Hornady Iron Press with Automatic Primer Feeder

[deltaenterprizes]

I bought an Iron Press so that I can size and deprime 9mm brass and inspect for Glock bulge before running the primed cases through my Dillon 1050.
Due to a design flaw the primer catcher does not work well with the and so I deprime on my Rockchucker with a Case Kicker.
A friend of mine traveled 200 miles to come load 45ACP ammo and so I tried to switch the Iron Press to large pistol primers and the slide will not line up with the primer tube!

Hornady’s quality has really gone down the tubes!

[deltaenterprizes]

It appears that the primer punch is sitting crooked in the shuttle as Hornady calls it. I have new parts on order that I hope will fixit!

[jban]

Sorry to hear you got took also. I have one in the corner, holding the floor down. That's about all it's good for. I got tired of having to guide the brass in the the die ALL the time, as you found out the primer catcher doesn't work very good, and I had the spring on the primer feed go flying accouple of times. Just don't need to deal with that ****. I have other presses that work.

[dswancutt]

I had the same problem with the automatic primer feed on my Iron Press. Fiddled around with it for a whole afternoon before I gave up. I mainly use the press to size rifle brass, and wanted to used it prime and load rifle brass but that's up in the air for now. I have the primer feed on my Hornady Classic press which works ok, or I could just take use my Hornady AP which is a dedicated 45 Auto press to prime Large Rifle.

[deltaenterprizes]

Sorry to hear you got took also. I have one in the corner, holding the floor down. That's about all it's good for. I got tired of having to guide the brass in the the die ALL the time, as you found out the primer catcher doesn't work very good, and I had the spring on the primer feed go flying accouple of times. Just don't need to deal with that ****. I have other presses that work.

I had the spring fly loose too and thought it was in never never land(never going to find it) but it did not go far!
I solved that problem by installing a 1 inch 8-32 screw with a head on it!
I also filed a small groove where the other end of the spring attaches, that should stop it from slipping off.