JS>DA>JS> WHat do you do with the post in the primer pocket then?  Grind it
JS>DA>JS> off and just slap a boxer primer in?  Is the flash hole area
JS>DA>JS> comparable or compatable with the flask hole in a boxer primer 
se?
JS>DA>I've got a friend with a well-equipped machine shop who likes to morph
JS>DA>brass. That's one of the things he's tried out.
JS>DA>First he made a tool that screws into the spent primer and pulls it 
ut.
JS>DA>Then he drills a small hole up through the primer pocket and reams out
JS>DA>the primer pocket to boxer dimensions. At that point, he's ready to
JS>DA>reload.
JS>DA>The brass is heavy enough on the base that nothing gets too thin, but 
e
JS>DA>does wind up with an oversized flash hole. The two holes from the 
erden
JS>DA>design get joined by the center hole that he drills.
JS>HA!  I've got him beat on that one: I used a .40S&W case to repair my
JS>fridge:  the evaporator moter had worn its bronze bearings to the point
JS>were the shaft could wobble instead of rotating smoothly.  I tried
JS>compressing the bearing down but it crumbled before I'd reached enough
JS>compression.  I was all set to make one out of delrin in hopes that would
JS>last until I got a replacement motor, but once I measured the outer
JS>diameter of the bearing and got .400", I could not resist using a brass
JS>casing.  The notch for the extractor posed no problem at all, and the
JS>shaft hole was slightly bigger than the primer pocket.  I used a file and
JS>a hand drill to turn the case outer dimensions to about .401", and press
JS>fit it.  I also left the headstamp facing out, so you can see the
JS>"Winchester 40S&W"...  :-)
When I was a company commander in Vietnam, I lost my pocket knife (how I
lost it is a whole 'nother story), and wrote my wife for an emergency
resupply.  She sent me a big Swiss Army knife.
Not long after, my command track broke a battery cable in the middle of
a firefight.  While my RTO manned the .50, I pulled the rear engine
access panel off, found the problem, grabbed an empty .50 case (there
were a lot of them raining down on me), cut it with the metal file, and
jammed it over the terminal, stripped and stuffed the end of the cable
in -- and off we went.
Ever since, my wife has been in the habit of giving me a new Swiss Army
knife every three or four years.
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