coloradokevin
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Well, I resized some brass tonight on my brand new Lee Classic Turret Press.
A problem came up that I can't seem to figure out...
For some reason the small lever prime arm gets jammed up on the down stroke of the ram (in other words, instead of pivoting under the shell holder and raising straight up into the primer pocket, it lifts up and strikes the outside of the shell holder, jamming the whole thing up).
I can manually manipulate it to the correct position when I am working the ram, but this is slow and time consuming. I intially noticed this quirk right out of the box, but it resolved itself spontaneously while I was trying to diagnose the problem... I chocked it up as new equipment, and didn't think twice about it. However, as soon as I sized my first piece of brass, the problem began again, and it won't stop happening.
Haven't resized any large primer brass yet, but I never had that problem with the large prime lever when I was just playing around with the press either. The small (problem) lever prime arm appears to be correctly machined, at least on all outward appearances.
Any of you Lee owners have any thoughts? This isn't encouraging on my first run at things here!
A problem came up that I can't seem to figure out...
For some reason the small lever prime arm gets jammed up on the down stroke of the ram (in other words, instead of pivoting under the shell holder and raising straight up into the primer pocket, it lifts up and strikes the outside of the shell holder, jamming the whole thing up).
I can manually manipulate it to the correct position when I am working the ram, but this is slow and time consuming. I intially noticed this quirk right out of the box, but it resolved itself spontaneously while I was trying to diagnose the problem... I chocked it up as new equipment, and didn't think twice about it. However, as soon as I sized my first piece of brass, the problem began again, and it won't stop happening.
Haven't resized any large primer brass yet, but I never had that problem with the large prime lever when I was just playing around with the press either. The small (problem) lever prime arm appears to be correctly machined, at least on all outward appearances.
Any of you Lee owners have any thoughts? This isn't encouraging on my first run at things here!