Good morning Gents (and DesG - I was going to PM you with this but your mailbox is full apparently)
Thanks very much for your helpful and reassuring comments a month or so ago when I was dithering over the purchase or the Lee Pro-1000. I've been using the press with great success for .38/.357.
I was recently given a load of Federal 100 SPP, but mindful of the warnings put out by Lee regarding the use of any primers other than Remington or CCI I had a quick look round the internet but couldn't really find any glaring reason why this should be so, and I commenced loading...……. carefully!
They do slip into the case very easily, but after about 30 rounds things started to go awry with tipped primers and also primers appearing on the priming ram even when there was no case in the shell holder. Noting that the Federals seat noticeably deeper than the CCIs, I measured them and found that the height of the Federals was 0.1165" and that of the CCIs was 0.1215".
I guess that the Federals somehow just slip beneath the wee mechanism which (a) prevents a primer sliding onto the priming ram when there's no case in the shell holder and (b) prevents more than one primer sliding through at a time, thereby leading to a jam.
Presumably this is the reason why Lee does not recommend their use!
I was just wondering, therefore, whether anyone else had encountered this and if so was there an easy fix? Otherwise it's not a big deal as I'll just use the Federals with a hand primer and continue to use the CCIs on the progressive.
Best wishes,
Mike