Deallad wrote:
I steer away from Lee gear, its cheap for a reason, it does work but its far from the best.
Mike
flintlok wrote:I prefer Foster Products for case trimming over anyone else although in my opinion the best case trimmer is the RDZ Case Trimmer (http://www.rdzproducts.com/) that I use in conjunction with the Forster Products cutter and outside neck turner on my drill press. I use Lee dies somewhat but I don't case for their die primer punch arrangement. I tend to use RCBS and Lyman dies as well as Hornady and Lee dies to some extent. I love Lee taper crimp dies and I use them for my handgun ammo reloads. I don't care for the presses and priming tools. Their product work great but the rub is in the materials of construction. Lee uses lots of pot metal in their products other than dies and molds and I have their products break. Lee will replace broken parts free of charge so their products will get you by if needed but their presses don't hold a candle to the iron presses and their durability that others make. I use RCBS, Dillon, and Lyman presses. I tend to use the progressive press for handgun and carbine loads and the single station press for rifle. I like to inspect each of my rifle round at every stage of reloading. I have a strong affinity for the Dillon 650 but it's not cheap. I use the Hornady Case activated powder measure in my Dillon. It work great without gumming up like the Dillon powder measure after 500 rounds or so. For priming individual rifle cases it's had to beat the RCBS strip primer however the priming took uses little plastic guides that wear. RCBS will send replacements for free but if they made the out of bronze they guides would last forever. Then there's the case prep and what case cleaning method to use and whose product suits you needs best. I use a large vibratory cleaner with crush walnut shell media that Dillon sells. I was lucky and one point and I got my hands on about 100 pound of free media so that works for me.
flintlok wrote:This is the Foster Products outside neck turner that can be used to remove brass creep thickening at the base of case neck and to debur a trimmed case
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/15410 ... eck-turner
This shows the outside neck turned mounted on the hand trimmer. Don’t bother with the hand trimmer as it’s a royal pain. It's much easier to use the Forster drill press trimmer cutter head.
http://www.forsterproducts.com/product- ... ck-turner/
Foster Product power case cutters shown in the link below. You would need the long Forster pilots that are available for the outside neck turner
http://www.brownells.com/reloading/case ... 63528.aspx
Forster Trimmer set up on a drill press in the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFB4uT9ZZZ4
Outside neck turned with cutter head mounted on the cutter shaft on drill press. I don’t use the board as in the video although I did at one time. I used the RDZ Case Trimmer base. Foster makes a similar base however I prefer the RDZ. The RDZ clamp on the bottom of the case by the primer pocket. You can use the same shell holder as you use in you press. The Forster case trimmer clamps onto the rim of the case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB0GWPHAuiA
With this arrangement you can set the the case to trim, debur, and neck turn. I do a quick hand chamfer for the inside of the case mouth to make a very slight bevel and I'm done. I also have chamferred using a chamferring tool mounted in the drill press but that has to be done very carefully.
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