Ghost In The Fog
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I am experiencing primer seating depth issues with my LnL.
This is all 9MM
I size and prime in one step and then load in a separate second step because I can't seem to get everything to work at the same time. This is my latest problem. This is not new but has not happened to this extent before. In the past it may have been one or possibly two per hundred which I could easily attribute to an incomplete push on the handle while seating the primer.
For this current batch, I have 1,500 mixed brass cases that have been cleaned, de-primed and put into individual 100 count plastic ammo boxes. I have now primed all 1,500 cases and the pictures below show my problem. Between 5 and 15 cases per 100 run through the press have primers that do not seat all the way. They stick up between .010 to .018 above the case.
Some were vibrated in dry media and some were wet tumbled.
I know it is a repetition of movement and doing the same thing with every pull and believe me I do.
I have a very solid bench and it is also bolted to the wall so there is no unwanted bench movement in the operation. Shell plate is lightly greased and tight, I have checked everything I know to check. Screws are tight. springs are working properly.
I have checked head stamps to see if it is only a certain brand but it is with all of them. There is no pattern of one brand more than another.
I have even taken 100 cases as I run them through the sizing and priming and very smoothly and deliberately pushed very hard on the upstroke to seat the primers and the result is still the same. Many incomplete seatings.
After priming I put them back into the plastic case primer side up and I can visually see and also feel for raised primers. I then finish seating them with my Frankford Arsenal hand primer- Which works great for off press priming by the way.
I may just have to resign myself to hand priming everything but I feel that the LnL should work as advertised. LOL!!!
*I have loaded 6,000 9MM rounds on this press. The bugs should be worked out by now.. It only seems to get worse. I never had issues with my LEE Classic.
Maybe it's me- maybe it's my press but I have had way too many issues. I don't get it.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
This is all 9MM
I size and prime in one step and then load in a separate second step because I can't seem to get everything to work at the same time. This is my latest problem. This is not new but has not happened to this extent before. In the past it may have been one or possibly two per hundred which I could easily attribute to an incomplete push on the handle while seating the primer.
For this current batch, I have 1,500 mixed brass cases that have been cleaned, de-primed and put into individual 100 count plastic ammo boxes. I have now primed all 1,500 cases and the pictures below show my problem. Between 5 and 15 cases per 100 run through the press have primers that do not seat all the way. They stick up between .010 to .018 above the case.
Some were vibrated in dry media and some were wet tumbled.
I know it is a repetition of movement and doing the same thing with every pull and believe me I do.
I have a very solid bench and it is also bolted to the wall so there is no unwanted bench movement in the operation. Shell plate is lightly greased and tight, I have checked everything I know to check. Screws are tight. springs are working properly.
I have checked head stamps to see if it is only a certain brand but it is with all of them. There is no pattern of one brand more than another.
I have even taken 100 cases as I run them through the sizing and priming and very smoothly and deliberately pushed very hard on the upstroke to seat the primers and the result is still the same. Many incomplete seatings.
After priming I put them back into the plastic case primer side up and I can visually see and also feel for raised primers. I then finish seating them with my Frankford Arsenal hand primer- Which works great for off press priming by the way.
I may just have to resign myself to hand priming everything but I feel that the LnL should work as advertised. LOL!!!
*I have loaded 6,000 9MM rounds on this press. The bugs should be worked out by now.. It only seems to get worse. I never had issues with my LEE Classic.
Maybe it's me- maybe it's my press but I have had way too many issues. I don't get it.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.