Lee Auto Breech Lock Pro - Setup and tweaks
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Short (re)setup video for my new Auto Breech Lock Pro, with some notes and tweaks to the press to try and make life a little easier.
Here's the parts list:
90900 - Auto Breech Lock Pro press
90251 - Bench Plate Kit (90267 - Press mounting plate only)
90242 - Universal Case Feeder
90667 - Case Collator
90429 - Pro Auto-Disk Powder Measure
90997 - Safety Prime for 2006 and later
90041 - Powder Measure Riser
Shell Plates for Auto Breech Lock Pro - leeprecision.c...
Pistol 4-Die Carbide Sets - leeprecision.c...
Pistol 3-Die Carbide Sets - leeprecision.c...
I paid $325..
I Thank You for this Video. This is the 1st Video that I have seen that explained the entire setup. You'r Video help's someone like Myself. I just orded My 1st single Press. I planed getting this same Press that You show in this Video. Money is the issue for Me, Just like the Most of Us. Lolol. I've Learned so much compare that what I know and what I didn't know. You'r Time and this Video that You take the time to explain the whole Process on how to set one up and to Use and to also learn how to set one up for People like Myself that didn't know.
Excellent explanation for this beginner reloader. Thank You.
The washer with a extra hole for the spring is just brilliant
Very informative and thorough video. Nice job.
I appreciate it. I will have a follow up once I get my bullet feeder in and tested. I'm already making notes on the decapping die, and some interesting experiences with troublesome brass.
To stop the case feeder from spinning tighten down the height adjustment ring as as well. This will put friction on the mounting plate and stop it from moving.
Thanks and that is why I went with the classic turret
Thanks for doing this
Good video. Thank you. I've been thinking about upgrading to this press from the second hand Pro 1000 I've been running for a few years. I subbed your channel to see the follow up video.
Glad I could help
Regarding the reset chain, it's not a flaw, you've got the chain installed incorrectly. The spring and locking bell are supposed to be at the end of the chain with no extra links, that way it fully seats under the carrier. The extra chain links go through the reset arm, not under the carrier.
Lee Precision Auto-Disk set up: ua-cam.com/video/h7slKaDrMHM/v-deo.html
Thanks for the video.I have the 4000 pro as well and it may as well not come with instructions because they are not very helpful but your video is.thanks again
I have this press and have little trouble with it, and I set it up following the directions supplied. What specifically are you having difficulty with?
After watching a couple bumblefucks do reviews on this press I watched your well produced, very concise and innovative video. Thank you thank you thank you. Mines in the mail and I'll start assembling next week using your mods. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Great video !
Lee makes a parts for the Auto disk that turns it into a spring actuated return. The instructions are in the manual, but I'll list them as of 2021. You'll need part AD2309 Spring return lever and part AD2296 Spring. I did this to mine while I had it and it worked great. I have since moved onto the Lee-Auto Drum.
Thanks for the great video I have been looking at presses and this was helpful
Glad it was helpful!
@@Sartek so after all of the updates and upgrades you have done would you still recommend this press? Thanks again
@@michaeljamescox yes. I think Lee presses are a much more cost effective setup than most others. IMO, the other big name progressives are built around industrial/automation levels of use, with associated costs, but that's often above and beyond what home reloaders really need or want to spend.
This may be helpful. From Titan reloading, you can order the Lee BL Pro 7 cavity mold(#PR3691- $3.00) to get that spring anchor(like the one that keeps the spring attached to the case feeder) to replace your washer. As for the tubes on your case feeder, get the titan tube harness(#T304-$5.99), this will help keep your tubes in the base and keeps the spacing correct. For smaller diam. cases, grab some PEX tubing from any hardware store, measure the length of the holes in you collator, and install the tubing in the holes so the cases feed base down. I believe .50" od, .375" id is the correct tubing. Also from Titan reloading, you can add the mini MR. Bulletfeeder from Double Alpha. I haven't got one yet, but I've been told it should fit on the lee press. I would talk to Mike at Titan to verify fitment. The only Lee powder measure I've had consistent luck with is the Deluxe Perfect powder measure. I haven't figured a way to get to work by case activation. What I've done is installed a Hornady case activated powder drop system with a Hornady powder measure. So once I get the double alpha bullet feed, I'll be good to go!
