What a day.........223 was a bigger problem than I bargained for! I had this great idea to fill all four tubes with crimped LC brass.....a proper test!
I had no clue that LC brass would be that much of a pain.....
I'll take a little of the blame....the drop tube wasn't in the best place, but Lee gets some blame too:
1. Those d...mned plowed shellholders even tip finished brass .223 on the way out.....least ways LC brass.
2. Lee beveled transitions where the brass falls into the the "C" shaped entrance points......you want to know why everyone is having trouble with brass falling straight? That's why!
I even had a case fly away like it was jet powered!....you'll see it in the video below......granted in spite of all that, it's STILL the fastest way to deprime that much brass. So here's the video in all it's unglory below....I even picked up the pieces off the floor and reinserted it.....so what you see is the whole banana, beginning to end.
Then I went to work to rid myself of that beveled drop points:
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Think of a case sliding on the surface and going across that bevel before it drops the rim takes off at an angle.....now you can understand why the cases drop out of the target zone!
I got my sanding drum in my Dremel Tool after the height one to test whether it would make a difference.......it did!
View attachment 900682 Below: works better, but that isn't depriming for real.
Below: Depriming for real....notice the second to the last one didn't drop as well even still. I think the lightweight .223 cases are partly to blame.....I never saw a trace of that on the heavier .308's.
Bottom line: This machine feeds cases pretty well....really well when tweaked and makes a great, and very fast fast deprimer.
Now for the bad news. I tried the swager kit on the .223 cases I deprimed tonight.......was really disappointed. No feel. Really hard to tell if it swages or misses or how hard to push the handle down....you have to prime to find out whether it's swaged...and often you have to go back and do it again.
The RCBS or Dillon bench swagers do a better, faster, easier on the body job. Doesn't do a bit of good feeding cases fast when you have to swage and swage again....and prime in order to tell if you did anything.
Maybe it does better on large primer cases.
Ergonomically it is hard to swage.....hurts after a while....I'd rather use the old RCBS press swager.....and that's saying a lot, because I'd much rather use the newer bench swagers than that one.
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