roadappletx
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Hello folks!
I recently purchased a new L-n-L progressive from Hornady. The machine is built like a tank, and looks like it will provide service long after I'm gone. Set-up was not too painful; I did a bone-head move and bent the cartridge catch bin bracket. Hornady sent me a new one. This was the part used with the casefeeder. The casefeeder will only handle about 60 45ACP's at a time. Any more, and it will not turn. I adjusted the clutch on the casefeeder plate, and it still does this. The adjustment screw, that moves the pivot block, was too short. Everything I tried would not make it work to move the pivot block enough to drop the case. I wound up pressing a spent .38 Spl case on to the adjustment screw. Through some trial and error, it works now.
The press seems to do everything right. The casefeeder occasionally drops a case that bounces into the finished cartridge bin. The priming system places a primer, correct side up, on the priming ram every time. The problem is the large primers will not seat to flush on any cases that accept large primers.:banghead: I spoke to a tech at Hornady, and he's sending me a new primer punch / ram assembly. Small primers barely seat the primers flush. I want to seat them all just below flush. If anyone knows a fix for this, please let me know! The powder measure, with the micrometer handgun insert, throws very consistantly. I set up for 5 grains of W231. I measured each throw for 15 throws. There were two 5.1 throws, and the rest were 5.0. I checked about every ten to fifteen rounds while loading 45's, and they all showed 5.0 grains. I will be very happy if I can get the primers to seat just below flush. Hornady has been good to me, and their products are top shelf. That said, I'm thinking about buying a Dillon 550b, set it up for large primers, and leave the Hornady set for small primers. I got to use a friend's Dillon 550b in Colorado, many years ago. I liked it a lot, but I have also been very happy with all of my Hornady gear
I do recommend the Hornady, but it seems mine had parts that were too short to do it's job properly. The pivot block plunger, and the primer seating ram in the large primer punch assy. I am hoping the new primer punch assy will solve the problem. I hope this information will be useful to someone. If anyone has had similar problems, please let me know.
I have been looking up every primer problem posts I can find, and the majority of the problems have been missed primers, up-side down primers, and primers being crushed side-ways. I did glue a dime on the frame under the primer punch assy, but the threaded housing of the assy is what is bottoming out. It looks like the primer ram is too short on the bottom. The top is flush where it needs to be, for machine clearance.
Thanks for any help!
Jim
I recently purchased a new L-n-L progressive from Hornady. The machine is built like a tank, and looks like it will provide service long after I'm gone. Set-up was not too painful; I did a bone-head move and bent the cartridge catch bin bracket. Hornady sent me a new one. This was the part used with the casefeeder. The casefeeder will only handle about 60 45ACP's at a time. Any more, and it will not turn. I adjusted the clutch on the casefeeder plate, and it still does this. The adjustment screw, that moves the pivot block, was too short. Everything I tried would not make it work to move the pivot block enough to drop the case. I wound up pressing a spent .38 Spl case on to the adjustment screw. Through some trial and error, it works now.
The press seems to do everything right. The casefeeder occasionally drops a case that bounces into the finished cartridge bin. The priming system places a primer, correct side up, on the priming ram every time. The problem is the large primers will not seat to flush on any cases that accept large primers.:banghead: I spoke to a tech at Hornady, and he's sending me a new primer punch / ram assembly. Small primers barely seat the primers flush. I want to seat them all just below flush. If anyone knows a fix for this, please let me know! The powder measure, with the micrometer handgun insert, throws very consistantly. I set up for 5 grains of W231. I measured each throw for 15 throws. There were two 5.1 throws, and the rest were 5.0. I checked about every ten to fifteen rounds while loading 45's, and they all showed 5.0 grains. I will be very happy if I can get the primers to seat just below flush. Hornady has been good to me, and their products are top shelf. That said, I'm thinking about buying a Dillon 550b, set it up for large primers, and leave the Hornady set for small primers. I got to use a friend's Dillon 550b in Colorado, many years ago. I liked it a lot, but I have also been very happy with all of my Hornady gear
I do recommend the Hornady, but it seems mine had parts that were too short to do it's job properly. The pivot block plunger, and the primer seating ram in the large primer punch assy. I am hoping the new primer punch assy will solve the problem. I hope this information will be useful to someone. If anyone has had similar problems, please let me know.
I have been looking up every primer problem posts I can find, and the majority of the problems have been missed primers, up-side down primers, and primers being crushed side-ways. I did glue a dime on the frame under the primer punch assy, but the threaded housing of the assy is what is bottoming out. It looks like the primer ram is too short on the bottom. The top is flush where it needs to be, for machine clearance.
Thanks for any help!
Jim