Brass prep stations

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There are different price points on these prep stations. But of the powered ones is there one that you guys have found to be more reliable or does a better job than another? I've looked online at Lyman, RCBS, Hornady and Frankford Arsenal. Any personal experience with any of these? Thanks
SCD
 
I have a RCBS Trim Mate Case Prep Center which I received as a Christmas gift from my brother several years ago. I started using it last year after it sat in its box a few years. I have actually become fond of the little tool. I use it for deburring and chamfering cases among other things including cleaning out primer pockets. Currently I lube and resize my brass followed by trimming the brass, then to the case prep center before priming, powder charging and seating the bullets.

So while for decades I did just fine without it I have become fond of the thing. Like most of them out there they have all sorts of attachments for the things. Mine is RCBS simply because it was a gift. Look at what is out there and try one out. As I mentioned, before one came my way I never gave them much thought, now I am real fond of the thing.

Ron
 
I have Lyman’s, I use it for chamfering and deburring after case trimming and uniforming primer pockets when needed. It works good, but it has a large footprint and takes up quite a bit of bench space.
 
Frankford Arsenal here. It trims bottleneck cases indexing off of the shoulder, then chamfers, deburrs and cleans primer pockets. That's about all I had planned to use it for, and it is cheaper than the rest. A nice, solid piece of equipment IMO.

Laphroaig
 
I have the Lyman. It's very slow to start during the winter months. My garage is unconditioned. Once up to speed everything is fine. I use it to deburr/chamfer and for this it works well. It's a lot better than the manual Lyman tool I have.
 
I have the Frankford Arsenal unit and I'm very happy with it. I'd suggest however, they you replace the standard cutter and chamfer heads with RCBS carbide ones.
Since it indexes off the case shoulder you can't use it for straight wall cases like 30 carbine. Also, 300 BLK is tough to trim because the case is so short that it doesn't leave much to hold onto. For both of those I use a Wilson trimmer.
 
tcoz said:
I have the Frankford Arsenal unit and I'm very happy with it.
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This is my next purchase. Looks to be an unbelievable value and from what I've seen, it does excellent work.

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I have RCBS unit. Now that I have it can't live without it. As outlined above decap, resize, then a quick trip thru the stations for chamfer,deburr, primer pocket cleaning.
 
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