Lee 1000 auto prime blew up about an hour ago *PICS*

All you have to do is look at the Federal packageing. Nobody else feels the need to have a package 10 times bigger than everyone else. Blow up a warehouse or two, and you start takeing precautions. They never went to the jumbo packageing, increased storeage space, and increased shipping costs for the sake of profits. They had to.
Concluding that because you've never had a problem that no problem exists is like me concludeing that since I've never been shot, that I'm bulletproof.
 
pinnedclip said:
I acknowledge that it was a risk. And hopefully my post will bring awareness to the many internet posts that google brought up saying it was okay.
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Thanks for sharing it with us. Other people might hide that fact about what happened to them. Hopefully your honesty will help stop somebody else from getting hurt in the future. Sorry if I gave you a hard time, but your the second person I've seen get hurt doing this. Its not a press issue, it the auto-primer with soft primers.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
Nice bench!

And lesson learned about face and eye protection. We forget that our sport includes lighting a fire to highly combustable materials inches from our faces and hands. Remind your sweetheart that this was an exception to the rule, and thank yous for administering first aid.
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lol thanks. she was much more pretty before the explosion


 
Glad you're basically OK.

Lee sells a "blast deflector" for the Loadmaster (I had one on mine), but I think not for the Pro 1000... considering the primers are pointing at the operators face they might consider making one.

As others have mentioned, 650s can gang-fire as well - the main difference being that the tube should contain the explosion and direct it up, away from your face. LNL AP and 1050 look like the least likely to gang-fire by design, and again will direct any explosion up.
 
happiness is a warm gun said:
Thanks for sharing it with us. Other people might hide that fact about what happened to them. Hopefully your honesty will help stop somebody else from getting hurt in the future. Sorry if I gave you a hard time, but your the second person I've seen get hurt doing this. Its not a press issue, it the auto-primer with soft primers.
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I hear ya.
I still think the lee1000 is a little loose though but I am sure tomorrow I will fix it and run some win primers and start saving for a dillion.

the lee1000 makes bullets after all, and these accidents done happen often
 
acrashb said:
Glad you're basically OK.

Lee sells a "blast deflector" for the Loadmaster (I had one on mine), but I think not for the Pro 1000... considering the primers are pointing at the operators face they might consider making one.

As others have mentioned, 650s can gang-fire as well - the main difference being that the tube should contain the explosion and direct it up, away from your face. LNL AP and 1050 look like the least likely to gang-fire by design, and again will direct any explosion up.
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the primer tray was like a claymore mine down into the bench. the primer cups became projectiles and effed up my bench, the boxed behind it with force, and my main injuries were plastic shrapnel which came my way. had the cups hit me, I am thinking hospital. Look at my last pic in post 1
 
First of all its good you are comparatively healthy after this mishap especially considering what could have happened.
Sorry this happened to you.
This really highlights the necessity of wearing PPE and following all instructions, thanks for sharing with us we all can learn from this accident.
I hope you are back to reloading soon and are then equiped with proper gear with tighter tolerances.
 
Wow, thank god for eye protection. Sharp looking bench I think a dillion would look good on it for sure. I've been planning to get the 650 for myself.
 
jesus christ! glad your ok man.

i use fed primers, but only ever bothered with a single stage and i wear eye protection when priming my cases. go buy a fuggen lotto ticket, that coulda been 10x worse. At the very least, your lucky to still have eyesight if you wernt wearing glasses.
 
Glad to see your ok. Reminder to keep the room clean. Hope this never happens to me.

Love the Federal hate. More for me I guess. I have squashed them flattened them etc. and no problem. Lucky? Hope not.
 
Glad to hear you can see your oweez's.
Hand primer is what eye use and ten primers at a time.
I'm right handed and use my right thumb on the primer lever meaning the primer
tray is sloped away from my face.
Git back in the saddle and use different habits.
Regards.
 
I have loaded tens of thousands of Federal pistol primers with my Dillon 550 with no problems, also the primers in a Dillon go in an aluminum tube which is inside a steel tube to protect you in case there is a primer detonation, a bit more sturdy than plastic.
 
pinnedclip said:
what happened to those guys as far as injury and damage?
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Harold the 650 owner had a primer go off which took all the primers with it in the circle and went right up the tube. The primer magazine was bulged so bad that it would not come out of the magazine shield and the little follower rod thing was bent all to heck. A good portion of the primers embedded in his ceiling almost like a shotgun pattern.

The Dillon magazine shield definitely saved his hands from damage, you can always replace the drywall on the ceiling. His ears rang for a long time he said and thank goodness he was wearing eye protection as some of the primers rebounded off the ceiling and rained on his head.

To this day he will not reload with Federal Primers, was that the problem I am not sure be he sure thinks it is and this is a competition shooter that runs about 25,000 rounds a year thru his 650.

I can't remember what Richard said about his 550 but he wasn't hurt other than his ears were ringing. Again he was using federals and will no longer use them.
 
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Man!! I'm glad you're okay. FWIW, I run 3 Lee 1000's and when I needed primers all I could get were Federals...I haven't used them yet because I want to finish off using up the CCI primers I have. Despite what I've read about people using Federal primers in their 1000's I wasn't comfortable with the idea of an accident/incident (I have bad luck). Even using CCI and Winchester primers I always seem to crush a few primers during a reloading session. If there were to be an accident/incident in my home it'd be the end of reloading for me which is a standing agreement I have with my wife. I've been toying with the idea of removing the depriming/priming functions for all my 1000's and was thinking of depriming with a single stage press and manually priming with a RCBS hand primer. Now, after reading your post I think I'll stop toying with the idea and just do it. Glad it wasn't worse..........
 
heavyBullet said:
I appreciate the GunNutz that come in here and admit failure. Learning from someone else's misfortunes is one of the best teaching tools there is. Good on You!
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so was this a failure or was it a post to clarify that the countless proponent posts on various forums regarding federal primers and lee1000 progressives is perhaps riskier then the OP is letting on?

In this thread there are federal primer in autoprime users.

This isnt a failure. Its an avoidable accident.
 
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