broke my Lee press

Pigdog had a press like that and it broke in a corner. I once had a challenger and through my lack of care(too little lube) it broke after some 3 years of use.
I was lucky enough to have Silverback sell me an older A4 big max press.
I believe this press will certainly outlive me....
 
I keep two sets of these on hand all the time. I have broken 3 sets in three years. They are only a couple of bucks.

I like PP's soultion though. They do break because they lossen up.
 
My previous breakages they have always wanted the old part returned. to avoid turn around times, i now have a spare set of links, and I switched to a hard bolt with a lock nut that I check regular like.
I also have a Lyman turret press, that is doing most of my reloading these days.
I undersatnd that you can update these links to a heavier set from another one of their presses. Turret??
 
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John Y Cannuck said:
My previous breakages they have always wanted the old part returned. to avoid turn around times, i now have a spare set of links, and I switched to a hard bolt with a lock nut that I check regular like.
I also have a Lyman turret press, that is doing most of my reloading these days.
I undersatnd that you can update these links to a heavier set from another one of their presses. Turret??
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would the addition of a lock-washer not do the trick?
 
I have the Lee Challenger and have been pleased with it...funny thing though...that damn handpress (Lee also) gets more and more useful...I now use it for everything, including the powder dispensing, crimping...when extra leverage is needed, the women's expedient of squeezing it between your knees works well :)
 
I bought my Lee press in 1989 and loaded thousands upon thousands of rounds before I broke the linkage in exactly the same way last year. I sent the part back and promptly got a replacement. A short while later, the linkage broke in a different place, and I sent the whole press back to Lee with an explanation that I believed the whole mechanism had weakened.

They refurbished my press with a different linkage assembly and mailed it back to me promptly. It has worked fine since.

In the same package I included one of their universal decapper dies. I had found one of them in the garbage can at the range a few months before. It did not have a decapping rod of any kind (I'm assuming the original owner had broken it.) Anyway, Lee sent me a brand-new one.

What more could you ask of a service department?
 
there have been several documented cases of the new lee classic press breaking links, castboolits website has a couple of examples.

Lee is great stuff for entry level loaders, it enables everyone to get into reloading. I hate most Lee stuff, but it is very good value for the little bit of money it cost you.
 
buckbrush said:
there have been several documented cases of the new lee classic press breaking links, castboolits website has a couple of examples.

Lee is great stuff for entry level loaders, it enables everyone to get into reloading. I hate most Lee stuff, but it is very good value for the little bit of money it cost you.
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My all-time favorite tool is the lee loader (I love loading rounds with a hammer! ) But the Lee Loader does not like my crappy brass, so I needed a press. Plus it is (very slightly) faster :p

I load about 200 rounds a year it seems ;)
 
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