Prep Stations

[EdMc]

Anyone using one these they'd recommend? I think my deburring tool is slow, and it thinks I'm lazy. It's probably right.... Also been reloading some Lake City 308 and need to speed up cleaning up the crimped primer pockets.

[Yondering]

Do you have a drill press? Chuck your trimmer/deburring/primer whatever tools in the drill press; works pretty well for me. (Granted, I don't do any case prep for 10mm or other handguns, just rifle stuff.)

The case prep stations seem like they'd be handy, but I'm not sure if they'd be much different than a drill press?

[EdMc]

I have a Bridgeport but that seems like overkill.  But I could chuck it in the lathe at a slow speed. Funny how I never think of the obvious.......must be old age. Thanks.

[REDLINE]

I can't believe the cost of case prep stations.

Like the Hornady Lock-N-Load Power Case Prep Center for an MSRP of $531.67.














How they come up with $531.67....it weighs 22.5 pounds....nothing digital....no touch pad display screen....it doesn't speak....all manual except that something is electrically spinning the tools....what the heck?

Maybe that's not a lot of money to most people.  If that's the case then I'm definitely not most people.

[EdMc]

Hey Redline.....at that price you ain't alone. The idea of roll your own is to save money.

[sqlbullet]

I use lee trimmers in a drill, and an rcbs deburring tool.  It is not terrible slow.  I can do a couple hundred an hour if I keep my head down and avoid the siren call of the forums.

[Yondering]

sqlbullet, I just started using those Lee trimmers too. I've always used a Forster trimmer in the past, even powered it with a cordless drill. I tried one of those Lee trimmers in my drill press for making 300 Blackout brass though, and I'm hooked! So much faster, and more consistent, than what I'd been doing before!

I drilled a set of cheap pliers to have a hole the size of the case head, so I don't use the Lee shell holder that comes with the trimmer pilot. I can trim 100 cases in about 15 minutes this way.

[REDLINE]

Hey Redline.....at that price you ain't alone. The idea of roll your own is to save money.

Luckily I'm usually sitting down when I come across this stuff.

Heck, even if you go with Hornady's mini doohickey called the Lock-N-Load Case Prep Trio, it still lists MSRP at $129.39.



It does say it's made in the USA, but STILL.  With packaging would you think it costs them anymore than around $10.00 to pump those puppies out on the production line?  Can't be much more than that if it is more than that.

Anyway, I digress.  What will be, is.

Kind of hard to blame Hornady though.  They've come a long way with ammo loading equipment in the last decade, and it's good to see.  If they can get the money for their products, what's a young pot-licker like me to say about it.  Not much, that's what.  I'll just keep saving the pennies and get what I can when I can.