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Herter’s die question
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<blockquote data-quote="1moredeer" data-source="post: 3032640" data-attributes="member: 112951"><p>I inherited my Granddad's reloading equipment which included several sets of Herter's dies. This morning, I dug out his 25-20 Win dies and a sack full of brass to prep them for loading . It's been years since these dies were used so I started with pulling them (2-die set) apart and giving them a thorough cleaning and inspection. Once everything was cleaned and reassembled, I put the sizer die in the press and adjusted as usual, lubed up a piece of brass and promptly crushed the neck. I disassembled the die and everything appeared to be in order. I left the depriming pin/expander ball assembly out of the die and tried another piece of brass. It resized the brass just fine and it chambered smoothly in the Model 1892. I measured the neck ID at .253 after resizing. I reinstalled the decapping pin/expander ball assembly and gently raised the ram, it stopped solid when it contacted the expander ball. I removed the assembly while leaving the brass in the die. No way is that expander ball going in that neck while in the die. The expander ball measures .258. After studying this for a bit, I installed the decapping pin/expander ball assembly into the seater die and ran a piece of brass that I had run through the sizer die through this set up. It decapped and expanded the neck back to the correct size. I have pistol dies (3-die sets) where you can chose to decap in either the sizing die or the expansion die but I've never run across this on a rifle die set. Anyone else ever seen this situation? Any information would be appreciated.</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1moredeer, post: 3032640, member: 112951"] I inherited my Granddad’s reloading equipment which included several sets of Herter’s dies. This morning, I dug out his 25-20 Win dies and a sack full of brass to prep them for loading . It’s been years since these dies were used so I started with pulling them (2-die set) apart and giving them a thorough cleaning and inspection. Once everything was cleaned and reassembled, I put the sizer die in the press and adjusted as usual, lubed up a piece of brass and promptly crushed the neck. I disassembled the die and everything appeared to be in order. I left the depriming pin/expander ball assembly out of the die and tried another piece of brass. It resized the brass just fine and it chambered smoothly in the Model 1892. I measured the neck ID at .253 after resizing. I reinstalled the decapping pin/expander ball assembly and gently raised the ram, it stopped solid when it contacted the expander ball. I removed the assembly while leaving the brass in the die. No way is that expander ball going in that neck while in the die. The expander ball measures .258. After studying this for a bit, I installed the decapping pin/expander ball assembly into the seater die and ran a piece of brass that I had run through the sizer die through this set up. It decapped and expanded the neck back to the correct size. I have pistol dies (3-die sets) where you can chose to decap in either the sizing die or the expansion die but I’ve never run across this on a rifle die set. Anyone else ever seen this situation? Any information would be appreciated. Thanks [/QUOTE]
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