Hornady press warranty

[Highland Lofts]

I process a lot of range brass from the gravel pit I take my grandson shooting. The cases are always gritty and the ram will get tight so I spray it with either one shot or the home made Heet dry gas & lanolin and wipe it down with a paper towel and then spray it again with some more lube.
I noticed yesterday the ram wobbles in the aluminum houseing quite a bit. I think from a couple of years of the grit & lube ate the aluminum houseing.
I need to contact Hornady later today when they open up. I bought the single stage Lock & Load kit about two & a half years ago new from Cabelas. I've deprimed tens of thousands of cases on this press.
I think from now on I will dry tumble the brass before depriming it to get some of the grit & carbon off the cases or wet tumble them with out the stainless steel.pins.

I was wondering if I have to mail the press back to Hornady for repairs or replacement.
If not I will have a friend take the press and put a stainless steel sleave in it to fix the hole where to ram slides up & down

 

[roc1]

They probably send you new one call them. Sounds like you need clean brass first dirty brass hard on dies and press.
Roc1

 

[VAReloader]

Give them a call and they will tell you how to proceed. When mine went back, they paid freight both ways but I think it depends on the situation.
Hornady's customer service is the best.

 

[buck460XVR]

Sounds like you need clean brass first dirty brass hard on dies and press.

^^^This. I tumble my brass, not to get it shiny and pretty, but to get the dirt and grit off. Lube will attract dirt, so the combination of lubrication and grit is probably the issue.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I,m sure the lube & grit tore up the aluminum houseing. I use the Lee Universal decapping die then wet tumble.
That will all change now, if I decide to wet tumble first I will buy another Frankford wet tumbler.

I did buy a Frankford hand hepd deprimeing tool, but depriming a five gallon bucket of brass will get to your fingers by the time you get it done.

I will call Hornady in a few hours.

 

[edwardware]

The cases are always gritty and the ram will get tight so. . .

Hornady will probably take care of you, but. . .

STOP DOING THAT!

Clean the cases before sizing them. Wash or tumble for 10 minutes and you'll reduce grit in the press by 95%.

 

[jmorris]

I process a lot of range brass from the gravel pit I take my grandson shooting. The cases are always gritty and the ram will get tight....

Why? Looks like you already know better than putting gritty cases into your firearms, why would you subject a machine that likely has tighter tolerance between the parts to the grit?

I can tell you one thing for certain, feeding your reloading equipment clean brass is more than a trillion times more important than having clean primer pockets.

That said, they have a good warranty and will likely absorb the cost, even if it’s obvious to them that the damage was caused by negligence. That goes for not only Hornady but RCBS, Lee and Dillon as well, they are all pretty good to outstanding, when it comes to warranty.

 

[Cannibul]

Lanolin would not be my first choice to lube a press ram. It can get a bit tacky and keep that grit from moving.

Use oil, lots of oil. That would help transport the grit away from the ram.

But the real solution would be to clean the brass first.

Personally, knowing that MY actions had caused the breakage I would not expect the company to warranty it. Nor would my ethics even allow me to call them to ask.

 

[JJFitch]

Lanolin would not be my first choice to lube a press ram. It can get a bit tacky and keep that grit from moving.

Use oil, lots of oil. That would help transport the grit away from the ram.

But the real solution would be to clean the brass first.

Personally, knowing that MY actions had caused the breakage I would not expect the company to warranty it. Nor would my ethics even allow me to call them to ask.

I'm having the same reaction! Who, knowing beforehand that their action caused a negative reaction would expect the company to "warranty" their actions? This behavior leads to higher prices across the board.

It isn't necessary to remove primers prior to cleaning and resizing brass!

"Clean up" your act ....'s

 

[Highland Lofts]

I have an older Pacific press that has the screw in die hole that i am dropping off at a friends machine shop to get it reamed out and tapped to acomodate the lock n load adapter that comes in the six pack of bushings and will be back in business in a couple of days.
I will take that original press and see what it will take to have it reamed out and a stainless sleeve put in it.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I made up three wire racks today to use after I wet tumble the range brass with just ArmorAll, LemiShine and a squirt of Dawn dish soap, no pins. Let them run in the tumbler, let them dry a day or so then I might resize them instead of just knocking the.primers out.

All that time cleaning that brass I never thought it would of damaged the press. Live & learn.

 

[Todd NE WY]

I have a hand de-primer, I think it is Frankfort Arsenal. I can set in my chair visiting with my wife and deprime cases keeping all the gunk away from the press. Then I throw them in the tumbler then they go to be resized, primed, etc.
Todd

 

[Highland Lofts]

I bought the frankford hand deprimer a couple of weeks ago to do them downstsirs & outside. But friday nights & saturday nights is my amber fluid nights up in my gun room depriming brass.
.i got it down now with wet tumbleing with just the ArmorAll Wash & Wax, Lemi-Shine & a squirt of Dawn dish soap for half an hour.
Today I made three screen drying racks and tumbled a butt load of range brass.
That will be my new way of getting them clean before they touch any of the presses.

 

[rdnktrkr]

How clean was the brass when not using pins? I usually dump dirty brass in a bucket with car wash and dawn for a while before decapping and it helps but I would like better

 

[Highland Lofts]

A half an hour with out the pins and they come out really clean.

I can run these through the resizing die now with out any worries of damageing the resizer die.

I have more 1/4" wire, I will make a couple more drying racks for this operation. They are drying decent with the sun hitting them.
I tumbled six good size loads this afternoon and have another good size load of 9mm in the tumbler right now.


I have three racks. This comeing weekend I will have all of the range brass tumbled.

I have a RCBS RockChucker Press and RCBS ' RS Press. I think I will set up the RS Press just for depriming.

When I get the shed finnished I will set up a Hornady single stage Lock & Load press, the RcckChuker Press and a Lee Turret press up out there to get out of the loading room on occasion.

 

[Johnnyd]

When I do wet tumble I run my cases through corncob for a half hour then deprime using a lee universal deprimer. I'll then wet tumble.

I would never put a case in my machine that was not wet or dry tumbled.

 

[ms6852]

I have 5 gallon buckets of range brass. I will fill the bucket up in water with dish soap and soak the range brass when I feel like cleaning. I than run the brass through my sonic cleaner a couple of hundred pieces, than dry them in the oven, afterwards I polish them in walnut media for 20 to 30 minutes and use imperial wax between my fingers for depriming and full sizing. I clean every piece of brass before they go into a reloading die.