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Well after throwing away steel cases that show up in my collection bucket I finally found a use for them. I had to make a gasket for my pressure washer carburetor and had to figure out how to make the holes for the bolts to go through. I had a couple steel 9MMs still stuck on the magnet so I used one as a hole punch. A couple taps with a hammer and Budda-bing! a perfect hole. So far that's the only thing I found good about them.

I used a steel 9mm case as a Ferrel on a home made brush to clean the recoil spring tube on my 1100. It fit perfectly over the dowell I used as a handle.

If you can save a few million of them, you might be able to scrap them for a couple of bucks! LOL!!

11B wrote:If you can save a few million of them, you might be able to scrap them for a couple of bucks! LOL!!

I have a bucket that I throw steel cases into. One day when I'm old, it will be full and I'll take it to the scrap yard to get $4 for it ;)

LOL! They might trade you all your casings for a Coke!

Not that I recommend this, but I found a steel 45acp case & I put it in the Dillon and reloaded it like a brass
case without any problem. It was actually easier to resize & prime than S&B brass.

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This is what I was thinking.

NcongruNt wrote:

11B wrote:If you can save a few million of them, you might be able to scrap them for a couple of bucks! LOL!!

I have a bucket that I throw steel cases into. One day when I'm old, it will be full and I'll take it to the scrap yard to get $4 for it ;)

Unfortunately, by the time you get $4 worth of steel cases the gas costs to get to the recycle center will exceed the $4............

i8godzilla wrote:

NcongruNt wrote:

11B wrote:If you can save a few million of them, you might be able to scrap them for a couple of bucks! LOL!!

I have a bucket that I throw steel cases into. One day when I'm old, it will be full and I'll take it to the scrap yard to get $4 for it ;)

Unfortunately, by the time you get $4 worth of steel cases the gas costs to get to the recycle center will exceed the $4............

That's only an issue if that's the only thing I bring to the recycle place. Otherwise, I could look at it as my collection of steel cases paying for my gas to get money for other things.

ghostrider wrote:Not that I recommend this, but I found a steel 45acp case & I put it in the Dillon and reloaded it like a brass
case without any problem. It was actually easier to resize & prime than S&B brass.

My Lee manual tells me that's just fine and that steel cases are reloadable, though carbide dies are strongly recommended to keep from wearing out your dies.