Lee LCT case kicker - Inline Fab Review

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Little old me, casting doubt that an individual could pull a press lever once every 3 seconds for 60 minutes without pause while supplying primers, brass and bullets to achieve a claim of 300 finished rounds per hour is not bashing Lee Precision hardware.

There are 3600 seconds in an hour. If you think you can make 300 rounds per hour on a 4 hole self-indexing turret press, that would imply that you will have to complete 1 round every 12 seconds (3600 seconds / 300= 12). If it takes 4 pulls of the lever to make one round, then you have 3 seconds to place your components on the press and pull the lever (12 / 4= 3). This works out to be 1200 pulls of the lever per hour (300 rounds x 4 pulls per round = 1200 pulls). Is there something wrong with my calculations?

While you might be able to keep this pace up for 30 or 40 seconds, you cannot do so for a whole hour. In chemistry between reactants and products there is theoretical yield and there is actual yield. The two are not the same and sometimes are not at all close.

I tried and tried to break the 200 round per hour mark on my turret press. On average with everything ready, primer tubes preloaded, bullets and brass in bins at the most comfortable height and in the most efficient location, the best I could do and have any confidence that the finished product was per spec was about 160 rounds per hour. And that was a workout.

Again, can you show me where I have bashed Lee products?
 
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Interesting discussion of loading rates on the LCT. I have (and like) the kit from Inline Fab. I regularly load about 200 cases per hour if I'm "in the zone" depending on which caliber I'm loading. I don't think I'll ever see 300 per hour. Before I installed the case kicker kit, I struggled to load 100-125 per hour. Now, with the kit AND the ergo roller lever, 200 is the norm. It's not a progressive, but I don't need or want a progressive. It's fast enough and its relatively easy to monitor every case at every stage of the process. Just get comfortable with your equipment and enjoy the process.
 
I am happy to close this post discussion noting I have NO idea what my actual round count per hour is, nor do I really care. It is noticeably faster and easier with the Inline kicker than it was before and it is more than 'fast enough' for my needs.

I will leave the round count race to those for whom it must be important enough to fret over. I mean really? It's just a hobby boys and girls. Supposed to be a relaxing pass-time. Let's not turn it into a squabble.
 
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