Quote Originally Posted by Bjacobs571 View Post
I bought a set of DW shells but I thought the heads were too soft to be gripped in the chuck and remain central. I was also unhappy about wether my metal cutting tools would cut the soft plastic cleanly. In the end I turned some white plastic bar and made some pellet heads to push into the cases. It is a bit of a job to push the pellets skirt first into the heads but they work quite well.
No need to grip the soft bullet head in the chuck. What I did was to slide the bullet head along a length of steel rod ( approx 3.5mm diam, from memory), so that it is a tight fit on the rod, then grip the rod in the jaws of the chuck.
As long as you use a very sharp lathe tool it will cut no problem.
Pete.