I did what you did in that I cut a square of thin plywood, drilled two holes in the arm that makes contact with the primer-pusher, and used small nuts and bolts to hold the plywood in place. Like your solution, I extended the reach so that I could position the drop tube between stations 1 and 2 with clearance.
Spoke to a local MEC service guy and he showed me how he properly installed the primer feed. Just install per instructions keeping bracket on same plane as base then remove primer feed tray and use a healthy Phillips screwdriver down the primer chute and bend chute with screwdriver till primer drop tube lines up correctly!
This is exactly what i did with the tube on my 8567 Grabber. Now it works perfectly. The key I believe is to center the drop tube precisly over the hole in the carrier plate. If the primer tips, even a little when it drops into the hole in the carrier from the tube, tweak it a little until the primer drops cleanly in the hole, You may have to remove the primer tray a couple of times to get access to the primer tube with the screw driver, but once you get it right you will be rewarded with flawless operation.
1. Remove the tongue depressor and the Velcro, 2. The tube needs to be DEAD CENTERED on top of the carrier primmer hole, so use a screwdriver and wedge it between the tray tube - without putting too much pressure on the powder or the deprived tubes - and exactly CENTER it above the hole, 3. Make sure the primer tube hight is exactly right and doesn’t put much pressure on the carrier. That should fix your problem.
I called the factory on this exact issue yesterday. The lack of primers feeding occurred after I loosened the 7/16" nut and pivoted the primer feed tube to be more centered so it wouldn't contact the top edges of the hull and ruin them. He told me to loosen the Allen screw on the paddle arm primer actuator and pivot it so it contacts the primer block sooner. The primer block extends out from the left side of the primer tray. I did it and now the primers drop just fine and the feed tube doesn't hit the hulls.
Why does MEC not fix this? They told me to take off the bracket and grind the right edge down to where it doesn’t hit the brass. Why have a flawed design in the first place?
I picked up a 9000e from a friend of mine. Press works great. But i have been unable to get the primer feed to work consistantly. My solution was to take the primer feed off entirely and place the primers one at time. Anyone has suggestions, please help me. I am pretty adept mechanically, and i still try to get it working, but as of yet i jave not suceeded.
I did what you did in that I cut a square of thin plywood, drilled two holes in the arm that makes contact with the primer-pusher, and used small nuts and bolts to hold the plywood in place. Like your solution, I extended the reach so that I could position the drop tube between stations 1 and 2 with clearance.
Spoke to a local MEC service guy and he showed me how he properly installed the primer feed. Just install per instructions keeping bracket on same plane as base then remove primer feed tray and use a healthy Phillips screwdriver down the primer chute and bend chute with screwdriver till primer drop tube lines up correctly!
This is exactly what i did with the tube on my 8567 Grabber. Now it works perfectly. The key I believe is to center the drop tube precisly over the hole in the carrier plate. If the primer tips, even a little when it drops into the hole in the carrier from the tube, tweak it a little until the primer drops cleanly in the hole, You may have to remove the primer tray a couple of times to get access to the primer tube with the screw driver, but once you get it right you will be rewarded with flawless operation.
1. Remove the tongue depressor and the Velcro, 2. The tube needs to be DEAD CENTERED on top of the carrier primmer hole, so use a screwdriver and wedge it between the tray tube - without putting too much pressure on the powder or the deprived tubes - and exactly CENTER it above the hole, 3. Make sure the primer tube hight is exactly right and doesn’t put much pressure on the carrier. That should fix your problem.
I called the factory on this exact issue yesterday. The lack of primers feeding occurred after I loosened the 7/16" nut and pivoted the primer feed tube to be more centered so it wouldn't contact the top edges of the hull and ruin them.
He told me to loosen the Allen screw on the paddle arm primer actuator and pivot it so it contacts the primer block sooner. The primer block extends out from the left side of the primer tray.
I did it and now the primers drop just fine and the feed tube doesn't hit the hulls.
Thanks because it’s always been an issue. I’ll try it and hopefully it will solve the engineering misstep
How is it an engineering misstep?
MEC told me to stick a screw driver into the primer feed tube and bend it a little. Worked great after that.
I will try that because my work around isn't always reliable.
Why does MEC not fix this? They told me to take off the bracket and grind the right edge down to where it doesn’t hit the brass. Why have a flawed design in the first place?
Have the same problem but it only happens occasionally. Don't really know how to fix it though
I picked up a 9000e from a friend of mine. Press works great. But i have been unable to get the primer feed to work consistantly. My solution was to take the primer feed off entirely and place the primers one at time. Anyone has suggestions, please help me. I am pretty adept mechanically, and i still try to get it working, but as of yet i jave not suceeded.
Show the problem, not just the result of the problem. Your description of the issue was too vague.