Broke my lee challenger - 500 rds

Mount Sweetness said:
Any of you Lee guys ever get the spent primer to actually fall in the tray/tube...or do you pick them off the floor??????
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Is this a serious question?

Primers fall in the tube? Always.

Pick them up off the floor? Never.... in my Classic Cast, Classic Turret or Loadmaster.

Primers off the floor with my recently sold Dillon 550B? 2 out of ten, yes. When I "fixed" the primer recovery cup by adding an aluminum fence above the rim, 1 out of 100, but never cured the problem completely.
 
Mount Sweetness said:
Any of you Lee guys ever get the spent primer to actually fall in the tray/tube...or do you pick them off the floor??????
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Very very rarely. I do not know the proportion of success but its extremely small. I even took the thing apart and changed the ram around 180 degrees to see if the big slot would provide any more directional success. Of cource this was a big fail. I have a small catchment bin bolted to the bench on the opposite side from the tube. This catches at least 82 percent of spent primers.

There is a small pin in the slot of the ram which I think should guide the primer into the tube slot. It clearly does'nt work on my press. Maybe there were too many cooks? See the link.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JibxHpXqAfc
 
I find that if you dont have the primer arm in place with the Classic Cast, the primers will fall out the slot instead of going straight down the tube. Dont bother me a bit to have to keep the primer arm in place even if I never use it. That said, I am not sure if the Breach Lock press disposes primers the same way.
 
I have a primer arm in place when and only when priming. Is the primer arm being in situ a pre requesite for catching primers?

Andrew, the press is set up exactly like the one in the picture here. It would be fun to get this to work.

leeprecision.com/html/catalog/rlpress1.html
 
It should look like this

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Charles, shame on you trying to get us to jump ahead and miss the Forster coax girl. :p

Andrew, yes it looks just like that. except I do not leave the primer arm in place when deprimming. It would get covered in crud and also get in the way of loading brass for resizing.

Have you tried depriming without the priming arm in situ and still had the primers go where they are supposed to?

This really is not a problem for me. But it is ineresting.
 
Never had spent primers go anyplace but where they were supposed to. Only issue I've had with any of it, is the wooden knob likes to slip off the steel handle once in a while. I'm too lazy to epoxy it and it doesn't happen often enough to bother me. But to some, that means Lee stuff is crap. Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but as much as I like my Lee stuff, you won't ever see me bashing another brand in here. Only thing that matters is what works for you, to your satisfaction, and that whatever it is, it keeps you shooting.
:)
 
warrenb said:
So thats it. Thanks. I'l keep catching them in my bin. :D

EDIT: or I could make my self a little dummy arm now that I know this little gem. LOL!
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Yep it has to be in place for it to work properly it actually swings out to grab a new primer from the saftey prime if you have one.

I am starting work on some HD videos for my website to show how to setup and use everything that I sell.

Majority of the bad press assocated is because people dont know how to set it up right or the instructions are poor that come with the products.
 
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