Okay, so from what I understand Hornady does not recommend having dies come in contact with the shell plate at all. My question is, if a.223 FCD needs to have contact with the shell plate or ram to close the crimping fingers and crimp the bullet, how do you use them on the LNL? I thought I had seen a few pics/posts around that showed presses utilising the Lee FCD.
I already outsmarted myself and turned down the bottom of my FCD on a lathe at work thinking if I could lower it enough it would clear the shell plate and still crimp. While it does crimp, it is too low and now crimps the shoulder of the shell, aaaaaaaaaaand it still hit the shell plate. So a trip to Amazon and $14 later a new .223 FCD is on it's way. So my question it, how do I do it? do I adjust it so that it just barely touches the shell plate? I am not looking for a huge crimp, I am just using .223 FMJs w/cannelures andI want to crimp them a bit.
I already outsmarted myself and turned down the bottom of my FCD on a lathe at work thinking if I could lower it enough it would clear the shell plate and still crimp. While it does crimp, it is too low and now crimps the shoulder of the shell, aaaaaaaaaaand it still hit the shell plate. So a trip to Amazon and $14 later a new .223 FCD is on it's way. So my question it, how do I do it? do I adjust it so that it just barely touches the shell plate? I am not looking for a huge crimp, I am just using .223 FMJs w/cannelures andI want to crimp them a bit.