Frankford Arsenal Platinum Series Perfect Seat Hand Primer Seating Tool with Case for Reloading , Black

I like the heft of this tool. It is rugged and quality. It makes priming cases easy except it takes a good bit of hand strength. You don't have the leverage you do with a bench press. It was essy to change from small to large primer seater and to adjust the depth of seating. The storage case is perfect and has most of the shell holders you could ever want. Changing them is a snap. My only complaint is a small one. They only included one spring for the plunger. It would have been nice to have two just in case you lose one.

Hands down THE best hand priming tool on the market! I have owned 3 other kinds. They all had their failures and headaches. THIS Frankford Arsenal Platinum hand seating tool is slick, amazing, and just plain butter to use! Right out of the box I found the correct shell holder for my cases (superb they include all of those shell holders). Then I proceeded to prime 250 cases without a single glitch or problem. One former hand primer would push the top off the primer tray as I pulled the hand lever. Sometimes the primer didn’t align with the primer pocket and it would become a two-handed “Captains of Crush” grip strength exercise to finish seating the primer. Another former junk primer “tool” would occasionally fling primers across the room. None of those nightmares with this Frankford Arsenal tool! It works like a dream. I would have paid 2x the price for this kit. Everything in it works and is built solid. The dial and ability to adjust the primer seating depth is also amazing. Such ease and precision with this hand primer. This is the one to get! Throw any others you own in the garbage or give them to your worst enemy, LOL.

Apparently there was a problem with the first one of these tools that I received, and that I based my original review upon. I returned it, and am now using the second tool and it is a fantastic device! I have probably loaded well over a thousand primers with it and have had a failure rate of perhaps 3 overall. It is consistent, and enables me to seat to the exact depth I choose. It has shell holders for all calibers included. I highly recommend this tool! As long as they don’t send you the one I got originally! For what I paid for this primer tool, I expected it to work perfectly. What a letdown. From the very first primer I’ve had to fiddle with it to get it to work. The primer tray doesn’t work very well to orient the primers properly. The primers don’t feed into the tool properly. The primers don’t align in the tool properly. Once you overcome all that, the tool works well and seats the primers in the brass nicely. The “but” here is, is it worth what I paid to replace my old RCBS primer tool? So far the answer is a firm no. I’ll give it a couple more tries before I decide, but today I’m of a mind to return it.

I have the original Lee Priming tool which is 40 years old and the RCBS Priming tool purchased two years ago. This Frankford Arsenal tool is far and away the best priming tool I've ever used. It is more Robust and solid in construction. It comes with most needed case holders. It is extremely easy to change calibers and change over from small primers to large primers. It is very easy to load primers onto the tray which is definitely not the case with the other tools. The original Lee primer worked good but Lee advises against using Federal Primers stating they are dangerous. Federal primers are my favorites so that is another draw back. For the money, this is far and away the best priming tool and the price makes it an even better option.

This is a good price of equipment. Not a heirloom piece. It lasted good from 2020 to now. The internal spring will wear out. You will not be able to adjust it anymore. But 5 years is a good record. Would love to send it to them and get a replacement

Works like I ecpected it too. I have the seating depth set up to where it leaves a very slight indention from the seating ram, makes it easy to verify the seating depth is the same round to round. The linear primer on my Lyman Victory Press is fine if PRS isn't a concern, but the seating depth was too inconsistent for my purposes. The press itself is solid though. It is a little pricey for a hand primer, but it's built like a brick outhouse, buy one cry once. I don't think I have to worry about it breaking. I don't really plan on using any of the other shell holders other than the one cartridge I load for, but I might try some brass with small rifle primer pockets, now that I have a priming tool that can do both.

I've been reloading for about 15 years and have 4 existing hand priming tools: 1 RCBS, 1 Old Lee, 2 x New Lee. This is by far the best tool I have ever used. It addresses all the design / execution shortcomings of the other tools. You may ask "Why does he have so many priming tools?" The answer is that it's pain in the a** to switch a tool from one caliber to another, so I just kept each set up for a different cartridge. This tool enables small primer to large primer and shellholder swaps in seconds. The ergonomics are great. It's nice and heavy and appears to be built to last. The seating depth adjustment is actually super useful and something you'll appreciate when you had misfires because of primers seated too deeply. I primed 500 cases with this with no significant hand fatigue. I can't say that about the other tools I own. In those 500 cases, there was only 1 "fail to feed" of a primer that was easily corrected. Reliability appears excellent. The primer trays appear to be well designed and executed. The only very minor nit is that the small bumps on the surface appear to be less efficient at flipping primers into the correct orientation as some of the other tray designs that utilize radial grooves. The only additional thing I want from this tool is to buy additional primer trays so I can label them and keep primers in them for different cartridges.

Works way better than my old Hornady primer tool. A much needed upgrade to my reloading bench.

Great product!

Perfektes Set zum setzen der Zündhütchen.

Ottimo prodotto uno dei pochi che consente di regolare la profondità di inserimento del primer ottimo

Muy buena calidad y perfecto para controlar la profundidad del pistón. Muy recomendable

Pour Rechargement armes d’épaule amorçage des douilles devant la télé très bon produit tout métal y compris les Shell holder super génial