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Seating pressure idea..

JCCinOhio

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Anyone heard of such a thing, or tried it?

I was thinking of taking a 3/8 socket and welding it on a bracket that I could screw on to the handle of my rock chucker. Then stick one of those beam type torque wrenches in the socket in line with the pull direction of the handle. So when you seat a bullet you can read the pointer on the beam scale. Something like a 0-75lb torque wrench should do it.

Think it would work? Trying to figure out a cheaper way to measure seating force than buying the K&M or 21st Century hydro press.