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<blockquote data-quote="Kevin Thomas" data-source="post: 386165" data-attributes="member: 15748"><p>Hey Hunter,</p><p> </p><p>Some marking of the brass is prefectly normal during the resizing process, inevitable, really. However, if you're seeing what you'd call scratches on the brass, either body or neck, you may need to clean the dies out thoroughly. Any grit or errant range material that found its way back to the relaoding bench can cause problems like this, and it needs to be removed. </p><p> </p><p>The Imperial is great stuff, and will easily handle normal resizing tasks. When you say you're putting it inside the case mouths, I assume you're feeling some excessive "pull" as the expander ball passes back though the neck? Very common, but still no fun and not a good thing. There's a couple ways to get around this. One, you could have a machine shop hone the neck out to the correct diameter so that this is minimized. Easier still, would be to replace the die with one of their Type-S full length bushing dies and just use the appropriate size bushing. This will minimize the expander passage problem, or, you can eliminate the expander altogether. Polishing the existing expander should help in the meantime. Some 600 grit crocus cloth or emery paper should clean it up nicely without altering the diameter too much, and will make it easier to use. I'd suggest the Type-S die, they're a big step in the right direction.</p><p> </p><p>Kevin Thomas</p><p>Lapua USA</p><p> </p><p>Glad to hear that it's shooting well for you in the meantime, though!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kevin Thomas, post: 386165, member: 15748"] Hey Hunter, Some marking of the brass is prefectly normal during the resizing process, inevitable, really. However, if you're seeing what you'd call scratches on the brass, either body or neck, you may need to clean the dies out thoroughly. Any grit or errant range material that found its way back to the relaoding bench can cause problems like this, and it needs to be removed. The Imperial is great stuff, and will easily handle normal resizing tasks. When you say you're putting it inside the case mouths, I assume you're feeling some excessive "pull" as the expander ball passes back though the neck? Very common, but still no fun and not a good thing. There's a couple ways to get around this. One, you could have a machine shop hone the neck out to the correct diameter so that this is minimized. Easier still, would be to replace the die with one of their Type-S full length bushing dies and just use the appropriate size bushing. This will minimize the expander passage problem, or, you can eliminate the expander altogether. Polishing the existing expander should help in the meantime. Some 600 grit crocus cloth or emery paper should clean it up nicely without altering the diameter too much, and will make it easier to use. I'd suggest the Type-S die, they're a big step in the right direction. Kevin Thomas Lapua USA Glad to hear that it's shooting well for you in the meantime, though! [/QUOTE]
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