I bought a lee loadmaster set a while back for myself, my brothers and my dad to all share and get into reloading together. We are all brand new, and mostly they just follow my lead, poor as it may be.
Today was actually the first time I have tried to load a complete round. I just got my scale and so up until now all I have done is testing the bullet seating and depriming. After verifying throw weight of the powder scale, I loaded some primers in the tray and went to do a full cycle. Unfortunately, it didn't prime and I didn't notice until it was completed. I had to tap out all the powder out of the priming hole by hand. It has done that a few times now. I took off the shell holder plate and jiggled things around until I saw a primer feed onto the bar and it primed to a perfect depth, but I still haven't had one feed properly under normal operation.
The priming unit came preinstalled on the press, so I am assuming it was installed correctly at the factory. It does, however, see rather loose to me, but I have no other expeiance with it.
I also had one round where I positioned the primer manually that the bullet got cocked when seating and went on skewed. I thought the seating die was supposed to auto center it. What am I doing wrong?
Today was actually the first time I have tried to load a complete round. I just got my scale and so up until now all I have done is testing the bullet seating and depriming. After verifying throw weight of the powder scale, I loaded some primers in the tray and went to do a full cycle. Unfortunately, it didn't prime and I didn't notice until it was completed. I had to tap out all the powder out of the priming hole by hand. It has done that a few times now. I took off the shell holder plate and jiggled things around until I saw a primer feed onto the bar and it primed to a perfect depth, but I still haven't had one feed properly under normal operation.
The priming unit came preinstalled on the press, so I am assuming it was installed correctly at the factory. It does, however, see rather loose to me, but I have no other expeiance with it.
I also had one round where I positioned the primer manually that the bullet got cocked when seating and went on skewed. I thought the seating die was supposed to auto center it. What am I doing wrong?