F. Guffey, surely everyone realizes the need to lift the expander as far as needed for clearance before drilling and tapping for a case puller but I was asking Mr. zfk55 how he removes the decapping assembly in order to use a brass rod to punch the stuck case out, not how you remove stuck cases with a 3/8" tap and bolt.
And, since you made an issue of it, how does that 3/8" tap work out for you when pulling stuck .223 cases?
All of my dies are metal. They have never suffered any harm from the use of gasoline or brake or carburetor cleaners, etc. and that's part of what I've been using to clean them with for decades. My lock nuts haven't dissolved nor have my die theads chipped out; am I just lucky about that, so far?
Ah well, I'm going out to use my feeler gages now....
