On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 01:30:52 -0500, "RogerN" wrote:

Tuesday I received my Lee LoadMaster progressive press for .223 Remington.
Adjusted and tested, weighed several powder charges, etc. I reloaded a few
cartridges last night and ran a small batch tonight, now I have 126 reloaded
cartridges plus 80 purchased. The 126 was the number of brass I had ready
to reload...

Some of my brass has crimped primers, I need to ream or swage them to the
correct shape. I have some other brass that has the Berdan sp primers. I
saw some info on the internet about drilling Berdan primers out to accept
regular primers.

Potential for further automation includes an escapement for case feeding and
a bullet feeder.

RogerN


Id STRONGLY suggest you do NOT drill berdan primers and attempt to
reform them unless its a "last resort". There are some issues that
can cause a weapon to frankly..blow up ...when doing this.

I you need .223 brass...its available on the net cheap enough (still)
or I could send you several hundred.

As for crimped primer pockets..there are two methods that work well
enough. The first is simply using a case mouth deburring tool and with
a turn or 3..cut off the burrs. The best way..is to buy a
RCBS/hornady/wlson etc "primer pocket swage" and use that.

Or make your own out of 7/8-14 all thread and machine one as an
exercise.

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/235...swager-combo-2

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/501...mer-tool-small

etc etc

Ive used the reamers on drill press..and have used industrial cutting
tools with better results on the drill press.