Just so everybody knows, I'm not complaining about my Hornady .223 Rem sizing die. More just another instance of if its going to break, I'll be the guy to break it!!!
So I'm down in the reloading room resizing a bunch of 5.56 brass for reloading later this winter and get this really old piece of LC brass stuck. So cussing and swearing I pull the die and the RCBS stuck brass kit, run them out to the garage and extract the offensive part. As I'm cleaning the die of all the little bits of brass that get made, I noticed something really odd about the expander button. Not to put too fine a point on it, there's a chunk of it missing! Pulling out my magnifying glass, I also see 5 or 6 cracks in the button at the upper edge!
Sigh, if it's gonna happen it'll always happen to me. Like I said, I'm not complaining about the die, I've put something like 35k pieces of brass through it, just that it always happens when I really don't want it to!
So I'm down in the reloading room resizing a bunch of 5.56 brass for reloading later this winter and get this really old piece of LC brass stuck. So cussing and swearing I pull the die and the RCBS stuck brass kit, run them out to the garage and extract the offensive part. As I'm cleaning the die of all the little bits of brass that get made, I noticed something really odd about the expander button. Not to put too fine a point on it, there's a chunk of it missing! Pulling out my magnifying glass, I also see 5 or 6 cracks in the button at the upper edge!
Sigh, if it's gonna happen it'll always happen to me. Like I said, I'm not complaining about the die, I've put something like 35k pieces of brass through it, just that it always happens when I really don't want it to!