I recently purchased a used .38 Lee Loader off of ebay. The pieces are all there, everything looked ok. But I realized the priming tool isn't working correctly
If you've seen the device, it's a chromed disk will a hole in the middle that holds the primer. You set the shell in it's hold on this, and tap the device to seat the primer.
I've never used one of these things, but I thought the chrome disk piece was movable, I think on a spring. So you can center the primer in it, but it moves out of the way for seating. In mine, the chrome disk is pushed all the way down and stuck there. So the disk and the center primer seating portion are level with each other.
Has anyone experienced this? I just cleaned it in a sonic cleaner and have it soaking now in WD40 to try and free it up.
I just can't think of a safe way to use the Lee Loader without that. If I use a hand primer, then I need to bang a primed cartridge into the resizing die for filling/installing the boolit.