Quote History If you already have a drill, you could also go with the Possum Hollow Qwick Case Trimmer and its toolholder (which has a hex shank so it chucks up nicely even in cordless drills or keyless chucks). The toolholder will also hold onto your typical hand held chamfering/deburring tool:
Trimming
Back when I was trimming brass with the Possum Hollow Trimmer, I used a Milwaukee or Porter-Cable drill. Each drill has a trigger lock. And each drill has enough metal in the front that I could clamp it in a vise with the trigger lock depressed, and “just let ‘er eat!"
Put ear buds in, but my old skool ear muffs on over that... put my .mp3 player in my front breast pocket...,
Had a 5 gallon bucket on the floor....
Grabbed a case off the bench top, shoved it into the PHT like putting a wooden pencil in an electronic pencil sharpener... when I heard/felt the brass was no longer being cut, dropped the case into the bucket at my feet.
Rinse.
Repeat.
I wore latex or nitrile gloves.
EDIT: because the cases still had lube on them.
I would tumble the lube off...back then with crushed walnut shells in a vibratory tumbler.
The nice side effect to that is it also knocked off any burrs, so I never bothered with running the cases through the chamfering tool, and then another trip through the deburring tool.
I always figured the less actual hands on time I had with each piece of brass = more better.