Another Gearnasher Special...

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Univ of Michigan has it right.......
 

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Pistolero

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Can't stand tube priming systems but you like those junky plastic Lee primer spreaders (kinda like a fertilizer
spreader) which IME, scatters 10-20% of the primers on the floor. My Dillon 450, 550s and Square Deal
primer feeds have been pretty reliable over easily 400-500K rounds since 1981. Can't see why those junky
Lee contraptions are atractive to somebody that I know is a smart, resourceful guy.

Different strokes, for sure. :headscratch:

I love my Lee original model Autoprimes. The second gen square tray with the "safety" lifter is OK, but as Cooper
said about the double action/single action semi-autos - "an ingenious solution to a non-existent
problem". The press mounted system......seems like it came from a different company.

Bill
 

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
I hand prime for both my 1000 and loadmaster. No more messed up primers.
The safty-prime on my Clasic Cast has never given me a problem.
 

Rcmaveric

Active Member
Never had any problems using the Lee Hand Primer or the Lee Prime system on the press. A little attention detail prevents a side ways primer.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Bill, it's like Lee bullet moulds, I guess. John Lee must have personally cherry-picked all the ones I have and they work just about flawlessly for me. The only Lee priming systems that ever have me problems was the new folding tray garbage. The old round trays are easy to fill, fast, and the primer visibility is nice.
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
I have and like Lee molds, and most of mine, since 1976 when I bought my first one, have been
good buys good molds. Not always designs that I found to be wonderful, but good molds.

My one example (two of them, lg and small) is perhaps not a good example. The small primer
version loses a huge number of primers, the large one, not nearly as bad, but still a nuisance.
I'd have to guess that they can't all be like that.

Bill
 

Ian

Notorious member
I never understood all the complaints about the Pro 1000 priming system, mine all work great and have for years. Maybe I'm lucky.
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
I used the swinging priming system on my Lee turret yesterday, for the first time in a year or
more. Only dropped two primers of 40, and would not feed last three. But other than that, it
worked OK. Any tuneup hints would be appreciated. Can't see why the last three would not feed,
they would slide back up the chute if you dismounted it and tilted it back, but shake, rattle and
roll, thump or whatever, no luck in getting them to go out the end.

Bill
 

Ian

Notorious member
All of mine are reluctant to feed the very last one, but otherwise I can't recall ever having an issue with the chute. The key to smooth "dispension" is setting the correct height of the base. Due to tolerance stacking, the cups are not always presented to the pez dispenser at exactly the right height without shimming the plastic base. You want the dispenser to be just off the cup, or barely scraping. If it drags the cup it will flip the primer back out as you pull it free. If there's too much clearance, th primer can turn sideways, bind, and kick out onto the floor as you work the shuttle mechanism.

It takes a bit to get the hang of it, but like any other repetitive operation, you'll soon develop muscle memory an shouldn't have many problems.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
they don't feed because there isn't enough weight pushing on them.
on my Ponsess warren reloaders I have to manually push the last 15-20 into the feed arm.
to get them to slide into the feed arm from the slide perfectly each time I have the last 3"s or so almost dead level so there is no gravity help.

one little trick I use up above on the primer tray is to wax it, I polished it a touch with some steel wool then waxed the tray going into the ramp.
this allows me to keep the ramp a little flatter and that takes the repetitive stress out of the attachment pieces.
it also keeps the 300 primers from all trying to crowd into the space meant for 1 at a a time passage.

I tried the same trick on my Dillon primer tube filler and it worked too well, the primers kept shooting around too fast and falling off the ramp before going into the tube feeder.
 

Ian

Notorious member
The pro1000 is that way for sure, the last inch of the feed chute is level and there's no way it will feed the last 10-12 large ones or 15 small ones. Once the tray is empty you get about five more and you better reload it or you're gonna have a jam.

The action of swinging back and forth and knocking around seems to feed all but thr last one on my safety prime units. I think Bill's might have a burr in the trough at the curve near the bottom, or maybe a deliberate sideways tap with a finger to feed the last few?
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
I guy could make a follower...?
the Dillon type straight tubes use a little plastic follower rod to keep everything under a little pressure.
this keeps everything level and smooth.
I added a 454 casull or 45 colt to all of mine to help those last few primers come out, without it I would get the third from the last primer upside down every single time.
I have also tried the rod on the rcbs bench priming tool and it only helps on the last 4-5 primers, the rest of the time it isn't needed.