SS Tubing…just put a bevel on the edge u want to cut.
Disassemble bullets LEAD first and pointed…Dat Way!
And just as an FYI.
The correct way to disassemble a bullet without firing it is with a bullet puller. The principle is that you attach a weight to the slug and use inertia to pull it out.
$3? I feel ripped off now. Of course, I bought my rotary punch 20 years ago, so I probably did pay $3 for it.
I think youth and time have perhaps altered your recollections. A primer is not even as energetic as a normal black cat style firecracker. A primer only cartridge for most rifles won’t even unseat the bullet.
If you were playing with an emptied shell, the odds are you didn’t get it empty enough. But a primer alone isn’t too nasty unless you chain them in the tube or something.
handsomeharry
I would not use a bullet-puller on a .22 rimfire as this may deform the primer. IIRC, bullet-pullers are only for use with centerfire ammo. As an OBTW, why not just put a scrap of 2 X 4 lumber on the floor and then hammer a phillips-head screwdriver through the belt and into the wood. I did this a few nights ago for someone and it worked fine.
Regards
Testy
Lucky you! When I was a kid, I found out that a 12 ga shell fit nicely into the opening of by bicycle handlebar.
I had an almost overpowering urge to hit it with a hammar to see if the bird shot would come out the other end of the handlebar.
Fortunately, I am not as stupid as I look, so never did it, but I still wonder what the result would be.
Anybody care to try this and let me know what happens? That is after you get out of the ER 
Back in my “young and stupid” days, I set up some 12-gauge shells on a rock, backed up 25 yards, and shot at them with a BB gun until I managed to actually hit the primer and make it go boom.
Don’t do that.
snicker… and you think that wouldn’t blow a hammer out of your hand? I’d suggest you prove me wrong but that would be cruel and irresponsible. I consider it a teaching moment.
It is kinda hard to forget seeing and resetting the dislocated joints in two fingers. I am purty darn sure it was the primer, there wasn’t anything else left to go boom. The proof is in the fact, I have never done it again. Nor will I.
You’re both mistaken then. I haven’t been dumb enough to hit a primer with a hammer, but I have set off shotgun primers, rifle primers, and pistol primers, both on purpose and by accident. I was also not in my early teens. The pop from a primer is much less than from ordinary fireworks. If you watch the video, if doesn’t even kick the sand more than a foot. A lowly firecracker will pop sand quite a bit further, but won’t shoot a tin can more than a few inches in the air. There is simply no way a plain primer is going to break your hand unless you freaked out and wrenched your hand trying to pull it back or you got some powder in there, which is a lot more energetic.
I’ve shot primer-only blanks, there is zero kick. If there was enough force to throw a couple lbs of hammer around enough to wreck your hand, it would be enough for me to feel a kick. Hell, a fully hot round doesn’t have enough kick to break my hand, even in a big-ass pistol.
I also know for a fact that getting all the powder out of a shell or cartridge is difficult; there will always be powder residue with either black or nitro powder.
It doesn’t matter now, what with the $3 punch solution, but a .223 casing with the primer popped out would be a better choice than a 22 LR. Enough brass to hold on to and beefy enough to take the blows from a mallet.