is there a best brand of Shell holders ?

[hoz53]

Wow, got me beat. Got rcbs, and a lee set for priming tool

oh i got 8 or 10 lee for the auto prime i didnt show in the pic

 

[hoz53]

Do the new expensive presses come with super-duper shell holders or do you buy a Lee shell holder to use in a $2000 press?

they come with a system that uses their own shell holders so you have to buy them from the press company. they are 99.00 each. would you expect anything else these days in the time of 300.00 dies.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

using a digital caliper measure the depth of one surface to the other surface

Kind of hard to do, but laying it on a flat surface and running calipers backwards I got .120ish.

 

[misser]

Not horribly hard

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Not horribly hard

Lol, I’ll try again later when I get back home.
Maybe caffeine will help!

 

[jds holler]

I think it's gotta be said, that thickness dictates when your press achieves "cam-over"; but depth variance can change shoulder bump irrespective of thickness and cam-over.
Jeeze!! Haven't you guys ever read Guffy. jd

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Not horribly hard

Measured two Redding’s.
.1245 and.1265

 

[Steve Donlon]

Measured two Redding’s.
.1245 and.1265

the specs say .1250 not hard to read but both ways, the results are the same. The RCBS was .125

 

[jds holler]

Measured two Redding’s.
.1245 and.1265

Yeah, and I never used to consider that there was a difference between them. The kicker is that even without any cam-over, that 2 thou difference will be shown on whatever shoulder bump you're trying for.
(if you switched those shell holders without realizing it)

I've been batting around the idea of attaining the right amount of shoulder bump AND cam-over.

Of course this whole discussion would be moot if we used an arbor press and die. jd

 

[Steve Donlon]

So Redding uses a depth increase in the competition shell holders to change the bump instead of thickness of the shell holder? Or was that just the difference in two shell holders? Because that's a lot. Not enough for some but still more than I thought

 

[Kracken McGraw]

So Redding uses a depth increase in the competition shell holders to change the bump instead of thickness of the shell holder? Or was that just the difference in two shell holders? Because that's a lot. Not enough for some but still more than I thought

Just two # 1 holders. I need to see how the Competition ones are measured.

 

[Steve Donlon]

Just two # 1 holders. I need to see how the Competition ones are measured.

I just measured the RCBS shell holders the factory thickest ones are .1250" but the one I sanded down is .1240". So,I don't see how you could change one thing without changing the other. The .one i did not sand down is .255" thick and the sanded down one is now .246" thick. I had to look at the shell holder again to see what was going on. I don't see how you could change one without effecting the other.

 

[209jones]

I suppose you might find a variance in how the shellholder seats in the ram, if it bottoms on the bottom, or on the underside of the area on top of the ram. After that is only the inside floor height to the top. I've never bothered paying a whole bunch of attn to it. Having Hornady units with the big hole helped me with an RCBS priming tool that had an oversized plastic nub in it, and it had to be forced a bit to go on there. Think I had one I shaved the top on, to get some more bump, years ago, not sure if I even have it still. As to quality, never bothered questioning them, they all worked as intended, haven't heard of someone wearing one out or breaking one that I can recall, however, in this world, there is probably someone who has.

 

[misser]

i checked my 223 shell holders using the Redding instant indicator .only 2 of them matched