Westlake Alfa Cylinder De-primer

My Westlake revolver came with a little pin to knock out the primers which I found to be a bit of a fiddle.

Push this tool into the fired chambers of your cylinder and the hole down the centre of each turret should align perfectly with its respective primer hole. Now you can knock the primers out quickly, one at a time, by pushing a long needle through each guide hole in turn.

If you wish, you can take six needles, epoxy them in place permanently, then stick a handle on the back. This lets you drive all six primers out in one go. That's the photograph of the thing that looks like a medieval torture device.

I found some "extra fine knitting needles" on Amazon, 1.5 mm in diameter and 5.5" long. They work very well. I cut three of them in half with the cutting disc of an angle grinder to glue into my six-needle de-primer.

You can use the priming holes in the actual cylinder to keep the needles exactly concentric while the epoxy sets, but be careful to not get epoxy resin into the primer pockets: it's a pig to get out (learn by my mistake). And, do be careful using this, or you'll end up with a circle of six puncture wounds on your hand.