Was looking at the Swiss Rifles forum(which has a whole section on reloading) and ran across a link to this at Surplusrifle.com on the subject, which includes the hydraulic depriming tool the guy built.
I've tried the hydraulic method(makes me very glad I picked up that RCBS berdan depriming tool when I ran across it). But, while messy, it does work.
In connected news, I found a few brass 7.62x54r cases which have the 'nny' headstamp(PRVI manufacture, I think), deprimed, and tried one with a berdan primer; it went in with very little pressure, so little that I would not fire it as there's no way the thing seated tightly enough to prevent gas leakage. Though 'flood' might be a better word in this case. Might work in cases of some other manufacture, if I run across some I'll see.
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"PRVI manufacture, I think"
Correct, apparently that's Cyrillic for PPU...
There was a very cool hydraulic berdan de-capper made in Britain in the 80s called the "wamadet"
it was claimed to be able to decap up to 600 cases an hour
It looked a bit like one of the old push grease guns. I can't remember the name of the maker, to find the patent.
He also used to make a portable reloading press ready attached to a plywood base board
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