No! Not THAT kind of problem! It's like this:
I use an old RCBS Rock Chucker press for reloading. One accessory for this press is a priming attachment that uses what appears to be an aluminum tube which feed primers by gravity, one at a time, for delivery into the little gizmo that actually presses it into the primer pocket of the case.
My problem is that somehow a small primer - not sure if it's a small rifle or a small pistol primer - got turned sideways in this tube and has some unknown number of primers "trapped" inside the tube. Way back when this happened I simply set this tube aside, and ordered a new tube from RCBS. I would really like to "recover" this tube, as it seems that RCBS has moved on to a different primer system for it's newest version of the Rock Chucker, and these old style primer tubes may be unavailable. (Or, they may just be unavailable at this time due to the Biden/Harris election, the Covid-19 virus, panic buying, sunspot cycle, time of the month, or whatever.)
Anybody have any ideas on how to dislodge this primer? Sticking a thin steel rod down there and hammering on it doesn't seem like a good idea. Maybe if I could somehow de-activate the primers by soaking them in penetrating oil, water, kerosene, a solution of pixie dust (Where can you buy pixie dust, anyway?) first.........
Need advice, and you guys haven't failed me yet.
By the way, I have one of those hand-held primer tools, so I'm not totally dead in the water, but I would like to recover this tube if I can do so without losing any fingers or an eye or something.
I use an old RCBS Rock Chucker press for reloading. One accessory for this press is a priming attachment that uses what appears to be an aluminum tube which feed primers by gravity, one at a time, for delivery into the little gizmo that actually presses it into the primer pocket of the case.
My problem is that somehow a small primer - not sure if it's a small rifle or a small pistol primer - got turned sideways in this tube and has some unknown number of primers "trapped" inside the tube. Way back when this happened I simply set this tube aside, and ordered a new tube from RCBS. I would really like to "recover" this tube, as it seems that RCBS has moved on to a different primer system for it's newest version of the Rock Chucker, and these old style primer tubes may be unavailable. (Or, they may just be unavailable at this time due to the Biden/Harris election, the Covid-19 virus, panic buying, sunspot cycle, time of the month, or whatever.)
Anybody have any ideas on how to dislodge this primer? Sticking a thin steel rod down there and hammering on it doesn't seem like a good idea. Maybe if I could somehow de-activate the primers by soaking them in penetrating oil, water, kerosene, a solution of pixie dust (Where can you buy pixie dust, anyway?) first.........
Need advice, and you guys haven't failed me yet.
By the way, I have one of those hand-held primer tools, so I'm not totally dead in the water, but I would like to recover this tube if I can do so without losing any fingers or an eye or something.
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