moxie
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The cure to 99.99999999% (maybe more) of all primer woes is the hand-held primer.
Coins are too soft, they are made of some copper alloy, then nickel plated, so it's like trying to use brass against that steel primer punch.Hi all. I tried to shim the hub, per the guide on ar15.com, but it locked up my press. The fit is already pretty tight and that killed it. I've also disassembled the punch, which doesn't have anything stuck in it.
I have a hand primer and a turret press that does priming well, but to me, the whole point of a progressive is that you can do everything on the progressive. I'll check out the YouTube videos and see if they're any help. Hopefully they aren't the same ones I've already seen!
ETA: I was originally using a penny under the punch before the nickel, but it got a simple just like the press...
Though not particularly helpful for this thread, I have to agree with you there.The cure to 99.99999999% (maybe more) of all primer woes is the hand-held primer.
I taped a piece of thin sheet steel from Home Depot on the lower arm under the screw-in primer bolt to compensate for the dimple the bolt was creating in the lower arm. That seems to have corrected the high primer issue.@TitegroupTiger: I'm probably on ~20,000 rounds on this press. I definitely have the dimple (which I've been covering with a nickel, which is helping but not curing the problem). I've been having problems with .45acp, 10mm, .308, and 7mm Rem Mag, which are all large primer punch. The latest problems have been with 7mm, which I was having serious trouble with today. I have not loaded AK, 30-06 or .223 since noticing this problem. These calibers may or may not have the issue described above, I just haven't tested yet.
Has anyone tried the JB Weld Steel. This stuff set hard enough to machine, so maybe just a surface layer will work. Like putty.