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Posted: 2/11/2009 11:11:37 AM EDT
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i am selling my single to a buddie and getting one of these after using a friends
tell me every thing i am going to want to pick up and some of the tricks of it |
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Tips for the LEE M1000 (pre PRO 1000):
1. Mount your press on a sturdy bench. 2. Keep your press clean....free of spilled powder or primer residue....not to mention grit. 3. Lube the moving parts. 4. Now, is also a good time to tighten up loose nuts. 5. Keep the primer tray loaded up w/ primers........don't let the feed trough get half way empty..........gravity helps to keep the primers moving downhill. Re-fill the tray with only 50 primers at a time. Use a small screwdriver to hold back the primers in the magazine when you’re seating the magazine into the trough mouth. The primers will seat.....as the handle is going up.....shell plate coming down.......you'll have to get to learn, "the feel of it." 6. Keep powder in the hopper..........make sure the powder isn't clumped and "bridging." 7. Keep brass in the magazine tubes........and don’t forget to turn to the next tube, when needed. 8. Bullets go on....one at a time.....have a good supply close by. 9. Use full, smooth and complete strokes. Unless there is a "good reason to".......don't go partial way and change directions......it'll ^%$& things up. 10. If and when you do ^%$& things up.......remove the problem shells, make sure to check the indexing and primer feed area for a jammed primer. Clean off any powder spills or primer dust. Set the problem shells to the side........work on them "later." Before continuing with production.....try the press w/o shells to check the indexing. 11. After 1000s of rounds.........if you're having indexing problems and you've given up on the adjustment screw..........you may need to change out those plastic cams. If you change the cams, change both of them, rather than one at a time. ______________________________________________________ The LEE web sight sells the replacement parts. www.leeprecision.com/cgi/catalog/browse.cgi?1217477485.785=/html/catalog/lp1000.html Click on the "serv. parts" for your caliber of machine. Ratchet Gear $3 and Hex Ratchet 3 for .50......last time shipping was $4 and delivery was w/in a week via USPS. Also, you might want to add some "set tension fingers" at 4 for $1, just in case. ______________________________________________________ HTH. Aloha, Mark |
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MA hit on most of the high points.I have 4 1000s in rotation. They are mounted to pieces of 2x10 and c-clamped to the bench for use. I removed the primer pin stop clip and the plastic shell detector from all of them and have all but eliminated priming problems. The down side is that a primer will come up in the priming station with out a case being there. When that happens I just pluck it out of there and set it aside for when I refill the primer tray, no big deal. The reason this improves priming is, with the "case sensor" in place the primer has a very short amount of time to get into position on the priming pin, the case swings by, hits the lever and is going down while the pin is coming up, and you get off center or flipped sideways primers. With out it, the primer pin drops down and the primer has the entire time that the ram is at the top of the stroke, de-capping, dropping powder, seat and crimp, pulling the de-capping pin out of the case, to shake and work its self into the right position. It has made a huge improvement.
A few other small things, the little "fingers" that keep the cases pushed into the shell plate get tweaked and loose tension on the cases. Check and re-bend Keep some loose cases on the bench, when the case tube is empty, place one of these cases in the feeder slide when there is no case there and turn the tubes to the next full one, that way you don't have to watch the tubes, you will notice when the slide is not pushing a case. Buy extra turrets and leave your dies set-up BUY THE CASE COLLATOR!! I could go on, but I really like the 1000s and think they are the best value in a progressive machine, I probally have invested in the 4 what it would have cost for one of other brands |
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