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Frankford Arsenal M-press. I’m not m-pressed!!
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<blockquote data-quote="JakeC" data-source="post: 2116733" data-attributes="member: 115819"><p>I finally got around to enlarging and retapping the shell plate screws last night. It went really well, I switched the 3mm bugle heads that are maybe 6mm long to 4mmx12mm dome heads. I also lightly polished some of the rubbing surfaces inside the sliding plate area and that went well too. It had been extremely hard to rotate and slide one side. The thing works great, I definitely trust it now and I like it. Resizing feels really great, can't wait to dial it in better. You can definitely still tell it's a knockoff but I like how it feels. The sheer mass of the moving parts make it really soft without losing sensitivity. The screw retapping I would definitely recommend as a preventative measure but I think it'll be worth the pain to anyone who is considering one. Just bear in mind you'll need a 10mm hex driver, on a 3/8 ratchet ideally, to get the base off.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I couldn't tie up that amount of money for an unknown period of time. My cheap entry had been the Lee hand press, the one that looks like a nutcracker and I really couldn't limp along with that for any longer. I basically couldn't shoot any more until I replaced it. It banged up my elbow so bad I couldn't fish and use that thing in the same week. I'd still recommend it to someone else, I just had a lot of dislocations as a kid so my elbow is touchy. Oddly that hand press produced some really accurate ammo as long as I was really careful about how the expander ball came back out of the neck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JakeC, post: 2116733, member: 115819"] I finally got around to enlarging and retapping the shell plate screws last night. It went really well, I switched the 3mm bugle heads that are maybe 6mm long to 4mmx12mm dome heads. I also lightly polished some of the rubbing surfaces inside the sliding plate area and that went well too. It had been extremely hard to rotate and slide one side. The thing works great, I definitely trust it now and I like it. Resizing feels really great, can't wait to dial it in better. You can definitely still tell it's a knockoff but I like how it feels. The sheer mass of the moving parts make it really soft without losing sensitivity. The screw retapping I would definitely recommend as a preventative measure but I think it'll be worth the pain to anyone who is considering one. Just bear in mind you'll need a 10mm hex driver, on a 3/8 ratchet ideally, to get the base off. Yeah, I couldn't tie up that amount of money for an unknown period of time. My cheap entry had been the Lee hand press, the one that looks like a nutcracker and I really couldn't limp along with that for any longer. I basically couldn't shoot any more until I replaced it. It banged up my elbow so bad I couldn't fish and use that thing in the same week. I'd still recommend it to someone else, I just had a lot of dislocations as a kid so my elbow is touchy. Oddly that hand press produced some really accurate ammo as long as I was really careful about how the expander ball came back out of the neck. [/QUOTE]
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