- Feb 4, 2013
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Or it could be my lee just proves to be stickier. I’ve tried Hornady one shot lube as well as lanolin spray with similar results. Lanolin seemed to work a little better.
Known to many people as One Stuck.
Or it could be my lee just proves to be stickier. I’ve tried Hornady one shot lube as well as lanolin spray with similar results. Lanolin seemed to work a little better.
One Shot is terrible in my experience. Dillon lube has been infinitely more reliable for me, even with a much less aggressive application (stick cases in bag, spritz, shake, spritz, shake, and then start sizing).Known to many people as One Stuck.
I would dip my hand ever 2-4 cases into hornady unique case lube for rifle cases when sizing and rub the case a tad and that has done me well.
Rub inside of case mouth with q tip dipped in unique case lube every 10 cases. I generally polish all neck expander/decapping inserts on new dies.
I'm rethinking what I will have to do if I use the APP for sizing.
My APP came in this weekend and I put the wood handle on it is all and started watching some setup videos.
I have a bench quick change mount on order.
I plan to clamp to table and play with the adjustments on 223 cases this week
This finger lube was/is my lubing method for single-stage. I use a lanolin spray into a gallon baggie for the APP. As mentioned, my bench is in the cool basement so I have to give the spray a good amount of time to dry, but then dump about 40-50 cases at a time into the ebay collator and give it a few shakes to fill the tubes.
The feed tubes get coated with lanolin and need cleaned every few 1000 rounds, but otherwise there's been no stuck cartridges so far.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Design...e-PRO-1000-and-Loadmaster-Press-/324331921262
That is supposed to work better for rifle cases. I'll find out in a week or so.
Automatic Processing Press (APP) owners: This case feeder is compatible, use the risers that ship with your APP.
Automatic Case Prrimer (ACP) ownders: This case feeder is compatible, use the risers that ship with your ACP.
OK, I missed something. The holes are too big for fitting the 223 size tube in the bottom of this thing. Also, there are 4 holes in the bottom and the lee App has just 1 tube.
Excuse me for not doing enough research. Not sure If I purchased the right thing or enough "things" to do that right.
On a brighter notes, I got the swager working and set the APP up clamping to my table. I adjusted the tube height and position with a gap of about a quarter thickness. I adjusted the red screw per a video I watched. It ran like a charm w/o any die so I then put in the Lee Swager die. That thing worked SOOOO much better than my RCBS with its plastic spacer thing up top centering the mouth for the pin to come down. I tested about 20 cases before and after seeing how far the RCBS swager pin would fit or not fit into the primer pocket and after running the Lee swager, you really can tell the difference. Fits right in after swaging with the Lee. I'm actually going to take several hundred prepped but not yet primed 223 cases that I already swaged and run them through again just for added measure.
https://leeprecision.com/universal-case-feeder.html
And yes the black ebay collator works much better for rifle cases. I've used it for 357 and 38sp too. I leave the pex inserts in the regular red Lee collator and that is for 9mm usage.
Sorry, it's been so long I forget and presume too much. The collator works with the Pro 1000 feeder that will mount right on the APP
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1020023248?pid=868423
But isn't that for Pistols?
I'm mostly looking at starting with 223 collating. Or am I stuck with loading up the stock skinny tube from the Lee App for 223?
OK, I missed something. The holes are too big for fitting the 223 size tube in the bottom of this thing. Also, there are 4 holes in the bottom and the lee App has just 1 tube.
Excuse me for not doing enough research. Not sure If I purchased the right thing or enough "things" to do that right.
Thx for info on the collator.
Late last night I got the swager working full on.
I have the APP mounted somewhat low that I stand up and I can crank with left hand and put another round into the tube up top. I was going 1 stroke at just under 2 seconds and had no trouble keeping the tube fed.
Finished off swaging 2 bags of 300 in about 20 minutes. Did have one stoppage which I cleared quickly and kept going. Caught it on the down stroke to the point I did not accidentally pass an unswaged round.
I can see the need to say dump into a small bucket close to the exit, then say empty that every 20-30 so that I don't accidently pass an un processed case into say a box of 300 and say "oh crap, which one was it?".
At least if I say dump every 20-30, I can just go back and do those again with an average rework of say 15.
Pic of the Lee APP mounted to the quick Change bracket and the existing rails for the plastic bins. Image cropped cause my bench is a Bit of a mess right now.
I swaged 200 cases this morning and the return speed of the red block was slow. Then realized on the way out the door the loft was 56 degrees. Heat pump was still in cool mode. I guess the plastic is affected by cold temps
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It's probably dirty based on how the top of the pusher looks. Needs to be wiped off. Waxing or lubing the rail helps once it's wiped clean. You'll need to do the spring mod with heat shrink, or something inside the spring if you haven't already and that helps on the return too.
Link to spring mod?
Wax like I use for crossbow rail/string?
I did pull it off and wipe clean but was still a bit slow to return, or at least slower than when I first ran it and the loft was 70F