Hull Cut Off jig

[D Todd Hendrey]

Great idea!!! What hulls work the best for re-crimping and do they need to be skived also?

Todd

[William Davis]

They need to be skived, not much burr but enough it would hamper wad seating.

New 3 1/2 10 G down to 2 7/8 crimp fine. Getting ready to run another 100 Federal 10s. I would assume any gauge new un crimped hull would do as well.

Most cutting has been the entire fold off fired 2 7/8 inch 12 16 & 20 to make short hulls for roll crimping, I don't known well a fired 2 7/8 would do cut back to 2 1/2 then fold crimped. Cut would fall mid way old crimp. Would it crimp again possibly, indexed on the hulls rim length would be right.

William

[Carvel]

William, I trim mine with a pice of dowel with a #11 exacto blade driven in at the right length, one turn and it trims perfectly with a nice clean cut. Crimps fine with no skiving. I have tried Remington, Federal and Chedite hulls and all seem about the same. You need to make one for each brand of hull since the base wads may not be the same.
Carvel

[edgarspencer]

I made a simple jig with a lever that has a razor blade clamped to it. A dowel, turned to 12ga on one end, and 16 on the other (the only two gauges I trim to load 2 1/2") is adjusted so cut the correct length, as the shell bottoms out on the end of the dowel. I trim leftover 2 3/4" RST hulls and new paper hulls. Each hull requires about 5 seconds to trim to length. Cut is as clean as the uncut hulls from BPI.
With the leftover little rings you can make nice mobiles to stare at during dinner.

[Patrick Barrett]

Amazing. I wish I could do that. I am all thumbs.

[Steve Hastie]

Originally Posted by Carvel Whaley

William, I trim mine with a pice of dowel with a #11 exacto blade driven in at the right length, one turn and it trims perfectly with a nice clean cut. Crimps fine with no skiving. I have tried Remington, Federal and Chedite hulls and all seem about the same. You need to make one for each brand of hull since the base wads may not be the same.
Carvel

I have the same but with a round head wood screw in the end so can adjusted for any hull.

[Bill Murphy]

Edgar, I had a nice Enterprise grinder and coveted a monster Parker 900 in an Eastern Shore antique shop. The 900 had little original finish and the dealer traded me even for the Enterprise. The 900 is the only one I have seen for sale.

[edgarspencer]

Bill, I went to an auction last night, on the spur of the moment, based on a phone call 30 minutes before the auction started. They had a nice nice original No.200, and while that's a fairly common model, in this condition, not so common.
I made a quick call to my 'expert', Mr. Romig, and on his guidance, dropped out in the low sixes. What killed me about leaving it, in the drawer, was the original Parker open end wrench, which I have NEVER seen before.
I took the money I saved, by not buying it, went over to Dover Furnace, and had Ralph "Lefty" Fabricius measure me up fora pair of triple vamp Russel Bird hunting boots. I asked him how long he had been with Russell, to which he replied "I married the owner's daughter in 1953."
Interesting sidebar, he said his uncle was Charlie Larsen, who won the GRand American, in 1919.