Trimming and chamfering inside and out all in one pass will take more torque. Anytime you try to do 3 things at once you will fight the get the tool adjsuted perfect, and then once you have it adjusted, you'll likely not want to move it ever. This may cause you to get more bulk for your exercising, less tone, and fewer reps. Two more execizes that you'll be doing is the reach for the wallet move (to buy more tools for different brass because you dont want to adjust the tool once set), and the throw this brass in the trash exercise (until the tool is set perfect). If those exercizes are appealing to you arms, so be it.
Is "dorramide7" some code for "echo"??? It ain't me, but I'll respond since the words are copied directly from my reply.
pbike,
My right arm is so huge from turning the crank that I have to drink beer only with my left, just to regain balance.
Seriously, I don't notice a difference in effort between the Forster and the Wilson. It may have something to do with the chamfer cuts being skewed relative to the axis of the turner - the angle of the chamfer reduces the axial force needed. The face cut requires the most axial force, but since the chamfers are cut at the same time, there is less face cut required.
The Forster cutters come pretty well adjusted. I only made small fine tuning adjustments, one for each caliber. No brass lost so far. You're right, the cutters might need to be readjusted for thicker/thinner necks of the same caliber, but I haven't run into this yet. I think, but don't know for sure, that a cutter set for a thin BR neck would cut the same inside chamfer, same face cut, and larger outside chamfer on a thick factory neck. This might be acceptable, or you could move the outside chamfer tool outward a bit. The outside cutter is easy to adjust. Just loosen it and press it against the neck of a partially trimmed case inserted into the tool. Moderate pressure during tightening will result in a few thousanths chamfer.
The cutters do cost in the range of three times that of a Wilson shellholder, but then you only need one for each caliber. Depending on the number and types of cases you load for, the cost advantage could swing one way or the other.
The biggest differences I see are the time savings and the accuracy. At least for me, the chamfers turn out more consistent and uniform with the 3-in-1 than what I can do in three manual operations. YMMV
Cheers,
Keith