Like your presentation. Very precise. I noticed however that the in the powder dispenser fix, the spring did not move the arm when you moved the head up and down. I copied your fix, and the spring did not do anything for the process.
If you're going to add all the accessories much cheaper to buy as the "Pro 4000 kit" that also includes a set of dies.😎
The Pro 4000 kit doesnt come in 40SW. I looked at that first before I even started buying any hardware.
@@Sartek didnt think of that 🤔
i only found 38/357 & 45lc available, i have a 357 so i bought it. and bought dies for 9mm, 40sw, 45acp, 223, 300blk and 45/70 😜
@@Sartek I have more than one caliber to reload. Buy a Pro 4000 kit in 45 ACP and a set of dies for 9mm with a set of bushings. Prob solved (or am I missing something?).
The spring of the powder feeder has its seat below the plate, it can simply be installed there, not where you put it!
Great information! Just getting into reloading. A little tough to see what was taking place due to out of focus camera. Not being mean, just a little feedback.
good video but blurry in several spots.
...wouldn't it be easier to set up each die, independently, at station #1 and reposition it after it's been adjusted and set??? Seems to me it should work because each die indexes off the shell holder...
Just installed the case feeder.
Now the handle hits the black feeder tube base. A little bit, but it moves it when you crank up hard.
Rotating the handle down a little makes the handle go down too low for me. Any tips here?
Good video, always looking for tricks to make reloading easier
Thank you. I looking at moving up from my BreechLock Challenger and am betwixt and between an inexpensive progressive like this or a Lyman All American 8 turret.
As someone who has been hands on with the press for awhile and corrected shortcomings, do you see any practical way to automate the safety prime operation? I have not found one setup in stores to examine close up, so I've been studying videos trying to figure out if by application of a as yet unconjured mechanism draw the autoprime over and dispense a 'PEZ' on the upstroke. I would get a bullet feeder die, give up my factory crimp die and use the seater die to deflare/crimp and be full progressive.
Unfortunately, I havent found a way to automate the safety prime, nor do I think attempting it would even be worth the trouble. If you decap and resize all your brass in one batch by itself, you could get a single station priming press that does the auto-dispensing for priming. This would let you remove the decapping/resizing die from the reloading cycle on the progressive, and insert a bullet dispenser die into position #2, and move the powder drop to #1 instead.
@@Sartek I'll ponder the priming press; I'm currently batch processing brass, then hand prime with a Franklin Arsenal hand primer.
A Redding T7 or Lyman All American 8 with a prime system will let me keep 2 calibers on a turret, BUT even without automatic priming the Lee 4000 will more than meet my needs and is bang for the buck.
I need to just pick a route and go.
The Lee Load Master has a automated prime system, and a extra station for whatever die you decide to use.
23:11 Shorten the bolt
Actually, no. He needs to pull the slack out of the chain so that it gathers up at the powder measure reset arm, not at the bottom under the bell. I've watched this guy's series on the press and most all of the problems are self induced by not setting it up correctly. None of these "modifications" are necessary.
I just bought a Lee auto breech press and enjoyed your video very much but one thing passels me. How do you adjust the dies? Screw them down to he plate and go from there like on the turret press?
The included instruction tells you how. Yes, raise the base; screw down die; adjust..
If your mounting bolts were flipped over, going down through the bench rather than coming up through the bench, would your powder reset chain clear then?
the bolt cant go down. The elevator bolts mounts the press to the mounting plate, not the base that is attached to the workbench; so the bolt head gets sandwiched between the two parts.
Why not just shorten the bolt.
