BEHOLD this reloading difference

[Bang]

I have an RCBS hand-operated priming tool that has been great. My primers are usually CCI. Ran out and reached for Winchester WSPs I had on a shelf.

Started having trouble with the RCBS tool almost immediately. Feeding the primers thru the tool, it seemed like the over-all dimensions, or the finish of the WSPs, were different from CCIs. WSPs were binding on each other as they entered the feed tube part of the tool, creating all sorts of mischief.

I filed the interior of the white plastic feed tube (actually rectangular in cross section) slightly after thoroughly cleaning it, but it didn't help.

Then hit on an idea. With a Q-Tip, I applied BEHOLD to the feed area, and to the clear cover of the primer holder near where the feed bunching was happening.

BINGO! Problem fixed. (I'm sure PLEDGE would work the same). These products make great "dry lubricators".

[frankski]

You want to be careful not to contaminate primers with any kind of oil.

[Iron Sights]

You want to be careful not to contaminate primers with any kind of oil.

Agree

[Noah_Zark]

Most furniture polishes have a lot of silicone, and anti-static charge dissapators (like dryer sheets do). The silicone likely helps the primers to flow, but I don't know what its effect on primer function would be.

Noah

[bamboomaster]

And most certainly, don't consider contaminating body parts with fluids that work effectively on primers or other items surrounding your work-bench.

SERIOUSLY! No innuendos involved...

[frankski]

The main ingredient in Behold and Pledge, besides propellants, is alkane/cycloalkane, a naphtha compound derived from petroleum.

Sometimes I use a dry powder lubricant (used for cartridge resizing) in the primer feed tube.

I’ve also found that Winchester SP primers tend to stick, so I prefer CCI.

[Bang]

I use Behold on my eyeglasses, which are plastic and ten years old. Lenses would smear if the product remained liquid. They do not. Also on my helmet windshield.

[frankski]

I confess in advance about being fussy about 'splodie stuff.

In the spirit of addressing the handling of primers, here's a link to a publication from SAAMI on handling primers.

http://www.saami.org/specifications_...01-Primers.pdf

The entire document is a must read for reloaders, but Number 4 is relevant to the instant matter:

Primers exposed to water or any organic solvent,
such as paint thinner, gasoline, kerosene, oil, grease, etc.
may deteriorate, resulting in misfires or poor ignition.

For this reason, it is probably good to keep anyhting in contact with primers clean, dry, and free from foreign matter.

[bogey1]

Welp, I'm breaking the law ^^^

[RBELARDI]

I have a non related not so funny primer story. I was reloading 300 SAUM, brand new virgin brass and I was using my RCBS primer tool. After resizing I primed all of my brass and was in the process of loading powder into all of the primed cases to which as the next load is dispensing I put the filled case into the Rock chucker and press the head on. Well when I picked up the case I noticed that the primer wasn't fully seated. So I went back to the primer tool and put the primed case back into the tool and squeezed and "POP" the primer went off.

I didn't squeeze it fast or any different then if I was seating a normal primer. But it was extremely loud in my closet sized reloading room and after I processed what happened I saw the black specks of burnt powder on my freshly painted white walls.

What really scared me is that (I'm being honest here so no bashing) I know that if I had found that unseated primer when the bullet was loaded I prob. would have done the same thing . . .

And that would have been a real problem.

I'm chalking it up to someone was watching out for me and taught me a good lesson.