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Posted: 12/28/2014 3:58:07 PM EDT
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Have used the Bench Mounted RCBS Automatic priming tool for years and thousands of rounds. Mine is the tube fed model and not the priming strips. It has the perfect feel and leverage. Mine is totally reliable. Only issue is I had one shellholder that had the center hole too large and it didn't line up perfectly all the time with the pocket. That's another thing is that you may want separate shellholders for the RCBS unit if you want one in a press and the other in the priming tool. The only way I want to prime and don't want to use my hands to squeeze hundreds of times priming brass. Highly recommend the RCBS Bench Mounted Priming tool.
http://www.midwayusa.com/product/457599/rcbs-automatic-bench-priming-tool |
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I've used RCBS's bench mounted priming tool for over thirty years. RCBS has replaced every part that wore out for free.
Keep it clean and it will run like a champ. It provides good feel and lots of leverage which helps when seating Russian primers firmly in the pocket. Used canned air to blow primer dust from the tubes. I zip tie rubber bands to the primer tube and loop it under the priming arm to increase speed. This makes sure the priming tubes don't walk upwards when I'm moving at a clip. I also have used RCBS's first generation hand primer and it wasn't any better than Lee's, perhaps worse. I still have two Lee's, one set up for small primers, the other for large primers. They work fine for limited runs, my thumbs have arthritis and 300 or so primers is my limit nowadays. |
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RCBS, tube fed. Thousands of primers through it. Great feel, and fast. It's what I use if not running the cases across the AP. This. Only 2 complaints, things loosen and will frustrate you until you figure it out so if it starts doing something abnormal make sure everything is snug/adjusted including the sleeves that hold the primer in place on the stem. Complaint 2, rust doesn't affect anything just bothers me. |
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Another vote for the tube fed RCBS bench primer. I have no idea how many thousands of primers have gone through mine. Easy to use with a great feel. You can feel the primers bottom out.
Occasionally the last primer in the tube won't drop or flips out. If you lift the tube slightly there is no problem. I also had to grind a tad off the bottom of my small primer punch to clear .223 cases. I guess I will have to call RCBS to get a couple of new primer tubes. |
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The plain RCBS.
The feel is very very good. You can feel a primer start. Feel when the anvil bottoms out. Feel the slight further movement as the primer bottoms out. The mechanical advantage comes from the arm length. Even with molly past the cam tools have less feel. |
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