New Lee Automatic Processing Press!

[mmc45414]

Dude - I love that solution.

Well, since you like it, here is a Full Monty pic of the bench porn:

So you attached the press to the "block" with lags, and the "block" to your bench with lags as well?

Yes exactly, here is a pic from the bottom showing some of them:

Trying to remember exactly, but I think I positioned one of the boards so the rear mounting bolts of the press would screw into the center of it, then built around that. I lag bolted the dogshit out of it, I expected to kill my cheap Black & Decker impact screwdriver (I used a 1/4" adapter, it would have been smarter to get a 7/16" nut driver bit) but it cruised through it and is still kicking. Drill some pilot holes because the driver will break the bolt if you do not (yeah, I speak from experience...). I used a simple spade drill bit to create countersunk holes where the boards need to be flush.

[awp_101]

Got the order in, now the waiting game begins!

Midsouth charged my card today, hopefully a shipping notice hit the inbox early next week

[andre3k]

I gave the app another run today. Switched the case feeder over to deprime 45 brass. It worked much better than my attempts at depriming 223/308. It was pretty fast and I could definitely see the utility of having the case collator instead of the single tube.

[LittleLebowski]

Midsouth charged my card today, hopefully a shipping notice hit the inbox early next week

They charged my card early this morning, happy dance!

[Tokarev]

@LittleLebowski

Any progress on getting a discount worked out with Lee for P-F members?

[LittleLebowski]

@LittleLebowski

Any progress on getting a discount worked out with Lee for P-F members?

Nope. I get the feeling that Lee will sell at MSRP on their site and if you want a discount on that, it's readily available via their dealers.

[Tokarev]

Nope. I get the feeling that Lee will sell at MSRP on their site and if you want a discount on that, it's readily available via their dealers.

Kind of what I figured. We probably couldn't beat prices from Midsouth, Graf etc even with a discount.

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[RevolverRob]

Nope. I get the feeling that Lee will sell at MSRP on their site and if you want a discount on that, it's readily available via their dealers.

That jives basically with what Lee told me. I ordered direct from them, but they couldn't ship it in the way I needed it shipped. So, I canceled my order, but they said and I quote, "We do have two dealers numbers that should be able to accommodate your request and offer you better pricing..." - And then they gave me the phone numbers of two other Lee Dealers.

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Today my APP, Automation Kit, Shell Holders, and Dies should all be here.

I ended up going with the basic kit over Deluxe, because when I ordered from FS Reloading they had the basic kit in stock (Deluxe was back ordered) and importantly had the dies I needed in stock. I don't need to do any primer pocket swaging (currently), so I figured I could order the swaging kit later and the automation kit is probably overkill for my needs right now, but I figured screw it.

It'll be fun to set everything up later and start learning. I have a bunch of .38 and .357 brass that needs to be decapped and sized and I deliberately ordered lead bullets just to have the fun of sizing them (I need SOMETHING to do that isn't just work during this quarantine).

[LittleLebowski]

Mine should be here Thursday!

[RevolverRob]

Mine ended up showing up today.

I have it mostly setup at this point, need to set the automation kit up, but I mounted it to a piece of 2x8" and then using some lag bolts I mounted a couple of L-brackets for a deck onto the 2x and it worked out perfectly to set between the peg holes in my harbor freight work bench. So, I just slapped a couple of 3/4" bolts through the peg holes and the l-brackets and boom, portable reloading stand. I didn't even have to cut my wood...couldn't have gone better if I planned it.

Anyways, took me a minute to figure out how I'm going to run a ram prime with this setup, but I think I have it figured out. Obviously, priming will be a slow step with this, but I didn't really want to futz with a hand primer if I could make the press do the work.

Tomorrow I'll finish setting up the automation kit and then decap and size a bunch of .38 brass. I'm not going to get in a hurry doing this, because I need something to do with my life during the coronalypse.