Frankford Arsenal Platinum Series Case Trim and Prep System with Hardened High Speed Steel Chamfer Debur Tool and Primer Pocket Scrapers with Trimmer

I wasted a lot of time not having this tool. Processing brass is almost fun now in stead of the tedious chore it was before. Trimmed cases to the same exact size easily.

This thing is AWESOME. Works great, consistent and makes the whole prep process so much smoother. Anyone saying its inconsistent i guarantee you doesnt measure their shoulder length on their cases. Its physically near impossible to have different cut lengths if your shoulders are consistent. I love it

Let me start by saying, for the reviewers that write one star reviews because they are missing something, STOP IT...thats not the purpose of reviewing and these are assembled by humans, and humans can tend to make mistakes... I almost questioned whether to buy this because of the reviews about runout on the shafts, the difficulty of consistency of having brass fired from different guns, ect...they me tell you...DONT LISTEN TO THEM! This product is awesome for what is for, rapid case trimming for brass...if you are a match shooter or think you are a match shooter...use a hand trimmer...this is not meant for exact tolerances...that being said, I was pleasantly surprised that after 500 cases of .223, fired from various rifles, and checking randomly I was wishing .0002 in tolerance...totally good enough for my purposes. I have owned a RCBS trimmer since I got my first reloader 20 years ago...I have never trimmed my brass! I always would start it and after about 10 I had better things to do...and never had any real problems...I decided to check this batch of 1000 and found some of them were pretty long! and 95% were over a little...I dug out the hand trimmer, attached a drill and after 10 was done with this process... Looking around I didn't want to spend $500 on a trimmer (correction...wife wouldn't allow me to spend $500 on a trimmer!) and I came across this...having just purchased the FA Tumbler (awesome BTW over vibration and ultrasonic) I decided to make this purchase...and I don't regret it... As many have said, trimming cases is worse than watching paint dry, however I don't see any other product out there that can make you more efficient than this, I didn't have a grip issue...its really easy to use and set up, I was up and running out of the box in 10 min! It is about as loud as my can opener in the kitchen so my wife allows me to do this in the house (thank god since I live in Phoenix and its about 120 degrees in the garage!). Other negative reviews I have read: Inconstant length - If you read the manual (I know...heaven forbid) it states to turn the case a quarter of turn clockwise after it stops cutting FOR AN EVEN CUT...I did and it works, I always hear it snip a little more when I turn it. The tool heads are junk - Working fine for me...you are cutting brass, which is like hot butter in the metal world...doesn't take much to cut it Runout on the tool heads - And? So what...your holding the casing in your HAND, its not a stationary lathe...the case will move with the small amount of runout and what micrometer it will be off my crimp die takes care of when I put them in the press... As another review said...JUST BUY IT and you will be happy!

Great product! It worked good for me and saved a little of time in prepping cases for reloading.

I am pretty impressed with this case trim and prep center. It is pretty simple, and horribly boring to use. Case prep is not a big favorite of mine. This case prep center is easy to use. Set up took me about 5 minutes. The longest part of the 5 minutes was adjusting the shoulder length for a proper cut of the case. The cutter is HSS, I would much rather see it be a carbide cutter. Frankford says the HSS cutter should last for thousands of cuts, well I guess I need to start searching for a carbide cutter now because I have already done a couple of thousand cuts. The process is simple, I case check the round, if its good, I just clean the primer pocket by holding it against the primer pocket cleaner for about 1 second, then it gets thrown into the "Done" bin. If the case is too long I slide it into the cutter, using medium force and hold it until it stops cutting (based on noise and feel) I then hold it on the internal deburring head for about 1 second, then onto the external deburring head for about 1 second, then I clean the primer pocket, case check it to make sure its good, then toss it into my "Done" bin. The process is really that simple and easy. It is also god-awful boring. After doing about 50 I am starting to think of other projects I would rather be doing, like cleaning gutters. After a few hundred I would rather be knocking down that huge hornets nest, the one that's as big as a basketball and hanging about 30 feet in the air on my maple tree. And let me tell you if I am thinking about doing that instead I am seriously bored. While I am describing it as boring, this is a simple machine that works well. The noise level is not bad either. The only negative I can think of, other than it being boring, is the cutter should be carbide. I tried to find a replacement carbide cutter from Frankford but could not find one. I will search one elsewhere.

