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Just bit the bullet and ordered a 21st century priming tool. Holy smokes are they $$$. I had an old lee whatever with the square trays that was getting tired. I bought a newer lee ergo something or other to replace it last year, but it turned out to be junk. Looked at the rcbs universal, but it’s over $100 now. Lyman gets poor reviews. Bought a Frankford and returned it. Too big and bulky and awkward to me...
Why do we always take the long road? It always turns out the same. I’ve bought other higher end tools as well, but usually only after struggling with cheap stuff!
I need a new electronic scale next. The cheapos are starting to take over the reloading bench... straight to the fx120? I bet I’ve spent that much now on powder measures and scales!

Any other small expensive reloading tools around that are worth every penny?
 
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by the time you have given up on the cheaper crap you would have saved money buying the good one, add the frustration finding why its cheap in the first place
 
BigRobb said:
Just bit the bullet and ordered a 21st century priming tool. Holy smokes are they $$$. I had an old lee whatever with the square trays that was getting tired. I bought a newer lee ergo something or other to replace it last year, but it turned out to be junk. Looked at the rcbs universal, but it’s over $100 now. Lyman gets poor reviews. Bought a Frankford and returned it. Too big and bulky and awkward to me...
Why do we always take the long road? It always turns out the same. I’ve bought other higher end tools as well, but usually only after struggling with cheap stuff!
I need a new electronic scale next. The cheapos are starting to take over the reloading bench... straight to the fx120? I bet I’ve spent that much now on powder measures and scales!

Any other small expensive reloading tools around that are worth every penny?
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Depending on the type of shooting and at what distance you are doing it at.

FX120i is an amazing upgrade, that being said. You can get your chargemaster 2000 to get almost similar results if you know what you are doing.

This guy can be annoying BUT the info is good.

 
Yes. Watched that one. And dozens more. Then messaged about a few used chargemasters. Then put a rcbs matchmaster in my amazon cart, then proceeded to put a deposit on an autotrickler v3...
I have 6-8 more weeks of throwing charges with my uniflow and trickling onto my best Chinese scale and double checking with the 10-10 beam.
 
BigRobb said:
Yes. Watched that one. And dozens more. Then messaged about a few used chargemasters. Then put a rcbs matchmaster in my amazon cart, then proceeded to put a deposit on an autotrickler v3...
I have 6-8 more weeks of throwing charges with my uniflow and trickling onto my best Chinese scale and double checking with the 10-10 beam.
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Amazing, you are making a good decision.

I had a lot of good luck with CM2000 + GemPro scale. So surprised by the performance that I even did a write up about it few years ago. I'm sure you can still find it in the cgn archives.

I'm trying to convince myself that it is time to spend $2k + and buy AMP Brass Annealing Machine.

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GreenBob said:
Amazing, you are making a good decision.

I had a lot of good luck with CM2000 + GemPro scale. So surprised by the performance that I even did a write up about it few years ago. I'm sure you can still find it in the cgn archives.

I'm trying to convince myself that it is time to spend $2k + and buy AMP Brass Annealing Machine.

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Thanks!
I’m still annealing like a cave man and don’t see that changing for a while. Baby steps!
 
Well at least you are annealing! Plus there is nothing wrong with that setup, it's actually well thought out.
 
Tools do add up, depends on what you seek to achieve and what you are willing to spend on convenience as well. I used a beam scale and a Lee spoon for 30 odd yrs, broke down and bought a Chargemaster. Few yrs ago I broke down and bought a Hornady Trim prep centre. Those two were worth buying, convenient and time saving on both counts. I've had a 21st Century primer tool for a good nbr of yrs, it is their first version that used the Lee round trays, should have bought two of them, RCBS that uses shell holder is OK, still have a couple of old round tray Lee's in operation. Never liked handling individual primers and priming on the press. Bought an Annealeez last yr, well worth doing. I can't justify a Matchmaster or the Autotrickler or the AMP annealer, yet. I had too many oddball cartridges that Henderson and Giraud and Wilson didn't cover, to justify their trimmers, didn't like the setup on the Franklin unit, whch didn't cover all of them either.. I did upgrade the seating dies to micrometer heads, all Forster, got the bushing/bump neck dies for what I could, mandrel expanders for all, and now a couple of the Redding S fls/bushing dies for two guns for range work. It is the quantity of the accessories that gets pricy if changing over to suit on the full spectrum.
 
Some people buy a less expensive tool, and don't use it for the purpose it was intended, or flat out abuse it. Break it, and blame it on being "cheap".

Same people that curse their CVT beak down, while on the way to Florida towing their Winnebago.
 
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