed cavity with a moveable (threaded) expander ball/decap assembly.</p><p> </p><p>I think you can rectify the neck tension issue right away or at least mitigate it for the most part.</p><p> </p><p>Take your FL die apart and remove the decap pin/collet from the expander ball rod and throw it in your storage box. From now on, if you want to decap a spent case, use your Neck Size die with the decap rod screwed down so the decap rod is sticking out of the die body about 1/2". When you decap a case, just use the neck sizer to pop the primer and no more. Under no circumstances run the case up into your Neck Sizer die, never, never.</p><p> </p><p>Back to the FL sizer die...</p><p> </p><p>Tak a case, any case but preferrably a case with a loose case mouth.....</p><p> </p><p>Take your FL sizer die and screw the expander ball down so it's about halfway up inside the die and lock it (look up inside with a flashlight to determine that its halfway down the die or better). Put your die in your press, raise the shellholder and ram to the top. Run the die down to the shellholder and THEN BACK IT OFF A HALF A TURN and lock it. Lube and resize your brass and report back. That should emininate the tension issue unless the case mouths are workhardened. Forget about camming over the ram and all that for now, we will get into that later...</p><p> </p><p>One step at a time.</p><p> </p><p>I really don't want to come to Kentucky, but Sully lives in Cincinatti and he knows his way around the reloading room. I might ask him....lightbulb He will do most anything for the right powder.....lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SidecarFlip, post: 876182, member: 39764"] 'bout halfway between Mudrunner and myself. If the die sets were 70 bucks, you don't have bushing dies. Bushing dies start at 200 and go up. You have fixed cavity with a moveable (threaded) expander ball/decap assembly. I think you can rectify the neck tension issue right away or at least mitigate it for the most part. Take your FL die apart and remove the decap pin/collet from the expander ball rod and throw it in your storage box. From now on, if you want to decap a spent case, use your Neck Size die with the decap rod screwed down so the decap rod is sticking out of the die body about 1/2". When you decap a case, just use the neck sizer to pop the primer and no more. Under no circumstances run the case up into your Neck Sizer die, never, never. Back to the FL sizer die... Tak a case, any case but preferrably a case with a loose case mouth..... Take your FL sizer die and screw the expander ball down so it's about halfway up inside the die and lock it (look up inside with a flashlight to determine that its halfway down the die or better). Put your die in your press, raise the shellholder and ram to the top. Run the die down to the shellholder and THEN BACK IT OFF A HALF A TURN and lock it. Lube and resize your brass and report back. That should emininate the tension issue unless the case mouths are workhardened. Forget about camming over the ram and all that for now, we will get into that later... One step at a time. I really don't want to come to Kentucky, but Sully lives in Cincinatti and he knows his way around the reloading room. I might ask him....lightbulb He will do most anything for the right powder.....lol [/QUOTE]
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