I've read just about every review for this product. I started with the "1 star" all the way to "5 stars". At the end of the day, and after receiving the FA Platinum case trimmer/prep center just yesterday, I've come to the conclusion that it can be a good, solid and productive addition to my reloading bench! There is no magic, lightning speed method to fully process rifle or pistol brass unless you've won the lottery and can afford industrial equipment. I've already processed a couple hundred 223 cases (trim, chamfer, deburr) with this trimmer. It IS very accurate (so far). The reason I said "so far" is because I've yet to know the longevity of the cutter head. I do know that if a piece of brass needs excessive trimming, I'll push it on the chamfer & deburr attachments for a few seconds and THEN trim. This sounds like it might take more time but actually speeds up AND saves on cutter blades (IMHO). So in right under 3.5 minutes I can process 10 cases which equates to 1000 in right under 6 hours. I can deal with that! Evidently FA must have corrected the "wobbling" or "run out" on these things because every one of the case mouths are pretty dang square. You cannot push too hard but just hard enough to feel the disconnection between the cutter head and case mouth. The ONLY thing I would want to see in future production of this trimmer is to speed the RPM a bit? I will eventually purchase the RCBS carbide 8-32 (3/16) carbide cutter to maximize life. But I'm real happy with this trimmer!

Work great, and once you learn the tricks with setting up trimmer, can consistently get cases +\- .002” in length. Will not trim .50 BMG; haven’t found any powered trimmer that will.

Summary: Works great! Don't be anxious because of a few folks who are bagging on the debur tools. Go ahead and buy it if you are sick of holding a drill and switching off to hand tools for every case. After looking around at multiple tools and owning hand tools and a Lyman E-ZEE trim, I decided to go with this prep system. The other contender was the Hornady case prep center at over double the price and you still had to chuck a case in a shell holder before you could trim. I also considered the worlds finest trimmer, but at over $70 a pop I didn't feel like buying one for each caliber I was working with. With this prep center, you get the ability to setup for A LOT (I won't say all because I haven't tested them all) of bottle neck cartridges. I know the new versions of the worlds finest trimmer are able to be changed out for caliber now too though. So here's the other thing that makes this a bit nicer in my opinion. The case trimmer has a collet set that you can adjust to each case. This does a majority of the holding so the case does not spin. This allows you to avoid a lot of the hand pain associated with trying to keep the case from spinning in some other cutters (I know, I know...work on your hand strength wimp. RESPONSE: Sorry, too busy reloading and having fun shooting to be bothered with that ; ). As for quality and speed, I think it's great for what you are paying. The debur and chamfer tools ran smoothly and did not chatter in any of the 223 cases I was working with. I did about 400 cases over 2 nights working 1.5 hours the first night and 1 hour the second. That puts me at about 22 seconds per case. Keep in mind I was not only trimming and deburring but also checking for military crimps and sorting. Had this not been the case it would have been a bit faster. The machine runs fairly quiet and chugged right along. I'll be curious to see how it holds up after a few hundred hours of use. As for trimming accuracy, I set my case length to 1.750" (Rem 223). I saw variation between 1.750" and 1.748". I'm sure that's an issue for some competition shooters, but for anyone interested in large volume reloading for general use rounds it will work any day. Just make sure to follow directions when setting up and pay attention to which collet and ring you are supposed to use. Conclusion....buy it. You won't be sorry. I plan on using it to prep 223, 308, 30-06, 300 AAC and 243 initially.

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I should have bought one years ago. Quiet enough to run without annoying the neighbours and powerful enough to get the job done. In the UK this US version runs from my UK 110V site transformer with the correct fly lead and RCD that I already had.

Works great and very accurate , make sure to warm it up for a few hours, keep it away from air draft , Had a problem with the first one but Frankoford Arseneal's customer service is amazing and they sent a replacement under a week , and I'm in Canada, definitely recommended.

Super gelaufen. Alles was auf dem Foto war ist im Set enthalten gewesen. Schnelle Lieferung zwar mit 30 Euro Aufpreis aber egal. Das Gerät hat 110 Volt und einen US Stecker. Wenn man aber nicht auf den Kopf gefallen ist kauft man sich einfach einen Umwandler für 40 Euro und spart sich mit dem ganzen Set inkl dem Wandler mindestens 200 Euro im Vergleich zu den Geräten was es hier in D zu kaufen gibt. Die selben Geräte nur mit EU Ausführung kosten hier ca 440 bis 500 Euro. Heute Abend probiere ich aus wie es funktioniert. Wie gesagt alles was auf den Fotos zu sehen ist ist auch im Set.

This makes case trimming and primer pocket reaming a cake walk compared to using a drill like i was doing before. Additionally, I would like to praise Frankford arsenal work not price gouging customers as others have on Amazon. this product has increased in price 23% in 2 years which is fair, compared to some Lee components I have bought that have went up over 60% in a few months.