kungfustyle
04-11-2023, 04:53 PM
Lee Auto Drum leakage fix:
Hello All,
I've been having fun with H110 and my Dillon powder measure. It leaked, and yes tried a bunch of fixes, one was switching to the large bar. However, the charge weights were all over the place. Tried a few fixes for that, but had about 1 grain variance from high to low charge amounts with 15 grains as my goal. Low was about 14.5 and high charge was 15.8. This is not a Dillon rant, I do use it for my auto's 9mm and 45 acp and it works great only about .1 variance. So down the Lee road I went, for a few different reasons. I just got the Auto Drum Powder measure and yes it leaked like a sieve, but it was accurate +-.1 for 15 grains of H110. I tried this fix and it helped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0-5GuuNeTI Then I polished the inside of the drum with steel wool and sanded the disk with 120grit sand paper, then 600 grit. IT WORKED!!!!!!!! NO LEAKAGE AT ALL!!!!!! I'm going to get two more for my press. Just thought I'd share. Any questions please let me know.
By the way did it with my second drum insert and no leaking!
Hello All,
I've been having fun with H110 and my Dillon powder measure. It leaked, and yes tried a bunch of fixes, one was switching to the large bar. However, the charge weights were all over the place. Tried a few fixes for that, but had about 1 grain variance from high to low charge amounts with 15 grains as my goal. Low was about 14.5 and high charge was 15.8. This is not a Dillon rant, I do use it for my auto's 9mm and 45 acp and it works great only about .1 variance. So down the Lee road I went, for a few different reasons. I just got the Auto Drum Powder measure and yes it leaked like a sieve, but it was accurate +-.1 for 15 grains of H110. I tried this fix and it helped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0-5GuuNeTI Then I polished the inside of the drum with steel wool and sanded the disk with 120grit sand paper, then 600 grit. IT WORKED!!!!!!!! NO LEAKAGE AT ALL!!!!!! I'm going to get two more for my press. Just thought I'd share. Any questions please let me know.
By the way did it with my second drum insert and no leaking!