I load a few 9mm on my Dillon 1050 for practice ammunition.
The most common problem is the priming step.
Primers being expensive and not wanting to pull a bunch of bullets I have been depriming then wet tumbling and then sizing and priming on my Hornady Iron Press with primer auto feed.
I would size, deprime and reprime on the Hornady but the spent primer catcer doesn’t work and it makes a mess.
I have been thinking about a 2 stage progressive machine to size, deprime and reprime but I have too many projects already so I put it off until recently!
My neighbor told me about a progressive press that he saw at a local scrap yard.
The way he described it it was either a CH Auto Champ or a RCBS Green Machine.
It turns out it is a Auto Champ MK lll in 45ACP missing quite a few parts but most of it is there.
The next problem is that it is set up for large primers and I need small!
I got lucky and CH had all of the parts except for the slide bar that advances the cases and it is a pretty complex part to duplicate.
I was thinking about how to convert the existing part and remembered another press that uses a threaded bushing, so that is my plan.
I am going to drill and tap the slide and make a bushing to fit and then drill a hole for the small primer size! That way it can be switched back to large if necessary, not that I plan to do that.
I will only have one die in the press , a size/decap die and then I can inspect the primed brass before putting powder and seating a bullet.
This should be much quicker than my current procedure.