Loading 30-30 , the quick and easy way.............

Ian

Notorious member
When I bought my Classic Turret, the aforementioned "mickey mouse" Safety Prime system was a separate purchase, $15 as I recall. I remember opening the box and thinking "You HAVE to be kidding me. What is this, a PEZ dispenser? NO way that's ever gonna work". Well, I tried it, and actually for large primers it works pretty doggone well after one learns how to hold their mouth just right. Only issue I have with it is sometimes I have to add a thin washer to shim it up or it drags on the primer cup and the primer gets raked out on the floor. I rarely use the small primer tray but what little I do it usually works, usually. Still it's a sure bet a few are going to end up on the floor, which is really bad with small ones because they're bound to find a hidey hole and escape me until the Dyson finds them.

One thing I REALLY like about mickey is the little bumps on the tray for righting primers. Works in that capacity better than any primer flipper tray I've ever used, hands down. Much of the time I use it just for that: Flip them all, put the lid on, invert, remove lid, install other tray (for hand primer or Pro-100) onto lid, latch lid, invert again and install in tool or press.
 

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
Ben you posted the # of one of the lee products. Is there a way if you have the # of a product to find out what exactly the product is for? I have a die (I don't know where it came from or how I got it) All that is stamped on it is the caliber and its ID #. Just guessing I think it is a 223 FCD
 

John

Active Member
They must have worked for Disney before they worked for Lee, as the priming factors are for sure Mickey Mouse!
I was at a meeting one time as a Union rep getting explained to why our medical was being cut when the speaker referred to something as "the Anaheim rule". A Vice President of the company asked what that was or why they called it that. The reply was "It's a Mickey Mouse way of doing things".
 

Ben

Moderator
Staff member
Ben you posted the # of one of the lee products. Is there a way if you have the # of a product to find out what exactly the product is for? I have a die (I don't know where it came from or how I got it) All that is stamped on it is the caliber and its ID #. Just guessing I think it is a 223 FCD

You may need to give Lee a phone call.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Wow. Ok, so I bought the Lee Auto Drum measure. I have to say it is hands down the sorriest, most useless, ill-conceived, and poorly constructed piece of Lee equipment I have ever witnessed. Pulled it apart to do the usual "final fit and finish" that all Lee products require, but when I got it apart and studied why it binds, crushes brass, leaks everywhere, and generally doesn't work, I just shook my head, put it back in the box, and will be calling Midway for a return tag shortly.

Glad you had better luck. Now I have to figure out how I'm going to make a case-activated powder drop that will throw as light as 2.4 grains of Titegroup. It seems Midway and Sinclair don't carry the micro disk for the pro auto disk measure, so it might be epoxy and drill time.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
There is an outfit that makes blank discs for the Lee measures . The name escapes me at the moment. ......
 

Ian

Notorious member
Actually, now that I think about it, all I need is thinner riser plates and to sand down one disk to about half thickness, then I can use my extra Pro Auto Disk, which is a pretty decent measure BTW unless you are trying to throw very consistent charges of large flake powder like American Select or the "dots".