Hello from Airville, PA
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Re: Hello from Airville, PA
Welcome aboard from the State of Jefferson.
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Re: Hello from Airville, PA
Welcome to the forum from southwest Colorado. I grew up two counties northeast of York, Berks County. Started reloading in the early 1960s and haven't gotten tired of it yet!
I still like to go slowly and check everything more than once. You'll learn lots here, get all your questions respectfully considered, and be contributing to the wealth of knowledge here before you know it.
I still like to go slowly and check everything more than once. You'll learn lots here, get all your questions respectfully considered, and be contributing to the wealth of knowledge here before you know it.
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Re: Hello from Airville, PA
I mainly shoot 9mm so that is what I am starting with. My wife likes her 1911G so I’m going to need to feed that as well. But for now I’m just doing 1 cartridge until I get proficient, then I’ll worry about changing over.
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Ahh, straight into the small primer cup!FFGomer wrote:I mainly shoot 9mm so that is what I am starting with.
The main thing I can offer at this point is to follow the Lee instructions to the letter. Start by reading and rereading the instructions. As you go through the press setup, lube any point with bare metal to metal contacts like the ram and the shell plate to the carrier. Don't overdo it. I use petroleum jelly as I found the cleanup much easier. Sooner than later you will end up spilling a load of powder and it will make its way to the ram. Automotive grease will hold on to that powder like glue, and it will take a solvent to remove both from the ram. PJ will wipe off with a paper towel and take the powder with it. I bought a small grease gun at Wal-Mart and filled it with the PJ.
Your press came with the four 9mm Luger die set. I would consider buying a Universal Decapping die and running it at station #1 and the Carbide Sizing Die, with the decapping, die removed, at Station #2. This is not about filling the fifth die hole, it is about providing three solid points of contact at Station #1, #2, and #4. Stations #3 and #5 points of actuation.
No sense in beating around the bush given the volume of reloading you plan, if you want to succeed right from the get-go, condition every one of your primer pockets. Use a crimp remover to bevel the case mouth and a uniform to true the pocket. This is a one time step and something I do religiously. Here are the tools I recommend:
- RCBS Trim Mate Case Prep Center Straight Cone Military Crimp Remover Small
- RCBS Trim Mate Case Prep Center Carbide Primer Pocket Uniformer. This is beyond a hand turning operation, and the two RCBS tools are threaded for a prep center, but a power drill can be used with the following adapter, you would need two, one for each tool:
- Redding Primer Pocket Uniformer Tool Power Adapter
Beyond that, I would recommend having a #2 pencil handy and about six popsicle sticks. Seriously
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#2 pencil and 6 popsicle sticks? I have to ask, what is that all about? And thanks for the info RD, it is very helpful! I have started out using the press just to decap right now. I figured this would serve 2 purposes. 1) I wanted to decap prior to cleaning, not on the production run. And 2) I wanted to run the press excessively in a non-production role to get a good feel for how it operates and some common issues. I have had a few cases come out of the case feeder sideways which causes it to bind up against the case currently under #1 and also drop another case out of the feeder. Any ideas what could be causing this? The directions from Lee for setting up the case feeder said to put a coin between the feeder and the slide but I found that this did not give adequate clearance so I raised the feeder up slightly.
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Herzlich Willkommen from Germany!
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Re: Hello from Airville, PA
Securing Case Feeder
I'm mirrored the posts with details into a new topic, New Load-Master Startup, so that others search similar topics can find this information as well.
The pencil is to properly space the case slider assembly. See page 3 of the manual, middle column. The sticks, one is used to space the feeder tube height off the case mouth and five are used to space/position the multi-tube feeder off the turret head frame.FFGomer wrote:#2 pencil and 6 popsicle sticks? I have to ask, what is that all about?
It is really smart to start with the press the way you have! That is applying the most important tool you have available to the press, your mind.FFGomer wrote:And thanks for the info RD, it is very helpful! I have started out using the press just to decap right now. I figured this would serve 2 purposes. 1) I wanted to decap prior to cleaning, not on the production run. And 2) I wanted to run the press excessively in a non-production role to get a good feel for how it operates and some common issues.
I believe that the "pencil and sticks will correct the issues you are seeing.FFGomer wrote:I have had a few cases come out of the case feeder sideways which causes it to bind up against the case currently under #1 and also drop another case out of the feeder. Any ideas what could be causing this? The directions from Lee for setting up the case feeder said to put a coin between the feeder and the slide but I found that this did not give adequate clearance so I raised the feeder up slightly.
I'm mirrored the posts with details into a new topic, New Load-Master Startup, so that others search similar topics can find this information as well.
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