toolness1
Ultimate Member
Has anyone had experience with one of these leaking really bad?
I got one a couple months ago. When I first used it I was incredibly impressed. I was using 4064 and it really did well....until it broke a gear the second time I used it. Lee quickly sent me a new part and I put it back together. I then used it with 2400 and it worked great.
Fast forward to tonight, I went to load some 40 cal and was using W231 and the thing leaks like a sieve.
The drums just aren't a good fit to the body, and there's obvious space around the drum and powder leaks from there every throw.
I had probably 5 grains of powder on the press and the floor after maybe 100 throws.
Check out my pics. The drum can't go in any more than pictured because the inside of the drum butts up against the middle round gear.
Let me know if yours looks like this, maybe I got one really out of spec.
Both drums fit the same, both the small and large, so it's not the plastic drum.
I also was not at all impressed with the consistency with W231. It did great with around 46 grains of 4064 and charges around 24gr of 2400, but not so hot with the W231. It was really hard to adjust. Sometimes I would back out the adjustment to increase the charge and the charge weight would actually drop instead of increase. It would take ten or so throws after a tiny adjustment for it to settle down, and that's with charges around 4.5 grains.
It's like the thing was possessed.
I used it before with 2400 and didn't notice it leaking like this, and it was very easy to dial in my charge, using the same (small) drum. I am not sure what the deal is.
I can't figure out why it would leak with W231 and not with 2400.
And it's not because I didn't have it tightened enough, I had it as firm as it would go and still rotate freely, which is how I had it set up last time I used it with 2400.
This thing has me thrown for a loop. ??? Help!
I got one a couple months ago. When I first used it I was incredibly impressed. I was using 4064 and it really did well....until it broke a gear the second time I used it. Lee quickly sent me a new part and I put it back together. I then used it with 2400 and it worked great.
Fast forward to tonight, I went to load some 40 cal and was using W231 and the thing leaks like a sieve.
The drums just aren't a good fit to the body, and there's obvious space around the drum and powder leaks from there every throw.
I had probably 5 grains of powder on the press and the floor after maybe 100 throws.
Check out my pics. The drum can't go in any more than pictured because the inside of the drum butts up against the middle round gear.
Let me know if yours looks like this, maybe I got one really out of spec.
Both drums fit the same, both the small and large, so it's not the plastic drum.
I also was not at all impressed with the consistency with W231. It did great with around 46 grains of 4064 and charges around 24gr of 2400, but not so hot with the W231. It was really hard to adjust. Sometimes I would back out the adjustment to increase the charge and the charge weight would actually drop instead of increase. It would take ten or so throws after a tiny adjustment for it to settle down, and that's with charges around 4.5 grains.
It's like the thing was possessed.
I used it before with 2400 and didn't notice it leaking like this, and it was very easy to dial in my charge, using the same (small) drum. I am not sure what the deal is.
I can't figure out why it would leak with W231 and not with 2400.
And it's not because I didn't have it tightened enough, I had it as firm as it would go and still rotate freely, which is how I had it set up last time I used it with 2400.
This thing has me thrown for a loop. ??? Help!