Inverting a Lee classic press HELP.

[G. Blessing]

OK, I have to ask... WHY are you guys mounting these things upside down?
I can't for the life of me see an advantage to this...

Enlighten me please gents!

-GB.

[MyFlatline]

I makes sizing and gas checking the bullets easier and quicker. Instead of balancing the bullet on the top punch or ram, you just drop it in the sizer. Take a sizer and hold it in your hand, put a bullet in from the bottom, then turn the die over and drop it in the top. You should see what we are doing then.

[MyFlatline]

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Over at Gtrubicon's shop...he cut this mount from a single piece of 6" tube steel. No welding needed.
Drill two mtg. holes for the press and four for the mount to the table and...waaalaah, one upside down press made to order. Next stop...rattle can of primer then red paint.

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That is a friend to have for sure.

[jmorris]

OK, I have to ask... WHY are you guys mounting these things upside down?
I can't for the life of me see an advantage to this...

Watch the video I posted in #11 and try to figure out how to do the same thing with one right side up.

[GhostHawk]

I just screwed mine to the bottom of my table.

Did not touch the linkage. Muscle memory, you get used to it soon enough.

I would never go back to a right side up press for sizing/gas checks. Never.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

dropping a boolit into a die is much easier and faster then setting a boolit onto the punch, making sure it's on there squarely...and I dislike the "catcher" on the top of the press.

Same goes for removing the 'Glock' bulge from 40S&W cases using the Lee de-bugle die.

[jmort]

dropping a boolit into a die is much easier and faster then setting a boolit onto the punch, making sure it's on there squarely...and I dislike the "catcher" on the top of the press.

Same goes for removing the 'Glock' bulge from 40S&W cases using the Lee de-bugle die.

I agree with all the above, but it is still a reasonable process for a decent price. I was able to get two sizers from a member here who makes them and they work real good. Nose first bottom out. As I mentioned in another thread Lee is developing the same style unit. If you PC or Hi Tek or tumble lube it is the way to go.

[G. Blessing]

I makes sizing and gas checking the bullets easier and quicker. Instead of balancing the bullet on the top punch or ram, you just drop it in the sizer. Take a sizer and hold it in your hand, put a bullet in from the bottom, then turn the die over and drop it in the top. You should see what we are doing then.

Aha, yes, that makes perect sense! Thanks.

Watch the video I posted in #11 and try to figure out how to do the same thing with one right side up.

Sorry, I'm on 28k dial up internet. I couldn't watch a video on that, and my first time through the thread it didn't even show there was a video there anyway. But I get the idea now, thanks.

G.

[jmorris]

Sorry, I'm on 28k dial up internet.

Ah, sorry and I understand. I used dial up myself before we moved out of the city, with no land line I am just a cellular internet user these days.

[MyFlatline]

Got it done a while back and it works like a champ...



Thanks all for the help