NOW I REMEMBER WHY I LOVE MY DILLON CARBIDE DIES

[Edsel]

Ugh.

My second instance ever.

I suppose I’ve been lucky, over the tens of thousands that I’ve gone through thus far…

This is a Forster FLS Small Base Die.

I was uniforming some machinegun - fired garbage brass.



The Dillon dies have the wrench flats + stuck case extractor designed into the dies themselves.

Now I’ve to wait for that RCBS 9340 Stuck Case Remover to get shipped…

The case rim is gone.

Any alternatives other than waiting at the moment?

 

[Potsy]

Spray some Kroil around it (top and bottom) and break out the vise-grips?

 

[supercorndogs]

I have never seen anything short of a stuck case extractor work.

 

[Edsel]

I’ll probably just wait - thinking about it, I’ll need to preserve as much of the case head brass for the tap to bite into.

 

[Potsy]

Come to think of it, I’ve never had a REALLY stuck case. I’ve never ran MG brass either.
Brother in law got a little stingy with the lube a while back and stuck a .30-06 pretty good. He did get it out, but I can’t recall how.

 

[Edsel]

I’ve never ran MG brass either.

Don’t get lured by “bulk pricing.”

They’re absolutely horrible.

Trash - tier consumables.

Tempted to just throw them out, but I can’t stand the idea of such waste.

I got mine when I first started handloading.

They require a LOT of Imperial Sizing Wax…

Brass Springback is significant and highly variable unless one uses much longer dwell times and various case sizing acrobatics…

…And the torque required for sizing may be inducing more wear / linkage slop on my press.

And this is on a high torque Forster Co -Ax.

Bloated Brass and a Small Base Die…

The worst combination ever.

 

[jet_lagged]

DIY yourself a stuck case remover, if you already have a decent sized tap sitting around? Drill out the primer hole, tap/thread that hole, then use washers and a bolt with a wrench on it to exert tension against the bottom of the die to pull the case out

 

[Edsel]

DIY yourself a stuck case remover, if you already have a decent sized tap sitting around? Drill out the primer hole, tap/thread that hole, then use washers and a bolt with a wrench on it to exert tension against the bottom of the die to pull the case out

Saw some YouTube videos approaching it that way…

Unfortunately…

Drill Bits… Check.
Taps… Nope.
Socket or Standoff and Washer… Nope.
Fasteners… Nope.

I suppose I could use a block of wood and a spade bit in lieu of the Socket / Standoff / Washer

The RCBS kit is on its way.

I’ll wait

 

[Edsel]

Already practiced drilling out a centered hole using a smaller drill bit.

Easy enough, brass yields readily to hardened steel - odds are, I won’t be catastrophically messing this one up

 

[99mpower]

leave.. otherwise you are replacing a die

extractor will work perfect

 

[99mpower]

Don’t get lured by “bulk pricing.”

They’re absolutely horrible.

Trash - tier consumables.

Tempted to just throw them out, but I can’t stand the idea of such waste.

I got mine when I first started handloading.

They require a LOT of Imperial Sizing Wax…

Brass Springback is significant and highly variable unless one uses much longer dwell times and various case sizing acrobatics…

…And the torque required for sizing may be inducing more wear / linkage slop on my press.

Bloated Brass and a Small Base Die…

The worst combination ever.

send to me.. i’ll process with extra lubrication, and run it on autodrive

 

[spife7980]

It looks like you have the die guts emptied of it?
Just get a flat end metal rod down the neck and a hammer and smack the shit out of it

If you want to get cute, keyboard cleaner turned upside down so it blast the freezing refrigerant, spray that down the neck in the case in an effort to shrink the brass away from the die body before you smack it