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Anyone running a Lee APP?

I've had mine for a bit but due to a house move, hadn't really been able to properly use it. I spent the first couple of months screwing around, making a full on 4-tube case feeder for it.

Downloaded a decent design off Thingyverse, which ultimately proved to have a fatal design flaw. Then I spent a bunch of time redesigning the thing, printing parts and re-printing to get everything to fit and work together. It works good now :).

My old reloading room had thousands of errant primers everywhere from depriming on conventional presses. I'm really loving depriming on the APP as everything gets captured in the bottle, no mess, no fuss. :)

Also, the old method of single loading cases into a single stage press to deprime, was painfully slow. With a big pile of fired cases it could take days to deprime them all. The APP is 100x faster and the multi-tube case feeder makes it easier and faster to get through a big load of cases.
 
Last night I gave the APP primer pocket swage a try. Took a little bit of setup but seemed to work OK. I guess we'll see how effective the swage is when I try to prime those cases. At the very least the thing is fast. It just pounds the cases through like nothing else.
 
I'm not casting bullets but I do have an Enfield and it seems that sizing 8mm bullets down to .314" is an easy way to produce a supply of properly sized jacketed bullets.

The APP is also a means to size a ton of bullets easily and in a short period of time. I don't have the sizing die setup yet but its not expensive to buy.
 
When you say "...redesigning the thing, printing parts and re-printing to get everything to fit and work together." are you talking about the case feeder or the bullet feeder? I found the Lee 4 tube case feeder works fine when properly set up. Combined with the Lee case collator I can size and deprime a lot of cases really quick. I love the APP for doing that.

If you're talking about the bullet feeder that's a different story. Since it only has one feeder tube, by the time you load the tube to size the bullets it's just as fast to size them conventionally with a push through Lee sizer die. A multi-tube bullet feeder i would be very interested in.
 
ted_dent said:
When you say "...redesigning the thing, printing parts and re-printing to get everything to fit and work together." are you talking about the case feeder or the bullet feeder? I found the Lee 4 tube case feeder works fine when properly set up. Combined with the Lee case collator I can size and deprime a lot of cases really quick. I love the APP for doing that.

If you're talking about the bullet feeder that's a different story. Since it only has one feeder tube, by the time you load the tube to size the bullets it's just as fast to size them conventionally with a push through Lee sizer die. A multi-tube bullet feeder i would be very interested in.
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The Lee case feeder requires the whole assembly to be adjusted up or down to match the case length. The 4-tube case feeder I updated, uses case specific inserts so the feeder body doesn't have to be moved or adjusted for each case. That is way better.

This is the original multi-tube case feeder that I updated as I could not get it to work properly. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5380589

I looked up the Lee case feeder and noticed Lee doesn't list 308W as being compatible. I used my feeder with 308W the other night and it was perfect. Never occurred that it wouldn't work.

I'm not familiar with bullet feeding so I have no idea if it would work. Not certain why it wouldn't though.
 
I Dont Care About You said:
The Lee case feeder requires the whole assembly to be adjusted up or down to match the case length. The 4-tube case feeder I updated, uses case specific inserts so the feeder body doesn't have to be moved or adjusted for each case. That is way better.

This is the original multi-tube case feeder that I updated as I could not get it to work properly. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5380589

I looked up the Lee case feeder and noticed Lee doesn't list 308W as being compatible. I used my feeder with 308W the other night and it was perfect. Never occurred that it wouldn't work.

I'm not familiar with bullet feeding so I have no idea if it would work. Not certain why it wouldn't though.
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I saw this for sale somewhere (EBay??) and thought it was a great idea. I'm surprised Lee hasn't started making their own version.
 
I own one, but haven't had a chance to set it up yet, I'm moving back East, can't find not keep work due to a anaphylaxis type allergy to onions and almost just as bad but no anaphylaxis with scented products
 
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