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I made the mistake of buying Lee's auto primer and now in need of parts..... The plastic priming inserts are crap.
Does anyone know where I could purchase the large plastic priming insert?
 
Jrji said:
I made the mistake of buying Lee's auto primer and now in need of parts..... The plastic priming inserts are crap.
Does anyone know where I could purchase the large plastic priming insert?
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I would try pinging Lee directly. They may send you parts for free or for just the cost of shipping. I've dealt with their support people before and they were pretty good.

If you are looking to replace it, the RCBS hand primer is pretty good: http://rcbs.com/Products/Priming/Tools/Hand-Priming-Tool.aspx

The part that holds the shell holder and to which the primer tray inserts is plastic but it seems durable enough. It's surrounded by metal so that the plastic part does not seem to be under a lot of stress.

By sanding the cone and stem on the part that holds the shell holder you can make Lee shell holders - the ones that come in the die sets - fit, so you don't need to buy RCBS shell holders to use the thing.
 
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i had the exact same thing happen to me. lee's ergo prime are absolute ####. i gave up trying to contact them, so in the garbage it went lol. i primed about 100 .357 and heard a bit of a crunch, then it just sort of crumbled. lol rcbs hand primer is much much better, ive got 10's of thousands of rounds on mine. (till i bought a dillon xl650). its a very heavy duty hand primer.
 
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my personal experience is that lee stuff breaks in my hands and I eventually toss it in the garbage. But that's just me.
 
I own one of Lee's original auto-prime hand units and I have primed thousands of cases with it.
It doesn't even look worn.
The new units use a tiny elevator inside the plastic assembly that the tray plugs into.
It's designed to segregate a primer from the others in the tray to prevent a chain explosion, should the first one detonate during seating.
An occurrence that would probably never happen.
This results in an unfortunately more complicated system where a primer jam might occur.
However, the quality of manufacture is there, and a sticky one could be easily corrected with a little patience, I'm sure.
While a lot of Lee Precision stuff may be inexpensive and uses plastic and aluminum, I have never broken anything that I've bought from them.
But then, I exercise some judgement on how hard I stress tools, depending on how robust they are or are not.
 
i had an original auto prime had years of excellent service from it. i replaced it with the newest model no good.switched to hornady's works not bad with large primers with small primers doesn't feed very well
 
I prime on the press with the lee safety prime. Done 1000's of rounds only issue I have is when crap and corruption gets into the priming dog and it sticks... spray with some brake cleaner and off to the races again.
 
Higginson Powders in Hawkesbury, ON is a major Lee Distributor/Retailer. They carry just about every Lee part imaginable. Google them...
 
How can you cast aspersions on the fine name of LEE??

With my Loadmaster, when I hold my mouth right and I file off the little edges and I stroke my Rosary beads, and I add a dab of machine oil, it works every time, most of the time!
 
Jrji said:
I made the mistake of buying Lee's auto primer and now in need of parts..... The plastic priming inserts are crap.
Does anyone know where I could purchase the large plastic priming insert?
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Contrary to everyone on this thread, I ran out of salt a while ago, so I'll try to be helpful.

You can get replacement parts for your auto-prime for free (there's a price tag but it'll get to 0 once it's in your cart), right here: http://leeprecision.com/new-auto-prime-parts/
 
MDF said:
Good to hear.

Can you tell us how the original insert broke? Just wondering.[/
I inserted a cartridge put a little downward pressure on the handle and noticed the auto prime feature would not drop a primer into the auto primer pocket. Took out the plastic insert to investigate and found parts of it were actually crushed.
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shootist1876 said:
I own one of Lee's original auto-prime hand units and I have primed thousands of cases with it.
It doesn't even look worn.
The new units use a tiny elevator inside the plastic assembly that the tray plugs into.
It's designed to segregate a primer from the others in the tray to prevent a chain explosion, should the first one detonate during seating.
An occurrence that would probably never happen.
This results in an unfortunately more complicated system where a primer jam might occur.
However, the quality of manufacture is there, and a sticky one could be easily corrected with a little patience, I'm sure.
While a lot of Lee Precision stuff may be inexpensive and uses plastic and aluminum, I have never broken anything that I've bought from them.
But then, I exercise some judgement on how hard I stress tools, depending on how robust they are or are not.
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And there you have it.....there's nothing wrong with Lee stuff
 
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