Hornady LNL AP - Spent Primer Management

[forty_caliber]

I really like every aspect of the press except the spent primer "system". It works ok, it doesn't jam but there has got to be a better way.

I have the bottle with the tube that goes on the bottom of the brass "exhaust" tube. The tube gets kinked as the press cycles and eventually pulls the exhaust tube out of the sub plate after a couple of hundred cycles.

There isn't much clearance for a cup or a tray. Has anyone come up with something clever for this?

I guess I could just let them fall where they may and sweep them up later but the tool is supposed to serve me not the other way around.

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[ColtPythonElite]

I put a big nut on the bottom of the rubber tube to act as a weight. I have a small bucket under the tube.

 

[tcj]

I just keep a 5 gallon bucket underneath - works to keep any powder spillage/clean-up in place as well.

In addition, if I run into any bad cases I just dump them in the bucket as I go along.

At the end of the reloading session the bucket contents (except for any powder) go into my brass recycling container.

 

[Charlie98]

I have an old 8# powder can on the floor, and some poly tube going up to the press. I had to bend the tube out a wee bit to make clearance, but it works...

 

[Rule3]

Post #14. The bottle is normally on the bottom shelf not on the floor. But if the hose was shorter it just rides up and down, the wire ties keep the hose attached tot the cap.

Hornady sells such a item but free is free.

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...o-you-deal-with-primers.846345/#post-11025166

 

[DRAINSMITH]

I have a bad hip, a broken back and had 2 strokes. So I sit my fat ass when I load. To do this more comfortable I mounted my press on 1 1/2" angle iron that sticks out just past the primer tube drop. This has allowed me to drop the tube into an old 8 lbs powder container. The top of the tube I just used a hose clamp. It has been this way for years with no tube separation.

You could drill a hole in your bench for the tube to go through and so the tube will not bend. I saw a guy do this and he had a small container in the drawer that he would empty about once a month.

 

[George P]

I use the inline Fabrication press riser, so I just drilled a hole through the top of the bench for the tube to pass through. I drilled a hole in a cap from a Perrier water bottle and use an empty bottle to collect the primers. When it gets full or just too heavy, I swap out the bottle.

 

[alfsauve]

My presses have always been on the edge of the bench so the spent tube hung straight down. I usually have a smaller trash can at this position but when the picture was taken I had this larger one there. Every 50,000 or so primers I empty it.

BTB: Hardware stores don't typically have the right sized tubing if you need replacement. Ended up getting tubing at a beer brew store. Must have taken a couple of hours to make the right selection.

 

[Walkalong]

 

[Rule3]

I have a bad hip, a broken back and had 2 strokes. So I sit my fat ass when I load. To do this more comfortable I mounted my press on 1 1/2" angle iron that sticks out just past the primer tube drop. This has allowed me to drop the tube into an old 8 lbs powder container. The top of the tube I just used a hose clamp. It has been this way for years with no tube separation.

You could drill a hole in your bench for the tube to go through and so the tube will not bend. I saw a guy do this and he had a small container in the drawer that he would empty about once a month.
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What?

You don't have the Hornady Electronic automatic primer disposal incinerator unit, part " HLNLPDIU??

 

[DRAINSMITH]

What?

You don't have the Hornady Electronic automatic primer disposal incinerator unit, part " HLNLPDIU??

Oh, I missed one. Where can I order 4 of them?

 

[Muddydogs]

My press is bench mounted so the tube is off the edge of the bench. I purchased some flexible poly tube from Lowes long enough to hook into the primer tube and reach an 8 pound powder keg setting on the floor under the bench pushed back far enough to be out of the way of my feet. I never give primers another thought. If I had mounted the press on the bench with a mount I would just drill a hole for the primer tube to run though.

Year or so ago I purchased a 3D printed primer tray for the RCBS Rock Chucker that has a short piece of poly tube off the bottom of it, I replaced the tube with one long enough to reach the same powder jug I use for the LnL. If I need to deprime live primers I pull off the long tube and replace with the original tube which will hold over 100 large rifle primers so I can dump them out of the tube and do what I need with them and live primers aren't getting mixed with the spent stuff. I did go all fancy on my powder jug and drilled 2 holes in the cap, inserted barbed fitting in the tubes and secured them to the cap with the plastic nuts that came with the barbed fittings.

One of these days I might fill up the 8 pound keg with primers.

 

[Jeff H]

Cut a slot in my mounting plate so the hose didn't kink.

 

[alfsauve]

Oh, I missed one. Where can I order 4 of them?

Make sure you get the deluxe model with primer counter and the overflow-time-to-dump warning indicator.

 

[forty_caliber]

What?

You don't have the Hornady Electronic automatic primer disposal incinerator unit, part " HLNLPDIU??

I'm waiting on the Quantum 2000 trans-universe model to come out. Objects passing through the field would just disappear in this universe and appear...elsewhere. Of course trans-dimensional balance would have to be maintained but I'll let the engineers worry about that.

I think I'm going to have to cut a slot similar to Jeff H for my setup. Thanks for all of the comments!
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[rsrocket1]

I use thick walled clear flex tubing that reaches all the way to the floor and fixed to the brass tube with a zip tie. The long length allows for even flexing of the tube without kinking. The tubing goes into a 1/2 liter plastic water bottle that is Gorilla taped to the tubing. I can completely fill the bottle with primers and take it to the metal recycler. The primers are brass so they pay full brass price for it. Last time I brought in my scrapped cases and a few bottles worth of primers totaling about 15 pounds worth and got $30. Enough for another box of primers.

BTW don't mix in shotgun primers. Many of them are steel and you won't get much for that.

 

[forty_caliber]

@Jeff H[/USER]
I cut a slot similar to yours. Just used a forstner bit on the drill press to remove the material. Works like a champ.

 

[alfsauve]

The actual trash can that I use. Been thinking about putting one of the "desk bells" in the bottom so the primers ring it, every time they fall. On occasion I get a primer who will stick to the end of the decapper. Beside everything could use more cowbell.

 

[Blue68f100]

Every time I used a open bucket of any kind I find ways to knock it over and make a mess. Now if the bucket is secured so it can happen that works. The reason I use a bottle fastened to the drop tube and let it float with the ram.

 

[rfwobbly]

Beside everything could use more cowbell.

Absolutely correct ! I just gotta have more cow bell !

 

[Jeff H]

Absolutely correct ! I just gotta have more cow bell !