Arbor Press

[Phil]

What is everyone using for an Arbor Press these days????

 

[itchyTF]

What is everyone using for an Arbor Press these days????

I’m using this one!

 

[Gabe22BR]

K&M standard force gauge

 

[Karlandco]

21st Century hydro seater. Great to take to the range for load development, I pack it in a padded case bought at harbor freight. Also fits a few seater dies, calipers etc. The guage helps segregate or identify less or more neck tension. At the bench it's all I use and custom seaters made with a chamber reamer work A+++. I'm sure the K & M work great too. Top of the line would be an Amp Press. They graph the force required during the seating process..few videos on You Tube. The force pack by K & M and the hydro seater both become moot "overtime". After seating thousands you become aware of the consistency and you may not need the guage. Im keeping mine as different cartridges and neck tensions is another metric I keep track of. Either way I think they are much more reliable in terms of consistent seating depth. Quite easy to repeatably seat to .001.
Good Luck

 

[Ranger188]

21st Century hydro seater here too.
Mostly for the same reasons as above. ^^^

 

[AlNyhus]

Two of the plain vanilla standard K&M's here. One in the loading box and one on the work bench. -Al

 

[PopCharlie]

+1 for the K&M with the standard force pack.

PopCharlie

 

[JFrank]

Harrell’s standard arbor press works just fine.

 

[AlNyhus]

An arbor press' function is pretty simple. Like a lot of things in shooting, once you get past the basics all that's added is complexity.

I made up an elcheapo arbor press for a guy just starting out by using a $25 ebay drill press stand. Made a round plug to go into where the drill clamps, shortened the upright post to make it more compact and he was up and running for less money than two movie tickets and a bag of popcorn. He's still using it.

Like this one: ebay item 234425355305

Good shootin' -Al

 

[urbanrifleman]

Harrell’s standard arbor press works just fine.

Mine too.

Harrell Tooling Arbor Press by Henry Harrell

Our new arbor press has very smooth ram action. This is accomplished with the use of brass pinion gears and brass pinion shaft bushing. The base is made from nickel plated steel. Remaining parts are from aircraft quality aluminum and stainless steel.

www.harrellsprecision.com

I will take fingers over a force gauge any day.

 

[freebird22/250]

I'm using an old Sinclair arbor press, works fine.

 

[Straightshooter1]

I use Harrell's arbor press (also same as the Sinclair arbor press).

 

[K9TXS]

21st Century

I'm a PD hunter and just need to keep my groups around .5 moa at 100 yards. So the simpler the better for me.

One thing I did notice that sometimes the locking wheel for the press does not prevent some upward movement. This would tend to not allow the bullet to seat to the length you want it to be. I dropped a collar the shaft and it sits on top of the part that adjust up and down. It no longer moves.

 

[Clancy]

K&M for me, no force pack.

Harrels and 21st are nice units as well.

 

[DaWhit]

K&M

 

[TIMO]

I repurposed an old shotgun press(??) to use as my arbor press. Paid $10.00 for it and a good hour to clean it up.

Arbor Press

I bought a set of custom dies from a member here for a caliber that is not "off the shelf" I'm just waiting for the parts and pieces to get it built. I have fire formed brass. Question is, the seater is an arbor type. I could do a Whidden or, I could just get an Arbor press. Which one? never...

forum.accurateshooter.com

Tim

 

[Krogen]

Sinclair. It's decidedly low-tech, but it does what I need.

 

[Gabe22BR]

Hood Press, Wilson seater, PPC/BR (Color: RED)

arkcomachine.com

These arbor presses are the best

 

[J.D.Erwin]

Harrels