Frankford Arsenal De-prime hand tool review

KJW said:

I'll be another to say the FA tool is great. I got it a couple years ago when my daughters were younger so I could be in the kitchen area depriving and keep an eye on them. Now they sit with me and help. I've started to say that if you teach your kids to brass prep they'll never have time to be in trouble . Anyways Ive never had an issue with it and really like that I don't "have" to be at the bench to deprime

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MarkInPA said:

Hey guys, I just wanted to give a review of the Frankford Arsenal hand de-prime tool. First let me come right out and say that I give it a 5 out of 5 stars. I wanted to get my de-priming away from my reloading press. I just didn't like having the dirt on the press. Precision ground reloading dies and abrasive priming dust just don't seem to mix. I have been using a RCBS universal de-priming tool on the reloading press until now. I had watched videos on the Frankford Arsenal hand tool and the Harvey hand de-prime tool. It seemed like getting the brass situated so that the primer was located at the de-priming rod was problematic on the Harvey tool. Most of the videos on the Harvey tool illustrated this and I stayed away from it. Now to be honest, I was skeptical on the Frankford Arsenal too. It seemed like the videos of the guys using this tool were haveing a hard time. Constantly knocking cases over and fumbling with them. Having trouble picking them out of the tool. Got to tell you. For me it was as slick as could be and the process was much faster than using the universal de-prime tool on the press. I didn't have to pick any of the cases out of the tool. As a matter of fact, if you keep the tool pointing downwards when you release the trigger, the case will slide right out without the need of grabbing it. I quickly learned that I could keep a basket directly under the tool when I released the trigger, and I did not even have to handle the case coming out of the tool. They would simply drop right into the basket. This tool was much better than I originally thought it would be. Give it a try. It will speed up your process and keep the dirt off of your press.

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Dentite said:

I agree with dirt and carbon on my press and dies. For that reason I deprime off my presses and wet tumble brass. I happen to use a seperate press in a different location to deprime and that works well for me.

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MarkInPA said:

I considered using a dedicated press for the sole purpose of depriming too. I already had a universal depriming die and looked into buying the cheapest reloading press I could find. A Lee. I think the Lee press was slightly more than the Frankford Arsenal but, I could be mistaken about that. I just know that now, I am happy that I bought the Frankford Arsenal. Not that we are necessarily in race reloading shells but, I can use the Frankford Arsenal much faster than the press. I wouldn't have believed it before hand but I now know it is true. Plus, I don't have something else mounted to my bench and getting in my way.

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