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<blockquote data-quote="Shootin4fun" data-source="post: 936136" data-attributes="member: 28741"><p>One thing I've found with the inertia puller (I have a RCBS) kind of shoots down the whole idea of salvaging all components is that the number of whacks it takes to remove the bullet also dislodges PRIMER POWDER from the primer, which then makes its way through the flashole to the powder. So the primer is no longer "virgin" and the powder is contaminated with primer powder. </p><p></p><p>I noticed this because I know that the active agent in Federal primers is yellow, and after removing a bullet I tapped the shell on a white paper towel and noticed yellow. Then I looked in the scale tray where I had dumped some charges and saw yellow powder coating some of the powder granules. (Lovely, you've now raised the burn rate of your powder.) Then I emptied the previously empty jar that I dumped several charges into, and noticed yellow dust in the bottom...enough to dump out, not just a coating. I have pictures of this. </p><p></p><p>So...if you're going to use a kinetic puller, you probably want to toss the primer and powder, or at least the primer and make sure the powder looks normal then neck size if you really want to start with a known entity of a new round.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and before I noticed the above, I removed the expander ball because I figured it wasn't needed and I could save the primer when I resized the case. Well, I didn't THINK it needed to be there. Now I have a case stuck in the resizing die which I'll probably have to replace. All to save a few primers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shootin4fun, post: 936136, member: 28741"] One thing I've found with the inertia puller (I have a RCBS) kind of shoots down the whole idea of salvaging all components is that the number of whacks it takes to remove the bullet also dislodges PRIMER POWDER from the primer, which then makes its way through the flashole to the powder. So the primer is no longer "virgin" and the powder is contaminated with primer powder. I noticed this because I know that the active agent in Federal primers is yellow, and after removing a bullet I tapped the shell on a white paper towel and noticed yellow. Then I looked in the scale tray where I had dumped some charges and saw yellow powder coating some of the powder granules. (Lovely, you've now raised the burn rate of your powder.) Then I emptied the previously empty jar that I dumped several charges into, and noticed yellow dust in the bottom...enough to dump out, not just a coating. I have pictures of this. So...if you're going to use a kinetic puller, you probably want to toss the primer and powder, or at least the primer and make sure the powder looks normal then neck size if you really want to start with a known entity of a new round. Oh, and before I noticed the above, I removed the expander ball because I figured it wasn't needed and I could save the primer when I resized the case. Well, I didn't THINK it needed to be there. Now I have a case stuck in the resizing die which I'll probably have to replace. All to save a few primers. [/QUOTE]
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