Reloading items that have made your life miserable

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Rinky dinky push rod system to actuate the Uniflow powder measure on my old RCB Ammomaster. Replaced it with the case and spring actuated Lee Pro Autodisk. Worked great and made me rethink my preconceptions about LEE products.

RCBS discontinued the Ammomaster I think. Mine is now packed away.
 
Summer and winter in Iowa in a garage without climate control.

Using a handheld debur tool to remove primer crimps. I ended that aggravation with the cordless drill, duct tape and a wooden dowel carved to engage the chamfer end of the tool.
 
Lee hand press, turret press, auto index turret press, load master and charge master.
 
Went out to reload Sunday and when I pulled the handle my bench fell over on me. My drill press landed squarely on my head. All my bullets and boxes of primers fell over the floor.

Well, that's one way to clean a bench.

Got it together with he help of my caregiver. Than God she was there.
:banghead:
 
Lyman DPS3... I had a bad one, I guess. After waiting 30 minutes to warm up followed by a per instructions calibration, that thing would jump around at random regardless of the location or conditions. It was a lousy piece of electronics.
 
Like Clutch said, The primer feed on my Lee Load Master! Riuns an otherwise decent press. Next time I will buy Dillon!
 
Jack, the solution to the Hornady scale problem you are having is to knock it off the bench. Mine reads consistently now after taking the nose dive. It doesn't weigh anything anymore, but I do get the same weird error message every single time and it doesn't change :)

My Redding Boss press shooting the spent primers all over the place and the amateurishly engineered spent primer catcher provided. A very poor attempt at a solution. Otherwise, the press is fantastic. Looking to solve this problem by buying another press just for the decapping process. I understand Redding makes upgrades for their other presses where this must have been an embarrassment. No such luck for their Boss press.
 
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"Loose" Hornady 9mm resize/deprime die. :barf:
Processed about 500 cases only to discover they had crummy neck tension. Some were ok some were not.
(no problem with the same cases when run thru my Lee resize die)
Tossed these cases in with the 1000 or so I had done with the Lee die.
Ended up resizing ALL of them again :cuss: :banghead:

Hand powered case trimming lathes. Nothing wrong with them but trimming a bunch of .223 brass was a chore. (still use it for 7mm Rem Mag brass, but I don't shoot 100s of tose per range trip)
 
A pair of Pro1000s I bought off an ad in a trader paper. "Like new".
I guess I was spoiled as a youngster with dad's two Star progressives.
 
Happy new year everyone. Recently it has been the Lee Auto Drum. Mine is junk. It leaks powder all over the place and is also all over the place with powder drops. I am pretty sure I just got a bad one though. Most seem to love it. Good news is Lee is on top of it. They are going to send me a replacement. I have had great results with Lee CS.
 
Stick powders through a Dillon 550b measure before I learned to tap with a mallet. Still not fool proof. And lets not forget a manual case trimmer coupled with a bucket of 223 brass.
 
Hornady's LnL progressive primer system. What a nightmare when it isn't working right...about half the time it seems.

Hornady's powered case trim station...the big upright one.
Cutter head fell off after 1500 cases, have to pay to ship that big heavy SOB back.

AZshooter, hope you are Ok...if my bench tipped over and everything fell on me, I'd be a hurting unit.
 
Trying to seat v max bullets in 223 using RCBS die. Would split the ballistic tip down the middle. Spent way to much time trying to make this work. Solution was a set of Hornady self aligning dies. Perfection!
 
Press mounted priming systems.

I could never get them to work with 100% reliability to my satisfaction so i have removed them from my Hornady L--L and Dillon SDBs. When I do not prime on the press, reloading goes smoothly with less headaches.

The jury is still out on the APS system on my Pro2000 and my Dillon BL550 did not come with a priming system.

I either use a hand, universal shell holder, RCBS priming tool or an RCBS bench mounted APS priming tool.
 
Lee hand press, turret press, auto index turret press, load master and charge master.
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Sir, at least we can say you're persistent. I put hands on a pro 1000 I think, and I didnt like its indexing at all. It was used, may have been worn beyond serviceability so I cant fault the press off the bat.

Now my lee single stages, I love them :D

Stick powders through a Dillon 550b measure before I learned to tap with a mallet. Still not fool proof. And lets not forget a manual case trimmer coupled with a bucket of 223 brass.
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lawd aint that the truth.. I'm about 1/2 way through a lb of h4895 for my garand.. BL-C(2) is up next.. lets see how she does with spherical powders..

cfullgraf - I cant say my experience has mirrored yours. I generally dont prime on press, though its more likely to happen than using my hornady hand primer (its just not quite rite... cant explain it, but the flipper trays are great for loading my primer mags for the 550 :D). My sdb had about 400 9mm ran through it before I decided to upgrade to a 550, 0 faults at all, including priming. My 550's been rock solid in the priming dept, but its only got 400 or so on it, so far.
 
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Nothing has made my life miserable.
Have for 9 mm a pro 1000 and a lee one station for .223 .308 rifle and .357mag plus 38 revolver. Lee dies. Lyman trimmer and a jewelers electronic scale.
 
I use walnut shells and also have that problem, just check each one before I prime them!
 
Wow this was hard because I couldn't really think of anything until I read each post about the scale and remembered the Pact Digital Dispenser and Scale. The most useless piece of junk I had ever used. It would work maybe once or twice after spending a half hour recalibrating it. I used it for target practice after spending days on the phone with CS which always blamed something other then the product.:what:
 
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