LNL AP Binding on the stroke

[heavenIsAlie]

So I went to reload for the first time in a couple weeks and for some reason my press is now binding during its stroke. No idea what changed but it was fine last time I reloaded. The press moves fine for the first inch or so of travel, then the next inch it is incredibly hard to move. I checked the primer tray, that is sliding just fine, took my shell plate off and it still does it. anyone have any ideas?

 

[shiftybullet]

Have you watched all of this guys videos?

http://youtu.be/-qC1O5FzSCA

 

[heavenIsAlie]

yea nothing there

 

[Trinimon]

Tagged for interest as I just bought one of these puppies.

 

[nevanevan]

The only time my LNL sometimes james is when I have a spent primer stuck near the top of the discharge tube. Give that a good cleaning and see if it improves

 

[Colin]

A improperly seated primer on a case will bind it. does it do it without any primers or cases in? It's the process of elimination and don't force anything

 

[herpinator45]

The indexing pawls on the bottom of the arm. Try turning them in one quarter of a turn each and try again. Mine backed off after a couple years. Took some time to figure out

 

[heavenIsAlie]

nothing to do with the primers or cases, I have the press stripped of the shell plate and it still does it.

I played with the pawls the other night, didnt seem to make a difference but I'll try it again.

 

[heavenIsAlie]

ok, played with the pawls, they are fine (ill prob have to adjust them when I put a shell plate back on) but the binding is happening when they are doing the auto advance. so thats what is binding, but not sure how to fix that

 

[suberman]

On my dillon something similar happens if I tighten the shell plate downe too much... Not sure how hornady's system works so that might not be the issue...

 

[Seagull]

Just call Hornady. They will fix you up.

 

[theDuck]

Try not torquing down on the shell plate so much. Maybe add grease.

 

[Onagoth]

Do.you have a casefeeder? I recently had some binding and it was a crooked timing bar for the case pusher

 

[heavenIsAlie]

does no one read? i appreciate the help but in the first post I said I took off the shell plate and it still happens, then I said it again in another post.

I thought it might be the shell feeder, but it seemed free and when I back off the pawls so that they don't engage the cam the binding goes away. so its got to be something to do with the indexing/rotating.

I'll call hornady when I get a chance, but their support hours are the hours I'm at work, so hard to get a chance, hoping I'll be able to tomorrow and see what they say.

 

[Onagoth]

If you don't want to wait, the only other thing I can think of is too strip the whole thing down....including the subplate (2 screws on either side of the ram).

Then add parts back one at a time to see where the binding states. I doubt its an issue with the prawls...I've loaded 30k rounds on my press and they never needed adjustments

 

[heavenIsAlie]

yea I figured, taking off the sub plate now

 

[heavenIsAlie]

question, can you guys index your press by hand or not?