KM arbor press and LE Wilson seating dies

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I am looking into getting this bullet seating setup but can't find them anywhere in country.
Anyone got a lead on a sponsor stocking these?
Or maybe even some input how you love (or hate) your setup since you switched to it?
 
Can’t help with Cdn supplier for the Wilson in-line seaters as I purchased mine from Sinclair/Brownells. For the press, I got locally from Busy B Tools (years ago). Been using the Wilson seaters for years without issues.
 
From what I see any arbor press works with these LE wilson dies.
They don’t all have force dials.
Is the seat pressure gauge a real value added add-on?
 
21st century also makes a good arbor press in both basic and one that shows seating pressure. I think Plenty O Patches may bring in Wilson and maybe K&M as well.
 
I have a K&M with seating force measuring device. Used it that way for a long time loading 6ppc. If the gauge showed .010" or 10 pounds I put in a smaller neck bushing. Seemed to shoot best groups at 15 to 20 pounds seating force. Fresh brass showed higher readings. Tired brass lower readings. A .30 cal will wind the needle all the way around. I ended up taking off all the seating force measuring equipment off the press because the Belville rubber washers on the ram were giving seating variations on a 6 BR. Now its solid with no rubber compressing and its more portable.

For around $40 U.S. from Brownells they sell a Sinclair micrometer top for the Wilson seating die. Like that much better than shims. Wilson also makes a micrometer top for their seating die but its not intuitive like the Sinclair.
 
On zero fired brass, I experimented with my prep until I got the same seating force as once fired brass.
Once that was done, I shot clovers at the range with zero fired brass, multiple es/sd of 2/5 on 5 shot groups.

At least this machine quantifies bullet seating force depending on process used.
Very happy never grouped well or had constant seat depth with zero fired before!
I can shoot for groups now and am simply just not do fireforming anymore.
 
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