Hornady lock-n-load conversion bushing unscrewing.

[Dan Forrester]

Hi everyone, I own a Hornady lock-n-load classic press and the “conversion bushing” as Hornady calls it keeps unscrewing.

There are no wrench flats on either the conversion bushings or the die bushings so I’m not sure how to tighten it down.

What’s the proper way to fix this?

Thank you,

Dan

 

[Highland Lofts]

I give it a little tightening with a pair of chanelocks.

 

[stringnut]

Couple of options. Call, or email, Hornady. Put drop of blue, or weaker, loctite on it. Red, or green, if you want to make it permanent.

lnspect the threads and look for cracks. Unlikely anything like that is wrong. Doesn’t hurt to check.

 

[Englishmn]

You can tighten by using a wrench or pliers on a lnl die in the adapter. Loctite.

 

[dannyd]

Use a bushing with a die and nut in it from the bottom. Couple drops of blue loctite tighten with wrench. The bushing will not lock in from the bottom. You don't need the ram up had to do that to take the picture.

 

[Dan Forrester]

Thank you dannyd! That was exactly the information I needed. Inserting the bushing from underneath does the trick. I just degreased the threads and am waiting for everything to dry. Will to put a drop of blue loctite on before I tighten it down.

I appreciate everyone’s help!

Dan

 

[dcloco]

Better to use white Elmer's glue.

 

[dannyd]

I have over 200 bushing, so I have had a lot of practice with this. White glue will also work.

 

[AJC1]

I was thinking Teflon tape would be easy cheap and fast.

 

[dannyd]

I was thinking Teflon tape would be easy cheap and fast.

That works too, I have tried a good many different fixes on my LNL's; have two LNL's plus single stage press. Loaded 111,807 rounds on all three of them so far getting ready to load another 100 later today. For the most they are easy to work on.

And yes I know there Not Blue.

 

[MonkTx]

5 minutes with a file and you can have wrench flats on a die bushing that you can then use to tighten your conversion bushing.

 

[dannyd]

5 minutes with a file and you can have wrench flats on a die bushing that you can then use to tighten your conversion bushing.

I have so many that I made a jig for doing that.