Die finish
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If you haven't polished your dies, you don't know what you are missing. You can't buy your way to this finish. I don't care how much money you spend on dies, they could be improved by doing this. A little flitz polish and some paper towels, and you'll feel the difference in sizing force. Don't forget to polish the expander ball/mandrel. Also, polished seating stems in your seating dies will keep the stems from damaging your bullets and will help seating depth consistency.
Flitz will take it to a mirror finish. Really bad dies can be brought along by using some fine sandpaper such as 600 grit or higher, and then flitz.
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I've always done mine with some 2000 grit sandpaper. Never the inside of the die though, I'll havve to try the fritz.
How do you polish the seating stem? The 1-2 thou difference in seating depth drives me crazy and that sounds like it'll help
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@ragnarnar said:
How do you polish the seating stem?
Pull the stem out, chuck it up, go at it with sandpaper and flitz. Same way. :)
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I suppose that was obvious. I thought there would be a special technique to get the inside where the bearing surface touches the stem.
Ask a stupid question I guess...
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@ragnarnar said:
I suppose that was obvious. I thought there would be a special technique to get the inside where the bearing surface touches the stem.
Ask a stupid question I guess...
Not a stupid question, but wasn't asked in a way that I initially understood. ;)
Answer: Q-tips! Q-tips are probably one of the most under-rated tools in existence.
