GasGuzzler wrote:Took the two used Lee presses to work and cleaned them well. Then I plugged some of the holes in my bench top with cut off dowels. I still need to get some 3/8" dowels for the larger holes. After that I will mount the bench plate. I already have a place picked because there are some extra 2X4 reinforcements under the table in certain places.
First bigger hole ... I learned on this one to go a little smaller on the drilled hole and pound in the dowel. See next pic.
Here are two with wet glue. They dry nearly undetected.
So now it was time to mount the bracket/base. I went where the single was before because I attached a 2X4 under the bench top there for reinforcement and because it's under the light. Note I did not use the middle bolts on each side because they would land at the verge of the fascia 2X4 and there would be no room for nuts. I used large lag screws into the fascia on the near side and bolts trough the table and 2X4 reinforcement on the back.
The LCT bolted up to its plate fairly easily but there is not really enough room between its base and the hole in the plate where the "safety screw" goes. If that makes no sense I can post a pic later. Obviously the APP bolted right up. See its update later on below. The single stage did not have any combination of three holes to line up so I had to make one. Sure, just get out the square drill
. I made a tape template to drill the corners, drilled out the center larger, then used the Dremel to cut out the slag.
Then I started on the APP. I have to tell you several honest opinions.
- The instructions are horrible
- The thing looks cheaper than what you get out of a gumball machine
- It's the single most AWESOME invention ever!
Here is where I was trying to figure out where to put all the plastic parts.
Here is after I just started looking at pics and videos. Note the catch bottle for spent primers. I did about 400 9X19 in 20 minutes. I learned a lot about the feeder and collator but I'll have to explain later. My wife is hungry for our Saturday night take out Mexican with 'ritas and it's after 20:00.
Oh yeah, I mounted the bins too. No biggie.
You can really get this thing moving quickly! The only trouble is remembering to NEVER double clutch AND every 37th is upside down. One more issue...I broke the pin on the universal decapper. Too fast? No, there was a ROCK inside one of the cases after all that washing.
Three decap rods, 10 pounds of Lyman treated media, and a flash hole fixer thing on the way.