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[hambam105]

I prime off the Dillion, but I do not intend to prime off any other press. I wore-out half dozen of the hand Lee thing-a-jig. Either the pot metal body would give or the plastic primer cup would sheet the bed.

Bought a used RCBS bench mounted primer that works great. And I bought an expensive one-at-a-time hand primer, brand name escapes me, similar to Sinclair but not.

[GW]

I prime off the Dillion, but I do not intend to prime off any other press. I wore-out half dozen of the hand Lee thing-a-jig. Either the pot metal body would give or the plastic primer cup would sheet the bed.

That's always been the problem with Lee equipment. They have some very good ideas but they use crap materials to put them together so they break constantly.
Still love my turret press though...

[stilly]

On the 44 and 50 AE , I had place the shell casings and bullets [ pills ] . They get to heavy . The 50 AE , neither want to fit easily . I also dip the pills in ground mica . It [ ground mica ] dirty ups the tubes and rubs off .
Sometimes I hand feed the 45 ACP . This is when the cases have not been annealed after 5 reloads , start splitting or range pick-ups .
I also use a bungie cord [ the little black ones in the package of 10-15 @ harbor freight . ] around the tubes / press and rubber bands about 1/2 down the colander .
Most of the lee people know this , but some might not .

https://www.titanreloading.com/titan-reloading-products/titan-tube-harness

Because it looks WAY better than rubber bands or bungees...

[17+1]

My Lee o-frame I got in college is still serving me well. I have acquired more equipment over the years, but the press is still running strong.

[tonyjr]

Thanks , I have been meaning to order another 8
I use wooden dowels in center .
The rubber bands and bungie cords are to keep tubes from bending and seem to transfer vibrations to tubes [ I shake tubes less - @least it seems that way ] I tried pipe cleaners - I did not like .
I bought 4 of the spacer things . I destroyed 2 tubes trying to seperate .
They do help if placed at the top by colander and at the bottom by pill and shell placer [ to place tubes ] . But I used cotter pins to hold bullets - I changed to duplex nails [ cut down / keep bullets in tubes ] I load up tubes ahead of time . Using the nails cuts down on number of pills , but I don't fill to top any way .
Yes , I know you should be able to just dump pills / casing into collander and go by shaking . If it works for you great - I get upside down pills and cases . For me it is quicker to load tubes before hand .
If anyone has read a few of my posts and remember - I have 6 nephews and 2 nieces that reload here . That many people [ they all seldom show up at same time ] There is plenty for others to do .
From decapping [ I generally do ahead of time except the bottle necks - single stage time ] , cleaning guns , setting powder drop / dies .

[tonyjr]

Thanks again , I ordered another 8 [ only 12 dollars for shipping . ]

[stilly]

Yeah, I know. Your house is WAY busy man. Aint no way I could survive all that. I imagine your Thanksgivings are all about coming together and being thankful for whatever components yall were able to find on the shelves and then outside for a friendly game of football and let's-make-another-2k-rds...

[tonyjr]

Major holidays , just me , wife and one brother . The nephews /nieces are / go to their family [ mothers ] home .
Yesterday was one of my nephews wife's parents 50th . Anyway - Guns came up and then 5 or 6 disappeared - they were at house when I got home .
All the 308's and 45's that were prepped were done and they were working on Decapping more 308's [ one of them went home and brought more MT's .
I may have picked up 2 more reloaders - Eric said he and Jose would be back today with some 9 mm cases .

[stilly]

LoLz.

If they were not afraid of my garage, folks that make it in and are waiting for me are just standing around talking waiting for me to get in and run the show. But that has only happened once. Now they just stay out.