Help!!! People with LNL AP

[WhiteMikeCN]

I am having a problem with my primer feed... I am gonna try to describe this as accuratly as possible so please be patient.

Lets start out by assuming there is no cases in the shell plate and the primer feed tube is full of primers. when you cycle the press the small primer shuttle rides back and picks up the first primer out of the primer tube. Small primer slide then slides forward to where it is ready to feed a primer into a primer pocket (But remember we have no cases present in the shell plate). The press is now in the normal postion with press handle in the up position. The small primer nut with spring and insertion device is tight to the subplate. When I go to cycle the press again (Pull the handle down) the primer that is in the small primer slide drops down about 1/8th of an inch and then asvthe slide tries to move back it locks up because the primer that is in the slide can not get over the little lip that is there where the nut with the spring and primer seater screws in. Is there any adjustments that anyone could recommend or am I SOL until I can call hornady on monday???? Please help...

Chris

Sorry for the long description but I tried to describe it as vividly as possible...

 

[jbrown13]

I'll try to help. The spring loaded primer punch (small or large) that screws in from underneath the subplate should be flush with the top of the subplate when at rest. If there is a 1/8" indent there the primer punch has not been screwed in far enough. You didn't try to put a washer on it did you? Could you have cross-threaded the primer punch? If it can't be screwed in far enough to be flush when at rest possibly the threads were not cut deep enough or they have been buggered up, either of which would necessitate Hornady's involvement.

 

[WhiteMikeCN]

It is screwed in as deep as it will go.... It is not sitting flush still... I am completly baffled as it worked fine like 2 hours ago...

Chris

 

[pcwirepro]

Pull that spring/primer ram assembly. Work it a bit with your hands to see if there is a bur or a small piece of steel in there fron the threads of the press that is keeping the pin from going all the way in. This happened to me my first week with the press. Thousands of rounds later I haven't had a problem.

 

[Otto]

Does this occur with the small primer punch? Try the large punch with the appropriate sized primer...or vice versa.
Either way, the punch has to be clean with no spilled powder in it.

 

[Rig Magician]

I also had the same thing and it ended up being spilt powder under the punch. If it was working right before I would check that out.
Mark

 

[jbrown13]

If the primer punch is 1/16" to 1/8" below flush it will most likely be a thread issue, and chances are good that even if you could get it to reliably deliver primers, the punch will not have enough travel to seat them properly. On my LNL I can screw mine in to a hair below flush without the use of tools, and get it to flush with a light torque of a wrench. You may have cross threaded it somehow and buggered up the threads. Hornady can tell you if the part that holds the primer punch is serviceable by the user or not.

If the punch is above flush then it is usually a debris issue that a can be flushed out with a can of Quick Scrub, etc.

 

[wild willy]

The primer punch is a headed pin it is almost impossible for a primer to be low if the primer assembly is in the whole way.The primer assembly fits into a recess you have to get down and look up at.If you look straight in it could look like its in the whole way and its not. If its in the whole way then someting happened to the pin or seat. Its sounds more like powder or dirt not letting the punch go down did you miss priming a case or spill powder?

 

[WV_Vizsla]

Solved??

Sounds like powder or brass fouling.
Was the problem solved?

 

[WhiteMikeCN]

LOL Solved because there was obviously something more wrong than that... Ended up bending my primer cam because the primer slide got stuck... Called hornady and asked them and they said it happens and that they were gonna replace everything that had to do with primers... Package is on its way.. Big probs to Hornady customer service team.