I bought a pro1000 from a member here the beginning of December. I never did receive it or a refund yet. So this thread is depressing to me.
I bought a pro1000 from a member here the beginning of December. I never did receive it or a refund yet. So this thread is depressing to me.
If my experience with a Lee 1000 is any measure, you are better off without it.
My Lee 1000 has been sitting in a box for years...it will not properly feed primers and dumps inaccurate powder charges.
I gave up on it....went back to single stage reloading.
Maybe when I am retired in a few years, I will invest the time to completely tear it down and try to make it work.
Then again, I have this distinct impression that the only way to make it work is to save the mounting bolts to use to mount a Dillon to my bench.
Tes,
I am still curious about the carrier failure, 10,000 rounds is still not really a tremendous amount of production. My presses are approaching 100K+ and I have never seen a catastrophic like yours. What does the carbide in the sizing die look like? Are there any signs of galling? I doubt the pressure of resizing 9 mm resulted in the failure, trying to remove the stuck case tore the carrier apart.
Did you open a service ticket with Lee? I wonder if they would replace the carrier for you?
I have noticed .44 Mags is sometimes hard to extract and now use lube about every 5th case otherwise the carrier progressively works its way off the ram.
My hero's have always been Cowboys!
Started a ticket. We'll see what they do. If I oil the sizing die every 400 or so it is a smooth operation. If I don't it gets sticky. The case's are smooth no scratching from a galled die. There a a lot of glocked cases and those are a hard pull. I figured enough of those sticky cases and the casting will fail.
They call it "common sense". Why is it so uncommon?
the poor thing wasnt designed for swaging ( ie; glocked cases ) they made and sell the grx-tool and the case sizers for just such reasons - alot of things will fail when abused
i always lightly lube my cases - it makes the whole process much much easier and smoother , doesnt take much , as a added thought dirty cases actually run thru carbide sizers better , for some reason they arent as sticky as clean cases ( please dont ask me the theory behind it but it's there ) since i clean my cases i give them a lil lube ( very light spray of hornady one shot - it doesnt take much )
Je suis Charlie
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