I use the APP Deluxe for priming, particularly higher volumes of cases. The other night I primed 700 revolver cases. With my hand primer, I limit myself to 150 per session to save the tendons in my elbow. With the APP, I think I could do at least a few thousand before I just got bored. It doesn't work perfectly. I get a primer turned sideways sometimes, and it's impossible to see since its hidden by the feeding mechanism and then the case itself. It's not a foolproof operation either. If I stroke it after the column of brass in the feeder is empty, it will still feed a primer and then when I start feeding cases again, another stroke will double-feed a primer. Clearing the machine from my faults is a little tricky, but it can be learned and a brass pick helps. It can be avoided altogether if I don't make any mistakes. The only thing I fault the machine for is the occasional sideways mangled primer and an occasional mashed case mouth where the fingers mash it despite proper alignment. It's less than 1 in 100. I can use my RCBS hand primer as fast as the APP, but it will have faults at a similar rate when I'm moving that fast, and I already explained I cannot use the hand primer for anywhere near the volume the APP produces easily. So I would absolutely use the APP if I was going to prime hundreds or thousands of cases. 20 to 50 cases, and I would use the hand primer.
I bought mine after reading his review,
I have it set up but I haven't used it yet, I've been busy with work and redoing the room my wife works in at home. (What she wanted for Christmas).
I put it on the Lee Quick mount system, and I like that system.
As far as the last few primers, I'm still using the old top of the press mounted Auto Prime ll. I've been using it for 30 years and it's the same way, so I'm used to watching for that.
I'll try it maybe tomorrow and I want to see if the new black Winchester primers will run through it. They won't run through any of my other presses priming systems including the Auto Prime ll. So, I don't have high hopes for this one either, since it uses essentially the same chute for the primers.
I sure hope those primers are just a bad batch. I have two sleeves of them left and I'll probably have to throw them away. That seems like a crime punishable by death or something right now. But they are out of shape and won't feed in anything. I'll probably replace the broken primer arm on my Rock Chucker and use them in it.
As far as the APP Deluxe press goes,
Yes, the directions could have been written better. It's like the technical writer that wrote them didn't understand how the press works and was trying to parrot someone else, who was explaining it to them.
When I worked for Brookville Equipment Corp in Pa as Maintenance Supervisor, we wrote our own owners manuals for the machines we built, and we had people affiliated with production write them, then had people read them that was not affliliated with production, to see if they made sense to them. They were very well written and easy to understand, but it took a lot to get them that way.
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I can see a manual for something with a small profit margin, being written in more haste, so as NOT to get more money in the manual than in the product. I didn't have any problems with it, but I diagnose and repair machines for a living.
I don't anticipate any problems with it. It's pretty straight forward.
I do have one question,
it pops up when the primer slide moves ahead. I don't see any purpose it could have.