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Looks like the sub plate is plastic/covered. I wonder how it will hold up with repeated compression.
Not quite.After viewing the video again, the shell-plate is also the sub-plate for the brass.
If you look at the schematics posted on Lee Precision's website, there is a hole under station #1 (where case slider is located to the front right of press) where ram is mounted to the metal sub plate.
On Pro 4000, ram is not centrally located under shell plate (like Load Master, Dillon, Hornady LNL AP, etc.) but rather like Pro 1000, is located under station #1. On Pro 1000, resizing load on station #1 will drop the "free floating" shell plate and bottom of shell plate will make contact with the top of shell plate carrier thus limiting downward travel of shell plate. This design makes resizing of brass more consistent as shell plate tilt cantilevering on subplate is eliminated.
On Pro 4000, we really need to physically inspect station #1 to see what limits downward travel of shell plate. At this point, we are all just speculating, including myself.
I have already started a new technical support thread for Pro 4000 actual problems / solutions - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...ch-lock-pro-support-thread-no-bashing.835405/
But as requested by member Hokie_PhD, I started another thread for "Unboxing Pro 4000 - User Review Discussion Thread" to share actually how the new press operates instead of speculating - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...r-review-discussion-thread-no-bashing.835426/
Of course, we can continue speculating on this thread how the new press is supposed to operate.