@@302hardtailr6 Dremel to the rescue. On my Auto Breech Lock Pro I use the newer Lee Auto Drum measure and it activates off the case neck.
I own a few older lee presses, they use WAYYY to much cheap plastic in the newer presses.
Nobody asked about the press base height. Seeing that you mounted the press directly on the bench at about waist height (30 inches) doesn't this make the down stroke of the handle low? I'm thinking it would hurt your low back. Even if seated at most chair heights (17inches) that down stroke is still too low isn't it? What is the best base height for the press standing or sitting?
it is low. I've seen metal bases that raise it up about 10-14" ..and the arm is certainly LONG, but I keep my chair really low to the ground as well because of other equipment I have running on the table. by mounting it at the table surface and close to the side on that particular table, it minimizes the vibrations that affect my scales.
The height is all relevant to the mounting surface height. If you mount to a bench edge or stand edge as is required per the instructions, then the arm action is perfect..
Do you have a source for those plate mounting shoulder bolts? I've been trying to come up with a similar solution for the same press. Thanks. Well done.
Any ACE/TrueValue hardware store is likely to carry them. You can also find them online with Tacoma Screw.
Also, .... Try mounting the bolts correctly!
Never have I ever seen someone mount equipment with the hardware coming up through the bottom....SMH..
Explains why his powder feed chain was getting "crushed" on the bolt...
@@timsteelman4922
The chain is installed incorrectly, that's why it's goobered up. There should be ZERO chain-slack under the bell. All the slack should be gathered at the top through the powder reset arm. The black base of the case feeder can be rotated out from under the toolhead without affecting case feed at all.
These "modifications" are due to incorrect setup, not design flaws.
I have the same press Lee's pro 4000 kit set up for 9mm only they left us screwed and didn't put the box the small and large primer rockers.
So did u just bolt the press down under the mounting plate ? I dont get how the mounting plate helps you at all .
If you have a weak table top, it will help spread out the twisting force.
What size shell plates with the press?
ive heard the dillon rl500c is great for making even match ammo can this with the powder measure do match ammo really well it is it finnicky and awkward
Get the 550. This is just for plinking ammo.
Why bother when the camera isn't even in focus?
What is the benefit of this press, vs. the LoadMaster ?
-Pro-1000 is a light duty, three station press.
-Auto Breech Lock Pro is a medium duty, four station press. It becomes the "Pro-4000" when you get it with the caliber conversion kit and accessories with it.
-Loadmaster is a heav(ier) duty five station press, and a considerably heav(ier) price tag.
The main difference is the ammo throughput. You can get 300-500 rounds-per-hour pretty reasonably out of the -1000/-4000, and both are similar in design. The Loadmaster is 500+ rounds-per-hour, but isn't the same design as the -1000/-4000.
I have had several Lee presses over the last 20 years, so I only needed the press only, so I got the ABLP, It works very well for a sub-$200 press.
@@hawkeyeted What a wonderful response. THANK YOU !
Great video to show why there's so many of these sold USED on eBay. Bad design and cheaply made !
What are you talking about? All the presses on eBay are being sold at a premium. Have you even tried one? I have one. Is it a Dillon, No. However it does get the job done!
@@lisawelsh8828 first of all, I do know what I'm talking about. I've been reloading for almost 30 years and yes I own this lee press and like I said its cheaply made. The case feeding system is beyond problematic. I also own the lee load master and an old lee single single stage. The load master is a great progressive press the pro 4000 is crap compared to the load master.
Another know nothing.. running his mouth about his so called knowledge…🤡
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What exactly does the indexing pin do?? It’s not at one of the 4 stations but it’s between the first and second station.I was just curious?
Index rod is centered. It actuated bottom side of base to rotate the shell plate
@@timsteelman4922
The index rod anchors square under the die at station four and is the mechanical object the rotates the shellplate as the carrier descends. I think OP is talking about the pin that pokes out from the shellplate between stations two and three. All it does is prevent the shellplate from floating out of index when the carrier is at the bottom of the stroke.