Product Reviews

Needed some pick up tubes and usually, I’d default to Dillon and just purchase there. I stumbled across these and took a chance as all my past Double Alpha purchase experiences have been great. Clearly marked with the nice red anodized color and these assemble easily too. Glad I purchased these and if you’re in the market for new tubes, look no further.

I bought this several years ago, 2021 or so. Overall it works great. My big suggestion for improvement would be the tubes. Mine are clear acrylic, works great for seeing cases, but it is also very brittle. A person should not grip the clear tubes to rotate the black outlet selector, as the tubes will develop large cracks, with some even becoming completely broken in two. Need to rotate the black selector by gripping only the black parts, not the tubes. Every one of my tubes were badly cracked before I realized the damage I was causing. For me, many pieces of clear packing tape are used to keep the tubes together and alligned. For now it still works, hopefully for a long time. A better less-brittle material for the tubes would be my suggestion. Maybe by the time I need to buy a replacement, the tubes will be made from a different material. I still like the product enough to purchase again, but wish the tubes were a different material.

I bought this die set to install in my Dillon RL550C, in .38/.357. It was easy to set up and I'm very happy with the quality of the dies. The adjustment knobs allows me to fine tune crimp and seating without having to use a wrench. So far I've produced different test loads, lengths, seating depths etc., so I'm still experimenting, but there's no doubt I will continue to use this die set, probably for many years to come. I also appreciate the case the dies come in, but for storage reasons I would have preferred a hard box of sorts, since it stacks easier on the shelf. Nothing a quick 3D print can't solve. Overall, highly recommend the set, especially at the great price.

Use it without any problems with my Tanfoglio. Not as sturdy hold as with nozzle support but very fast draw and compact holster for storing/transport, esp. with Lynx belt.

This is an excellent primer pickup tube rack. I’ve had metal ones from other manufacturers, but the collars that come with this unit that fit over the pickup tubes make mounting them so much better with way less chance of the tube ever slipping out of the rack, which is more easily done than you would think. Just two things: on Dillon tubes or stainless steel tubes it doesn’t matter, but if you’re using the nice red / blue anodized DAA or other anodized tubes like the yellow / green tubes from Derraco, make sure you have the collar positioned exactly where you want it, then tighten it down _once_. When you do it will leave a small bright scratch mark on the anodizing, which only becomes an issue if you repeatedly place and remove the collar then leave it off. As long as the collar is on any marks are hidden, but after finding the issue below I had to remove a few collars then reinstall them so left a couple marks. Not that it hurts anything, I’m just OCD about keeping my equipment pristine. Finally, on my 10 collars eight of the set screws had fairly heavy brown surface rust around the rim of the set screw and down inside the opening, that at first I thought was brown paint, so installed a few. Once I looked more closely I removed the set screws and soaked them in Ballistol, then rubbed them with a scotch brite pad. Two were perfect. I got those 8 looking OK, but shouldn’t have had to do the work, which is the only reason for taking off a star. Despite that, I’d recommend getting this unit for sure. The Inline Fab one is nice, but you’re really only going to get 8 DAA tubes into it, and you can’t access them individually, you have to remove the outside tubes to get the inner ones, while each tube is immediately available with this system. It really is a better mousetrap.

Great stand sturdy ad works as expected. Well made and clear instructions.