Fangar
Member
Hello all,
Thanks to seeing some great casing pens on this forum I have been dabbling in them as of late.
I usually use two kits. A slimline for the tip end as the outer diamter of the tip's base fits perfectly flush with the 300 Win mag and .308 casings that I have been using. However, I don't like having the top end (Finial end) the size of the slimline fittings. It looks to small in my opinion and for that reason, I use the top finial and clip of a euro kit. So I have a lot of parts left over. The Euro's tip is just a hair larger on outer diameter at the base, which does not look right where it meets the casing. So I set out to figure how I could expand the brass of the casing to accept a flush fit to the outer diamter of the euro tip.
The process took all of about 15 seconds. I used something that most of us all have lying around. The pen tube insertion tool. I placed the casing butt on top of my anvil and inserted the tube insertion tool into the neck of the casing. A Few soft whacks with a wooden mallet, and the brass opened up ever so slightly. The euro tip now fits flush. You don't really see a difference on the outer face of the casing neck.
Just thought I would share. Saves the slimline kits for other things.
Cheers,
James
Thanks to seeing some great casing pens on this forum I have been dabbling in them as of late.
I usually use two kits. A slimline for the tip end as the outer diamter of the tip's base fits perfectly flush with the 300 Win mag and .308 casings that I have been using. However, I don't like having the top end (Finial end) the size of the slimline fittings. It looks to small in my opinion and for that reason, I use the top finial and clip of a euro kit. So I have a lot of parts left over. The Euro's tip is just a hair larger on outer diameter at the base, which does not look right where it meets the casing. So I set out to figure how I could expand the brass of the casing to accept a flush fit to the outer diamter of the euro tip.
The process took all of about 15 seconds. I used something that most of us all have lying around. The pen tube insertion tool. I placed the casing butt on top of my anvil and inserted the tube insertion tool into the neck of the casing. A Few soft whacks with a wooden mallet, and the brass opened up ever so slightly. The euro tip now fits flush. You don't really see a difference on the outer face of the casing neck.
Just thought I would share. Saves the slimline kits for other things.
Cheers,
James