Does anyone else think this press is terrible? Frankford has replaced it twice and I haven’t even had it a year. The first time the guide arms would not align the dies with the brass and the second time one of the pins snapped off and the side C arm fell off. Now I can’t get the die blocks to hold a full body resizing die in place. There is no amount of tighten that works and I have tried multiple die blocks. This is generally only the resizing dies. I assume because it is a lot more violent than the bullet seating die.
I can’t say anything about the arms breaking on mine but I had a lot of issues with the shell holder plates bending and then pushing the brass off center which caused me to bend and snap a lot of resizing pins. Their customer service has not been great but luckily I was able to re-bend the shell holder back into place and thankfully have not had more issues. I posted a while back about the die blocks and how terrible they are but I found a fantastic replacement which have been perfect for me. The company is called Rexem out of Australia and he machines his own die blocks to be compatible with the press. They hold the dies in place way better and I haven’t had any move on me yet through several hundred rounds. I ordered the set of 3 and they took about 3 weeks to get delivered. It won’t let me post the link but I’ll PM you the link if I can or just google rexem die block and its the first result
Just looked the Rexem up and they look nice, but those are back ordered and probably $100 or more for 3 by the time you pay shipping. I might be better off ordering the RCBS 9356 Rock Chucker Supreme Press for $200. This seems to be a popular press.