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.32 S&W (Short) (Small Pistol Primer)

The .32 S&W, not to be confused with the .32 S&W Long, was originally designed as a black powder cartridge for use in small, inexpensive pocket revolvers. Starline's new .32 S&W brass has been designed for safe use with both smokeless and black powder, in revolvers chambered for .32 S&W Long, .32 H&R Magnum and .327 Federal Magnum.

I know about "start making 32-40 brass". I event went to the extent of buying a bunch of 38-55 brass with the thought of remaking them into 32-40's. I'm having all kinds of trouble forming the necks. They want to kink in on me. Does anyone make a step down die or maybe a die with a pin or rod inside to keep the brass from folding in?
I've quit trying to reform them for the time being until I can get more good parts out.

Another thing that you can do to lessen the number of cases lost during reforming to 32-40 is to run a expander plug into the 38-55 case before reforming.  This will help to keep out-of-round case mouths from folding rather than sizing down uniformly. Use case lube very sparingly - I have used Imperial sizing die wax, but as PeeJay notes, others have had success with One Shot case lube.

I also feel that if you push the case to the back of the case holder and hold it, even lightly, with a finger, the mouth may enter the die off-axis and fold.  I see this when I get in too big a hurry reforming 32-20 to 25-20, in which instance, the case mouth folds, tears, and ends up looking like a flower petal.

I also

If you are having trouble reforming 38-55 (Which I also had trouble with folding) if you can find a quantity of 32 Special they form much easier and come out just very slightly long. I have been able to fire form them beautifully and then shoot them as is. HTH, Regards, FITZ.

And, just in case you didn't know, Starline brass absolutely must be annealed before resizing.

Bag balm is a good lubricant for treating dry wintered hands and cows love it, too. 
I never thought about it being a sizing lubricant.
Years ago, I took a pottery class at the college where I taught. The professor kept a large can of bag balm on a shelf above the sink where students washed up. I was complaining about how my hands were burning from being so dry. He pulled down the can of bag balm and had me rub my hands with it. Every day I would go by the pottery lab and rubbed my hands real good with that bag balm. I still keep a can of bag balm around for use in the winter for chaffed hands.  I have never uddered another complaint about dry hands.

GeorgeC wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2016 at 7:35pm:

I never thought of that either, but should work well. When I was growing up, we used it as originally intended 

I just know I'm gonna get it for this but sorry guys the devil made me do it. Was in a local CVS drug store and saw this one. Beaudreau's Butt Paste. Yep and I'm serious. Doctor made it up for babies butts. Frank