I recently purchased the bullet feeder for the lee pro 1000....in the instructions they show the "buffer" below the attachment plate, and the spring above it. Looking at other instruction sheets on line, by LEE, they show the "buffer" and spring above the plate....Having problems either way of bullets feeding reliably. I am using 185 grain swc, 200 grainers don't work either! Any Idea's?
First I would like to say sorry it took so long to reply back, but I had to get away from this problem for a while and think of a solution. I am glad to say I have solved the problems of this feeder not feeding reliably! So far I have loaded over 300 rounds without having a single slug fall out, or fail to feed.
There were a few problems. The #1 problem was that the near side of the feed finger was hitting the near round riser’s (left side) enough that it was deflecting the fingers with the slug so as to not align with the case mouth. I could not see this happening because I was concentrating on where the slug was ending up.
I tried adjusting the “rotational” position of the unit till the fingers cleared the left side of the riser, but now the slug was ending up about a third away, (left side) from the center of the case. My conclusion was that I had to put some clearance on the top left side of the riser where it was rubbing and deflecting the finger.
I marked the risers left side (upper and lower travel of where the feed finger was hitting). I removed this riser and filed a notch in the area of contact. Reassembled it, adjusted the nut just enough to hold the unit. Then I adjusted the “ROTATIONAL” position of the stamped metal unit secured by the nut on the crimp die, until the slug was ending up in the center of the case, I then started cycling slugs…. Perfect alignment was achieved!
(Occasionally you might have to grab the very left end of the plastic unit and VERY SLIGHTLY adjust the bullet into position at the end of the feeders stroke, this is caused by the slop in the feeder.)
NEXT PROBLEM: “Slugs sliding off the flat bottom base of the feeder” No matter how many slugs (185/200 grn LSWC) I had in the tube, sometimes I would get one to slide out of position which would then cause an “avalanche” of tumbling slugs! Figured it was too “slippery”. So I added a small round pc. (Size of the base, no larger) of 240 grit wet/dry 3m sandpaper, super glued to the top of the flat base bullet feeder (this is where the bullets rest on top of each other until the feed finger grabs one and moves it to the casing) FIXED, Never had one tumble out again!
Thanks for every ones patience,
STINKKOAT