i managed to get a shot of the forcing cone that is clear enough to see.

i also measured some of the clearances with feeler gauges.

b/c .007
endshake .0035
head space .016
firing pin .029
cylinder stop has some slop. i cannot see any peening in the cylinder recesses.
i did not have a chance to get my ball gauges from the other shop yet. fooling around with a caliper. one chamber is .434 the others are .433, not real accurate i know, just "eyeballing" it till i can get the proper tools.

i have to give the endshake and cylinder stop some attention.
how does the forcing cone look? worn out or usable?

the head space measurment has me worried. according to the spec's i was given .006-.012, i'm out by .004. is this enough to give me the primer problems i'm seeing?