onondaga
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24 November 2012
http://www.castbulletassoc.org/view_user.php?id=6375>John Alexander:
"My only minor complaint is that spent primers sometime jump out the slot in the ram instead of going down into the plastic tube. I fixed that in about ten seconds with a bit of tape."
John, since I started a batch of Winchester 7.62X39 brass for my Remington Spartan single shot rifle, I've kept a log on loading the 200 pieces of brass for 12 loading cycles. That is 2,400 primers so far. Out of that 2,400, I have had to pick up 7 primers off the floor that jumped out of the slot in the ram of my Classic Cast Turret Press.
7 jumped out spent primers of 2.400 does not cause me great concern, but I would really like a close-up picture of exactly where you put the bit of tape on your press that fixes the problem.
With the ram fully down, the slot is not exposed. There is no place to put a piece of anything across the slot. The ram going up opens the slot as the primer arm is activated open by gravity to open a space behind the primer cup for the spent primer to drop into the tube. I have only been able to guess that occasionally, 7 out of 2,400 times, there are some primers that defy gravity or for some unknown reason, change direction or bounce off of some time warped part that appears out of nowhere and curve up and outward through through space in the open slot. I don't get this, but it has happened 7 out of 2,400 times for me with 7.62X39 brass. Some of my calibers, this has not happened in many more thousands. I have had a few jumpers in .458 Win Mag, but less of a ratio than the 7:2,400 in X39 Rooskie.
The press also makes a quiet DOOOIINNG musical sound very occasionally as a spent primer is pushed out. I can't figure that out either. It is cute. I wouldn't care if the press did it every time it punches a primer out, but it only makes the musical sound very sporadically. The musical sound has never coincided with a spent primer jumping, for your information.
Thank you, Please post a picture of your bit of tape on your press.
Gary