RCBS Wants To Play

[Seedtick]

Just in case ya'll haven't already seen this..........

It looks like RCBS wants part of Dillon's market on bench mounted primer pocket swagers.

RCBS 'New Products For 2012'

RCBS® Primer Pocket Swager – Bench Tool (page 4 of this pdf file)

This may give an idea of what they will be selling for?

RCBS 9474 Primer Pocket Swager Tool
UPC # 076683094742
Price $99.74

Versus Dillon Super Swage 600 $98.95

Reckon the competition will bring down the price? Or will it take a Lee bench mounted swager to do that?

Seedtick

 

[rockn30809]

I noticed that along with the tube feed bullet feeder for pistols. I hope they offer the feeder in .223 at some point. I tried to buy just the feeder die from them but they wouldn't sell it to me. Mabey when Hornady releases their rifle caliber feeder they will sell the feed die seperate.

 

[jack44]

RCBS = CRAP! I bought one of their powder messure and it didnt matter what powder I used every time I turned the handle the powder would bind up when turning the handle varget,imr 4198 or imr3031 the only ones unique or power pistol. Now its busted.

 

[Hondo 60]

jack - sorry to hear of your issues with the RCBS powder measure.
That is very rare to hear around this forum.
The RCBS name brand is known for good quality stuff.

Have you tried to contact their customer service?
If you do a search here I'd bet you'll find quite a few good reviews.

If I'm wrong I sincerely beg your pardon, but the text of your message sounds very troll-like.
I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Walkalong]

Call them. They will replace it. They make great stuff, and stand behind it.

Lets stay on the subject of new stuff. Cool new stuff.

 

[rockn30809]

They have replaced broken parts for free that I told them was my fault it broke. Great customer service.

 

[joed]

I used to be a very big fan of RCBS and still am a fan though not as strong as I used to be. Their products have held up well for me, and many of my RCBS tools are still in use 30 years later.

For 20 some years I stead fastly bought their dies as I figured they were a great product. However, when I started using progressive presses I started having problem with RCBS sizing dies. Seems the expanding button would keep coming loose causing the decapping pins to misalign and break. But a call to RCBS would always get me an envelope with a few more pins.

After 5 years of replacing pins and tightening the the expanders I started to wonder if there weren't better dies out there. So, having a Dillon press I tried a set of their sizing dies. After 5 years any cartridge that I load on the progressive now has a Dillon sizing die. They really have a class product there.

So, by design RCBS has a problem and I won't buy their dies anymore.

But, they don't put out a bad product either. They may give Dillon a run for their money with the swager but my money is on Dillon.

 

[Walkalong]

I have sizers from RCBS, Forster, Dillon, Redding, Lee, & Lyman, and have never broken a decapping pin on boxer primed brass on my Projector, and now my LNL.

 

[jack44]

I didnt fill out the warranty card will they still replace it?.I had that messure for about two month and from day 1 even though I cleaned it like they said it still bound up when I turned the handle.

 

[rsrocket1]

Write them a note of explanation with the stuff in a box and send it to them. They will either fix it or replace it.

If this happened to all their measures, do you thing they would stay in business? They'll make it right for you.

 

[J2FLAN]

I have used the UNIFLOW for over nine yrs. , it has been spot on, every time. Are you useing the right cylinder?. Like already said, RCBS will make it right.

 

[evan price]

OK, Lee..let's see a tabletop swager!!! For like $40! That works as well as my RCBS press swager dies, and doesn't break!

 

[kingmt]

I bought a CH4D swage & ram prim for ether $40 or $30 that I like so well I don't even see need of looking at anything else. The hardest part is changeing between small & large primer post which is a screw but I wish I would have bought another rod just so all I had to do was pop it in the press.

 

[jack44]

It was the uniflow I bought it at Cableas

 

[dnmccoy]

Midway has the swager priced at $82.99

 

[capreppy]

Midway has the swager priced at $82.99

Not bad. I have a Dillon 600, but it is on loan from a fellow DFW reloader and at some point he might actually ask for it back (I've had it for almost a year and he just keeps telling me to hang onto it till he needs it). Eventually I need to pick one up and a little savings goes a long way.

 

[P-32]

RCBS = CRAP! I bought one of their powder messure and it didnt matter what powder I used every time I turned the handle the powder would bind up when turning the handle varget,imr 4198 or imr3031 the only ones unique or power pistol. Now its busted.

The Uniflow is just like every other powder throw when it comes to stick powders. The sticks get cut in the process. If you read the how to section in your manual you would know this. Flake and ball powders don't hang the handle up. The Uniflow also happens to be one of the better powder throws, so I don’t know how you got your information. RCBS has one of the better warranty departments out there being old school. They will warranty items picked up in a yard sale for crying out loud. I’m not sure how one breaks a Uniflow unless it was dropped and the plastic powder reservoir was broken. I can attested RCBS will send out the new plastic after I let a friend borrow it and he dropped my Uiniflow. My friend called RCBS and got the parts coming to my house before he told me about it.

 

[twohightech]

Has anyone seen the bullet dies for sale yet? I will take one for the team and test 45acp or 9mm.. I left an empty hole on the LnL and place a 223 bullet from the top on the up stroke of the ram.

 

[oneounceload]

RCBS = CRAP! I bought one of their powder messure and it didnt matter what powder I used every time I turned the handle the powder would bind up when turning the handle varget,imr 4198 or imr3031 the only ones unique or power pistol. Now its busted.

How could you break the Unifliow dispensing stick powder? THIS I'd like to see

 

[jack44]

When I cleaned it and put it all together it was working but binding when I turned the handle,so I took it apart and found the screw in the center was crossed theaded!!!! and I tryed to unscrew it but no go so I took a pair or plyers and taped the screw in the center and the sides of the body that hold the CYLINDER broke!.So I need two parts so today I pick up the Lee perfect power measure for 24.00!.

 

[JohnM]

When I cleaned it and put it all together it was working but binding when I turned the handle,so I took it apart and found the screw in the center was crossed theaded!!!! and I tryed to unscrew it but no go so I took a pair or plyers and taped the screw in the center and the sides of the body that hold the CYLINDER broke!.So I need two parts so today I pick up the Lee perfect power measure for 24.00!.

I don't really follow you, but if it had a defective part, RCBS would have replaced the measure without question!

 

[P-32]

You cross threaded a screw and you blame RCBS? So then you whack the screws on the cylinder with a hammer and again somehow RCBS is responsible for you breaking the housing? Plastic might be better way. Wow!

 

[Tom488]

After 5 years of replacing pins and tightening the the expanders I started to wonder...

... why I didn't just try a drop of Loc-tite on the expander ball threads.

How could you break the Unifliow dispensing stick powder? THIS I'd like to see

Ever see that old commercial for American Tourister luggage?

 

[jack44]

it wasent like that when I put it back together

 

[JohnM]

t wasent like that when I put it back together

Wasn't like what?
You told us you had some threaded part that was cross threaded?
You used a pair of pliers and some tape some how?
And ended up with the measure broken apart in some manner.

Pretty confusing.