Well things didn't work out the way I expected. My alleged 16 gauge antique crimper is really a 12 in disguise and it turns the lip outwards, not inwards. Where my antique 16 went, I can't guess, but now I have something to search for at the gun show.

So, back to the BPI crimper in the press. Results are far from perfect like the beauties posted today by others, but not too bad. First, for sure I had too much plastic. I put 3 card wads on top of the case and even that was probably not enough. Less plastic is more betterer - for sure. The other thing I discovered is that the speed of the plunge matters. At first I went quite slow to warm up the plastic as much as possible and I held it there for a bit too. The plastic sure got hot and it more or less tore and smeared itself around the lip of the case. But plunging fast and NOT holding in down works much better. In the picture below, if it orients as it should, the first attempts tonight are on the left. And except for the very last case in the bottom right (which was the first one i did), I went faster and things got better, on average, moving across to the right.



I will get better, but now I'm at least presentable (well sort of).

Brent

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