Arbor press

[Dusty Stevens]

Dale Carpenter manufactures this hydro base, all hydraulics are contained in the base itself. You have to add the arbor press, in this case, a K&M unit. Other arbor presses such as a Sinclair will fit just fine.
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Where can you get that hydraulic unit and who made that seating die?

 

[JRS]

An arbor press does the very thing it is designed to do. The ram goes down, then travels up. You acquire a feel with what's happening. You can graph it until the cows come home, without having accomplished anything more than spending money.

 

[#40Fan]

if you dont pull it and cant feel it you may as well use a rubber mallet

But, if you can graph the force being applied to the load cell, you can see what is going on in finer details.

 

[Ledd Slinger]

Where can you get that hydraulic unit and who made that seating die?

I just did a little investigating because I am interested in that base as well and there was a thread on here from 2013 where a guy posted Dale Carpenter's business card. Said he didnt have a website. Still must not have one because I couldnt locate a website. Anyhow, heres the pic of his business card with his contact info.

 

[jimmymac]

I prefer to use newlon micrometer dies i ream myself.

These are standard threaded dies then?

 

[Dusty Stevens]

These are standard threaded dies then?

Yes

 

[fguffey]

Did you find a better way?

I do not know who 'you' is.
But for years reloaders got on a kick with the term neck tension and for the same numbers of years I explained to them I had tension gages that do not read tensions and I explained I did not have a way to convert tensions to pounds. I said I use bullet hold because I can measure bullet hold with a bathroom scale, I said I could measure bullet pull in pounds but reloaders continued to claim neck tension this and neck tension; after that they went off talking in lofty terms about how they controlled neck tension and I continued to tell them I can measure bullet hold in pounds, I can measure the force necessary to seat a bullet and I can measure the amount of force to pull a bullet all in pounds.

Bullet hold; it evens hurt them to say bullet grip.

F. Guffey

 

[fguffey]

It obviously will not show tiny differences but will show differences.

I have a pressure gage that measures in 1/10 of a pound, because of the size of the gage I believe most would prefer going with a digital readout gage.

F. Guffey