.223 Rem Streaks on Brass

[Seismic Sam]

Oh - one other thought - you could probably clean the die more quickly with a dremel with a felt bullet that has been well rubbed with J&B Bore paste. The J&B is very mild, so you won't screw anything up in a minute or two like an aluminum oxide stone, and besides making bores shiny I use it to polish the feed ramps on my barrels. It tales a while, meaning one bad move won't leave a mark, but if you are patient you can polish a feed ramp to a shine that is better than the top of my old, bald head! I can't imagine it wouldn't clean up and polish a die body in much more than 5 minutes.

[Countryfried Frank]

If you knew me and my history with dremels better you would have included several EFFEN's in your last post and probably advised me to RTFM twice then back slowly away from the power tools.
The only reason my Mini never saw a full day on the bench is that I purchased spares of every part I planned on putting a tool to and used most of them. To my credit it now has a great trigger but not without some additional cost.

Nonetheless, thanks for the vote of confidence.

[Seismic Sam]

Like I said, JB Bore paste is just abrasive enough to clean rifle bore to a mirror finish after maybe 20 - 40 strokes. Obviously, if it were too aggressive it would contribute to bore wear, and nobody would touch the product. As such, with a hardened die, you can polish and polish and polish with a felt bullet and JB and you won't change the dimensions od the die. When I go to dehorn a new breechface and ramp on a barrel with JB, it's going to take the better part of an hour to get the job done, so it's pretty much OOOPS! proof. As long as you STF away from aluminum oxide stones, it's hard to EFF it up. WITH an aluminum oxide stone, you know it will grab a corner and run off and scratch an area that you didn't want to work on in about 5 seconds flat. The only real use for dremels with hard stones is by Austrian trolls who are distant relatives, and have to grind the **** out of the bottom of the chamber area on Glock pistols. They have to get a certain number of grams of steel off per minute to keep up production, and if they don't Gaston himself comes into the cave with a taser to sort them all out.