Brass Timming with Dillon Trimmer

[thehouseproduct]

For anyone who uses a Dillon to trim brass in bulk, what do you do about this? Do you need to fish the ring out? Am I doing something wrong? Does the tumbler take this out?

[TCCrewchief76]

I haven't run into this yet, but I'm gonna guess one or a combination of two things. Replace the cutter (turn it 120 degrees for a new cutting edge), and/or go slower on the upstroke.

Kevin

[thehouseproduct]

Tried flipping hte cutter and readjusting everything....no good. I guess I'll just go with what I have. I think the small Harbor Freight cut off saw would solve this.

[Crawdaddy]

Originally Posted by thehouseproduct

Tried flipping hte cutter and readjusting everything....no good. I guess I'll just go with what I have. I think the small Harbor Freight cut off saw would solve this.

The HF mini-cutoff saw works, but you have to be careful not to burn up the belt. I did some on mine and it worked great for a while, but then not at all.

My current preferred method is using a drill on my Forster trimmer, with a .22 pilot for cutting to length after running through the Redding form die.

I've also used the HF mini sawzall (body saw?) with the Redding form/trim die with good results. You just end up with sawed off necks all over the place!

[skippy]

A friend of mine was headed down to Harbor Frieght, so I asked him to pick me up one of those mini chop saws...he came back with the 6" version (said the blades were cheaper!), and it works great!! You can see what is going on a lot better on it compared to the mini.

[carcass]

If you haven't already done so, hook your shop vac up to the trimmer vacuum port. That fixed the problem for me. The very few times the vac hasn't cleared this kind of kerf out of the way, I just tapped it hard on the table or used a dental pick to get the kerf out.

[thehouseproduct]

Seems the issue was a clogged vacuum hose. I got a ball of brass out of it that was shocking.