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<blockquote data-quote="boomtube" data-source="post: 521050" data-attributes="member: 9215"><p>"Don't mind spending money, but will save where I can."</p><p> </p><p>I've been doing this stuff since the mid 60s and long ago got passed the "mine is better than your's" nonsense because, fact is, presses are vastly over rated by their respective fans. Presses are a VERY simple devices, not hard to design, not hard to make. Any iron press (and most alum alloy ones) is vastly stronger than it needs to be to FL size thin walled brass case and that's their toughest job. And any press will last a couple of lifetimes unless it neglected or abused so longivity is a wash no matter the brand. </p><p> </p><p>THE best deal on a single stage press in today's market is Lee's Classic Cast. It's big, strong, handles spent primers properly (unlike my old RC), precisely machined on CNC tooling and it has execellant user freatures. It's the better press of its type at any price so get one and save that extra money for a good beam scale and powder measure. And ignore <u>anyone's</u> "quick-change" die bushings, it's quite easy to swap screw-in dies in maybe 45 seconds and those bushings get costly if you have more than one or two sets of dies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boomtube, post: 521050, member: 9215"] "Don't mind spending money, but will save where I can." I've been doing this stuff since the mid 60s and long ago got passed the "mine is better than your's" nonsense because, fact is, presses are vastly over rated by their respective fans. Presses are a VERY simple devices, not hard to design, not hard to make. Any iron press (and most alum alloy ones) is vastly stronger than it needs to be to FL size thin walled brass case and that's their toughest job. And any press will last a couple of lifetimes unless it neglected or abused so longivity is a wash no matter the brand. THE best deal on a single stage press in today's market is Lee's Classic Cast. It's big, strong, handles spent primers properly (unlike my old RC), precisely machined on CNC tooling and it has execellant user freatures. It's the better press of its type at any price so get one and save that extra money for a good beam scale and powder measure. And ignore [U]anyone's[/U] "quick-change" die bushings, it's quite easy to swap screw-in dies in maybe 45 seconds and those bushings get costly if you have more than one or two sets of dies. [/QUOTE]
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