Brass Grippers

[afate45]

Brass Grippers (?)

Has anyone ever seen or used this product? I'm thinking about the thousands of cases I prep each year and how tired my hands get after a 4-5 hour session of brass prep. These might be worth it. However, I'm sure there is an easy DIY solution to this, such as 2 blocks of wood (dremeled out for whatever caliber) attached to large pliers

Has anyone ever created something like this, or is there another solution when prepping 1000 pieces of brass?

 

[vh20]

Well, I'm not sure I understand the advantage if you just do everything on a drill press - primer pocket uniforming/cleaning, flash hole deburring, inside neck polish, and inside/outside deburring can all be done holding the case lightly with two fingers if you use a drill press on a low speed. Is there another operation you were thinking they'd be useful for?

By the way, for the price, you could easily buy a bench top drill press from Harbor Freight for less money.

 

[xdeano]

just use a rubber arrow puller. cheap and easy.
xdeano

 

[afate45]

just use a rubber arrow puller. cheap and easy.
xdeano

Good idea...never thought of that...

The drill press would also work for most operations, but some of my cases I use a Lyman VLD chamfer/deburr tool and I don't believe I could chuck that up in a drill press. I could be totally wrong about that though.

 

[memilanuk]

Get a box of latex or nitrile rubber gloves from the hardware store... you'll be amazed at how much more 'grip' you get from these without having to squeeze so hard. Added benefit of keeping your hands a little cleaner too.

 

[former naval person]

Careful if you use the Latex gloves...if you use a drill press and the gloves get caught by the case it can wind your fingers up tight in a jiff.

 

[scatterbrains]

Careful if you use the Latex gloves...if you use a drill press and the gloves get caught by the case it can wind your fingers up tight in a jiff.

Be careful with ANY gloves while using a drillpress

 

[memilanuk]

In my situation, I do most of my case prep on purpose-built tools such as an RCBS Case Prep center or Giraud trimmer. Pushing things *up* into a drill press has always felt just wrong to me. FWIW, in my experience... in the rare occasions the latex gloves do get caught on something rotating, they aren't like leather or other materials - they literally stretch and then shred/snap long before pulling your hand into anything. Also, most of the tools I've seen mounted in a press, with perhaps the exception of a outside chamfer tool, have concealed cutters so there isn't much for the gloves to pull your hands into. I understand the reflex/knee-jerk argument about rotating machinery and gloves... but realistically... I think the odds are low of latex gloves being a problem.

 

[capreppy]

Get a box of latex or nitrile rubber gloves from the hardware store... you'll be amazed at how much more 'grip' you get from these without having to squeeze so hard. Added benefit of keeping your hands a little cleaner too.

I only really need this when I use my Giraud and try to do a marathon session of brass prep, but it works like a charm.

 

[Dkindels]

I've been looking for this for a while. Or something like it.