I emailed Lee about the spitting problem. Their response is below:
Make sure that you have the primer arm installed in the press, either large
or small. Without the primer arm, primers can bounce off the cross pin.
With the arm installed, the arm will deflect primers down the ram.
At 11:15 AM 4/18/05 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a brand new classic cast press I bought on the recommendation of a
>friend. I really like it but have one problem. When resizing and
>depriming, half of the primers are spit out of the side of the ram rather
>than going down through the ram into the tube. I read on one of the online
>firearm forums that others have this same problem. Please let me know what
>I am doing wrong. Thank you.