Topic: Dedicated de-priming press

[jred]

    I'm thinking about setting up a basic single-stage press to use for de-priming.  Not looking for anything fancy or expensive.  Just a solid press with a decent spent primer catch system.  So what should I be looking for?  Lee appears to have some in-expensive newer presses.  Any older style presses that might fit the bill?

[Jaggy13]

the rock chucker and RCBS Primer Catcher For Rock Chucker sounds like what you are looking for.

[5.7 Fan]

I second the RCBS rock chucker! Never been a fan of Lee stuff. Have a complete Lee progressive press a friend gave me a few years back that is still in the box and will never leave. I had been doing some reloading for him and he thought he'd help me with what he thought was a good loader. Always cracks me up when those who don't load think they are qualified to judge whether a machine is good or not! No room for it on the bench with two Dillion 550's holding down the fort. Even with all that blue awesomeness I still use the rock chucker when I'm mass depriming brass to tumble.

[dwood4215]

+1 for the rock chucker. I use it for mass depriming, and when I want precision loads.

[zona5101]

i'd say a rockchucker would fit the bill... but I'll add you may want to think about a turret press. One station on each turret doing a specialized job. deprime, collet puller, military crimp swage,  etc...
...that would be my next press. I have a 550 and a rockchucker, next is a turret so I can leave some of the specialized dies in the turret press all the time

[Shade OGrey]

If all you want is to de-cap (without sizing) a Lee universal de-capper and an aluminum Lee single stage should cost less than $100.

shady