Help? Transition. From single stage to progressive

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Mentally I have developed the following plan for bulk bottleneck cases. I plan to do it in 2 phases, Prep and Load. I also only plan on loading 357 Sig and 223 bottle neck in bulk at this time. 300BO is probably entering the realm of possibility in the future.

Prep:
Tumble clean cases
Lube cases with RCBS Lube Die on Rockchucker
Size FL/deprime on Rockchucker
Swage on RCBS bench swager
Trim/Chamfer/Debur/Primer pocket clean/uniform on Hornady Case Prep Center
Tumble off lube 10 mins

Load:
Set LNL with case feeder as follows:
Pos 1: RCBS Lube Die
Pos 2: FL Size with decap removed (.223 gets small base)
Pos 3: Powder Drop
Pos 4: Powder Cop
Pos 5: Seat/Crimp

Tumble off lube 15-20 minutes

Not sure how this is going to fully work as I am waiting on lube dies. So for now bottle neck is still being processed on Rockchucker.
 
I am in cfullgrafs camp. I like to wet tumble so for pistol
1. Quick wet tumble say 1/2 hour to clean range dirt/grit of cases
2. Deprime resize, flare case neck
3. 1 hour pass in wet tumbler
4 hand prime cases while watching TV. (wear safety glasses!) Store brass until ready to load

LNL
Station
1. Powder drop
2 RCBS lockout die (or Hornady lockout die that came with the Hornady Deluxe Control panel kit for the LNL)
3 bullet feeder, add bullet
4 seat
5 Lee FCD (I know some people hate it but I like it for my 9mm ammo)

This takes two passes thru the press, but then I don't have to mess with priming/filling primer tubes while loading
and the time spent watching TV hand priming is not really extra time since I am watching the tube.

Lots of ways to do it, the important thing is to find a way that works for you.
 
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