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Harlie · March 21, 2005, 03:36 PM

Man, now I've heard it all. Ruined a set of dies yet, with steel cases yet and pitched them yet. Yes sir, heard it all. Mild steel can not, will not harm carbide until you reach hundreds of thousands of uses. Only die being subject to any possible wear is the resizing. Also the coating on steel cases isn't normally even scratched during resizing so where does wear come from? Dies, believe I'd sent them fellers back to Lee. I've probably run a conservative 10K steels thru my Dillon, and another 80K brass on top of that and the dies are all fine, go figure.

March 21, 2005, 03:36 PM	#16
Harlie Member Join Date: March 1, 2005 Posts: 41	HiTeReNe Man, now I've heard it all. Ruined a set of dies yet, with steel cases yet and pitched them yet. Yes sir, heard it all. Mild steel can not, will not harm carbide until you reach hundreds of thousands of uses. Only die being subject to any possible wear is the resizing. Also the coating on steel cases isn't normally even scratched during resizing so where does wear come from? Dies, believe I'd sent them fellers back to Lee. I've probably run a conservative 10K steels thru my Dillon, and another 80K brass on top of that and the dies are all fine, go figure.