Brother_Love
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I ordered one of the new Lee primers for my 4 holer. After 3 days of fighting with it I sent it back. My old one works great, just loaded 2K of 9mm without a hitch.
Lee Auto primer feeder for 4 holer!
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KHornet
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Well, Freebullet came over, and in general after tinkering with the primer piece of c--p, we
had a great 3 hour bull session.
I feel much better now in my assessment of the Lee primeras Freebullet assessed the same
conclusion as me. POC=Piece O' C--P"!
Freebullet is one ofthose hands on guys that can make just about anything work, a trait
and accomplishment I wish I had been blessed with. Unfortunately, I am very right brained
and can just about screw up most things with just a screwdriver and a hammer. However,
had one of the finest bull sessions/gab fests (whatever) that I have had in a long time.
Am looking forward to shooting his AR9 one of these days.
Paul
had a great 3 hour bull session.
I feel much better now in my assessment of the Lee primeras Freebullet assessed the same
conclusion as me. POC=Piece O' C--P"!
Freebullet is one ofthose hands on guys that can make just about anything work, a trait
and accomplishment I wish I had been blessed with. Unfortunately, I am very right brained
and can just about screw up most things with just a screwdriver and a hammer. However,
had one of the finest bull sessions/gab fests (whatever) that I have had in a long time.
Am looking forward to shooting his AR9 one of these days.
Paul
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freebullet
Guest
Well that's an amazing new punishment device from Lee. I couldn't locate any flashing or issues contributing to the malfunctions.
Paul was using it as it was intended. Bummer, I couldn't make it work any better for him. I thought he had the back plastic tray unit like the pro1000 which I've made run well in the past.
I really enjoyed our conversation and could talk with Paul till the cows come home. Looking forward to some range time with him.
Paul was using it as it was intended. Bummer, I couldn't make it work any better for him. I thought he had the back plastic tray unit like the pro1000 which I've made run well in the past.
I really enjoyed our conversation and could talk with Paul till the cows come home. Looking forward to some range time with him.
On a similar subject of Lee Priming Systems that won't work properly.................
I bought a Lee Ergo Primer seating tool from MidWay several months ago and have seated large rifle and small pistol primers with my tool. The tool seems plenty robust.
The small tray seems to feed better than the large one , but the small tray still jams quite often.
The large tray didn't work very well at all. The crazy thing would " double stack " primers and lift the plastic cover off and spill primers all over the floor .
At any rate, I got frustrated and got out my Dremel tool with my cut off tool and did some modifying to the primer seating tool.
I always thought that the Old Mequon primer seater tool was so simple and fool proof.
You'd simply insert a single primer , close the handle and you had a seated primer. I liked that simplicity and decided to copy that engineering concept today with the Lee Ergo.
At any rate ( right or wrong ), I decided to give up the feature of the primer auto - feed, I was spending so much time trying to clear jams only to seat 5 primers and the tool jam again. I decided to alter the tool in favor of seating a single primer at a time.( In a 100% reliable manner )
The conversion consist of simply removing the auto feed mechanism without harming the square nylon carrier for the alignment and up and down travel of the primer seating piston. That part of things can't be changed.
Once that is done, there is a bit of " fill in " with 5 minute quick set JB Weld. There is a channel that the auto fill would use to gravity feed primers to the piston for seating of the primers , that channel needs to be filled completely with JB Weld. Be certain that the " bore " that the primer seating pistol travels in stays clean and free of any of the JB Weld.
A little clean up and now I've got a priming tool that won't jam. Granted it may be a bit slower, but considering all the time I spent clearing jams, hunting primers that had fallen on the floor, etc. I'm not too certain that I can't prime 50 cases just about as quick .
One thing is absolutely certain, I've dramatically reduced the " frustration factor " on my priming tool.
As far as I'm concerned, there is something to be said about reliability. You either have it or you don't ....there is zero room in between the two. This " thing " wasn't even close to being reliable before the modification , .......now it is ! From my perspective, I've made some good progress today.
I have a portable reloading kit. This tool ( in its modified form ) will serve as an excellent priming tool for my portable reloading kit.
If at any time in the future I want to return to the auto feed ( and I seriously doubt that I ever will ) , since I made no modifications at all to the red steel handle , I can simply contact Lee and have a new tray / feed mechanism shipped and I'm right back where I started.
Ben
Here it is with all the surplus JB Weld hardened and filed off smooth, then touched up with some gloss black enamel and an artist brush.
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Ian
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That's not the tray my new Pro-1000 primer feed kit came with, and I can't say whether the square trays are any good or not. I know the triangular thingy is not all that great, though.
I have two of the old Lee hand primers and baby them, keep them clean and greased, and don't force primers. The RCBS hand tool is supposed to be good, but I stick with what I have and know works.
This is the one I don't like: http://leeprecision.com/folding-primer-tray-2-pack.html
I have two of the old Lee hand primers and baby them, keep them clean and greased, and don't force primers. The RCBS hand tool is supposed to be good, but I stick with what I have and know works.
This is the one I don't like: http://leeprecision.com/folding-primer-tray-2-pack.html
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freebullet
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Ian
That's the one khornet has and it's mounted on a little swinging doodad that won't feed more than 3 without reminding you it's a lee. Even by hand the little feeder couldn't get through 4 without going wonky.
Nice press deserving of a better priming system.
Have the Hornady hand primer it's never given me a problem. A slight mod to the tray allows it to prime Berdan cases too.
That's the one khornet has and it's mounted on a little swinging doodad that won't feed more than 3 without reminding you it's a lee. Even by hand the little feeder couldn't get through 4 without going wonky.
Nice press deserving of a better priming system.
Have the Hornady hand primer it's never given me a problem. A slight mod to the tray allows it to prime Berdan cases too.
Wasalmonslayer
Well-Known Member
Try this little trick if the primer arm knocks the primer system out of the holder on the up stroke.
See how the spring extends down and holds it back.
This works like a champ and I have zero issues now.
Before it would occasionally launch the contraption on the floor!
See how the spring extends down and holds it back.
This works like a champ and I have zero issues now.
Before it would occasionally launch the contraption on the floor!
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freebullet
Guest
Nice, looks like a good fix.
On the unit khornet has the issues are in the feeder doodad. It won't feed reliable then spits them out on the floor willy nilly.
On the unit khornet has the issues are in the feeder doodad. It won't feed reliable then spits them out on the floor willy nilly.
Wasalmonslayer
Well-Known Member
I would contact Lee on that.
Mine works perfect!
I have four of them one for each style of primer and they all work flawless.
Two old style two new style.
During use you would never know difference between them if you were blind folded.
This little fix cured the only issue I had.
Wasalmonslayer
Mine works perfect!
I have four of them one for each style of primer and they all work flawless.
Two old style two new style.
During use you would never know difference between them if you were blind folded.
This little fix cured the only issue I had.
Wasalmonslayer