I have had my APP for too long and only played with it a little, just to see how they made it but never put it to use. I had other stuff to do but kept walking by parts that looked like they could be something together so I spent a couple hours building one that could run itself.
I didn’t want to modify the press, not that it would loose a lot of value I just didn’t want to jeopardize integrity of the machine just playing around. So, I just took these parts off, for safe keeping.
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I looked through my unused die’s and found a .224 Lee collet die I machined a spacer to locate the case but not swage the neck to the mandrel/decapping pin. I also drilled/tapped a shallow blind hole in the cap, for a pneumatic cylinder I had sitting in a box.
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Then drilled and tapped a piece of steel with the 3 bolt pattern and used 3 aluminum bars (also threaded, on both ends) and a piece of box tubing with the side milled out I have been saving for 20 years before I finally found another use for it.
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The next part is even less pretty, just functional. I used two boost control solenoids that were deemed “questionable” but work fine for this application and a cheap China cycle timer.
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Looks like this in action.