Frankford ArsenalFrankford Arsenal, Platinum Series Precision Scale with Case

The Frankford Arsenal VibraPrime is an inexpensive and very simple tool for filling primer tubes. It might require a little flash trimming to get all the parts to fit properly - in particular, the part of the primer tray that goes into the handle may need smoothing. Otherwise everything seems to fit well. The motorized part is the grip, and it has a pretty generic pistol grip shape that’s easy to hold and control. The grip doesn’t weigh very much - you can tell the difference when you install the battery. The motor itself simply spins an eccentric weight, which causes the whole thing to vibrate. This is what causes the primers to flow to the tube. It’s not really loud, so you can hear the primers slide into the tube. This is my second purchase of this tool. The first one was I don’t know how many years old, and I simply dropped it once too often… But I bought a new one because I really like this device.

Sounds like a good deal, but notice how many of the other reviewers are offering workarounds or "fixes" for it's poor performance. Even that doesn't make it work reliably. Let me explain. When I first bought it, it worked fairly well for CCI primers, which are plated and pretty slippery. Every tray of primers, though, at least one would jam in the hole that feeds the tube, and you have to stop the whole process and unjam the primer before you can continue. Sometimes you can't get it loose and have to remove the tube and push it out from the bottom (the Dillon primer tube follower stick works well for this), then replace the tube before you can continue. Not too bad, I thought. When I switched to Win or Rem primers, everything went south. The jams became frequent, and I never could finish a single tray without at least several jams. I began to notice another problem, that it vibrates so hard that it flips primers upside down AND still feeds them, meaning that there's at least one bad round per tube of primers (upside down primer). If you notice the upside down primer going down the tube (they move pretty fast) you have to empty the entire tube and start again. I've tried everything the previous reviewers suggested, and a few additional things. Nothing fixes it. And we shouldn't have to be "fixing" somebody else's product, for which we paid good money. I bought it because I thought it would easily outrun the standard pickup tube routine, but I did a test run today and found that the pickup tubes take about 1.7 minutes per tray and the Frankford takes up to 5 minutes because of all the fooling around. I did want to believe, but actual experience with it makes me believe that I wasted the money and the time. I can't recommend it. I'm happy to go back to pickup tubes, which are easy and reliable.

These are hit & miss on performance but overall better than pecking with a pickup tube. But not without it's frustrations. You may or may not need to extremely lightly touch a couple spots with a chamfer tool to get it to behave. On mine, the included tubes and their plastic locking interface are the weak links by far. What I found is it is much faster and has far fewer stoppages is just taking a Dillon pickup tube, removing the yellow tip, then holding that firmly in place by hand where the vibraprime tube would go. A little awkward holding the VP in one hand, holding the pickup tube with the other, but it works much better that way. And I've use 3 different VP tubes - they all had issues causing stoppages. Otherwise it's a nice timesaver and I can generally fill about 4 tubes with 100 primers each in same amount of time as pecking with 1 pickup tube on a flip tray. Set your expectations accordingly - there is a very good chance it will not "just work" out of the box. You will have to do some minor tinkering to make it run well. But once you do, it is a nice tool. I've read a wiser reload describe how to hold it to make it feed well is like a fishing with a bobber. That same gentle forward/back tilting while filling the tube helps keep things moving.

Excellent Smithers, excellent. When I looked into this I was prepared for a bit of tinkering, I had watched some tube videos on the product and most had tinkered to get it to work. Mine worked perfect right out of the box for both small and large primers. I didn’t really have an issue with manually picking up primers with the Dillon pick up tubes. A little time cosuming and tedious but no an issue, my main issue was throwing me off my rhythm. With the 650 progressive press you get into a rhythm, I’m not a fast reloader as I like to visually check things but I do get into a nice rhythm. Then I would have to stop and load primers, now it’s much, much quicker. The instructions state to link the existing primer load tube to the Vibra Prime tube using a bit of plastic tubbing to transfer the primers, then transfer to the press. However my press came with spare ends for the primer tubes, these fit perfectly on the Vibra Prime tubes and load the primers directly into the press. Works flawlessly and loads primers in about 10 seconds, a lot quicker than I can do manually picking each one up. Highly recommend

this saves a lot of time compared to individually loading each primer into the tube. we you do 2k rounds in each session you either need an automated primer loader (15k for a fully loaded MARK 7® REVOLUTION) or one of these. Since I have only been shooting a few year I tried this first. It is a great product. you have to be very careful the angle you hold it at. too little angle and it wont feed. too much angle and the primers may get stuck in the outlet or even worse flip over as they exit. For the price it is really worth it. you will just need some practice and pay a lot of attention to the orientation of each primer as it is dispensed.

I honestly dont get the negative reviews here. This thing works exactly as described. Obviously takes a few runs to learn how to use it, but after that, no problem at all. Fills the primer tube in seconds

Jams every time. Tried multiple brands of primer. Amazon have made a return impossible and I cannot see how to ask for a replacement tray as it seems there are small defects that might resolve the issue If I could try a new tray.

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Good with modification, round file the hole alittle and drill a very tinny hole in the top for stuck primers. Saves alot of time. Use a tooth pick or wire to correct stuck primers. Instead of dissasembly

works!