Your size makes no difference as it doesn't take a terrible amount of force to start wearing that pin when its hitting a spinning drill chuck. I wait until the torque feedback backs off which tells me I'm done trimming. When trimming high volumes of brass at decent RPM it really doesn't take much. Just another caveat of Lee equipment.
Whatever, really. I got sick of the lee trimmers after breaking 3. And I am really not the kind of guy that is hard on stuff.
I bought a wft trimmer and I can trim a case every 2 seconds, did 1000 cases so fast, didnt break anything, runs on a nice ball bearing, and headspaces on the shoulder. Thats 35 minutes for 1000 cases. And this tool is not too fragile to actually use it.
Like I said, the 223 lee trimmer works, but it best suited to low speed, low volume use. It does not stand any serious mass powered trimming.
I don't blame it, it costs under 10$, seriously, it works for it's advertised use.... It was never meant for high volume high speed trimming, and it fails at this.
I have nothing against lee stuff, they never said that their stuff was meant to do high speed high volume work.


















































