c1skout
01-01-2015, 01:14 AM
I showed one to my wife a while ago, and she found a good deal on a lightly used one from ebay and got it for me for Christmas. Looking through my local gunshop last Saturday I spied a Pro auto disc (missing the lid and discs) in the bargain bin with a $20 price tag. I pointed out the missing parts and the manager said "gimme 10 bucks for it?", I was happy with that so I took it home, I've got discs and the adjustable charge bar and wasn't too concerned with the hopper lid.
I took my old Challenger press off the bench and mounted up the turret press. I only had to add a short piece of 2x4 for bracing under the bench-top. The Pro auto-disc took a bit more work. I don't think it was ever used, there was no sign of graphite in the hopper, and no sliding marks on the black paint where the discs run. It was set up for a progressive press so I had to fab up a new actuating arm to work with a return spring. I found a picture of the spring arm on the internet, made a paper cut-out in the proper size, then copied that onto a piece of scrap metal from an electrical box I found in my basement and cut it out with tin snips and a cut-off wheel. After a bit of final filing it functioned properly, so I headed out to my barn to find a serviceable return spring. With the return spring installed the auto disc was working well, so I pulled the homemade arm off and gave it some cold blue. New press mounted powder measure for 10 bucks and some spare time makes me pretty happy! I even found a plastic snuff can lid that fit the hopper perfectly.:bigsmyl2:
I loaded up some 357, 380, 38 special, and 45acp so far. I didn't know how I'd like grabbing each primer to put them in the little press mounted prime arm, but that turned out to be a relatively simple affair. I leave them in the primer flip tray off my Pro 1000 press and grab 1 when I need it. It doesn't take much time and isn't as fiddly as I thought it would be. I'll rig up some kind of light for it next, and I'm gonna want to get some more turrets, but I don't think I could be happier with the press.
I took my old Challenger press off the bench and mounted up the turret press. I only had to add a short piece of 2x4 for bracing under the bench-top. The Pro auto-disc took a bit more work. I don't think it was ever used, there was no sign of graphite in the hopper, and no sliding marks on the black paint where the discs run. It was set up for a progressive press so I had to fab up a new actuating arm to work with a return spring. I found a picture of the spring arm on the internet, made a paper cut-out in the proper size, then copied that onto a piece of scrap metal from an electrical box I found in my basement and cut it out with tin snips and a cut-off wheel. After a bit of final filing it functioned properly, so I headed out to my barn to find a serviceable return spring. With the return spring installed the auto disc was working well, so I pulled the homemade arm off and gave it some cold blue. New press mounted powder measure for 10 bucks and some spare time makes me pretty happy! I even found a plastic snuff can lid that fit the hopper perfectly.:bigsmyl2:
I loaded up some 357, 380, 38 special, and 45acp so far. I didn't know how I'd like grabbing each primer to put them in the little press mounted prime arm, but that turned out to be a relatively simple affair. I leave them in the primer flip tray off my Pro 1000 press and grab 1 when I need it. It doesn't take much time and isn't as fiddly as I thought it would be. I'll rig up some kind of light for it next, and I'm gonna want to get some more turrets, but I don't think I could be happier with the press.