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I recently bought 500 nickeled Starline 32-20 cases. I have plenty of brass cases but thought I'd use the nickeled for BP only for easy visual ID. Anyways, the primer pockets are TIGHT! I load .45's and .38's on a 550 but everything else on a Lee Turret and use an RCBS hand primer. I can only assume that the additional thickness of the plating is making it harder to seat the primers, though I've not had that issue with any other nickeled brass. Arthritis in my hands already makes it so I can only hand prime 100 at a time, and with this brass I have to use both hands to squeeze the priming lever. I tried a Lee primer pocket cleaning tool but it does nothing, it fits pretty loose in the pocket. This is with Federal primers and I have not shot any yet to find out if primers seat any easier the second time (I'm not sure why they would). So here's the question. I'm thinking of filling a loading tray with 50 rounds, base up, and hitting it with a quick spray of One Shot at a 45 degree angle, then another from the opposite 45 degree, so some goes into the primer pockets. After a reasonable wait, say an hour or so, install primers and continue. A second technique idea would be to spray some on a Q-tip and then do a quick twist of that into the primer pocket - it wouldn't go all the way down to the primer hole. That technique would be slower but not bad. Has anyone done anything like this, and/or have an opinion on whether this could compromise the reliability of ignition? Since the One Shot isn't supposed to affect powder, I'm hoping the same can be said for primers. And if you did try it, did primers seat any easier? No, I'm not interested in a different priming tool, table-mounted or otherwise, that gives more leverage. Don't want to buy and/or install a new tool for a singular need.