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This weekend having recieved all of my LNL parts, I attached the press to my bench and adjusted the LNL and started loading .45 acp.
Its working pretty well, I have set mine up with the powder measure in station two.
I am using the through powder belling insert so it bells the case mouth when the powder is dropped. There is one gottcha with this device, I found that the powder die had to be adjusted down till its almost touching the shell holder to get a reliable powder drop and fully bell the case mouth on a .45 acp case.
I am using the pistol powder rotor on the powder measure. The rotor must move through its full range of motion in order to get a full powder charge and to drop it and reliably bell the case mouth. If the micrometer doesnt fully cycle to the top of the slot in the measure then the belling doesn't happen, if it doesnt hit the stop at the bottom then I get a partial powder charge. So I had to make a few adjustments to the height of the case activated powder drop so it would hit the bottom, and screw the die in till it almost touches the shell plate so it will cam a tiny bit at the top.
I suspect with a taller .45 case like the .45 colt the die could be backed out a good bit and still bell. If one is loading .45 gap using this belling insert it may not bell the case since .45 acp seems to be the shortest case it will work with. (note this may be fixable by adding a short drop tube above the belling tube).
I did have a problem with the primer slide sticking in the rearward position. A little polishing and some dry lube seems to have fixed this. I am also using the primer alarm rod from my 550 to keep downward pressure on the primers. It seems that you dont want to let the primer magazine fall below 5 primers or the primers will cant slightly and cause the primer slide to jam in the rearward position.
The indexing was spot on from the factory on my press which came from Graffs and has a serial number above 10500. My ejection works great.
Its working pretty well, I have set mine up with the powder measure in station two.
I am using the through powder belling insert so it bells the case mouth when the powder is dropped. There is one gottcha with this device, I found that the powder die had to be adjusted down till its almost touching the shell holder to get a reliable powder drop and fully bell the case mouth on a .45 acp case.
I am using the pistol powder rotor on the powder measure. The rotor must move through its full range of motion in order to get a full powder charge and to drop it and reliably bell the case mouth. If the micrometer doesnt fully cycle to the top of the slot in the measure then the belling doesn't happen, if it doesnt hit the stop at the bottom then I get a partial powder charge. So I had to make a few adjustments to the height of the case activated powder drop so it would hit the bottom, and screw the die in till it almost touches the shell plate so it will cam a tiny bit at the top.
I suspect with a taller .45 case like the .45 colt the die could be backed out a good bit and still bell. If one is loading .45 gap using this belling insert it may not bell the case since .45 acp seems to be the shortest case it will work with. (note this may be fixable by adding a short drop tube above the belling tube).
I did have a problem with the primer slide sticking in the rearward position. A little polishing and some dry lube seems to have fixed this. I am also using the primer alarm rod from my 550 to keep downward pressure on the primers. It seems that you dont want to let the primer magazine fall below 5 primers or the primers will cant slightly and cause the primer slide to jam in the rearward position.
The indexing was spot on from the factory on my press which came from Graffs and has a serial number above 10500. My ejection works great.