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Posted: 11/19/2009 9:30:41 AM EDT
| I only have 1 die set so far. A RCBS 223 FL Sizing Die, and I think its messed up that you have to center the decapping rod in the center of the die when tightening the nut. Do you have to manually center the decapping rod in other dies? I would think it would automatically center, but there is A LOT of play and you could accidently not center it and break your stem in a hearbeat. |
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I only have 1 die set so far. A RCBS 223 FL Sizing Die, and I think its messed up that you have to center the decapping rod in the center of the die when tightening the nut. Do you have to manually center the decapping rod in other dies? I would think it would automatically center, but there is A LOT of play and you could accidently not center it and break your stem in a hearbeat. I wish RCBS would join the 21st century and make dies that do not have this problem. It is not a 'feature' to me. Their cheaper lines of dies have a huge amount of slop in the decapping assembly, so much the expander ball would not even stay on the decapping rod in one die set I have. I mean the threads were not stripped, but when tightening the expander ball would slip over the decapping rod threads. The die bodies seem to be uniformly good - well polished inside and dimensionally OK. The decapping rod assemblies in custom RCBS dies are much tighter. Approaching 100 bucks a set they better be. I have never seen this problem with Redding dies,or even $15 Lee sets, and of course the collet type decapping stems center that rod pretty well. Those collet type rods are also pretty strong and don't bend like taffy the way RCBS die internals do. I've been reloading since 1983 and have 40+ sets of dies, from the early 60's to the present from every manufacturer except Bonanza. RCBS dies are at the bottom of my list when shopping for new dies. I prefer Hornaday for durabillty , like Redding for the quality, and Lee for odd calibers or dies I won't use much and the price. |
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